How Information and Books Survive the Test of Time, and How They Change

This is an alphabetical version.  For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: How Information and Books Survive the Test of Time, and How They Change

Books and information (and misinformation) need to be passed on to remain.  Can be lost in translation or lost in abundance to alternatives.  Why should people if information is preserved?  How is is preserved?  A very fragile existence.  

About Writing Books

• Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers by Carolyn See

Culture

• The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
• The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich

History

• Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
• The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
• A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
• How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
• A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
• Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
• Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
• The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie

Philosophy, Epistemology

• The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick

Science

• Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia by Gregory Benford

Fiction

• The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón