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36 books

Book Of The Month

Early Riser
Golden State
Red Clocks
The Philosopher's Flight
The Last Equation of Isaac Severy
The Oracle Year
The Book of Essie

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12 books

Did Not Finish

Overthrow
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Topics of Conversation
The Holdout
The Loop
Ducks, Newburyport
The Man Who Haunted Himself

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41 books

Essays

This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
A Better Man
The Museum of Whales You Will Never See: And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums
Switched-On Bach
White Magic
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
The Collected Angers: Essays About Design for an Unwilling Audience

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39 books

Ethics In Tech

Ruined by Design
Coders
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Team Human
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
The Internet of Garbage

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34 books

Faves 2018

Fox 8
The Odyssey: A Graphic Novel
White Tears
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Pachinko
You Think It, I'll Say It
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

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46 books

Faves 2019

Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good
The Personality Brokers
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Thick
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Jeeves and the King of Clubs

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54 books

Faves 2020

Normal People
White Negroes
Girl, Woman, Other
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
All This Could Be Yours
Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge

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39 books

Faves 2021

Memorial
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life
Sign 'O' the Times
Beowulf: A New Translation
Detransition, Baby
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
The White Card: A Play

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40 books

Faves 2022

The Candy House
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home
Laserwriter II
Trust
Siren Queen
Sea of Tranquility

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33 books

Faves 2023

The Best of Everything
Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party
Poverty, by America
Quietly Hostile
Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Small Things Like These

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25 books

Faves 2024

A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
The Beehive
The West Passage
Bury Your Gays
The Manicurist's Daughter
Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

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1 book

Faves 2025

Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

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668 books

Fiction

Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die
One Day
Ready Player One
The Help

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37 books

Food

Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
Dinner: Changing the Game: A Cookbook
Back Pocket Pasta: Inspired Dinners to Cook on the Fly: A Cookbook
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Kachka: A Return to Russian Cooking
Night + Market: Delicious Thai Food to Facilitate Drinking and Fun-Having Amongst Friends A Cookbook
The Chef and the Slow Cooker: A Cookbook

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47 books

Graphic Novels

Vision Vol. 2
Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too
My Brother's Husband, Volume 1
Fun
More Fun
Nimona
Clean Room, Vol. 1: Immaculate Conception

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7 books

Hbs Trip List

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
Woodworking
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Modernism
People Who Eat Darkness
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
Office Politics

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72 books

History

Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation

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137 books

Hollywood

Audition
American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Bossypants
Gunn's Golden Rules
Party Animals: A Hollywood Tale of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll Starring the Fabulous Allan Carr
The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson

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49 books

Horror

In The Night Wood
The Bus on Thursday
Ghost Wall
You Should Have Left
Bunny
salt slow
Wilder Girls

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102 books

Humor

Bossypants
Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die
Them
Company
Possible Side Effects

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22 books

Lib Hold

Automatic Noodle
Against the Machine The Fight to Stay Human
Beings
Black Flame
Dangerously funny
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation
Lessons in Magic and Disaster

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161 books

Memoirs

Not The Religious Type
Audition
Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Bossypants
Gunn's Golden Rules

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74 books

Music

Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
How Music Works
Orfeo
Dolly Parton, Songteller
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

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207 books

Netgalley

Trust Exercise
The Farm
Republic of Lies
Thick
Hark
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

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577 books

Nonfiction

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America
Them
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Inside scientology
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
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