The Emperor of All Maladies

Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman

A Nobel laureate summarises forty years of research into human judgment -- and reveals that the intuitive mind is faster, more powerful, and more reliably wrong than we think.

The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson

The Great Migration -- the six million Black Americans who left the South between 1915 and 1970 -- told through the lives of three people who made the journey.

Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari

How did one unremarkable species conquer the world and reshape it beyond recognition? A sweeping history of humankind.

A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson

A single book explaining the entire history of science -- from the Big Bang to the rise of humans -- written for readers who found science inaccessible at school.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X Alex Haley

Malcolm X tells his own story -- from Midwestern childhood through street crime, conversion to Islam in prison, rise to national prominence, and a final transformation that cost him his life.