About how Paul Farmer's local and global life combines theory and practice.

Incredibly well written tale of our times.

Incredibly well written tale of our times.

Applied biochemistry in the kitchen.

Perhaps the greatest 20th century novel.

Perhaps the greatest 20th century novel.

Biographies of Ramanujan and Hardy.

His magnum opus, a wonderful history of everything delicious.

Vivid, witty, hilarious, poignant: I laughed, I cried, I learned; demonstrates the unreasonable effectiveness of a graphic novel.

Vivid, witty, hilarious, poignant: I laughed, I cried, I learned; demonstrates the unreasonable effectiveness of a graphic novel.

The best novel to deal with 'science versus religion' that I've ever encountered.

The best novel to deal with 'science versus religion' that I've ever encountered.

The rule: parity to vowel; an awesome conovowel opus.

The rule: parity to vowel; an awesome conovowel opus.

Fascinating and eye-opening journal by a 14th-century Muslim scholar.

Fascinating and eye-opening journal by a 14th-century Muslim scholar.

Superbly written, a great story about how a man and woman can work creatively and sustainably together despite the mysteries of the human sex drive.

Delicious caricature of academic follies.

Has graffiti even better than the marginal notes in 'Concrete Mathematics.'

Great to read on a trip to Israel.

A revolutionary novel about the Revolutionary War at all levels.

In-depth characters plus a whole philosophy.

The Great California Novel, entirely in 14-line sonnets.

A brilliant characterization of the tragic state of politics and class relations in America that also happens to be an action-packed murder mystery.

Volume 4 of his series, covers the years 325--1300.

Diaries and letters of a remarkable Armenian woman.

[The author] is at his best in short stories like these.

One of their brilliantly Swedish detective novels.

Captures Oxford high-table small-talk wonderfully.

Also Oxford but in the 1660s.