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13 books

Abandoned

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A Choice Of Gods
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving
The Cider House Rules
Different Mirror
The age of revolution, 1789-1848.

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4 books

Africa

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The country of my skull
A Dying Colonialism
Homegoing
God's Bits of Wood

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22 books

Alcohol

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Tasting Whiskey: An Insider's Guide to the Unique Pleasures of the World's Finest Spirits
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks
Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas
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The Bar Book

The Craft of the Cocktail: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master Bartender, with 500 Recipes

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11 books

Analytical Politics Recs

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Quick Calculus: A Self-Teaching Guide, 2nd Edition
An Introduction to Game Theory
Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science
Scientific Perspectivism
The World in the Model: How Economists Work and Think

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9 books

Anthropology

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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
The Gift
Ghostly Matters

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5 books

Art

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100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design
Just my type
Feast Your Eyes
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

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16 books

Asia

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Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Crazy Rich Asians
Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 1
Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan, Vol. 1

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5 books

Audiobook

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Failure Is an Option: An Attempted Memoir
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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6 books

Book Riot 2018

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The Leopard
Manfried the Man
A Wrinkle in Time
Red Plenty
The God of Small Things

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4 books

Books I Hate

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Caste
Gone Girl
Year of Wonders
The City We Became

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1 book

Botched The Landing

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Klara and the Sun

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3 books

Cartoons

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Life Begins at Incorporation: Cartoons and Essays
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Marbles

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7 books

Chicago

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Ghosts in the Schoolyard
High-Risers
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

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21 books

College Required

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The Republic
Assata: An Autobiography
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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Good-Bye to All That

Caliban and the Witch

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13 books

Comics

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The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for
Step Aside, Pops
Sex Criminals: Volume One: One Weird Trick
Sex Criminals, Vol. 2: Due Piccioncini, Una Fava
Sex Criminals, Volume Three: Three the Hard Way

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43 books

Cookbooks

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Ruhlman's Twenty
The Food Lab
Mastering Pizza: The Art and Practice of Handmade Pizza, Focaccia, and Calzone
The Gaijin Cookbook: Japanese Recipes from a Chef, Father, Eater, and Lifelong Outsider
Pie Squared: Irresistibly Easy Sweet & Savory Slab Pies

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26 books

Creative Nonfiction

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In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction
Dear God, Have You Ever Gone Hungry?
How to understand Israel in 60 days or less
Scenes from an Impending Marriage
Maus: Historia de un sobreviviente II: Y Aquí Comenzaron Mis Problemas

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5 books

Criticism

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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
Playing in the Dark
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques

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27 books

Cultural Critique

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Guyland
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
Sexing the Body
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
The Lifespan of a Fact

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2 books

Cyberpunk

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Snow Crash
Infinite Detail

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7 books

Data Science

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Calling Bullshit : The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
The Alignment Problem
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The Costs of Connection

The Midrange Theory
Data versus Democracy: How Big Data Algorithms Shape Opinions and Alter the Course of History

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3 books

Design

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100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design
Design Justice
Beautiful Evidence

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12 books

Dystopias

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The Running Man
The Lathe of Heaven
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Talents
Oryx and Crake

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41 books

Economics

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Griftopia
Race and the Invisible Hand : How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A Random Walk Down Wall Street

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42 books

Education

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Robot-Proof
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong
Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School
Despite the Best Intentions

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6 books

Environment

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Termination Shock
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
A Half-Built Garden
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day

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20 books

Essays

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What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
The Lifespan of a Fact
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Barrel Fever
On writing well

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22 books

Europe

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The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
The King of Warsaw
The Age of Extremes
The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
The age of revolution, 1789-1848.

