Mitch Albom’s inspirational memoir Tuesday’s with Morrie is a life lesson about a rekindled relationship with his old college professor. During the time spent with his former mentor, Albom delves deep into the important questions that haunt him and rediscovers…
After nearly two decades, readers and adventurers are still magnetized by Into The Wild, Jon Krakauer’s story of Christopher McCandless. Though he was inexperienced, McCandless traveled into the Alaskan wilderness. He lived and died by the majesty of nature, and…
The best-selling memoir Wild captivates readers with its heart-pounding adventure and emotional arc. When death, divorce, and addiction threaten to dismantle Cheryl Strayed’s life, she decides to journey 1,100 miles across the Pacific Crest Trail. Danger lurks behind every bend,…
Tara Westover’s 2018 memoir Educated captures her escape from her fundamentalist Mormon upbringing in rural Idaho. From her fanatic father, who refuses to send his children to school and believes the end of the world is constantly upon them, to…
We’ve recently celebrated Remembrance Day in the UK and Veterans Day in the USA, marking 75 years since the end of the Second World War. Since then, a metric tonne of books have been published about WWII. Many of them…
Fifteen years after its initial publication, Freakonomics remains one of the most influential books about economic theory ever written. That’s because it uses economics as a starting point, then jumps into several unexpected and atypical applications of its tenets. From…