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Catherine

237 Reads

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19 books

CSC

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Design Patterns
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Operating System Concepts
Introduction To The Theory Of Computation
Programming Language Pragmatics
Introduction to Algorithms

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41 books

Dark Academia (because it’s Spooky Season)

Middlegame
A Study in Drowning
The Atlas Six
The Secret History
The Midnight Library
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Ninth House

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39 books

Dinosaurs, Paleontology, & Prehistoric Animals

All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals
The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World's Most Remarkable Animals
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs
Trilobite

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19 books

Easy to Read Books about Mathematics ❤️‍🔥💯☄️

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The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
The Drunkard's Walk
The Math Book
Math Without Numbers

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4 books

Education and Reading Meta

The Well Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
How to Read a Book: the classic guide to intelligent reading
A Classical Education: The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught in School

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18 books

Fiction Inspired by Greek and Roman Mythology

Hekate: The Witch
Circe
Stone Blind: Medusa's Story
Ithaca
Galatea
Medea
Herc

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0 books

Intentionally Dnf’d

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3 books

Mathematics

A Classical Introduction to Galois Theory
MODULAR FORMS: A CLASSICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL INTRODUCTION
Abstract and Concrete Categories

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11 books

Memoirs

I'm Glad My Mom Died
The Glass Castle
Educated: A Memoir
Stone Butch Blues
The Woman in Me
Gender Outlaw
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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3 books

Owned

Good and Mad
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
Orientalism

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133 books

Read as a child/teenager

Gone with the Wind
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Salomé
The Importance of Being Earnest
Animal Farm

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2 books

Read in 2018

The Priory of the Orange Tree
All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother

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5 books

Read in 2020

Circe
Six of Crows
Solitaire
Shadow and Bone
King of Scars

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6 books

Read in 2021

The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
The Shadow of Kyoshi
The Rise of Kyoshi
This Is How You Lose the Time War
A Memory Called Empire
Gender Outlaw

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1 book

Read in 2022

Spinning Silver

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11 books

Read in 2024

A Venom Dark and Sweet
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The Well Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
A Magic Steeped in Poison
The Hollow Boy
The Creeping Shadow
The Whispering Skull

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10 books

Read in 2025

The Goodbye Process
Cemetery Boys
Gallant
The Glass Castle
Dreadful
Suspicion
Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers

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11 books

Scam Books Written by Scam Artists

Trump: The Art of the Deal
The Law of Success
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
Think and Grow Rich
Law of Success, The
Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals

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13 books

Short Stack 🥞

The Metamorphosis
Terminal Boredom: Stories
Electra
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone
Salomé
This Is How You Lose the Time War

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5 books

Up Next (I think)

Snake-Eater
Rocannon's World
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

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1 book

Wednesday Book Club

The Dawn of Everything

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40 books

[WIP] Tyranny, Autocracy, Authoritarianism, Fascism, Totalitarianism…

The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social Media
Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism
Coding Democracy: How Hackers Are Disrupting Power, Surveillance, and Authoritarianism

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4 books

Writing Excuses’ Close Readings

This Is How You Lose the Time War
A Memory Called Empire
Ring Shout
The Fifth Season