Science
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A genial and funny tour of how we came to know what we know about the universe, the Earth and ourselves.
Curated list · 5 books
Minds Expanded
Science, essays and philosophy for the endlessly curious reader.
A balance of wonder and rigour. Read one chapter at a time and let it settle.
Essays
Braiding Sweetgrass
A botanist and member of the Potawatomi Nation weaves scientific knowledge and Indigenous wisdom into essays on our reciprocal relationship with the living world.
Memoir
Educated
Raised in a survivalist household in rural Idaho, the author teaches herself enough to reach university, and pays a heavy price for the education.
Philosophy
Meditations
The private notebooks of a Roman emperor, a practical guide to composure, duty and meeting life as it comes.
Essays
A Room of One's Own
Woolf's elegant argument that a woman needs money and a room of her own to write fiction, and why history made that so hard.