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Becca

1,168 Reads

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7 books

Linguistics

The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
Talking Hands
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
A World Without "Whom"

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120 books

Literature

The Left Hand of Darkness
Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Handmaid’s Tale
To Kill A Mockingbird
The prologue to the Canterbury tales

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5 books

Magical Realism

Dr. Siri und seine Toten
The Secret Place
The Lie Tree
Fellside
The Glass Hotel

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10 books

Math Stats

The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction
I Am A Strange Loop
The Riddle of Scheherazade: And Other Amazing Puzzles
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Mathematician's Shiva
Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide

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101 books

Medicine

Emergency!: True Stories from the Nation's ERs
Treatment kind and fair
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Better

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1 book

Metabolism

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3 books

Microhistory

The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Salt: A World History

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3 books

Multiverse

InterWorld
Dark Matter
The Space Between Worlds

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48 books

Mystery

Predator
The Body Farm
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
A Study in Scarlet
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Incognito mosquito, private insective
And Then There Were None

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3 books

Native American

Black Sun
Firekeeper's Daughter
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

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1 book

Netgalley

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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5 books

Neuroscience

Phantoms in the Brain
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers
The Family That Couldn't Sleep
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
Determined

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1 book

Noir

Magic for Liars

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200 books

Non Fiction

Go Ask Alice
The Salmon of Doubt
Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Art of Possibility
Autobiography of a Face

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100 books

Nostalgia

The Witches
The Little Prince
The Phantom Tollbooth
A Wrinkle in Time
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Bunnicula
A Wind in the Door

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10 books

Novella

Inside Job
Rocannon's World
The Final Solution
Number the Stars
Everybody's Baby
Take a Look at the Five and Ten

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29 books

On Loan

Bellwether
Girl Sleuth
Autobiography of a Face
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Secret History
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code

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3 books

On Wisconsin

Descent
The Mathematician's Shiva
Catfishing on CatNet

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1 book

On Youth

Prep

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0 books

Owned

Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
The Girl of Fire and Thorns
Body of Work
Baudolino
The Sunday Philosophy Club
Mind's Eye Theatre Laws of the Night: Camarilla Guide
Ascension

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179 books

Own Unread

Raybearer
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
Firebreak
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Some Desperate Glory
Americanah
x+y

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6 books

Parenting

Far from the Tree
The Blessing of a Skinned Knee
Cinderella Ate My Daughter
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care

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18 books

Partially Read

Inkspell
The Good Fairies of New York
The Name of the Rose
I Know This Much Is True
The Count of Monte Cristo
Troubling a Star
The Selfish Gene

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2 books

Pediatrics

Far from the Tree

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2 books

Philosophy

The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking
Determined
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