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Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain by António Damásio

From one of the most significant neuroscientists at work today, a pathbreaking investigation of a question that has confounded philosophers, …

A brilliant darkness by João Magueijo

David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest by Stephen Burn, Stephen Burn

The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Contact by Carl Sagan

In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who …

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer by Sarah Bakewell

The Unknown Masterpiece by Honoré de Balzac (New York Review Books classics)

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler

Darkness at Noon (German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best …

Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Notes from underground by Fiodor Dostoïevski

Notes from Underground (pre-reform Russian: Записки изъ подполья; post-reform Russian: Записки из подполья, tr. Zapíski iz podpólʹya), also translated as …

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future …

The late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello (New York Review Books classics)

English: The novel is about Mattia Pascal, who leaves home after one of the usual quarrels with his wife Romilda, …

Stranger Albert Camus by Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert

L'Étranger est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera …

Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller

A Crack in Creation by Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg