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Neal Stephenson
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The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
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Mustafa Suleyman
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Ben Horowitz
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Reid Hoffman
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Masters of Doom
David Kushner
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Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
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The Courage to Be Disliked
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Jared Diamond
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Life Is What You Make It
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Carol Dweck
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Hannah Ritchie
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Amor Towles
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William B. Irvine
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G. H. Hardy
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Barack Obama
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Charles Singer
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Peter Bevelin
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William Manchester
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Jon Mooallem
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Stefan Zweig
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An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
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Chris Hadfield
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Matt Richtel
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An Immense World
Ed Yong
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An Unfinished Love Story
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy
Nick Bostrom
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Antifragile
Nassim Taleb
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Arctica: The Vanishing North
Sebastian Copeland
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Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg
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Army of None
Paul Scharre
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Atlas Shrugged
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Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
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James Baraz
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John Carreyrou
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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
Abigail Shrier
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Katherine Boo
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Being Nixon
Evan Thomas
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Eddie Izzard
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Jim Collins
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Kip S. Thorne
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Sudhir Hazareesingh
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Trevor Noah
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Howard French
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Sal Khan
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Bijal P. Trivedi
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Jim Collins
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Christopher Ryan
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Steven Brill
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Hannah Ritchie
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David Mitchell
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Charles Petzold
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John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson
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Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues
Carole Robin and David Bradford
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Kim Zetter
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Ed Catmull
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Neal Stephenson
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Daniel Suarez
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Jason Stearns
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Bryan Burrough
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Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Tony Hsieh
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Ezra Vogel
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Eric Evans
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Ian Fleming
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Cao Xueqin
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Educated
Tara Westover
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Marguerite Roza
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John Forester
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Walter Isaacson
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Ashlee Vance
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Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
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Vaclav Smil
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Vaclav Smil
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Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil
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Engineering in Plain Sight
Grady Hillhouse
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Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker
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Epic Measures
Jeremy Smith
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Eradication
Nancy Leys Stepan
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Ethan of Athos
Lois McMaster Bujold
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Everything Happens for a Reason
Kate Bowler
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Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Green
BG
Evicted
Matthew Desmond
BG
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
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Hans Rosling
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Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
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Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
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For the Love of Physics
Walter Lewin
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Foundation
Isaac Asimov
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Foundations of Machine Learning
Mehryar Mohri, Afshin Rostamizadeh, and Ameet Talwalkar
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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston
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Game Engine Black Book: DOOM
Fabien Sanglard
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
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Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
Cade Metz
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Getting Better
Charles Kenny
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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Michael Lewis
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Good Economics for Hard Times
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
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Grit
Angela Duckworth
TL
Growth
Vaclav Smil
BG
Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
NT
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Steven Levy
JC
Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell
BG
Hard Landing: The Epic Contest for Power and Profits That Plunged the Airlines into Chaos
Thomas Petzinger Jr.
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Harvesting the Biosphere
Vaclav Smil
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Hate Inc.
Matt Taibbi
D
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Alice Munro
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Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
John E. Sarno, MD
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High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
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High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
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Hit Refresh
Satya Nadella
BG
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
Johan Huizinga
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House on Fire
Bill Foege
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How Asia Works
Joe Studwell
BG
How Not to Be Wrong
Jordan Ellenberg
BG
How the World Really Works
Vaclav Smil
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How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
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How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
Ray Kurzweil
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How to Feed the World
Vaclav Smil
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How to Know a Person
David Brooks
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How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff
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How to Live
Derek Sivers
AK
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
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Human Compatible
Stuart Russell
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Hyperbole and a Half
Allie Brosh
BG
I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas R. Hofstadter
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I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong
BG
I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography
Paul Halmos
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If You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit
Brenda Ueland
GK
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life
Stephen Webb
PC
Illustrated Guide to AI: A Deep Dive into Modern AI
Welch Labs
EB
Imagine It Forward
Beth Comstock and Tahl Raz
PK
In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan
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In Fed We Trust
David Wessel
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Infectious Generosity
Chris Anderson
BG
Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite
Rudy Rucker
NF
Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better
David Epstein
TF
Interventions
Kofi Annan
BG
Invention and Innovation
Vaclav Smil
BG
Ishmael
Daniel Quinn
JD
Island: The Center of the World
Russell Shorto
PL
Jack Reacher Series
Lee Child
GK
Jeeves in the Offing
P. G. Wodehouse
PG
Jim Grant—UNICEF Visionary
Peter Adamson, Carol Bellamy, Kul Gautam, Richard Jolly, Nyi Nyi, Mary Racelis, Richard Reid, Jon Rohde
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Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
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Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Kolmogorov Complexity and Algorithmic Randomness
Alexander Shen, Vladimir Uspensky, and Nikolay Vereshchagin
IS
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
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Letters to the Sons of Society: A Father's Invitation to Love, Honesty, and Freedom
Shaka Senghor
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Liberating Learning
Terry Moe and John Chubb
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Life on the Edge
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Lights Out
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Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
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Look: How to Pay Attention in a Distracted World
Christian Madsbjerg
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Loonshots
Safi Bahcall
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Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
Jacquie McNish
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Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization
Lars Brownworth
D
Love and Math
Edward Frenkel
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Lying
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Machine Learning
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Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in His Own Words
Steve Jobs
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Making the Modern World
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March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Barbara W. Tuchman
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Mastering Bitcoin
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
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Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace
Ricardo Semler
D
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
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Medieval Technology and Social Change
Lynn White Jr.
