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6 books

Baseball

Bigger than the game
The Art of Fielding
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team

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80 books

Biography and Memoir

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys
Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
American Seoul
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
There's Something I've Been Dying to Tell You
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process

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4 books

Chess

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Pandolfini's Ultimate Guide to Chess
Play Winning Chess

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5 books

Crash Course 2

Their Eyes Were Watching God
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Invisible Man
Lord of the Flies
Sula

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52 books

Dystopia

Termush
The Fifth Season
Wool
Blackfish City
Shift
American War
The Shining Girls

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16 books

Earth Sciences

Earth
The Emerald Planet: How Plants Changed Earth's History
A Crack in the Edge of the World
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
Your Inner Fish
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Fossils: A Very Short Introduction

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16 books

Essays

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Intimations
Why I Read
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Happy-Go-Lucky
Having and Being Had

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153 books

Fantasy

Before They Are Hanged
Assassin's Apprentice
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
The Fifth Season
The Last Battle
Wyrd Sisters

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400 books

History

Islamic Empires
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
God's Own Gentlewoman: The Life of Margaret Paston
Viking Britain

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33 books

Image Comics

The Walking Dead, Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars
East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise
The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain
The Walking Dead, Vol. 11: Fear the Hunters
Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice
Size Zero
Trees

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10 books

Novella

Termush
Auberon
Strange Dogs
Convenience Store Woman
West
Foster
Chess

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0 books

Owned

Animal Farm and 1984
Digital Fortress
The Diary of a Young Girl
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
A Crack in the Edge of the World
The Great Gatsby / The Last Tycoon
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

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28 books

Parenting

The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
Baby-led weaning
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed
Gentle Sleep Book

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36 books

Philosophy

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Discourses, Fragments, Handbook
How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
The History of Philosophy
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Meditations
Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction

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6 books

Poetry

The Prophet
100 Prized Poems: Twenty-five years of the Forward Books
Rhyme and Reason

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15 books

Politics

Go Big: How to Fix Our World
Becoming
Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

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221 books

Popular Science

Thinner Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Female Body
Islands of Abandonment
What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge
The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Forces of Nature

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20 books

Romace

The Invitation
Rebecca
One Day
China Rich Girlfriend
Longbourn
Normal People
Us

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284 books

Sci Fi

Budayeen Nights
Termush
Pandora's Star
Judas Unchained
All Systems Red
Auberon
Ghostmaker

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176 books

Self Help

Fear Less
Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut
Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights?
Atomic habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
This Book Could Save Your Life: The Science of Living Longer Better

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29 books

Short Stories

Budayeen Nights
New American Stories
All Systems Red
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
The Tumor

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12 books

Theology

A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
Protestantism: A Very Short Introduction
A History Of God
God
Letters from a Skeptic
In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World

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114 books

Thriller

A Room Full of Bones
Missing, Presumed
The Bat
Cold Killing
Elizabeth Is Missing
The Righteous Men
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

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12 books

Travel

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Running with the Kenyans
The Puma Years
The Wild Places
Notes from a Small Island
The Penguin Lessons
Long Way Down

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13 books

Writing

Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
How to Read a Book: the classic guide to intelligent reading
The Art of X-Ray Reading
Novelist as a Vocation
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
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