Seven Years in Tibet
A landmark in travel writing, it has been translated into fifty-three languages. More
Longitude
Story of an epic scientific quest, which won British Book of the Year in 1997. More
Fermat’s Last Theorem
International number one bestseller about solving a puzzle that had confounded mathematicians since the seventeenth century. More
Seabiscuit
Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. More
Summer of ’49
Halberstam’s classic chronicle of baseball’s most magnificent season. More
The Boys of Summer
Beloved sports classic published to immediate critical success about Ebbets Field and the Brooklyn Dodgers. More
The Making of the President 1960
This groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner revolutionized the way presidential campaigns are reported. More
Coming of Age in Samoa
A classic that brought science and literature together for both scholars and the general public. More
Jay Onrait
I read because as much as I love film and television, and documentaries, and Facebook, and Twitter and Snapchat, and my abacus . . . More
Charlotte Gray
A book that influenced me and why: Middlemarch by George Eliot. More
Born Free
Its remarkable interaction between the author and a lion cub named Elsa enchanted generations. More