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Chris

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5 books

2023

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Infinite Powers
The Priory of the Orange Tree
The Colour Of Magic
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

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8 books

Art

Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & Color
Imaginative Realism
Sketch Every Day: 100+ simple drawing exercises from Simone Grünewald
Keys to Drawing with Imagination
The Art of Urban Sketching
Color and Light
Figure Drawing

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11 books

Cooking

Flavour
M. F. K. Fisher's Translation of The Physiology of Taste
Botany at the Bar: The Art and Science of Making Bitters
Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas
Bitterman's Field Guide to Bitters Amari
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
The Craft of the Cocktail: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master Bartender, with 500 Recipes

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1 book

Data Science

The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction

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14 books

Ecology

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World
Mycelium Running
The tree
Latin for Gardeners
Plant Ecology: Origins, Processes, Consequences

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8 books

Fantasy

The Dawnhounds
The Colour Of Magic
Sourcery
The Mists of Avalon
The Books of Earthsea
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Lord of Light

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15 books

Lgbtq Non Fiction

Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
The Gender Games
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity
I'm Afraid of Men
For the Love of Men
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
The ABC's of Lgbt

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12 books

Math

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Hyperspace
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Infinite Powers
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe

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26 books

Mental Health

Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD: Tips and Tools to Help You Take Charge of Your Life and Get Organized
Neurodiversity in the classroom
Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem
Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist: How to End the Drama and Get on with Life
Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers
Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time
The Adult ADHD Tool Kit

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0 books

Owned

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1 book

Programming

The Annotated Turing

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8 books

Science

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
Complexity: A Guided Tour
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Surfaces and Essences
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Brief History of Time

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13 books

Scifi

Ninefox Gambit
Hyperion
Stranger in a Strange Land
Never Let Me Go
The Player of Games
Artemis
The Left Hand of Darkness

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1 book

Space

The Right Stuff

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11 books

Spiritual

Be Here Now
Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic
The hero with a thousand faces
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Drawing Down the Moon
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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5 books

Technology

Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
One Giant Leap
Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System
The Effects of Noise on Man

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4 books

Up Next

The Midnight Library
The Wishing Game
The Shadow of the Wind
Monk and Robot

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2 books

Writing

The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel