Read Fermat's Last Theorem

Hofstadter on self-reference in logic, art and music, and where minds come from; the Pulitzer nobody finishes.

James Gleick on the butterfly effect and the scientists who found order in disorder.

Why Eurasia conquered the rest: geography, crops and animals rather than people; Diamond's Pulitzer.

Bill Bryson explains the universe, the atom and the dinosaurs as if to a friend in a pub.

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

A biography of cancer from ancient Egypt to gene therapy; Mukherjee's Pulitzer.

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

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