Nonfiction & ideas

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

28 of the 41 cards you could be dealt, plus 13 more. The values stay hidden until you place them.

• The Prince Niccolò Machiavelli
• Leviathan Thomas Hobbes
• The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith
• Das Kapital Karl Marx
• The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money John Maynard Keynes
• The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank
• Silent Spring Rachel Carson
• The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan
• In Cold Blood Truman Capote
• The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins
• The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe
• Chaos: Making a New Science James Gleick
• Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond
• Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer
• The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell
• Freakonomics Levitt & Dubner
• The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan
• Outliers Malcolm Gladwell
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot
• Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman
• Quiet Susan Cain
• The Body Keeps the Score Bessel van der Kolk
• Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Why We Sleep Matthew Walker
• Atomic Habits James Clear
• Educated Tara Westover
• Caste Isabel Wilkerson