Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli public intellectual, historian and a professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1970s
The Education of Little Tree
Children’s novel about a half-Cherokee boy who is stolen away from his family by the US Government.
Beautiful Swimmers
Non-fiction book by William W. Warner about the Chesapeake Bay, blue crabs and watermen
Among Others
2011 fantasy novel written by Welsh-Canadian writer Jo Walton, published originally by Tor Books
The Maples Stories
Collection of short stories by the American author John Updike published in 1979 in conjunction with the showing of a two-hour television movie on the NBC network with Blythe Danner, Michael Moriarty, Kathryn Walker and Glenn Close
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1971 novel by Hunter S. Thompson and illustrated by Ralph Steadman
The Great Railway Bazaar
Travelogue by American novelist Paul Theroux, first published in 1975. It recounts Theroux’s four-month journey by train in 1973 from London through Europe, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, and his return via the Trans-Siberian Railway
After Babel
Linguistics book by literary critic George Steiner, in which the author deals with the “Babel problem” of multiple languages.After Babel is a comprehensive study of the subject of language and translation
Polar Star
United States Coast Guard heavy icebreaker
The Gulag Archipelago
Three-volume non-fiction text written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn