Papillon
A bestselling phenomenon and classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure. More
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
A multimillion-copy benchmark of adventure/survival nonfiction. More
Flow
The psychology classic that explored creativity and happiness. More
Longitude
Story of an epic scientific quest, which won British Book of the Year in 1997. More
Master and Commander
First book in O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series, widely regarded as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. More
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pulitzer Prize winner; considered one of the classic works of creative nonfiction of the late twentieth century. More
Seabiscuit
Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. More
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
One life is not enough. More
Freakonomics
Multimillion-copy bestseller that helped launch a wave of interest in behavioral economics and statistics. More
Coming of Age in Samoa
A classic that brought science and literature together for both scholars and the general public. More
The Kon-Tiki Expedition
This classic, inspiring tale of daring and courage has been translated into sixty-five languages. More
Profiles in Courage
Pulitzer Prize winner that helped propel the young senator to the White House. More
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The philosophical classic that inspired millions struggling to find meaning in the modern world. More
Charlotte Gray
A book that influenced me and why: Middlemarch by George Eliot. More
Summer of ’49
Halberstam’s classic chronicle of baseball’s most magnificent season. More
The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World
With more than one million copies sold worldwide, it’s the world’s largest commercially available world atlas in print. More
Moby-Dick
Often called the greatest American novel of all time. More
Fermat’s Last Theorem
International number one bestseller about solving a puzzle that had confounded mathematicians since the seventeenth century. More
Incidents of Travel in Yucatán
In 1839, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood—both already celebrated for their adventures in Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece, and Rome—sailed together out of New York harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rain forests of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. More