On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life
Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.
Topics in philosophy
On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life: Unabridged edition
Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF YEAR FOR POLITICS 2023
Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity
Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023
Nature’s Top 10 Books of 2023
A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023
A Waterstones Book of the Year for Politics 2023
Together: A Manifesto Against the Heartless World
‘If I had to choose just one book that I want everybody of any age to read at this moment in time, this would be it’ Brian Eno
‘Clear-eyed, frank, wise and joyous!’ Andrew Sean Greer
‘If you read only one book this year, then this must be it’ Sarah Winman
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War: Unabridged edition
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022
Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction
The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense – economic and political, artistic and personal.
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022
Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction
The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense – economic and political, artistic and personal.
What If We Stopped Pretending?
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn’t have to mean the world is ending.
The Female Eunuch
The 50th Anniversary edition of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract.
‘The Female Eunuch retains that power of transformation; it asserts the possibility of creativity within female experience’ Guardian
Superior: The Return of Race Science
Financial Times Book of the Year
Telegraph Top 50 Books of the Year
Guardian Book of the Year
New Statesman Book of the Year
‘Roundly debunks racism’s core lie – that inequality is to do with genetics, rather than political power’ Reni Eddo-Lodge
The Creativity Code: How AI is learning to write, paint and think
‘Du Sautoy’s discussion of computer creativity is fascinating’ Observer
CAN MACHINES BE CREATIVE?
Start Again: How We Can Fix Our Broken Politics
‘The bible for The Independent Group and many others’ Nick Robinson, Today Programme
Start Again is a life-raft for all those who find themselves politically adrift and a rallying cry for a better kind of politics
What it Means to be Human: A philosophical memoir
What is the role of fate in our lives?
Why should we avoid repeating patterns?
And how can we identify our purpose?
What We Cannot Know: From consciousness to the cosmos, the cutting edge of science explained
‘Brilliant and fascinating. No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting’ Bill Bryson
Britain’s most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know.
We Should All Be Feminists
**DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now!**
A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.