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Meditations
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Paul Strathern
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Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Middlemarch
George Eliot
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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
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Misteriosa Buenos Aires
Manuel Mujica Láinez
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Herman Melville
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Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder
JD
My Family and Other Animals
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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla
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My Life at Apple
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SW
Neuromancer
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JD
Nine Pints
Rose George
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
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Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
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Not Much of an Engineer
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Numbers Don’t Lie
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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
Weston A. Price
AM
On Immunity
Eula Biss
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On Tyranny
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VC
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
NT
One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?
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One Hundred Summers
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One Hundred Thousand Whys
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JM
Only the Paranoid Survive
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JH
Origin Story
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Peter Godfrey-Smith
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Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China
Philip P. Pan
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
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PC
Partnering: Forge the Deep Connections That Make Great Things Happen
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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
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D
Permutation City
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TL
Personal History
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Play Nice But Win: A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader
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SN
Polio
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Pompeii
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NF
Poor Economics
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Poor Numbers
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Prepared
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BG
Presidents of War
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Prime Movers of Globalization
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Principles
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JD
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
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Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha
Tara Brach
TF
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Chris Dixon
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Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
David J. Chalmers
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Reamde
Neal Stephenson
TL
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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Reinventing American Health Care
Ezekiel J. Emanuel
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
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Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky
René Girard
PT
Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West
R. R. Reno
AM
Seeing Like a State
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Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth
Edward Tufte
GR
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
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Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
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Should We Eat Meat?
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Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
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Stories of Your Life and Others
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Robert Heinlein
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Stress Test
Timothy F. Geithner
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Stretching the School Dollar
Frederick M. Hess
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String Theory
David Foster Wallace
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Stuff Matters
Mark Miodownik
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Bono
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David MacKay
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Sustainable Materials With Both Eyes Open
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Tap Dancing to Work
Carol Loomis
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Team of Rivals
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That Will Never Work
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The Accidental Superpower
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Thomas Paine
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The Age of Spiritual Machines
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
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The Anxious Generation
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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
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The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
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The Bet
Paul Sabin
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The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
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The Bully Pulpit
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Character of Physical Law
Richard Feynman
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The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
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The Choice
Dr. Edith Eva Eger
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The City That Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control
Franklin Zimring
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The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
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The Code Breaker
Walter Isaacson
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The Code of the Woosters
P. G. Wodehouse
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The Conquest of Gaul
Julius Caesar
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The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius
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The Copernican Revolution
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The Cost of Hope
Amanda Bennett
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The Dark Forest
Liu Cixin
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
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The Defeat of the Spanish Armada
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The Design of Everyday Things
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The Dice Man
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The Effective Executive
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The Elegant Universe
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The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr.
