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Chris

100 Reads

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1 book

Political Fiction

Animal Farm

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1 book

Political Science

The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

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19 books

Politics

The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
The speech a historic filibuster on corporate greed and the decline of our middle class
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think
Dark Money
Sin Miedo: Lecciones de rebeldes
Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump

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6 books

Primary Sources

The Letters of Cole Porter
The Federalist Papers
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Segovia-Ponce Letters
A Testament of Hope
The speech a historic filibuster on corporate greed and the decline of our middle class

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10 books

Psychology

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
The Scientist in the Crib
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

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7 books

Race

Between the World and Me
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The Souls of Black Folk
How to Be an Antiracist
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Centering: Navigating Race, Authenticity, and Power in Ministry

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21 books

Religion

Fierce Love
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
道德經 (Dao De Jing / Tao Te Ching)
Religious Literacy
Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality
The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are

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5 books

Religious History

Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says About the End

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1 book

Romance

Like Water for Chocolate

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26 books

Science

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Scientist in the Crib
Silent Spring
On the Origin of Species
Wonderful life
Otherlands
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

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7 books

Science Fiction

All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Snow Crash
Hominids
First-Person Singularities
Children of Time

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6 books

Self Help

The Alchemist
No More Mr. Nice Guy
How to Be Miserable
The Music Lesson
Mate
Slow sex : the art and craft of the female orgasm

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2 books

Sexuality

Mate
Slow sex : the art and craft of the female orgasm

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34 books

Social Issues

Class
The Hollow Hope
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race
Religious Literacy
Backlash
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

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1 book

Sociology

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

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4 books

Speculative Evolution

All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man
After Man: A Zoology of the Future
Expedition: Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A.D. Voyage to Darwin IV
The New Dinosaurs

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8 books

Speculative Fiction

The Handmaid’s Tale
The Giver
Station Eleven
Never Let Me Go
The One
We
It Can't Happen Here

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2 books

Television

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2 books

Temperament

Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization
How equal temperament ruined harmony

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11 books

Theatre

The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Hamlet
The Merchant of Venice
The Oedipus Cycle.
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

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6 books

Theology

Fierce Love
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality
Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture
The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, Piety, and Public Witness
Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says About the End

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1 book

Thriller

Small Mercies
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