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Bill Gates
Co-founder of Microsoft
179
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Tobias “Tobi” Lütke
CEO of Shopify
34
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Paul Graham
Co-founder of Y Combinator
32
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DHH
Creator of Ruby on Rails
23
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Patrick Collison
Co-founder & CEO of Stripe
21
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Elon Musk
CEO of Tesla & SpaceX
20
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Vinod Khosla
Founder of Khosla Ventures
18
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Andrej Karpathy
AI researcher, ex-OpenAI/Tesla
17
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Amjad Masad
CEO of Replit
12
RB
Richard Branson
Founder of Virgin Group
12
JD
Jack Dorsey
Co-founder of Twitter & Square
11
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Andrew Chen
General Partner at a16z
9
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Sam Altman
CEO of OpenAI
8
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Garry Tan
President & CEO of Y Combinator
7
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Marc Andreessen
Co-founder of Netscape & a16z
6
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist
6
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Palmer Luckey
Founder of Oculus & Anduril
6
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Guy Kawasaki
Chief Evangelist at Canva
5
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Nat Friedman
Former CEO of GitHub
5
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Pedro Domingos
Machine learning researcher
5
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Reid Hoffman
Co-founder of LinkedIn
5
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Ben Horowitz
Co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz
4
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Brett Adcock
Founder of Figure AI
4
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Eric Schmidt
Former CEO of Google
4
JD
Jeff Dean
Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind
4
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Larry Ellison
Co-founder of Oracle
4
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Mark Zuckerberg
CEO of Meta
4
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Reed Hastings
Co-founder of Netflix
4
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Stephen Hawking
Theoretical physicist
4
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Steve Jobs
Co-founder of Apple
4
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Tony Fadell
4
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Balaji Srinivasan
Entrepreneur, former Coinbase CTO
3
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Brian Chesky
Co-founder & CEO of Airbnb
3
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Dario Amodei
CEO of Anthropic
3
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Larry Page
Co-founder of Google
3
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Lex Fridman
AI researcher & podcast host
3
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Richard Stallman
Founder of the Free Software Foundation
3
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Tim Ferriss
Author & podcast host, The Tim Ferriss Show
3
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Vint Cerf
Co-creator of TCP/IP
3
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Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist, Meta
3
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Alexandr Wang
Founder of Scale AI
2
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Andrew Ng
Founder of DeepLearning.AI
2
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Bjarne Stroustrup
Creator of C++
2
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Bob Kahn
Co-creator of TCP/IP
2
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Demis Hassabis
CEO of Google DeepMind
2
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Greg Brockman
President of OpenAI
2
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Guido van Rossum
Creator of Python
2
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Jeff Bezos
Founder of Amazon
2
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Jensen Huang
CEO of Nvidia
2
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John Carmack
Co-founder of id Software
2
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Michael Dell
Founder of Dell
2
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Naval Ravikant
Co-founder of AngelList
2
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Peter Thiel
Co-founder of PayPal & Palantir
2
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Pieter Levels
Indie maker, founder of Nomad List
2
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Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO of Microsoft
2
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Sergey Brin
Co-founder of Google
2
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Sundar Pichai
CEO of Google & Alphabet
2
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Warren Buffett
CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
2
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Aravind Srinivas
CEO of Perplexity
1
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Brian Armstrong
Co-founder & CEO of Coinbase
1
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Claude Shannon
Father of information theory
1
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Daniel Ek
Co-founder & CEO of Spotify
1
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Drew Houston
1
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Dylan Field
Co-founder & CEO of Figma
1
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Elad Gil
Entrepreneur & investor
1
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Eren Bali
Cofounder & CEO of Monogram AI
1
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Fei-Fei Li
AI researcher, Stanford
1
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Gagan Biyani
Co-founder of Udemy
1
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Guillermo Rauch
CEO of Vercel
1
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Ilya Sutskever
Co-founder of OpenAI & SSI
1
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Jack Ma
Co-founder of Alibaba
1
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James Gosling
Creator of Java
1
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John McCarthy
Coined "AI", created Lisp
1
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Linus Torvalds
Creator of Linux & Git
1
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Phil Knight
Co-founder of Nike
1
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Ray Kurzweil
Futurist, inventor
1
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Steve Wozniak
Co-founder of Apple
1
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Ted Turner
Founder of CNN
1
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
BG
GB
MZ
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The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman
BG
ES
JD
RH
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
BG
JD
VK
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
BG
RH
TL
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker
BG
ES
MZ
Business Adventures
John Brooks
BG
WB
Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance
BG
ES
Life Is What You Make It
Peter Buffett
BG
TT
Mindset
Carol Dweck
BG
TL
Not the End of the World
Hannah Ritchie
BG
GB
Range
David Epstein
BG
VK
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Marc Levinson
BG
JD
The Future of Capitalism
Paul Collier
BG
VK
The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee
BG
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
Robert J. Gordon
BG
PC
The Vital Question
Nick Lane
AK
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
AW
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A Full Life
Jimmy Carter
BG
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
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A Promised Land
Barack Obama
BG
A Thousand Brains
Jeff Hawkins
BG
A World-Class Education: Learning from International Models of Excellence and Innovation
Vivien Stewart
BG
Abundance
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
BG
Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
BG
An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
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An Elegant Defense
Matt Richtel
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An Unfinished Love Story
Doris Kearns Goodwin
BG
Army of None
Paul Scharre
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Awakening Joy
James Baraz
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Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
