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Makers of Rome : nine lives
Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World
Roman honor : the fire in the bones
Religions of Rome, Volume 1: A History
I, Claudius

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34 books

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A Pirate of Exquisite Mind
The Wild Places
Panzer Ace: The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy
Last Chance to See
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

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14 books

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The Unknown Soldier

Roman Women
The Birth of Critical Thinking in Republican Rome
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How to Study Poker Volume 2

Modernist Pizza

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36 books

1000 Pages Or More

HenriButter
Emil
Musashi
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Worth the Candle
Worm
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

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62 books

160 Pages Or Less

HenriButter
Emil
Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes
Julius Caesar
The Last Jew of Treblinka
Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz
The moon is down

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227 books

320 Pages Or Less

HenriButter
Emil
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems
American Wolf
H is for Hawk
Thirteen Days
The Hollywood Economist 2.0: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies

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8 books

Ancient America

HenriButter
Emil
The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
The Last Days of the Incas
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Empire of the Summer Moon

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7 books

Ancient Fic Or Legend

HenriButter
Emil
An Oresteia
The Odyssey
Tales of the Greek Heroes
The Metamorphoses
Greek Tragedy

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25 books

Ancient Greece

HenriButter
Emil
Strategy: A History
The Landmark Thucydides
A New History of the Peloponnesian War
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Herodotus

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45 books

Ancient Rome

HenriButter
Emil
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
I, Claudius
Claudius the God
Dynasty

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2 books

Ancient Vikings

HenriButter
Emil
Viking Legacy: A cornerstone of World Civilization
Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World

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15 books

Animals

HenriButter
Emil
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
American Wolf
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Hunting Trips of a Ranchman & The Wilderness Hunter

Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes
Beyond Words

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8 books

Bookclub

HenriButter
Emil
East of Eden
Gravity's Rainbow
Troilus and Cressida
Invisible Man
The sixty-minute Shakespeare--Twelfth night

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3 books

Chess

HenriButter
Emil
1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners: The Tactics Workbook that Explains the Basic Concepts, Too
100 Endgames You Must Know: Vital Lessons for Every Chess Player Improved and Expanded
The Amateur's Mind: Turning Chess Misconceptions Into Chess Mastery

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9 books

Classic

HenriButter
Emil
Anna Karenina
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
How Proust Can Change Your Life
Why Read Moby-Dick?

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5 books

Coding Python

HenriButter
Emil
Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming
Effective Python: 59 Specific Ways to Write Better Python
Beyond the Basic Stuff with Python
The Big Book of Small Python Projects
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

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2 books

Coffee Table

HenriButter
Emil
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Vanishing Asia

Gastro Obscura

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2 books

Comic

HenriButter
Emil
Eight Billion Genies #1
Berlin

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32 books

Coming Up

HenriButter
Emil
Legion versus Phalanx
How to Solve it
The Landmark Thucydides
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The Rise and Fall of Athens

Herodotus

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24 books

Cooking

HenriButter
Emil
Modernist Cuisine at Home
Modernist Cuisine
Modernist Bread
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
The Food Lab

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1 book

Cooking Food

HenriButter
Emil
Gastro Obscura

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13 books

Cooking Regional

HenriButter
Emil
COUSCOUS & OTHER GOOD FOOD
A Taste of Persia
Modern Flavors of Arabia: Recipes and Memories from My Middle Eastern Kitchen: A Cookbook
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The Groundnut Cookbook

Mourad

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16 books

Crime

HenriButter
Emil
Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
Without Conscience
Cannibal Killers
Dark Dreams
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

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13 books

Dharma

HenriButter
Emil
Confession of a Buddhist Atheist
Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha
Meditations
Letters from a Stoic
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

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115 books

Do Read

HenriButter
Emil
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The Dragons of Eden
Last Chance to See
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
What I believe

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61 books

Do Read Fiction

HenriButter
Emil
A Son of the Circus
The Cider House Rules
Homegoing
Scalped Vol. 1
Prince of Thorns

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14 books

Exploration Or Travelogue

HenriButter
Emil
Magellan
Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes
A Cruising Voyage Around the World: First to the South-Seas, Thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708 and Finish'd in 1711
Underland
The Wild Places

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2 books

Foreign Policy Russia

HenriButter
Emil
A Dirty War
A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya

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10 books

Foreign Policy Us

HenriButter
Emil
Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America
A Problem from Hell
Imperial Grunts
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
Prisoners of Geography

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1 book

Futurology

HenriButter
Emil
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

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8 books

Gamedev

HenriButter
Emil
Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences
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Achievement Relocked

The Beauty of Games
The Art of Failure : An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
Values at Play in Digital Games

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6 books

Greek Plays

HenriButter
Emil
Lysistrata
Prometheus Bound
Sophocles II
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
Medea and Other Plays

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75 books

Heard

HenriButter
Emil
A Brief History of Time
Ego Is the Enemy
11/22/63
Dune
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character

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17 books

Historical Fiction

HenriButter
Emil
Equal of the sun
The New Testament: A Translation
Eagle in the Snow
I, Claudius
Claudius the God

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5 books

History Cold War

HenriButter
Emil
Thirteen Days
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
The Cambridge Spies: The Untold Story of Maclean, Philby, and Burgess in America
The File: A Personal History
The Cold War: A World History

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2 books

History Colonial

HenriButter
Emil
Inglorious Empire
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

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2 books

History Crusades

HenriButter
Emil
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Arab Historians of the Crusades

The New Concise History of the Crusades

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3 books

History Enlightenment Era

HenriButter
Emil
Leonardo da Vinci
The Swerve
How to Live

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5 books

History Grand

HenriButter
Emil
Why the West Rules-for Now: The Patterns of History & What They Reveal About the Future
Guns, Germs and Steel
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Collapse
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

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9 books

History Israel

HenriButter
Emil
The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust
The Arabs and the Holocaust
A History of the Jews
Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?

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4 books

History Medieval

HenriButter
Emil
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The Medieval World

Azincourt
The Greatest Knight
A Place Beyond Courage (William Marshal, #1)

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2 books

History Middle East

HenriButter
Emil
Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. Connection
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World

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15 books

History Russia

HenriButter
Emil
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs―A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder
The angel of Grozny
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A Very Expensive Poison

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2 books

History Space Exploration

HenriButter
Emil
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
A Man on the Moon

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31 books

History Us

HenriButter
Emil
A People's History of the United States
Being Nixon
American History: A Very Short Introduction
President Lincoln
Lincoln's Virtues

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5 books

History Us Civil Rights

HenriButter
Emil
The Children
Parting the Waters
Pillar of Fire
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
A more beautiful and terrible history

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15 books

History Us Civil War

HenriButter
Emil
George B. McClellan
Rebel Yell
Team of Rivals
Victoria
My Bondage and My Freedom

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6 books

History Us Revolution

HenriButter
Emil
A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution
Washington's crossing
Washington: A Life
1776
Cover 8

Memoir of Col. Benjamin Tallmadge

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3 books

History Vietnam War

HenriButter
Emil
Legend: The Incredible Story of Green Beret Sergeant Roy Benavidez's Heroic Mission to Rescue a Special Forces Team Caught Behind Enemy Lines
Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times
Men in Green Faces: A Novel of U.S. Navy SEALs

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7 books

History Wwi

HenriButter
Emil
Company K
All Quiet on the Western Front
Johnny Got His Gun
The Last Lion
Mencken

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55 books

History Wwii

HenriButter
Emil
The Last Lion
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
Cover 4

A Conspiracy Of Decency

The Diary of a Young Girl
Bodyguard of Lies

List

12 books

Improve Or Productivity

HenriButter
Emil
Cover 2

Running Down a Dream

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
My Morning Routine
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
Peak