TL
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
AC
The End of Power
Moisés Naím
MZ
The Expanse
James S. A. Corey
DA
The Fever
Sonia Shah
BG
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
Joanne B. Freeman
MA
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
Noam Wasserman
AC
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
JD
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win
Steve Blank
GK
The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
Brian Dear
AM
The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
Rob Copeland
GT
The Gallic Wars
Julius Caesar
EM
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
DH
The Gold-Bug
Edgar Allan Poe
CS
The Gray Lady Winked
Ashley Rindsberg
BS
The Great Escape
Angus Deaton
BG
The Great Influenza
John M. Barry
BG
The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
Phil Rosenzweig
MA
The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness
Andy Puddicombe
BG
The Heart
Maylis de Kerangal
BG
The Idealist
Jeffrey Sachs
BG
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
LF
The Iliad
Homer
EM
The Inflamed Mind
Edward Bullmore
VK
The Inner Game of Tennis
Timothy Gallwey
BG
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
WB
The Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes
David E. H. Jones
NF
The Irish R.M. Complete
Somerville and Ross
PG
The Jungle Grows Back
Robert Kagan
VK
The Kill Chain
Christian Brose
PL
The Last Days of Night
Graham Moore
VK
The Lessons of History
Will Durant and Ariel Durant
LF
The Liar
Martin A. Hansen
BS
The Life of Greece
Will Durant and Ariel Durant
EM
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
BG
The Line Becomes a River
Francisco Cantú
VK
The Magic of Reality
Richard Dawkins
BG
The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950-1350
Robert Bartlett
PG
The Making of Prince of Persia
Jordan Mechner
TL
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
DA
The Man Who Fed the World
Leon Hesser
BG
The Martian
Andy Weir
AK
The Master Switch
Tim Wu
AK
The Mind-Body Problem
Rebecca Goldstein
PC
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
BG
The Most Powerful Idea in the World
William Rosen
BG
The Myth of the Strong Leader
Archie Brown
BG
The Mythical Man-Month
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
LE
The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Balaji S. Srinivasan
BH
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
BG
The New Science of Strong Materials
James Edward Gordon
BG
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
Steven Lee Myers
D
The Obstacle Is the Way
Ryan Holiday
D
The Odyssey
Homer
PG
The Open Society and Its Enemies
Karl Popper
YL
The Outsiders
William N. Thorndike
MD
The Overstory
Richard Powers
BG
The Paris Review Interviews, I
The Paris Review
PC
The Power
Naomi Alderman
BG
The Power to Compete
Ryoichi Mikitani and Hiroshi Mikitani
BG
The Precipice
Toby Ord
TL
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
NT
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
Timothy Gowers
BS
The Quest for El Cid
Richard Fletcher
PG
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Daniel Yergin
BG
The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley
BG
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
JB
The Ride of a Lifetime
Robert Iger
BG
The Road to Character
David Brooks
BG
The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich Hayek
EM
The Robber Barons
Matthew Josephson
LE
The Rosie Effect
Graeme Simsion
BG
The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion
BG
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
PG
The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver
BG
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
BG
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Christopher Clark
SA
The Song of the Cell
Siddhartha Mukherjee
BG
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
AC
The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson
BG
The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre
BG
The Storm of Steel
Ernst Jünger
EM
The Story of B
Daniel Quinn
JD
The Story of Civilization
Will Durant and Ariel Durant
EM
The Stranger
Albert Camus
D
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
Graham Farmelo
JD
The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss
VC
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
BG
The System of the World
Isaac Newton
NT
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
Daniel Coyle
TL
The Third Pillar
Raghuram Rajan
VK
The Transit of Venus
Shirley Hazzard
SA
The Trial
Franz Kafka
D
The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling
Ted Chiang
AW
The Two-Ocean War
Samuel Eliot Morison
BK
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis
D
The Unincorporated Man
Dani Kollin and Eytan Kollin
PL
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer
RK
The Wages of Destruction
Adam Tooze
EM
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
NT
The Witling
Vernor Vinge
RS
The Women
Kristin Hannah
BG
The World Until Yesterday
Jared Diamond
BG
The World of Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse
PG
These Truths
Jill Lepore
BG
Thing Explainer
Randall Munroe
BG
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
René Girard
PT
Think Again
Adam Grant
TF
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
TL
This Is Dyslexia: Everything You Need To Understand, Value And Support Dyslexic Thinking
Kate Griggs
RB
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
BG
Tomorrow’s Table
Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak
BG
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein
PG
Trillion Dollar Coach
Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
SP
Trump: The Art of the Deal
Donald J. Trump and Tony Schwartz
PL
Turn the Ship Around!
L. David Marquet
D
Turtles All the Way Down
John Green
BG
Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
Jennet Conant
TL
Twelve Against the Gods
William Bolitho
EM
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
PL
Twilight of the Elites: Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France
Christophe Guilluy
D
Under a White Sky
Elizabeth Kolbert
BG
Upheaval
Jared Diamond
BG
Value-Added Measures in Education
Douglas N. Harris
BG
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
TF
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
Neal Gabler
BC
Way of the Warrior Kid (5 books)
Jocko Willink
TL
What Do You Do With an Idea?
Kobi Yamada
D
What If?
Randall Munroe
BG
What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
TL
What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
Tim Urban
TL
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
BG
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
Steven Pinker
BG
Where Good Ideas Come From
Steven Johnson
BG
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Katie Hafner
VC
Who Knew
Barry Diller
BG
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
David Reich
AM
Whole Earth Discipline
Stewart Brand
JD
Why America is Not a New Rome
Vaclav Smil
BG
Why Does College Cost So Much?
Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman
BG
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman
GT
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Anil Ananthaswamy
PD
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson
BG
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
BG
Why We’re Polarized
Ezra Klein
BG
Wind, Sand and Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
NR
Wing Leader
J. E. Johnson
PG
Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas
VK
Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life
Guy Kawasaki
RB
Work Hard. Be Nice.
Jay Mathews
BG
XKCD
Randall Munroe
BG
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Shunryu Suzuki
SJ