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5 books

2025 Spooky Season Books

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
The AI Con
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

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27 books

Adam & Marilyn's Favorite Books on Libro.fm

Circe
Bunny
Legends & Lattes
Careless People
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Lies and Weddings
The Lost Bookshop

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11 books

AI & LLMs

Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
I, Human
How to Stay Smart in a Smart World
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
The Coming Wave
The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

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14 books

Books banned in Utah Public Schools

A Court of Mist and Fury
A Court of Frost and Starlight
Milk and Honey
What Girls Are Made Of
Living Dead Girl
Blankets
A Court of Thorns and Roses

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23 books

Books everyone should read

Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
The Complete Maus
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Lord of the Rings
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

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1 book

City Design and Infrastructure

Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

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18 books

Classics

Pattern Recognition
The Gods Themselves
Lord of Light
The City and the Stars
Galápagos
Ubik
It Can't Happen Here

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2 books

Climate change Scifi

Artificial Wisdom
The Ministry for the Future

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10 books

Colorful Covers

Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
Grimm Tales: For Young and Old
On Fragile Waves
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Crazy Rich Asians
Tokyo Ueno Station
The Vanishing Half

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7 books

Community Building

The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
Get Together
The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities
Building Brand Communities
Governable Spaces
Customer Communities: Engage and Retain Customers to Build the Future of Your Business

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3 books

Conversations

I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
Non Violent Communication: A Language of Life
We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter

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2 books

Cookbooks 2025

Coconut & Sambal: Recipes from my Indonesian Kitchen
Recipes from the World of Tolkien: Inspired By the Legends

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7 books

Creative Inspiration

Badass
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The Obstacle is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
Creative Confidence
Data Sketches
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
The Way Forward

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7 books

Data Vizualization

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Visual Explanations
Envisioning Information
Beautiful Evidence
The Art of Insight
Data Sketches
Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization

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10 books

Favorite Programming books

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Peopleware
Joel on Software
The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
Refactoring UI
Code Complete

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15 books

Favorite Reads of 2025

Dungeon Crawler Carl
A Drop of Corruption
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
Wind and Truth
Part of Your World
This Inevitable Ruin
The Way Forward

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12 books

History of the Internet

The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise
Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality
The Internet Con

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2 books

Learn more

Light From Uncommon Stars
What Moves the Dead

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39 books

My Favorite Brandon Sanderson Books

The Way of Kings
Mistborn: The Final Empire
The Emperor's Soul
Skyward
Tress of the Emerald Sea
The Hero of Ages
Steelheart

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10 books

New York Times: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2024

The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
Long Live Evil
The Book of Love
Rakesfall
In Universes
The Melancholy of Untold History
Exordia

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20 books

Next to Read in Series

Dark Age
Fire & Blood
A Gathering of Shadows
A Court of Frost and Starlight
Kushiel's Chosen
Monstress, Vol. 7: Devourer
Saga, Vol. 10

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100 books

NPR Top 100 Science Fiction Fantasy

The Lord of the Rings
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Ender's Game
Dune
A Game of Thrones
1984
Fahrenheit 451

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24 books

On Deck

When the Moon Hits Your Eye
The Left Hand of Darkness
Black Sun
A Little Hatred
The Count of Monte Cristo
A Spindle Splintered
The Blade Itself

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1 book

On Deck - Graphic Novels

Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees

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30 books

On Deck - Nonfiction

The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
For the Love of Men
How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
You Deserve a Tech Union
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