List

13 books

La Or Hollywood

HenriButter
Emil
The price of experience
The Hollywood Economist 2.0: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies
Bright Shiny Morning
City of Quartz
Southern California: An Island on the Land

List

3 books

Manga

HenriButter
Emil
Nijigahara Holograph
Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, Vol. 1
Vagabond, Volume 1

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197 books

Maybe

HenriButter
Emil
Critique of Pure Reason
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
This Will Make You Smarter
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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4 books

Memoir

HenriButter
Emil
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Stitches

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Running With Scissors
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm

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6 books

Narrative Non Fic

HenriButter
Emil
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Shadow Divers: Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of WWII
The Tiger
The River of Doubt
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby-Dick

List

3 books

Nevermind Then

HenriButter
Emil
Sexus
Fire from Heaven
Strategy: A History

List

16 books

On A Break

HenriButter
Emil
Windhaven
Acid Dreams
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The 48 Laws of Power
House of Leaves

List

13 books

Owned

HenriButter
Emil
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
A Storm of Swords
The Surgeon
Wizard And Glass
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

List

3 books

Philosophy

HenriButter
Emil
Man and His Symbols
Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness
The Essays: A Selection

List

14 books

Piracy

HenriButter
Emil
Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes
Treasure Island
A Cruising Voyage Around the World: First to the South-Seas, Thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708 and Finish'd in 1711
A General History of the Pyrates
The Invisible Hook

List

14 books

Poker

HenriButter
Emil
Don't Listen to Phil Hellmuth: Correcting the 50 Worst Pieces of Poker Advice
Treat Your Poker Like A Business
Cover 7

Building a Bankroll Full Ring Edition

Cover 5

How to Study Poker Volume 2

Cover 6

How To Study Poker

List

7 books

Politics

HenriButter
Emil
Cover 1

The Gatekeepers

Cover 7

Scorpions

The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
Roosevelt
Second Treatise of Government

List

5 books

Project

HenriButter
Emil
The Food Lab
The Other Side of History : Daily Life in the Ancient World
Figure Drawing for Concept Artists
How to draw
Ottolenghi Test Kitchen

List

9 books

Rational Fiction

HenriButter
Emil
Pokemon: The Origin of Species
Harry Potter and the Natural 20
Cover 2

So You Want to Be a Villain?

Significant Digits
Cover 0

A Girl Corrupted by the Internet Is the Summoned Hero?!

List

14 books

Rational Skeptic

HenriButter
Emil
Rational Choice in an Uncertain World
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Influence
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions

List

26 books

Read Comics

HenriButter
Emil
Watchmen
V for Vendetta
Black Hole
Pour la famille
Transmetropolitan V. 0-10

List

18 books

Read Shorts

HenriButter
Emil
2BR02B
Cover 7

Guts

How to Talk to Girls at Parties
On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl on One Beautiful April Morning
The Last Question

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7 books

Remember Do Not Read

HenriButter
Emil
The Name of the Wind
The Fault in Our Stars
On the Beach
The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika
The Shadow of the Torturer

List

7 books

Science Computer

HenriButter
Emil
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
The Pragmatic Programmer
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Your First Year in Code

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15 books

Science Economics

HenriButter
Emil
Economics in One Lesson
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
I Will Teach You to Be Rich
The Invisible Hook

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15 books

Science Evo And Devo

HenriButter
Emil
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

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10 books

Science Math

HenriButter
Emil
How to Solve it
Lost in Math
Innumeracy
Proofiness
Math Doesn't Suck

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21 books

Science Medicine

HenriButter
Emil
Evidence-Based Medicine: How to Practice and Teach EBM
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
Deep Work
When Breath Becomes Air
Vaccine : the controversial story of medicine's greatest lifesaver

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8 books

Science Physics

HenriButter
Emil
Thinking physics
Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists
Physics of the Impossible
Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics
Physics of the Future

