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11 books

2025 Hugo Award Winners

Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
Fevered Star
Mirrored Heavens
Sheine Lende
Black Sun
The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea
Tusks of Extinction

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139 books

Aesthetics And Theory Of Art

El ojo del fotógrafo
Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock
PostSecret

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86 books

Agi

A Modern Introduction to Probability and Statistics: Understanding Why and How
Introduction to Evolutionary Computing
Deep Learning
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

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49 books

Ai Data Science

Data Science at the Command Line: Obtain, Scrub, Explore, and Model Data with Unix Power Tools
Veri Bilimi
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book
Natural Language Processing with Python: Analyzing Text with the Natural Language Toolkit
Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for Working with Data
The Art of Statistics

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10 books

American Agriculture

American Agriculture: A Brief History, Rev. Ed.
Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture
The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World

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18 books

American Democracy

Plain, Honest Men
The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution
We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few
The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them
Judicial Independence and the American Constitution: A Democratic Paradox

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3 books

China

The Foundations of Eastern Civilization
The Three-Body Problem
China: The Novel

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174 books

Computer Science

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
The Art of Computer Programming - 4 volumes
Algorithms
Introduction to Algorithms
Code Complete
The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition

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15 books

Conservativism

Conservatism
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump
Conservatism: Burke, Nozick, Bush, Blair?
Conservatism: A Rediscovery
Conservatism : An Invitation to the Great Tradition

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41 books

Data Science

Practical Statistics for Data Scientists: 50 Essential Concepts
Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython
Python Data Science Handbook: Essential Tools for Working with Data
R for Data Science
Introduction to Machine Learning with Python: A Guide for Data Scientists
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems
An Introduction to Statistical Learning

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8 books

Data Science

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Thinking Clearly with Data: A Guide to Quantitative Reasoning and Analysis
The Data Loom
Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Data Science: The Hard Parts: Techniques for Excelling at Data Science

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30 books

Douthat

The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective
The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America
A Secular Age
The Abolition of Man

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10 books

Favorite Programming books

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Peopleware
Joel on Software
The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
Refactoring UI
Code Complete

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150 books

History

Byzantium
Venice
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power

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51 books

History Early Us

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
Revolutionaries : a new history of the invention of America
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Undaunted Courage
Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier: The Narrative of Joseph Plumb Martin

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61 books

History Of China

The Shortest History of China
A Short History of China: From Ancient Dynasties to Economic Powerhouse
Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier
Restless Empire
The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914

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348 books

Hugo Award Best Novel Nominees and Winners ( 1953 - present )

The Long Tomorrow
They’d rather be right
The Big Time
Immortality, Inc.
Who?
A Case of Conscience
Three to Conquer

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27 books

Influenced Me

Diplomacy
The Analects
An Essay on the Restoration of Property
Capitalism and Freedom
The constitution of liberty
On Kingship to the King of Cyprus
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

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41 books

Life Changing

The Power of the Powerless
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
St Petersburg dialogues : or conversations on the temporal government of providence
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
POSTCOLONIAL THEORY AND THE SPECTER OF CAPITAL
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

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8 books

Machine Learning

Introduction to Machine Learning
Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques
The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
Mining of Massive Datasets
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Pattern Classification

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100 books

Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Ulysses
The Great Gatsby
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Lolita
Brave New World
The Sound and the Fury
Catch-22

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17,829 books

My Library

Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
An Introduction to Quasisymmetric Schur Functions: Hopf Algebras, Quasisymmetric Functions, and Young Composition Tableaux
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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9 books

Nationalism

Nations Before Nationalism
Imagined Communities: Reflections On The Origin And Spread Of Nationalism
Nations and Nationalism
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality

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218 books

Nonfic Bios

Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
George Washington: A Biography
James Madison: A Biography
John Adams: A Life
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
His Excellency: George Washington

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66 books

Nonfic His Maritime

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy
Two Years Before the Mast
The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World