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Catherine

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68 books

Arthurian Myth / Loosely based on Arthurian Myth

The Other Merlin
Le Morte D'Arthur
Yvain
Yvain, or The Knight with the Lion
The Romance of Arthur
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness, Patience

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17 books

Big data, algorithms, inequality

Race after Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Twitter and Tear Gas
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

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2 books

Communication

Non Violent Communication: A Language of Life
On Dialogue

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61 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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42 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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25 books

Design

Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Logo
Color harmony 2
Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design
Thoughts on Design

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47 books

Dinosaurs, Paleontology, & Prehistoric Animals

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
Oxygen: The molecule that made the world
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Fossils: The History of Life
Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Life in the Triassic

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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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5 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
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

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43 books

Fiction Inspired by Greek and Roman Mythology

Hekate: The Witch
Nobody's Prize
Nobody's Princess
I, Medusa
A Touch of Darkness
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
Antigone Rising

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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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21 books

Memoirs

The Last Time I Wore a Dress
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
I'm Glad My Mom Died
The Glass Castle
Educated: A Memoir
Stone Butch Blues
The Woman in Me

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8 books

Owned

Good and Mad
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
Orientalism
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience
Inherit the Wind
The Hate U Give

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2 books

Plays, theater

Inherit the Wind
Salomé

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139 books

Read as a child/teenager

Nobody's Princess
Nobody's Prize
The Scarlet Letter
The Lorax
Gone with the Wind
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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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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6 books

Read in 2020

A Court of Thorns and Roses
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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7 books

Social Media

Followers
Culture Warlords: Dispatches from the Dark Web of White Supremacy
Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley
The Friendship Cure
Twitter and Tear Gas
Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years