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The Best Eco-Thrillers

'Eco-thrillers' are books that combine suspenseful plotting with environmental themes. Here, the bestselling novelist and chart-topping podcaster Manda Scott selects five thrilling novels that explore the climate emergency and other ecological crises through fiction, with an emphasis on books that envisage a route forward. Read more


The Best Books On Personality Types

Since its birth in the early twentieth century, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has become the most popular personality test in the world. Here, Merve Emre, author of the new book The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing, recommends five books that reveal how the language of 'type' has seeped into the marrow of American civic institutions and social life—from Fortune 500 companies to Breakfast at Tiffany's. Read More


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