BG
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo
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Being Nixon
Evan Thomas
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Believe Me
Eddie Izzard
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Blueprint
Nicholas A. Christakis
BG
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
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Born in Blackness
Howard French
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Brave New Words
Sal Khan
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Breath from Salt
Bijal P. Trivedi
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
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Capitalism without Capital
Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake
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Change.edu
Andrew Rosen
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Chasing Hope
Nick Kristof
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Class Warfare
Steven Brill
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Clearing the Air
Hannah Ritchie
BG
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Ezra Vogel
BG
Educated
Tara Westover
BG
Educational Economics
Marguerite Roza
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Energy Myths and Realities
Vaclav Smil
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Energy Transitions
Vaclav Smil
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Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil
BG
Engineering in Plain Sight
Grady Hillhouse
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Enlightenment Now
Steven Pinker
BG
Epic Measures
Jeremy Smith
BG
Eradication
Nancy Leys Stepan
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Everything Happens for a Reason
Kate Bowler
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Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Green
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Evicted
Matthew Desmond
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Factfulness
Hans Rosling
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For the Love of Physics
Walter Lewin
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Getting Better
Charles Kenny
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Good Economics for Hard Times
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
BG
Growth
Vaclav Smil
BG
Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell
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Harvesting the Biosphere
Vaclav Smil
BG
Hit Refresh
Satya Nadella
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Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
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House on Fire
Bill Foege
BG
How Asia Works
Joe Studwell
BG
How Not to Be Wrong
Jordan Ellenberg
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How the World Really Works
Vaclav Smil
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How to Feed the World
Vaclav Smil
BG
How to Know a Person
David Brooks
BG
How to Lie with Statistics
Darrell Huff
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Hyperbole and a Half
Allie Brosh
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I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong
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In Fed We Trust
David Wessel
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Infectious Generosity
Chris Anderson
BG
Interventions
Kofi Annan
BG
Invention and Innovation
Vaclav Smil
BG
Jim Grant—UNICEF Visionary
Peter Adamson, Carol Bellamy, Kul Gautam, Richard Jolly, Nyi Nyi, Mary Racelis, Richard Reid, Jon Rohde
BG
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
BG
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
BG
Liberating Learning
Terry Moe and John Chubb
BG
Lights Out
Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann
BG
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
BG
Making the Modern World
Vaclav Smil
BG
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
BG
Mendeleyev’s Dream
Paul Strathern
BG
Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer
BG
Nine Pints
Rose George
BG
Numbers Don’t Lie
Vaclav Smil
BG
On Immunity
Eula Biss
BG
One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?
Gordon Conway
BG
Origin Story
David Christian
BG
Personal History
Katharine Graham
BG
Polio
David Oshinsky
BG
Poor Economics
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
BG
Poor Numbers
Morten Jerven
BG
Prepared
Diane Tavenner
BG
Presidents of War
Michael Beschloss
BG
Prime Movers of Globalization
Vaclav Smil
BG
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
BG
Reinventing American Health Care
Ezekiel J. Emanuel
BG
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
BG
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
BG
Should We Eat Meat?
Vaclav Smil
BG
Stranger in a Strange Land
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
BG
Stuff Matters
Mark Miodownik
BG
SuperFreakonomics
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner
BG
Surrender
Bono
BG
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
David MacKay
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Sustainable Materials With Both Eyes Open
Julian Allwood and Jonathan Cullen
BG
Tap Dancing to Work
Carol Loomis
BG
Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin
BG
That Used to Be Us
Tom Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
BG
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
BG
The Best We Could Do
Thi Bui
BG
The Bet
Paul Sabin
BG
The Bully Pulpit
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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The Choice
Dr. Edith Eva Eger
BG
The City That Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control
Franklin Zimring
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The Code Breaker
Walter Isaacson
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The Cost of Hope
Amanda Bennett
BG
The Fever
Sonia Shah
BG
The Great Escape
Angus Deaton
BG
The Great Influenza
John M. Barry
BG
The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness
Andy Puddicombe
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The Heart
Maylis de Kerangal
BG
The Idealist
Jeffrey Sachs
BG
The Inner Game of Tennis
Timothy Gallwey
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The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
BG
The Magic of Reality
Richard Dawkins
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The Man Who Fed the World
Leon Hesser
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The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World
William Rosen
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The Myth of the Strong Leader
Archie Brown
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The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
BG
The New Science of Strong Materials
James Edward Gordon
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The Overstory
Richard Powers
BG
The Power
Naomi Alderman
BG
The Power to Compete
Ryoichi Mikitani and Hiroshi Mikitani
BG
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
Daniel Yergin
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The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley
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The Ride of a Lifetime
Robert Iger
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The Road to Character
David Brooks
BG
The Rosie Effect
Graeme Simsion
BG
The Rosie Project
Graeme Simsion
BG
The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver
BG
The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
BG
The Song of the Cell
Siddhartha Mukherjee
BG
The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson
BG
The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre
BG
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
BG
The Women
Kristin Hannah
BG
The World Until Yesterday
Jared Diamond
BG
These Truths
Jill Lepore
BG
Thing Explainer
Randall Munroe
BG
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
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Tomorrow’s Table
Pamela Ronald and Raoul Adamchak
BG
Turtles All the Way Down
John Green
BG
Under a White Sky
Elizabeth Kolbert
BG
Upheaval
Jared Diamond
BG
Value-Added Measures in Education
Douglas N. Harris
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What If?
Randall Munroe
BG
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
BG
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows
Steven Pinker
BG
Where Good Ideas Come From
Steven Johnson
BG
Who Knew
Barry Diller
BG
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 Nations Fail
Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson
BG
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
BG
Why We’re Polarized
Ezra Klein
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Work Hard. Be Nice.
Jay Mathews
BG
XKCD
Randall Munroe
BG