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1 book

Exercise

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Bigger Leaner Stronger

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38 books

Fantasy

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The Magicians
The Hobbit
Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
American Gods
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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1 book

Fermentation

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The Art of Fermentation

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154 books

Fiction

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Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s

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The Ask

Strangers in Paradise, Volume 3: It's A Good Life
Shortcomings
Franny and Zooey

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7 books

Film

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Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
The Kid Stays in the Picture
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock-'N'-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Lulu in Hollywood
Just One More Thing: Stories from My Life

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20 books

Food

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Ruhlman's Twenty
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The Naked Pint

Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Crying in H Mart
Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto

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41 books

Gender Sexuality

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Middlesex
Guyland
Sexing the Body
Fun home
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama

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8 books

Grad School

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Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong
The Lady Tasting Tea
Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School
Despite the Best Intentions

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60 books

Graphic Novels

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How to understand Israel in 60 days or less
Strangers in Paradise, Volume 3: It's A Good Life
Shortcomings
Asterios Polyp
Scenes from an Impending Marriage

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4 books

Health

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Bottle of Lies
McMindfulness
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine

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29 books

High School Personal

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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
American Gods
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Cat's Cradle
The Importance of Being Earnest

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35 books

High School Required

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Inferno
Heart of Darkness
Kindred
Mutter Courage und ihre kinder
The Chosen

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16 books

Historical Fiction

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Year of Wonders
Washington Black
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 1
Babouk: Voices of Resistance
When the Emperor Was Divine

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76 books

History

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Silencing the Past
A convenient hatred
History of the Jews in Modern Times
Maus: Historia de un sobreviviente II: Y Aquí Comenzaron Mis Problemas
Footnotes in Gaza

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3 books

Horror

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Devil House
Sensor
Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain

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22 books

Humor

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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Barrel Fever
Me Talk Pretty One Day
The Frenchman: A Photographic Interview With Fernandel
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Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You Do

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5 books

I Know The Author

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Quantum Girl Theory
How to Mars
The King of Warsaw
To Tell the Truth: Practice and Craft in Narrative Nonfiction
A Dream Between Two Rivers: Stories of Liminality

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3 books

Immigration

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The Accidental American
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border
Harvest of Empire

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1 book

Indigenous Studies

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Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

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20 books

Inequality

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Winners Take All
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy
The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America
The Privileged Poor

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4 books

Journalism

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Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
When McKinsey Comes to Town
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

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16 books

Judaism

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How to understand Israel in 60 days or less
A convenient hatred
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The Past Didn't Go Anywhere

History of the Jews in Modern Times
Dear God, Have You Ever Gone Hungry?

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4 books

Klaw

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The Enchanted
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Magpie Murders
The Guest Cat

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23 books

Labor

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Ghost Work
Detroit
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
Behind the Screen
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

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9 books

Latin America

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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture
Genesis: Memory of Fire, Volume 1
Las venas abiertas de América Latina

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9 books

Law

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The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech
Locked In
Critical Race Theory
Privacy and Freedom
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Usual Cruelty

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2 books

Lit Crit

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Words Are My Matter
How to Read Literature Like a Professor

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1 book

Long

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Life and Fate

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1 book

Manga

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My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness: Special Edition

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16 books

Mathematics

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Logicomix
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
The Lady Tasting Tea

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3 books

Media Criticism

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TV (the Book)
This is How You Make a Movie
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Who the Devil Made It

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1 book

Mediocre White Men

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Stoner

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47 books

Memoir

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Dear God, Have You Ever Gone Hungry?
Scenes from an Impending Marriage
Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Maus: Historia de un sobreviviente II: Y Aquí Comenzaron Mis Problemas
Brainiac

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4 books

Mental Health

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Marbles
I Know This Much Is True
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety

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5 books

Meta

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The Lifespan of a Fact
Pale Fire
The Eyre Affair
The New York Trilogy
Cloud Atlas

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9 books

Middle East

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Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
The Arabesque Table
The Palestinian Table
Except for Palestine
Exit Wounds

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8 books

Music

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Tranny
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
Glitter Up the Dark
You're with Stupid

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3 books

Mystery

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Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
Magpie Murders
The Winter Queen

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7 books

Nana Pop Pop

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Cover 8

Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You Do

The Frenchman: A Photographic Interview With Fernandel
To the Lighthouse
Everything Is Illuminated
American Pastoral

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326 books

Nonfiction

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Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
No god but God
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

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8 books

North America

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This Vast Southern Empire
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border
North Woods
Harvest of Empire

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149 books

Novels

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Middlesex
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The Ask

The Human Comedy
The Marriage Plot
Ender's Game

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7 books

Organizing

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The Accidental American
Collective Visioning: How Groups Can Work Together for a Just and Sustainable Future
Cover 5

The Past Didn't Go Anywhere

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

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2 books

Owned

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The Breaks of the Game
Collective Visioning: How Groups Can Work Together for a Just and Sustainable Future

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14 books

Philosophy

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Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Cover 4

The Question of God

The Emperor's New Mind
Sorting Things Out

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6 books

Philosophy Of The Matrix

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Skepticism and the Veil of Perception
Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings
The Problems of Philosophy
Free Will and Determinism
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

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2 books

Photography

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Working cats
Philippe Halsman's Jump Book. 1986. Paper.

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1 book

Poetry

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Be Holding

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12 books

Policy

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Speaking Truth to Power: Art and Craft of Policy Analysis
Thinking Like an Economist
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
The Color of Law
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Arbitrary Lines

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23 books

Political Economy

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The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States
Las venas abiertas de América Latina
The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy
An introduction to the three volumes of Karl Marx's Capital

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13 books

Politics

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The reactionary mind
Anti-intellectualism in American Life.
Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America
Chocolate City
The strategy of conflict

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2 books

Pop Culture

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Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Crossworld

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6 books

Post Colonial

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Wide Sargasso Sea
The God of Small Things
Babouk: Voices of Resistance
Las venas abiertas de América Latina
The Colonizer and the Colonized

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2 books

Privacy

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Dark Matters
Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest

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6 books

Psychology

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Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
The Wretched of the Earth
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The Inside Game

The Outsider
Laziness Does Not Exist

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1 book

Qualitative Research

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Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research

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63 books

Race

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Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
A convenient hatred
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The Past Didn't Go Anywhere

Shortcomings
Notes of a Native Son

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7 books

Religion

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No god but God
The Brothers Karamazov
Parable of the Talents
Parable of the Sower
Jesus and the Disinherited

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3 books

Research

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Text as Data
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research

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1 book

Romance

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Crazy Rich Asians

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6 books

Satire

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The Master and Margarita
Cover 8

Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You Do

Snowball's Chance
Pym
Erasure

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35 books

Science

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Sexing the Body
Brain Storm : The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences
Ever Since Darwin
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Food Lab

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51 books

Science Fiction

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Cover 1

Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s

Ender's Game
Old Man's War
The Lathe of Heaven
Ancillary Justice

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10 books

Self Help

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Steal Like an Artist
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Laziness Does Not Exist
The power of habit why we do what we do and how to change it
Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety

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5 books

Sex Relationships

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Is Sex Necessary? or Why You Feel the Way You Do

Sex Criminals: Volume One: One Weird Trick
Sex Criminals, Vol. 2: Due Piccioncini, Una Fava
Sex Criminals, Volume Three: Three the Hard Way
Conflict Is Not Abuse

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16 books

Short Stories

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In the Bedroom: Seven Stories
Collected Stories
The Cyberiad
Cover 0

The Book of Embraces

Milk Blood Heat

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10 books

Social Justice

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Collective Visioning: How Groups Can Work Together for a Just and Sustainable Future
Design Justice
Jesus and the Disinherited
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Usual Cruelty

Except for Palestine

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23 books

Social Theory

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Silencing the Past
Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
The Utopia of Rules
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Cruel Optimism

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15 books

Sociology

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Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Educated Underclass: Students and the False Promise of Social Mobility
Behind the Screen
The Invisible Heart

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3 books

South Asia

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Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race
Sea of Poppies
The Hindus: An Alternative History

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12 books

Speculative Fiction

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The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
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Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s

Blindness
Death with Interruptions
The Running Man

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19 books

Sports

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Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love
The Book of Basketball
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
The Breaks of the Game
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization