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Legends & Lattes

#1 of 2 in Legends & Lattes

Legends & Lattes

ByTravis Baldree

2022 • 2,031 Readers • 296 pages • 4.2

Giovanni's Room

Giovanni's Room

ByJames Baldwin

1956 • 473 Readers • 169 pages • 4.4

The World Gives Way

The World Gives Way

ByMarissa Levien

2021 • 56 Readers • 416 pages • 4.5

Ocean's Godori

ByElaine U. Cho

2024 • 51 Readers • 368 pages • 3.7

Blackfish City

BySam J. Miller

1918 • 123 Readers • 336 pages • 3.4

Glitter + Ashes

Glitter + Ashes

BySaida Agostini,Elly Bangs,+23 more

2020 • 4 Readers • 256 pages

Sorting Things Out

Sorting Things Out

ByGeoffrey C. Bowker,Susan Leigh Star

1999 • 7 Readers • 392 pages • 4.5

China Mountain Zhang

China Mountain Zhang

ByMaureen F. McHugh

1751 • 112 Readers • 321 pages • 3.8

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Remarkably Bright Creatures

ByShelby Van Pelt(contributor)

2022 • 953 Readers • 368 pages • 4.2

Watchtower

#1 of 3 in Chronicles of Tornor

ByElizabeth A. Lynn

1979 • 15 Readers • 226 pages

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The Map and the Territory

The Map and the Territory

ByA. M. Tuomala

2 Readers

Iron Flame

#2 of 5 in The Empyrean

ByRebecca Yarros

2023 • 1,469 Readers • 640 pages • 4

Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It

Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It

ByDaniel Knowles

2023 • 13 Readers • 313 pages • 4

Killed by a Traffic Engineer

Killed by a Traffic Engineer

ByWes Marshall

2024 • 16 Readers • 3.5

Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

ByJorge Almazán,Joe McReynolds

2022 • 16 Readers • 250 pages • 5

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Ecology of Fear

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

ByMike Davis

1998 • 8 Readers

Outrage Machine

Outrage Machine

ByTobias Rose-Stockwell

2022 • 6 Readers • 417 pages • 3.5

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Norton Shorts

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

ByAshley Shew

2023 • 35 Readers • 135 pages • 4.4

Secret City

ByJames Kirchick

2022 • 9 Readers • 848 pages

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

ByDeb Chachra

2023 • 50 Readers • 321 pages • 3.3

Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry

Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry

ByJason Schreier

2021 • 108 Readers • 301 pages • 3.8

The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles

The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles

ByGary Krist

2018 • 10 Readers • 434 pages • 3.8

Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past

Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past

BySarah Parcak

2019 • 3 Readers • 3

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

ByRobert A. Caro

1974 • 287 Readers • 1,246 pages • 4.7

The Economy of Cities

The Economy of Cities

ByJane Jacobs

1969 • 7 Readers • 288 pages • 5

Dark Age Ahead

ByJane Jacobs

2004 • 11 Readers • 256 pages • 3.3

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

ByJames Bridle

2018 • 50 Readers • 348 pages • 4

American Cosmic

American Cosmic

ByDiana Walsh Pasulka

2019 • 14 Readers • 288 pages • 3.9

The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World's Imagination

The LEGO Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World's Imagination

ByJens Andersen

2021 • 16 Readers • 541 pages • 3.3

Elder Race

ByAdrian Tchaikovsky

2021 • 340 Readers • 176 pages • 4

The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways

The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways

ByEarl Swift

2011 • 10 Readers • 375 pages • 3.5

Curbing Traffic

Curbing Traffic

ByMelissa Bruntlett,Chris Bruntlett

2021 • 15 Readers • 240 pages • 4.7

Counting the Cost

Counting the Cost

ByJill Duggar,Derick Dillard,+1 more

2023 • 99 Readers • 288 pages • 3.9

Red Rising: Sons of Ares, Vol. 2: Wrath

#7-12 of 8 in Sons of Ares

Red Rising: Sons of Ares, Vol. 2: Wrath

ByPierce Brown

2020 • 11 Readers • 132 pages • 3.5

Red Rising: Sons of Ares, Vol. 3: Forbidden Song

#13-18 of 8 in Sons of Ares

Red Rising: Sons of Ares, Vol. 3

ByPierce Brown,Rik Hoskin

2023 • 7 Readers • 132 pages

The Hands of the Emperor

#1 of 2 in Lays of the Hearth-Fire

The Hands of the Emperor

ByVictoria Goddard

2018 • 104 Readers • 1,175 pages • 4.4

One for the Road

One for the Road

ByBarron H. Lerner

2011 • 239 pages

The Archive Undying

#1 of 1 in The Downworld Sequence

The Archive Undying

ByEmma Mieko Candon

2023 • 127 Readers • 3.6

The Deep

ByRivers Solomon,Daveed Diggs,+2 more

2019 • 342 Readers • 166 pages • 3.7

Axiom's End

#1 of 3 in Noumena

ByLindsay Ellis

2020 • 393 Readers • 15h 59m • 3.5

Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond

Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond

ByTamara Kneese

1 Reader

Magic for Liars

Magic for Liars

BySarah Gailey

2019 • 314 Readers • 3.5

Paris: The Memoir

Paris: The Memoir

ByParis Hilton

2023 • 115 Readers • 4.2

Paved Paradise

ByHenry Grabar

2023 • 7 Readers • 369 pages • 3

The Lies of the Ajungo

#1 of 3 in Forever Desert

The Lies of the Ajungo

ByMoses Ose Utomi

2023 • 91 Readers • 96 pages • 4.1

Road to Nowhere

Road to Nowhere

ByParis Marx

2022 • 13 Readers • 273 pages • 4

The Last Days: A Memoir of Faith, Desire and Freedom

The Last Days: A Memoir of Faith, Desire and Freedom

ByAli Millar

2022 • 4 Readers • 388 pages

City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport

City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport

ByRomit Chowdhury

1 Reader

Happy City

ByCharles Montgomery

2012 • 79 Readers • 368 pages • 4.2

Walkable City

ByJeff Speck

2012 • 92 Readers • 312 pages • 4.1

Think Like an Anthropologist

Think Like an Anthropologist

ByMatthew Engelke

2017 • 5 Readers • 368 pages • 4

Fighting Traffic

Fighting Traffic

ByPeter D. Norton

2011 • 3 Readers

City of Quartz

ByMike Davis

1990 • 39 Readers • 441 pages • 3.9

One Nation Under God

One Nation Under God

ByKevin Kruse

2015 • 25 Readers • 386 pages • 4

Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

#2 of 2 in Aristotle and Dante

Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

ByBenjamin Alire Sáenz

2021 • 263 Readers • 528 pages • 3.9

All That Remains

All That Remains

BySue Black

2018 • 79 Readers • 368 pages • 4.2

Apocalyptic Fiction

Apocalyptic Fiction

ByAndrew Tate

1 Reader

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Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract

Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract: We'll Not Go Home Again

1 Reader

Less

#1 of 2 in Arthur Less

ByAndrew Sean Greer,Elena Dal Pra(Translator)

2017 • 509 Readers • 292 pages • 3.7

Voices from Chernobyl

#4 of 5 in Voices of Utopia

Voices from Chernobyl

BySvetlana Alexievich,Keith Gessen(translator)

1989 • 152 Readers • 236 pages • 4.4

Elektra

ByJennifer Saint

2022 • 309 Readers • 284 pages • 3.4

Music of What Happens

The Music of What Happens

ByBill Konigsberg

2019 • 83 Readers • 352 pages • 3.5

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

ByNaomi Klein

2006 • 264 Readers • 588 pages • 4.2

How High We Go in the Dark

How High We Go in the Dark

BySequoia Nagamatsu

2022 • 752 Readers • 305 pages • 3.8

Into the Drowning Deep

#1 of 1 in Rolling in the Deep

Into the Drowning Deep

ByMira Grant

2017 • 410 Readers • 4

Mislaid

ByNell Zink

18 Readers • 3.9

Off the Edge

ByKelly Weill

25 Readers • 3.3

How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others

How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others

ByT.M. Luhrmann

2020 • 1 Reader

The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic

The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic

ByHadley Cantril

1940 • 1 Reader • 224 pages

Firmament

BySimon Clark

2022 • 6 Readers • 337 pages • 3.5

Revelation Space

#1 of 4 in Revelation Space

Revelation Space

ByAlastair Reynolds

2000 • 500 Readers • 596 pages • 3.8

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

ByEric Hoffer

1951 • 83 Readers • 210 pages • 3.6

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

ByAdam M. Grant

2021 • 446 Readers • 320 pages • 4

Cloud of Sparrows

#1 of 2 in Samurai

Cloud of Sparrows

ByTakashi Matsuoka

2002 • 20 Readers • 594 pages • 4.7

The Pursuit of the Millennium

The Pursuit of the Millennium

ByNorman Cohn

1970 • 4 Readers • 419 pages

The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past

The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past

ByShaun Walker

2017 • 6 Readers • 289 pages

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

ByElyn R. Saks

2007 • 68 Readers • 352 pages • 4.1

We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

ByMariame Kaba

2021 • 51 Readers • 240 pages • 5

Influence

ByRobert B. Cialdini

1988 • 455 Readers • 303 pages • 4.1

Constance

#1 of 2 in Constance

ByMatthew Fitzsimmons

2021 • 46 Readers • 352 pages • 3

Skyward

#1 of 4 in Skyward

ByBrandon Sanderson

2018 • 1,122 Readers • 530 pages • 4.4

Airborn

#1 of 3 in Matt Cruse

ByKenneth Oppel

2004 • 62 Readers • 501 pages • 3.7

A Promised Land

#1 of 1 in The Presidential Memoirs

A Promised Land

ByBarack Obama

2020 • 569 Readers • 768 pages • 4.3

The Benighted

#1 of 2 in The Benighted Saga

ByA.M. Dunnewin

2013 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

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The Amber Project

ByJ.N. Chaney

2 Readers

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Sentenced to War

Sentenced to War

1 Reader

The Curie Society

The Curie Society

ByJanet Harvey

2021 • 1 Reader • 168 pages

State of Terror

State of Terror

ByHillary Rodham Clinton,Louise Penny

2021 • 108 Readers • 512 pages • 3.7

2 Star Wars: The High Republic

ByJustina Ireland

2022 • 20 Readers • 144 pages • 3.7

Termination Shock

Termination Shock

ByNeal Stephenson

2021 • 235 Readers • 3.8

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Revolution

1 Reader

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Two Years Behind The Helm

Two Years Behind The Helm: From the Office to the Ocean

1 Reader

Mexican Gothic

BySilvia Moreno-Garcia,Dan Sociu(Translator)

2020 • 1,311 Readers • 3.8

$Refraction$

ByWick Welker

2021 • 13 Readers • 472 pages • 4.3

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

#1 of 1 in Fractalverse

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

ByChristopher Paolini

2020 • 791 Readers • 880 pages • 3.7

A Master of Djinn

#1 of 1 in Dead Djinn Universe

A Master of Djinn

ByP. Djèlí Clark

2019 • 661 Readers • 464 pages • 4.1

Ring Shout

ByP. Djèlí Clark

2020 • 559 Readers • 176 pages • 4

Doors of Sleep

#1 of 2 in Journals of Zaxony Delatree

ByTim Pratt

2021 • 17 Readers • 272 pages • 3.3

The Ministry for the Future

The Ministry for the Future

ByKim Stanley Robinson

2020 • 426 Readers • 563 pages • 3.8

Machinehood

ByS.B. Divya

2021 • 151 Readers • 404 pages • 3.4