What are you in the mood for?

Notice the cognitive shortcuts you normally miss in your own thinking.

Having awareness of cognitive biases helps you recognise them in yourself

Find the absurdity that made one reader call a passage the funniest thing they had read.

The conversation around eddies in the space-time continuum is the single funniest thing I've ever read.

Go straight for the book that made a reader cry uncontrollably.

Pretty much the only book that's made me cry uncontrollably.

Travel with Shackleton’s attempted crossing of Antarctica.

It's a well-written book about the incredible story of Earnest Shackleton's attempt to be the first team to cross Antarctica by land.

Get a jolt of motivation to return to difficult work.

When I am done reading the book, I am excited and eager to get back into the game.

Find company for a solitary way of thinking.

For letting me know I was/am not alone (even in my alone-ness).

A warmly illustrated introduction to Paul Erdős and a life shaped around mathematics.

I suppose it might raise interesting discussions on how and why one should tolerate eccentric people.

Follow one everyday ingredient through a surprisingly large sweep of history.

It is a very engaging read about the surprisingly large role that salt played in human history.

A reader’s turning point from only technical books to reading for pleasure.

book that got me reading for reading sake without a specific purpose or objective

One reader’s response was to buy five more copies for friends.

After I finished it I immidiately ordered 5 more copies to give them to friends.