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The 2-Hour Cocktail Party

The 2-Hour Cocktail Party

ByNick Gray

2022 • 12 Readers • 234 pages • 4

Pride and Prejudice

Cozy Classics

Pride and Prejudice

ByJane Austen

1811 • 2,594 Readers • 342 pages • 4.2

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

ByFyodor Dostoevsky,Richard Pevear(Translator),+1 more

19 • 1,909 Readers • 602 pages • 4.3

Dune Messiah

#2 of 8 in Dune

ByFrank Herbert

1965 • 1,340 Readers • 352 pages • 3.8

War and Peace

ByLeo Tolstoy

190 • 912 Readers • 1,396 pages • 4

Art of Doing Science and Engineering

Art of Doing Science and Engineering

ByRichard R. Hamming

2003 • 88 Readers • 376 pages • 4.4

Children of Time

#1 of 3 in Children of Time

Children of Time

ByAdrian Tchaikovsky

2015 • 1,533 Readers • 600 pages • 4.3

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

ByRamit Sethi

2009 • 151 Readers • 352 pages • 3.9

Ataturk

ByAndrew Mango

1999 • 2 Readers • 416 pages

Plurality

ByE. Glen Weyl,Audrey Tang

2024 • 4 Readers • 5

When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

ByPaul Kalanithi

2016 • 847 Readers • 256 pages • 4.4

Real Americans

ByRachel Khong

2024 • 121 Readers • 416 pages • 4.1

Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model

Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model

ByRichard C. Schwartz

2001 • 5 Readers • 150 pages • 5

You Are The One You've Been Waiting For: Bringing Courageous Love To Intimate Relationships

You Are The One You've Been Waiting For: Bringing Courageous Love To Intimate Relationships

ByRichard C. Schwartz

2008 • 6 Readers

The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been

The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been

ByJake Berman

4 Readers

A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity

A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity

ByMichael A. Cook

2024 • 2 Readers

Tiny Experiments

Tiny Experiments

ByAnne-Laure Le Cunff

Available March 4, 2025 • 4 Readers

The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance

The End of Love: Racism, Sexism, and the Death of Romance

BySabrina Strings

2024 • 2 Readers • 266 pages • 3

Moral Tribes

ByJoshua D. Greene

2013 • 36 Readers • 432 pages • 3.7

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

ByDonald J. Robertson

2019 • 133 Readers • 304 pages • 4.1

Non Violent Communication A Language of Life

Non Violent Communication A Language of Life

ByMarshall B. Rosenberg

1999 • 211 Readers • 264 pages • 4.2

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The Strength of the Few

#2 of 2 in The Hierarchy

The Strength of the Few

ByJames Islington

Available April 1, 2025 • 105 Readers

Jade City

#1 of 3 in The Green Bone Saga

ByFonda Lee

2017 • 1,369 Readers • 498 pages • 4.1

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

ByDavid Sedaris

2005 • 255 Readers • 308 pages • 4

The User Experience Team of One

The User Experience Team of One

ByLeah Buley

2013 • 40 Readers • 246 pages • 4.7

Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology

Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology

ByHoward Rheingold

1985 • 8 Readers • 360 pages

Seeing Like a State

The Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Seeing Like a State

ByJames C. Scott

1998 • 131 Readers • 445 pages • 4

Meditations

ByMarcus Aurelius,Martin Hammond(Translator)

-180 • 962 Readers • 254 pages • 4.2

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Red God

#7 of 7 in Red Rising Saga

ByPierce Brown

143 Readers

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

ByOliver Burkeman

2021 • 580 Readers • 288 pages • 4.2

Romney: A Reckoning

Romney: A Reckoning

ByMcKay Coppins

The world beyond your head

The world beyond your head

ByMatthew B. Crawford

2015 • 33 Readers • 320 pages • 3.3

A Perfect Mess

ByEric Abrahamson,David H. Freedman

2006 • 6 Readers • 327 pages • 3.7

A Philosophy of Software Design

A Philosophy of Software Design

ByJohn Ousterhout

2018 • 98 Readers • 190 pages • 4.1

The Pragmatic Programmer

The Pragmatic Programmer

ByAndy Hunt,Dave Thomas

1994 • 294 Readers • 9h 55m • 4.2

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

ByMartin Kleppmann

2015 • 160 Readers • 611 pages • 4.6

The New Peoplemaking

The New Peoplemaking

ByVirginia Satir

1988 • 3 Readers • 400 pages

The Fourth Way: An Arrangement by Subject of Verbatim Extracts from the Records of Ouspensky's Meetings in London and New York, 1921-46

The Fourth Way: An Arrangement by Subject of Verbatim Extracts from the Records of Ouspensky's Meetings in London and New York, 1921-46

ByP.D. Ouspensky

1957 • 4 Readers • 4

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

ByJenny Odell

2019 • 407 Readers • 257 pages • 3.6

Working in Public

Working in Public

ByNadia Eghbal

2020 • 41 Readers • 252 pages • 4.1

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

ByGabrielle Zevin

2022 • 2,664 Readers • 482 pages • 4.1

Iron Gold

#4 of 7 in Red Rising Saga

ByPierce Brown

The Will of the Many

#1 of 2 in The Hierarchy

The Will of the Many

ByJames Islington

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

ByBrian Christian,Tom Griffiths

2016 • 354 Readers • 366 pages • 4

The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle

ByPhilip K. Dick

1962 • 871 Readers • 239 pages • 3.4

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

BySteven Levy

2011 • 104 Readers • 464 pages • 3.9

Insurgent

#2 of 3 in Divergent

ByVeronica Roth

2011 • 1,036 Readers • 544 pages • 3.6

The Martian

#1 of 1 in The Martian

ByAndy Weir

2011 • 2,974 Readers • 384 pages • 4.4

The Always War

ByMargaret Peterson Haddix

2011 • 5 Readers • 256 pages • 3.3

The Loners

#1 of 4 in Quarantine

ByLex Thomas

2012 • 21 Readers • 416 pages • 3.6

The Shadow Throne

#3 of 5 in Ascendance

The Shadow Throne

ByJennifer A. Nielsen

2014 • 50 Readers • 352 pages • 3.8

The Death Cure

#3 of 3 in The Maze Runner

ByJames Dashner

2011 • 512 Readers • 3.4

Imagined Communities: Reflections On The Origin And Spread Of Nationalism

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

ByBenedict Anderson

12 • 79 Readers • 160 pages • 4.3

A small matter of programming : perspectives on end user computing

A small matter of programming : perspectives on end user computing

ByBonnie A. Nardi

1993 • 3 Readers • 178 pages

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

ByJohn Ganz

2024 • 21 Readers • 373 pages • 4.1

Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

ByKeith Ferrazzi,Tahl Raz

2005 • 113 Readers • 402 pages • 3.9

Subprime Attention Crisis

Subprime Attention Crisis

ByTim Hwang

2020 • 25 Readers • 176 pages • 4

Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value

Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value

ByD. Graeber

2002 • 2 Readers • 337 pages • 3

Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine

Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine

ByChaim Gingold

2024 • 8 Readers • 488 pages

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

The Creative Act: A Way of Being

ByRick Rubin

2023 • 382 Readers • 5h 45m • 3.7

Interview With The Vampire

#1 of 13 in The Vampire Chronicles

Interview with the Vampire

ByAnne Rice

1976 • 903 Readers • 360 pages • 3.8

Xenocide

#3 of 6 in Ender's Saga

ByOrson Scott Card

Liberalism as a Way of Life

Liberalism as a Way of Life

ByAlexandre Lefebvre

2024 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

Ego Is the Enemy

#2 of 3 in The Way, The Enemy, and The Key

Ego Is the Enemy

ByRyan Holiday

2016 • 318 Readers • 256 pages • 4

The Best Interface is No Interface

The Best Interface is No Interface

ByGolden Krishna

2015 • 13 Readers • 257 pages • 4.5

Hell is the Absence of God

Hell is the Absence of God

ByTed Chiang

2001 • 11 Readers • 30 pages • 4.2

The Seven Storey Mountain

The Seven Storey Mountain

ByThomas Merton

1948 • 28 Readers • 429 pages • 3.1

A Theology of Liberation

A Theology of Liberation

ByGustavo Gutiérrez

1971 • 14 Readers • 264 pages • 5

Foundation

#1 of 7 in Foundation (Publication Order)

ByIsaac Asimov

1951 • 1,768 Readers • 255 pages • 4

Bomb Power : the Modern Presidency and the National Security State

Bomb Power : the Modern Presidency and the National Security State

ByGarry Wills

1979 • 3 Readers • 278 pages • 5

You Are What You Watch

You Are What You Watch

ByWalter Hickey

2023 • 9 Readers • 4.3

Generations

ByJean M. Twenge

2023 • 17 Readers • 560 pages • 4

From Third World to First

From Third World to First

ByLee Kuan Yew

2000 • 36 Readers • 752 pages • 4.4

Spark Joy

#2 of 3 in Magic Cleaning

ByMarie Kondo,Cathy Hirano(Translator)

2016 • 106 Readers • 291 pages • 3.6

American Theocracy

American Theocracy

ByKevin Phillips

1 Reader

The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture

ByRandy Pausch

2008 • 59 Readers • 4.2

Tyranny, Inc.

BySohrab Ahmari

2023 • 6 Readers • 289 pages • 3

Elon Musk

ByWalter Isaacson

2023 • 150 Readers • 751 pages • 4.2

Thinking in systems : a primer

Thinking in systems : a primer

ByDonella H. Meadows

2008 • 255 Readers • 218 pages • 4.2

The Coddling of the American Mind

The Coddling of the American Mind

ByJonathan Haidt,Greg Lukianoff

2018 • 176 Readers • 4

The Myth of the Spoiled Child

The Myth of the Spoiled Child

ByAlfie Kohn

2014 • 3 Readers • 280 pages

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

ByMichael Chabon

2007 • 239 Readers • 414 pages • 3.6

Heir to the Empire

#1 of 3 in Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy

Heir to the Empire

ByTimothy Zahn

1991 • 409 Readers • 404 pages • 4.1

Guns, Germs and Steel

#1 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

ByJared M. Diamond

1998 • 708 Readers • 480 pages • 3.8

Socialism

ByMichael Harrington

1989 • 3 Readers • 336 pages

Feel Good Productivity

Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

ByAli Abdaal

2023 • 151 Readers • 304 pages • 3.8

The God of Small Things

The God of Small Things

ByArundhati Roy

1997 • 506 Readers • 344 pages • 3.9

Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

ByTiago Forte

2022 • 343 Readers • 272 pages • 3.7

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Chokepoint Capitalism

Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

ByCory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin

32 Readers • 4.4

The Left Hand of Darkness

#4 of 9 in Hainish Cycle

The Left Hand of Darkness

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1969 • 1,243 Readers • 267 pages • 4.1

Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy

Realigners: Partisan Hacks, Political Visionaries, and the Struggle to Rule American Democracy

ByTimothy Shenk

1 Reader

The Ottomans

ByMarc David Baer

2021 • 11 Readers • 560 pages

The Three-Body Problem

#1 of 4 in Remembrance of Earth's Past

The Three-Body Problem

ByCixin Liu,Ken Liu(Translator)

2006 • 2,872 Readers • 400 pages • 3.9

Catholicism

ByJohn T. McGreevy

2022 • 4 Readers • 528 pages

Dune

#1 of 8 in Dune

ByFrank Herbert

Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy

Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy

ByAnthony M. Annett

1 Reader • 336 pages

Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality: Religion and Cultural Bias in the Oregon Physician-Assisted Suicide Debates

Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality: Religion and Cultural Bias in the Oregon Physician-Assisted Suicide Debates

ByRobert P. Jones

2007 • 1 Reader • 356 pages

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

The Culture of Narcissism

ByChristopher Lasch

1978 • 29 Readers • 268 pages • 5

Right-wing Women

Right-wing Women

ByAndrea Dworkin

1983 • 9 Readers • 260 pages • 2.8

What We Owe the Future

What We Owe the Future

ByWilliam Macaskill

2022 • 95 Readers • 400 pages • 3.9