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The Wright Brothers

The Wright Brothers

ByDavid McCullough

2015 • 119 Readers • 336 pages • 4.1

The truth and other lies

The Truth and Other Lies

BySascha Arango

2015 • 9 Readers • 241 pages

Outline

#1 of 3 in Outline

ByRachel Cusk

2014 • 216 Readers • 249 pages • 3.7

The Tsar of Love and Techno

The Tsar of Love and Techno

ByAnthony Marra

2015 • 68 Readers • 332 pages • 4.5

Gold Fame Citrus

Gold Fame Citrus

ByClaire Vaye Watkins

2015 • 47 Readers • 495 pages • 2.8

The Precious One: A Novel

The Precious One

ByMarisa De los Santos,Marisa de los Santos

2015 • 5 Readers • 368 pages

The Stream of Life

The Stream of Life

ByClarice Lispector,Elizabeth Lowe(Translator),+1 more

1973 • 5 Readers • 80 pages • 5

Echo

ByPam Muñoz Ryan

2015 • 35 Readers • 592 pages • 4.2

Normal at any cost

Normal at any cost

ByChristine Cosgrove

1 Reader

Red Rising

#1 of 7 in Red Rising Saga

ByPierce Brown

2014 • 2,270 Readers • 382 pages • 4.1

Give Us the Ballot

Give Us the Ballot

ByAri Berman

2015 • 10 Readers • 384 pages

Book of Numbers

Book of Numbers

ByJoshua Cohen

2015 • 17 Readers • 580 pages • 3

Oh the Glory of It All

Oh the Glory of it All

BySean Wilsey

2006 • 10 Readers • 496 pages • 2.5

Never Satisfied

Never Satisfied

ByHillel Schwartz

1986 • 3 Readers • 468 pages

War with the Newts

War with the Newts

ByKarel Čapek,Ewald Osers

1936 • 57 Readers • 246 pages • 4.1

America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System

America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System

BySteven Brill

2015 • 8 Readers • 528 pages • 4

Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America

Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America

ByEugene Robinson

2010 • 3 Readers • 254 pages

The Chronoliths

The Chronoliths

ByRobert Charles Wilson

2001 • 41 Readers • 324 pages • 3.9

Landline

ByRainbow Rowell

2014 • 210 Readers • 319 pages • 3.7

Seveneves

ByNeal Stephenson

2015 • 736 Readers • 880 pages • 3.9

ByOlaf Stapledon

93 Readers • 3.7

Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls

Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls

ByAlissa Nutting

2010 • 19 Readers • 188 pages • 4

Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation

Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation

BySteven Johnson

2010 • 106 Readers • 326 pages • 3.5

The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere

The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere

ByJohn Chu

17 Readers • 4.1

The End of Education

The End of Education

ByNeil Postman

1995 • 7 Readers • 224 pages

Go Set a Watchman

Go Set a Watchman

ByHarper Lee

2015 • 286 Readers • 288 pages • 3

The Eden Express

The Eden Express

ByMark Vonnegut

1975 • 2 Readers • 274 pages

Goodbye Without Leaving

Goodbye Without Leaving

ByLaurie Colwin

1990 • 8 Readers • 256 pages • 3

The Novel

The Novel: An Alternative History

BySteven Moore

2010 • 2 Readers • 704 pages

Between You & Me

Between You & Me

ByMary Norris

2015 • 26 Readers • 228 pages • 3.3

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women

ByNaomi Wolf

1990 • 92 Readers • 368 pages • 3.6

Annihilation

#1 of 4 in Southern Reach

ByJeff VanderMeer

2014 • 1,319 Readers • 208 pages • 3.7

Life Among the Savages

#1 of 1 in Jacksons

Life Among the Savages

ByShirley Jackson

1953 • 36 Readers • 241 pages • 4.1

Little Brother

#1 of 3 in Little Brother

ByCory Doctorow

2008 • 220 Readers • 386 pages • 3.9

Ghettoside

ByJill Leovy,Dorothy L. Sayers

2015 • 36 Readers • 384 pages • 3.6

Child 44

#1 of 3 in Leo Demidov

ByTom Rob Smith

2008 • 104 Readers • 471 pages • 3.9

Get in Trouble

ByKelly Link

2015 • 86 Readers • 280 pages • 3.2

Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics

Engendering Judaism: An Inclusive Theology and Ethics

ByRachel Adler

1998 • 1 Reader

Where the Suckers Moon: The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign

Where the Suckers Moon: The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign

ByRandall Rothenberg

1995 • 2 Readers

The Ploughmen

ByKim Zupan

2014 • 10 Readers • 221 pages • 3.8

Delancey

Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage

ByMolly Wizenberg

9 Readers • 4

The People's Platform

The People's Platform

ByAstra Taylor

2012 • 8 Readers • 288 pages • 3.8

In the Light of What We Know

In the Light of What We Know

ByZia Haider Rahman

2014 • 24 Readers • 511 pages • 3.6

Lost Lake

BySarah Addison Allen

33 Readers • 3.9

The Cuckoo's Calling

#1 of 7 in Cormoran Strike

The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil

ByRobert Galbraith(Pseudonym)

2013 • 541 Readers • 449 pages • 3.8

The Three-Body Problem

#1 of 4 in Remembrance of Earth's Past

The Three-Body Problem

ByCixin Liu,Ken Liu(Translator)

2006 • 2,590 Readers • 400 pages • 3.9

The Hawley Book of the Dead

The Hawley Book of the Dead

ByChrysler Szarlan

2014 • 5 Readers • 352 pages • 3.5

Man Alive

ByThomas Page McBee

2014 • 10 Readers • 172 pages • 4.5

The Hilltop

ByAssaf Gavron

2013 • 4 Readers • 464 pages

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

ByDavid Shafer

2014 • 25 Readers • 432 pages • 3.9

All Our Names

ByDinaw Mengestu

2014 • 12 Readers • 272 pages • 4

The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

ByTom Rachman

2014 • 13 Readers • 384 pages • 3

Broken Monsters

Broken Monsters

ByLauren Beukes

2014 • 118 Readers • 441 pages • 3.6

I'll Give You the Sun

I'll Give You the Sun

ByJandy Nelson

2014 • 318 Readers • 386 pages • 4.1

10:04

ByBen Lerner

2014 • 63 Readers • 257 pages • 3.4

The Book of Strange New Things

The Book of Strange New Things

ByMichel Faber

2014 • 134 Readers • 3.8

A Natural History of Dragons

#1 of 6 in The Memoirs of Lady Trent

A Natural History of Dragons

ByMarie Brennan

2013 • 430 Readers • 334 pages • 3.7

The Bees

ByLaline Paull

2014 • 128 Readers • 352 pages • 3.6

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

ByJeff Hobbs

2014 • 23 Readers • 416 pages • 3.8

The Book of Unknown Americans

The Book of Unknown Americans

ByCristina Henríquez

2014 • 59 Readers • 286 pages • 3.9

Wolf in White Van

Wolf in White Van

ByJohn Darnielle

2014 • 135 Readers • 168 pages • 3.7

Dear Committee Members

#1 of 2 in Jason Fitger

Dear Committee Members

ByJulie Schumacher

2014 • 32 Readers • 181 pages • 3.9

The Man with the Compound Eyes

The Man with the Compound Eyes

ByWu Ming-Yi,Darryl Sterk(Translator)

2013 • 23 Readers • 304 pages • 4.3

A Long Way Home

A Long Way Home

BySaroo Brierley

2013 • 18 Readers • 288 pages • 4.7

The map thief : the gripping story of an esteemed rare-map dealer who made millions stealing priceless maps

The map thief : the gripping story of an esteemed rare-map dealer who made millions stealing priceless maps

ByMichael Blanding

2014 • 14 Readers • 222 pages • 4.2

Dog whistle politics : how coded racial appeals have reinvented racism and wrecked the middle class

Dog whistle politics : how coded racial appeals have reinvented racism and wrecked the middle class

ByIan F. Haney-López

2013 • 9 Readers • 304 pages

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

ByMatt Taibbi

2014 • 14 Readers • 416 pages • 3.8

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Things I've Learned from Dying

Things I've Learned from Dying: A Book about Life

ByDavid R. Dow

3 Readers

The Witch and Other Tales Re-Told

The Witch and Other Tales Re-Told

ByJean Thompson

2014 • 3 Readers • 256 pages • 3

Dept. of Speculation

Dept. of Speculation

ByJenny Offill(Reader)

2014 • 125 Readers • 3 pages • 3.7

The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

ByMira Jacob

2014 • 33 Readers • 512 pages • 3.7

On Immunity: An Inoculation

On Immunity: An Inoculation

ByEula Biss

2014 • 35 Readers • 224 pages • 4.6

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

ByAtul Gawande

2014 • 319 Readers • 282 pages • 4.5

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

ByJill Lepore

2014 • 64 Readers • 448 pages • 3.5

Euphoria

ByLily King

2014 • 98 Readers • 336 pages • 3.9

Family Life

ByAkhil Sharma

2014 • 8 Readers • 263 pages • 3.3

The Empathy Exams

The Empathy Exams

ByLeslie Jamison

2014 • 56 Readers • 256 pages • 3.5

All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See

ByAnthony Doerr

2014 • 1,433 Readers • 544 pages • 4.2

The Paying Guests

The Paying Guests

BySarah Waters

2014 • 86 Readers • 564 pages • 3.4

How to Be Both

ByAli Smith

2014 • 87 Readers • 384 pages • 3.9

Dr. Mèutter's marvels : a true tale of intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine

Dr. Mèutter's marvels : a true tale of intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine

ByCristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

2014 • 18 Readers • 371 pages • 4.4

A Night in the Lonesome October

A Night in the Lonesome October

ByRoger Zelazny

1993 • 150 Readers • 280 pages • 4.1

Blind Spot: The Hidden Biases of Good People

Blind Spot: The Hidden Biases of Good People

ByMahzarin R. Banaji,Anthony Greenwald

2013 • 5 Readers • 272 pages • 4

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Worth the Ride

ByJosh Winheld

2009 • 1 Reader

Trouble on Triton

Trouble on Triton

BySamuel R. Delany

1996 • 15 Readers • 332 pages

Imago

#3 of 3 in Xenogenesis

ByOctavia E. Butler

1989 • 107 Readers • 224 pages • 4

The Apartheid of Sex: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender

The Apartheid of Sex: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Gender

ByMartine Rothblatt

1995 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2011

Asimov's Science Fiction, October/November 2011

BySheila Williams(Editor),Kristine Kathryn Rusch(Contributor)

2011 • 2 Readers • 196 pages

Unpersuadables, The

Unpersuadables, The

ByWill Storr

2013 • 16 Readers • 416 pages • 3

Biological Exuberance

Biological Exuberance

ByBruce Bagemihl

1999 • 6 Readers • 768 pages

Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software

Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software

ByVikram A. Chandra

2013 • 3 Readers

Clariel

#4 of 6 in The Old Kingdom

ByGarth Nix

2014 • 83 Readers • 382 pages • 3.7

Adam

ByAriel Schrag

2014 • 8 Readers • 316 pages • 2

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

BySam Kean

2014 • 35 Readers • 416 pages • 4

Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders

Queerly Beloved: A Love Story Across Genders

ByDiane Anderson-Minshall,Jacob Anderson-Minshall

2014 • 2 Readers • 4

Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty

Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty

ByJennifer M. Silva

2013 • 1 Reader

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Mastering Communication with Seriously Ill Patients

Mastering Communication with Seriously Ill Patients: Balancing Honesty with Empathy and Hope

ByAnthony Back,Robert Arnold

2009 • 1 Reader

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

ByBrigid Schulte

2014 • 32 Readers • 353 pages • 3.8

Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

ByEllen Ruppel Shell

2009 • 9 Readers • 3

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster

ByDana Thomas

2007 • 10 Readers • 384 pages • 3.7