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A crew of cognitively modified humans — including a man with half his brain removed and a vampire revived from extinction — is sent to make first contact with an alien presence on the edge of the solar system, and finds something that profoundly challenges the assumption that consciousness is adaptive.

In the World State of 632 AF (After Ford), human beings are hatched in hatcheries, conditioned from birth for their social function, and kept content by the pleasure drug Soma. There is no disease, no war, no poverty — and no freedom, no art, no genuine love. Bernard Marx begins to question whether happiness without meaning is worth having.

Joseph Heller's darkly comic masterpiece follows bombardier Yossarian through the absurdist bureaucracy of World War II, inventing the most important logical paradox of modern language.

The last remnants of humanity race across the stars toward a terraformed world, only to find it already claimed by a civilization of intelligent spiders uplifted across millennia by a nanovirus meant for monkeys.

A classic of investment literature that established growth investing as a discipline, introducing the 'scuttlebutt' research method and fifteen key questions for evaluating any company.

A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected activities that strongly support things you value.

The adventures of the deluded knight Alonso Quijano — who believes himself to be the knight-errant Don Quixote — and his earthy squire Sancho Panza across the plains of La Mancha.

Fifteen years after the events of the Farseer trilogy, Fitz lives in quiet isolation with Nighteyes. When the Fool arrives to draw him back into court politics — the young Prince Dutiful has gone missing — Fitz must choose between the solitude he has built and the duty he has never fully escaped. The first volume of the Tawny Man trilogy.

Étienne Lantier arrives at a northern French coalmine and finds a community of miners ground down by poverty and despotism. He organises a strike. The strike fails. The novel follows the miners' world with documentary precision — the mine, the housing, the pub, the hunger — and arrives at a vision of revolutionary potential coiled beneath suffering.

The definitive guide to stress-free productivity, introducing the GTD method for capturing, clarifying, organising, and engaging with all your commitments.

Jim Collins and his research team studied 1,435 companies over 40 years to answer one question: what distinguishes companies that make the leap from good to great? The answer — built on years of rigorous data analysis — is surprising, counter-intuitive, and deeply applicable beyond business.

Why did Europeans conquer the Americas, Africa, and Australia rather than the other way around? Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize-winning answer overturns centuries of racial and cultural explanations: the answer lies in geography, agriculture, and the uneven distribution of domesticable plants and animals.

George Orwell's first-person account of fighting for the POUM militia in the Spanish Civil War — the trenches outside Huesca, the revolutionary Barcelona of 1936, the May Days street fighting, the Stalinist suppression of the independent left, and his narrow escape from arrest and execution.

Isaac Asimov's linked short story collection introducing the Three Laws of Robotics and exploring their logical implications in a series of increasingly complex scenarios.

Bill Bryson travels across Australia — a country he cheerfully admits he knows almost nothing about — and discovers that it is simultaneously one of the most beautiful, most deadly, most overlooked, and most underrated countries on earth.

Bjartur of Summerhouses has spent eighteen years in bondage to pay for his croft. Now free, he will be independent or die. Through drought, famine, debt, and the deaths of those he might have loved, Bjartur's stubbornness is heroic and catastrophic in equal measure. Laxness's masterpiece—the great Icelandic novel, and the reason he won the Nobel Prize.

The First Law trilogy's conclusion delivers one of fantasy literature's most ruthless and genuinely surprising endings — a masterwork of subverted expectations that recontextualises the entire trilogy.

Humbert Humbert's confession of his obsession with and abuse of twelve-year-old Dolores Haze — told in prose of devastating beauty by a narrator who is both brilliant and monstrous.

Two hundred and fifty myths from the creation of the world to the deification of Julius Caesar, unified by the theme of transformation. Apollo and Daphne, Narcissus and Echo, Pygmalion, Actaeon, Orpheus and Eurydice, the Fall of Icarus — the source of more subsequent Western art than any other single text.

Born at the exact moment of Indian independence, Saleem Sinai discovers he is telepathically connected to the 1,001 children born in the first hour of a free India — and that his own life is fatally, inextricably entwined with the history of his nation.

Nobel laureate Richard Thaler tells the inside story of how behavioral economics upended the rational-actor model and transformed our understanding of human decision-making.

Todd, Viola, and the Spackle leader 1017 navigate three-way war on New World, with arrival of the Answer's ship adding a fourth power. The Carnegie Medal-winning conclusion to Chaos Walking is one of the great YA trilogy endings — costly, honest, and earned.

A single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, preparing a party in postwar London — intercut with the experiences of Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked veteran she will never meet.

Young Gerald Durrell's account of five years living on Corfu with his eccentric family in the 1930s — a childhood paradise of wildlife, sunshine, and complete freedom to roam.