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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1Karl Marx
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering ManagementWill Larson
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management TrackWill Larson
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of HumanityDavid Graeber
Homage to Catalonia
Homage to CataloniaGeorge Orwell
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous UtopiaUrsula K. Le Guin
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of AnonymousGabriella Coleman
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell TollsErnest Hemingway
V for Vendetta
V for VendettaAlan Moore
Exposed: The Problem of Extreme Porn
Exposed: The Problem of Extreme PornClare McGlynn
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Debt: The First 5,000 YearsDavid Graeber
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)Becky Chambers
Hip-Hop Is History
Hip-Hop Is HistoryQuestlove
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
Technofeudalism: What Killed CapitalismYanis Varoufakis
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Designing Data-Intensive ApplicationsMartin Kleppmann
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)Pyotr Kropotkin
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)J.R.R. Tolkien
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the ForestSuzanne Simard
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Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War: Authorized Edition
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War: Authorized EditionErnesto Che Guevara★★★★★
1984
1984George Orwell
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of EmpireAkala★★★★★
Tokyo Express
Tokyo ExpressSeichō Matsumoto★★★☆☆
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck★★★★★
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addictionreviewed
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of AddictionJudith Grisel★★★★★goodreads ↗
We Need to Tax Billionaires
We Need to Tax BillionairesGabriel Zucman
Allen Carr: The Easy Way to Quit Cannabis: Regain Your Drive, Health and Happiness (Allen Carr's Easyway Book 95)reviewed
Allen Carr: The Easy Way to Quit Cannabis: Regain Your Drive, Health and Happiness (Allen Carr's Easyway Book 95)Allen Carr★★★☆☆goodreads ↗
Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet
Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the InternetJulian Assange★★★★☆
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family
Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia FamilyNicholas Pileggi★★★★☆
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Frankenstein: The 1818 TextMary Wollstonecraft Shelley★★★★★
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creativereviewed
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being CreativeAustin Kleon★★☆☆☆goodreads ↗
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)Matt Dinniman★★★☆☆
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)reviewed
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)Travis Baldree★★★☆☆goodreads ↗
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culturereviewed
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop CultureDavid Kushner★★★☆☆goodreads ↗
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)J.R.R. Tolkien★★★★★
Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War
Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture WarAsh Sarkar
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovationreviewed
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American InnovationJon Gertner★★★★☆goodreads ↗
The Hotel Avocado (Gary Thorn, #2)
The Hotel Avocado (Gary Thorn, #2)Bob Mortimer★★★☆☆
Convenience Store Woman
Convenience Store WomanSayaka Murata
The Satsuma Complex (Gary Thorn, #1)reviewed
The Satsuma Complex (Gary Thorn, #1)Bob Mortimer★★★★☆goodreads ↗
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of ConnectionCharles Duhigg★★★☆☆
The Trading Game: A Confession
The Trading Game: A ConfessionGary Stevenson★★★★★
The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Datareviewed
The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of DataGene Kim★★★☆☆goodreads ↗
Sword Art Online: Progressive 002 (Sword Art Online: Progressive Light Novel, #2)
Sword Art Online: Progressive 002 (Sword Art Online: Progressive Light Novel, #2)Reki Kawahara
Sword Art Online: Progressive, Vol. 1 (Sword Art Online: Progressive Light Novel, #1)reviewed
Sword Art Online: Progressive, Vol. 1 (Sword Art Online: Progressive Light Novel, #1)Reki Kawahara★★★★★goodreads ↗
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayalreviewed
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and BetrayalBen Mezrich★★★★★goodreads ↗
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)J.R.R. Tolkien★★★★★
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the WorldJoseph Menn★★★★☆
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business WinGene Kim★★★★★
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #0.5)
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #0.5)Douglas Adams
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)Douglas Adams★★★★★
The War of the Worlds
The War of the WorldsH.G. Wells★★★★★
The Metamorphosis
The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman★★★★★
Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign LanguageRoger J. Kreuz
A Short History of England
A Short History of EnglandSimon Jenkins
Life on Earthreviewed
Life on EarthDavid Attenborough★★★★★goodreads ↗
Government in the Future (Open Media Series)
Government in the Future (Open Media Series)Noam Chomsky★★★★★
How to Win Friends and Influence People
How to Win Friends and Influence PeopleDale Carnegie★★★★☆
The Time Machine
The Time MachineH.G. Wells★★★★★
Penguin Classics Art Of War,The by Sun Tzu (2008-06-10)
Penguin Classics Art Of War,The by Sun Tzu (2008-06-10)Sun Tzu★★★★★
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?reviewed
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Philip K. Dick★★★★☆goodreads ↗
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)reviewed
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)Douglas Adams★★★★★goodreads ↗
Rise of the Horde (World of Warcraft, #2)
Rise of the Horde (World of Warcraft, #2)Christie Golden★★★☆☆
Klara and the Sunreviewed
Klara and the SunKazuo Ishiguro★★★★★goodreads ↗
How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong
How To Be Right… in a World Gone WrongJames O'Brien★★★★☆
Treacle Walker
Treacle WalkerAlan Garner
It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
It's OK to Be Angry About CapitalismBernie Sanders★★★☆☆
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Hobbit, or There and Back AgainJ.R.R. Tolkien★★★★★
Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)Douglas Adams★★★★☆
Matilda
MatildaRoald Dahl★★★★★
The Sundering (WarCraft: War of the Ancients, #3)
The Sundering (WarCraft: War of the Ancients, #3)Richard A. Knaak★★★★☆
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of MossesRobin Wall Kimmerer★★★★★
The Great Gatsby
The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald★★★★★
Learn Microsoft Power Apps: The definitive handbook for building solutions with Power Apps to solve your business needs
Learn Microsoft Power Apps: The definitive handbook for building solutions with Power Apps to solve your business needsMatthew Weston
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)William Gibson★★★★★
The Demon Soul (WarCraft: War of the Ancients, #2)
The Demon Soul (WarCraft: War of the Ancients, #2)Richard A. Knaak
Microsoft SQL Server 2019: A Beginner's Guide, Seventh Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2019: A Beginner's Guide, Seventh EditionDusan Petkovic★★★★☆
The Well of Eternity (WarCraft: War of the Ancients, #1)
The Well of Eternity (WarCraft: War of the Ancients, #1)Richard A. Knaak★★★★☆
Circe
CirceMadeline Miller★★★★☆
Lanny
LannyMax Porter★★★★★
The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)
The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)Seishi Yokomizo★★★★☆
Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolf★★★★★
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx★★★★☆
Brave New World
Brave New WorldAldous Huxley★★★★☆
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Seven Brief Lessons on PhysicsCarlo Rovelli
10 Women Who Ruled the Renaissance
10 Women Who Ruled the RenaissanceJoyce E. Salisbury★★★★☆
Regeneration
RegenerationPat Barker★★★★☆
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)Douglas Adams★★★★☆
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)Douglas Adams★★★★★
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and MenJohn Steinbeck
Animal Farm
Animal FarmGeorge Orwell★★★★★
Ansible for DevOps
Ansible for DevOpsJeff Geerling★★★☆☆
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain SightM.E. Thomas★★★☆☆
Turtles All the Way Down
Turtles All the Way DownJohn Green★★★★★
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto
Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A ManifestoAaron Bastani★★★★☆
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly ImprobableNassim Nicholas Taleb★★★★☆
A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of TimeStephen W. Hawking★★★★★
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly EverythingBill Bryson★★★★☆
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding★★★★☆
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)Suzanne Collins
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindYuval Noah Harari★★★★☆
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)J.K. Rowling
Warcraft: Durotan
Warcraft: DurotanChristie Golden★★★☆☆
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good LifeMark Manson★★★☆☆
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really AreSeth Stephens-Davidowitz★★★☆☆
Forces of Nature
Forces of NatureBrian Cox
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and DreamsMatthew Walker★★★☆☆
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad OnesJames Clear★★★★☆
Permanent Record
Permanent RecordEdward Snowden★★★★☆
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)reviewed
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)Matt Haig★☆☆☆☆goodreads ↗
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Dracula
DraculaBram Stoker
Shuggie Bain
Shuggie BainDouglas Stuart
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)Isaac Asimov
Beowulf
BeowulfSeamus Heaney
The Road to Wigan Pier
The Road to Wigan PierGeorge Orwell
Watchmen
WatchmenAlan Moore
David Copperfield
David CopperfieldCharles Dickens
Demon Copperhead
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver
Platform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product, and People Leaders
Platform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product, and People LeadersCamille Fournier
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and ChangeCamille Fournier
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have FailedJames C. Scott
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern ChinaJulia Lovell
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
A Contribution to the Critique of Political EconomyKarl Marx
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 3
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 3Karl Marx
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 2
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 2Karl Marx
The Firm (The Firm, #1)
The Firm (The Firm, #1)John Grisham
American Psycho
American PsychoBret Easton Ellis
Animal Dreams
Animal DreamsBarbara Kingsolver
Possession
PossessionA.S. Byatt
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, WitchNeil Gaiman
On Being Ill
On Being IllVirginia Woolf
The Years
The YearsVirginia Woolf
Stardust
StardustNeil Gaiman
Essential Essays, Volume 1: Foundations of Cultural Studies (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)
Essential Essays, Volume 1: Foundations of Cultural Studies (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)Stuart Hall
The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left
The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the LeftStuart Hall
Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain
Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War BritainStuart Hall
Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)
Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)Stuart Hall
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer ScienceRonald Graham
The War-Torn Kingdom (Fabled Lands, #1)
The War-Torn Kingdom (Fabled Lands, #1)Jamie Thomson
The Grinder's Manual: A Complete Course in Online No Limit Holdem 6-Max Cash Games
The Grinder's Manual: A Complete Course in Online No Limit Holdem 6-Max Cash GamesPeter Clarke
The Mathematics of Poker
The Mathematics of PokerBill Chen
Essential Poker Math: Fundamental No Limit Hold’em Mathematics You Need To Know
Essential Poker Math: Fundamental No Limit Hold’em Mathematics You Need To KnowAlton Hardin
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling MenLundy Bancroft
The Celts by Alice Roberts (2016-05-19)
The Celts by Alice Roberts (2016-05-19)Alice Roberts
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)Stephenie Meyer
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its ImplicationsDavid Deutsch
Women, Race & Class
Women, Race & ClassAngela Y. Davis
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against ThemselvesSophie Gilbert
Lint
LintSteve Aylett
Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White MasksFrantz Fanon
The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird
The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the WeirdDan Schreiber
The Secret History
The Secret HistoryDonna Tartt
Slags
SlagsEmma Jane Unsworth
Starplex
StarplexRobert J. Sawyer
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working ClassOwen Jones
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India CompanyWilliam Dalrymple
Welcome to the Monkey House
Welcome to the Monkey HouseKurt Vonnegut Jr.
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest InfectionJohn Green
The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High CastlePhilip K. Dick
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic PowersRichard Evans Schultes
The Russian Revolution 1917-1932
The Russian Revolution 1917-1932Sheila Fitzpatrick
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924Orlando Figes
We
WeYevgeny Zamyatin
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of DemocracyDaniel A. Bell
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist RulersRichard McGregor
The Essence of Money: Argentarius: Letters from a bank director to his son (Argentarius: Letters of a Bankdirektor to his Son)
The Essence of Money: Argentarius: Letters from a bank director to his son (Argentarius: Letters of a Bankdirektor to his Son)Michael Anton Fischer
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the StateFriedrich Engels
Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment
Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep EstablishmentYanis Varoufakis
Lolita
LolitaVladimir Nabokov
Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders
Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women SkateboardersNatalie Porter
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of IndulgenceAnna Lembke
Dance Or Die: A History of Hardcore
Dance Or Die: A History of HardcoreHolly Dicker
A James Connolly Reader
A James Connolly ReaderJames Connolly
Scapegoat: Why We Are Failing Disabled People
Scapegoat: Why We Are Failing Disabled PeopleKatharine Quarmby
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Mutual Aid: A Factor of EvolutionPyotr Kropotkin
The Bell Jar
The Bell JarSylvia Plath
Women Don't Owe You Pretty
Women Don't Owe You PrettyFlorence Given
C++ Concurrency in Action: Practical Multithreading
C++ Concurrency in Action: Practical MultithreadingAnthony Williams
Hacker's Delight
Hacker's DelightHenry S. Warren Jr.
Game Programming Patterns
Game Programming PatternsRobert Nystrom
Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14
Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14Scott Meyers
C++ Crash Course
C++ Crash CourseJosh Lospinoso
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)Larry McMurtry
Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of Gaza
Complicit: Britain's Role in the Destruction of GazaPeter Oborne
The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your Life
The Brain at Rest: How the Art and Science of Doing Nothing Can Improve Your LifeJoseph Jebelli
The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our StarsJohn Green
Making Sense of Stream Processing
Making Sense of Stream ProcessingMartin Kleppmann
Implementing Service Level Objectives: A Practical Guide to SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets
Implementing Service Level Objectives: A Practical Guide to SLIs, SLOs, and Error BudgetsAlex Hidalgo
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)Michael T. Nygard
Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?Brett Christophers
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the FutureDan Wang
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and SchizophreniaGilles Deleuze
Ways of Seeing
Ways of SeeingJohn Berger
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels
Blood, Sweat, and PixelsJason Schreier
Functional Programming in Scala
Functional Programming in ScalaRúnar Bjarnason
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About ItCory Doctorow
Labour in Irish History
Labour in Irish HistoryJames Connolly
Our Future is History
Our Future is HistoryAngarrack John
The Celtic Revolution
The Celtic RevolutionPeter Berresford Ellis
West Britons: Cornish Identities and the Early Modern British State
West Britons: Cornish Identities and the Early Modern British StateMark Stoyle
Stoner
StonerJohn Williams
How Propaganda Works
How Propaganda WorksJason F. Stanley
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We DoErik J. Larson
The Emperor's New Mind
The Emperor's New MindRoger Penrose
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of IntelligenceJeff Hawkins
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)T.J. Klune
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)Marlon James
Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt, #1)
Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt, #1)Adrian Tchaikovsky
Fix the System, Not the Women
Fix the System, Not the WomenLaura Bates
Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth
Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on EarthKaren G. Lloyd
Strata: Stories from Deep Time
Strata: Stories from Deep TimeLaura Poppick
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental RevolutionaryLinus Torvalds
Muslims Don't Matter
Muslims Don't MatterSayeeda Warsi
Year of the Rat: Undercover in the British Far Right
Year of the Rat: Undercover in the British Far RightHarry Shukman
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Organization Man
The Organization ManWilliam H. Whyte
The Organisation Man
The Organisation ManWilliam Whyte
Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
Demanding the Impossible: A History of AnarchismPeter H. Marshall
Linux Device Drivers
Linux Device DriversJonathan Corbet
The Ministry of Time
The Ministry of TimeKaliane Bradley
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the InternetDavid Kahn
Snow Crash
Snow CrashNeal Stephenson
The Cabinet
The CabinetKim Un-Su
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted WorldCal Newport
The Soviet Century
The Soviet CenturyMoshe Lewin
We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber InsurgencyParmy Olson
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Cultish: The Language of FanaticismAmanda Montell
Hypermedia Systems
Hypermedia SystemsCarson Gross
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over TimeTitus Winters
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to MasterAndy Hunt
Number9Dream
Number9DreamDavid Mitchell
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez
A Tale for the Time Being
A Tale for the Time BeingRuth Ozeki
Cloud Atlas
Cloud AtlasDavid Mitchell
Let the Great World Spin
Let the Great World SpinColum McCann
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
The Dictionary of Obscure SorrowsJohn Koenig
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk RoadNick Bilton
Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment
Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard EntertainmentJason Schreier
Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation
Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against LiberationSophie Lewis
Capital Is Dead. Is This Something Worse?
Capital Is Dead. Is This Something Worse?McKenzie Wark
The Celtic Revolution: In Search of 2000 Forgotten Years That Changed Our World
The Celtic Revolution: In Search of 2000 Forgotten Years That Changed Our WorldSimon Young
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of ChinaJung Chang
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented SoftwareErich Gamma
A Tour of C++ (C++ In Depth SERIES)
A Tour of C++ (C++ In Depth SERIES)Bjarne Stroustrup
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of BisexualityJulia Shaw
Mr. Nice
Mr. NiceHoward Marks
The Doors of Perception
The Doors of PerceptionAldous Huxley
How to Own the World: A Plain English Guide to Thinking Globally and Investing Wisely
How to Own the World: A Plain English Guide to Thinking Globally and Investing WiselyAndrew Craig
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat TillmanJon Krakauer
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest DisasterJon Krakauer
Into the Wild
Into the WildJon Krakauer
The Art of Explanation: How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence
The Art of Explanation: How to Communicate with Clarity and ConfidenceRos Atkins
Defiant (Songs of Chaos, #3)
Defiant (Songs of Chaos, #3)Michael R. Miller
Unbound (Songs of Chaos, #2)
Unbound (Songs of Chaos, #2)Michael R. Miller
Ascendant (Songs of Chaos, #1)
Ascendant (Songs of Chaos, #1)Michael R. Miller
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around UsEd Yong
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The Iliad (Classics Illustrated)
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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