Read The Code Breaker

Isaacson's authorised biography from forty interviews; the reality distortion field.

Isaacson from Ada Lovelace to the web; the collaborative history of the computer.

Evolution from the gene's point of view, and the word meme; Dawkins' 1976 classic.

Mukherjee's intimate history of heredity, from Mendel's peas to CRISPR.

What humans will want once famine, plague and war are solved; Harari's sequel.

The woman whose cells, taken without consent in 1951, are still alive in every lab.

Facebook's founding as a deposition, scored by Trent Reznor.

Carmack and Romero build id Software and Doom; the video-game industry's origin story.