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24 books

Academic Modern

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
An Argument for Mind
This Explains Everything
Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

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21 books

Academic Pre 2010

The Varieties of Religious Experience
Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded
The Art of Tracking: The Origin of Science
The evolution of desire : strategies of human mating
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

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6 books

Adventure Survival

Surviving the Extremes
The Perfect Storm
Underland
How to Survive: Self-Reliance in Extreme Circumstances
How to Survive: Lessons for Everyday Life from the Extreme World
Forest School for Grown-Ups

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7 books

Anthropology

The Art of Tracking: The Origin of Science
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
The Second Sex
Não-lugares
This Is Your Mind on Plants

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20 books

Art Music Design

Deep Listening
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen
Fascination: The Celluloid Dreams of Jean Rollin
Can't Stop Won't Stop
Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
Quit Your Band! Musical Notes from the Japanese Underground

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5 books

Books Leant

Pimp: The Story of My Life
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits
I'm dying up here
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Lying

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20 books

Business Economics

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
What It Takes
Discrimination and Disparities
The Intelligent Investor
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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2 books

Business Strategy

The strategy of conflict
Competitive Strategy

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12 books

Climate Nature

The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast
Mycelium Running
Half-Earth
The Diversity of Life
What a Plant Knows : A Field Guide to the Sense
The Revolutionary Genius of Plants: A New Understanding of Plant Intelligence and Behavior

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2 books

Comedy Light Reads

Point Your Face at This: Drawings
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

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11 books

Consciousness

The Conscious Mind
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
How to Change Your Mind The New Science of Psychedelics
Panpsychism in the West
Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc.
Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time

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15 books

Drugs Crime

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America
How to Change Your Mind The New Science of Psychedelics
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

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16 books

Essays Poetry

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
This Explains Everything
Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc.
Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays
Citizen: An American Lyric
Palestine as Metaphor

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5 books

Favorites

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
1984
Count Zero
Neuromancer
The Design of Everyday Things

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55 books

Fiction

Infinite Jest
Multiple Choice
Ring
The Gambler
The Idiot
Steppenwolf

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10 books

Food Travel

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
The Apprentice
Avec Eric
Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices
The Book of St. John

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35 books

Gender Race

The Female Eunuch
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Women and Madness
Women, Race & Class
Color Conscious
The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity
Africana

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11 books

Health Sport

Inside the Five Ring Circus: Changing Global Sports and the Modern Olympics
North: Finding My Way While Running the Appalachian Trail
Meditations from the Breakdown Lane: Running Across America
Ultramarathon
Runner's World Your Best Stride: How to Optimize Your Natural Running Form to Run Easier, Farther, and Faster--With Fewer Injuries
Becoming A Supple Leopard
With Winning in Mind

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42 books

History

A People's History of the United States
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples: The Cultural Politics of Law and Knowledge
Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
The Treasure of the Copper Scroll

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4 books

Linguistics

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen

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15 books

Memoir Biography

The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Incompleteness
Permanent Record
How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Fascination: The Celluloid Dreams of Jean Rollin

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0 books

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48 books

Philosophy

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life
Archaeologies of the Future
Vibrant Matter

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30 books

Politics

On Palestine
Chomsky on anarchism
Who Rules the World?
Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples: The Cultural Politics of Law and Knowledge
Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
The Revolution That Wasn't

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44 books

Psychology Neurology

The Conscious Mind
Psycho-Cybernetics, Updated and Expanded
The evolution of desire : strategies of human mating
The Road Less Traveled
An Argument for Mind
The Mind's Past
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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