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61 books

Sci Fi

HenriButter
Emil
Shards of Honour
The Complete Robot
Forward the Foundation
Prelude to Foundation
Pebble in the Sky

List

18 books

Sexuality

HenriButter
Emil
The World of Sex
Why Is Sex Fun?
Sex at Dusk
Sex God Method
The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

List

23 books

Sgu Skeptical Picks

HenriButter
Emil
How We Know What Isn't So
Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Quirkology
Why Darwin Matters

List

12 books

Social

HenriButter
Emil
How To Talk To Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
Without Conscience
Got Your Attention?: How to Create Intrigue and Connect With Anyone
Networking for People Who Hate Networking
Games People Play

List

17 books

Spy

HenriButter
Emil
Smiley's People
Call for the Dead
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Deep Undercover

List

15 books

Strategy Or War

HenriButter
Emil
Strategy: A History
The Landmark Thucydides
A New History of the Peloponnesian War
The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
Cover 4

A Conspiracy Of Decency

List

3 books

Ukrainian

HenriButter
Emil
The Ukrainian-English Collocation Dictionary
Cover 1

Complete Ukrainian Beginner to Intermediate Course

Beginner's Ukrainian

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16 books

Whats It Like There

HenriButter
Emil
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
Desert Solitaire
Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
The World of Yesterday
Forty Years: A Gambler on the Mississippi

List

30 books

Writing

HenriButter
Emil
Forensics: A Guide for Writers
Cover 4

Police Procedure & Investigation

Body Trauma: A Writer's Guide to Wounds and Injuries
The Writer's Guide to Psychology: How to Write Accurately about Psychological Disorders, Clinical Treatment and Human Behavior
How the Classics Made Shakespeare

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4 books

ι Approved Askhistorians

HenriButter
Emil
Religions of Rome, Volume 1: A History
Lives, Volume IV: Alcibiades and Coriolanus. Lysander and Sulla
The Birth of Critical Thinking in Republican Rome
Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World

List

7 books

ι Approved Bourdain

HenriButter
Emil
The Quiet American
Ways of Escape
Down and Out in Paris and London
The Kitchen and the Cook
Stoner

List

14 books

ι Approved Gates

HenriButter
Emil
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
When Breath Becomes Air
The Bully Pulpit
Collapse
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

List

9 books

ι Approved Random

HenriButter
Emil
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son
The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance
Cover 6

An Apology for Idlers

The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha

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120 books

ι Approved Rh

HenriButter
Emil
A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
American Wolf
Cover 4

Hunting Trips of a Ranchman & The Wilderness Hunter

Thirteen Days

List

28 books

ι Art

HenriButter
Emil
Dragon Girl and Monkey King: The Art of Katsuya Terada
Omphalos
KIM JUNG-GI SKETCH COLLECTION 2007
Art Fundamentals: Color, Light, Composition, Anatomy, Perspective, and Depth
Extreme Perspective! For Artists: Learn the Secrets of Curvilinear, Cylindrical, Fisheye, Isometric, and Other Amazing Drawing Systems that Will Make Your Drawings Pop Off the Page

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14 books

ι Author Asimov

HenriButter
Emil
I, Robot
The Complete Robot
The Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
The Robots of Dawn

List

62 books

ι Biography

HenriButter
Emil
Darwin
William Marshal: Knighthood, War and Chivalry, 1147-1219
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Magellan
The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader

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14 books

ι Difficult

HenriButter
Emil
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
Ulysses : a critical and synoptic edition
War and Peace
Crime and Punishment

List

18 books

ι Favorite

HenriButter
Emil
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Last Question
1984
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

List

37 books

ι History

HenriButter
Emil
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Herodotus
The History of Western Philosophy

List

26 books

ι Science

HenriButter
Emil
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Proofiness

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1 book

ι Textbooks

HenriButter
Emil
Genetics: From Genes to Genomes