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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
John le Carré
James Mustich
A British intelligence agent throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s, David Cornwell, under the pseudonym John le Carré, went on to use his personal experience of the ethically destitute climate of Cold War espionage to create a fictional world more unglamorous, chilling, and dispirited than any pre...show more
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The Plague
Albert Camus
Welcome to the epidemic city: a place where rumors run wild, government can’t coordinate relief, religious authorities rave ineffectually, and no one knows what today, much less tomorrow, holds in store. At first the citizens of Oran panic and revolt, but before long, as if numbed by the summer sun,...show more
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
Dense and deeply erudite, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is not an easy read, yet the provocative themes it articulates repay a reader’s pondering. Kuhn argues that science is not a gradually and logically advancing discipline, but rather a “series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intel...show more
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
Hands-down, this is the best comprehensive work on the human condition EVER composed. Jared Diamond is a genius of rare stature and is extremely learned across vast disciplines.
Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar
Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus (AD 76–AD 138) was emperor of Rome from AD 117 to AD 138. Hadrian, as he is known in English, is generally regarded as the most intellectual and cultivated of all the Roman emperors. In her celebrated Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar reinforces the impressio...show more