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Mating in Captivity

Mating in Captivity

ByEsther Perel

2006 • 103 Readers • 264 pages • 4.1

My Thoughts Exactly

My Thoughts Exactly

ByLily Allen

2018 • 19 Readers • 352 pages • 3.7

The Lathe of Heaven

The Lathe of Heaven

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1000 • 404 Readers • 194 pages • 4.1

The power of habit why we do what we do and how to change it

The power of habit why we do what we do and how to change it

ByCharles Duhigg

2012 • 697 Readers • 402 pages • 4

Think and Grow Rich

Think and grow rich

ByNapoleon Hill

1937 • 257 Readers • 128 pages • 3.5

The Endurance Training Diet & Cookbook: The How, When, and What for Fueling Runners and Triathletes to Improve Performance

The Endurance Training Diet & Cookbook: The How, When, and What for Fueling Runners and Triathletes to Improve Performance

ByJesse Kropelnicki

1 Reader

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

ByHannah Arendt

1963 • 103 Readers • 312 pages • 4.3

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The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work

The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work: How to Grow, Manage, and Work with Remote Teams

ByWade Foster,Danny Schreiber,+4 more

2015 • 1 Reader

Exhalation

ByTed Chiang

2019 • 758 Readers • 350 pages • 4.3

Introduction to graph theory

Introduction to graph theory

ByRichard J. Trudeau

1994 • 6 Readers • 224 pages • 3

Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment

ByCory Doctorow

2019 • 68 Readers • 305 pages • 4.1

The rise and fall of the British nation : a twentieth-century history

The rise and fall of the British nation : a twentieth-century history

ByDavid Edgerton

2018 • 6 Readers • 720 pages

Everything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated

ByJonathan Safran Foer

2002 • 249 Readers • 398 pages • 3.9

As I walked out one midsummer morning

#2 of 3 in The Autobiographical Trilogy

As I walked out one midsummer morning

ByLaurie Lee

1969 • 10 Readers • 204 pages • 4.2

The White Man's Burden

The White Man's Burden

ByWilliam Easterly(著)

2006 • 8 Readers • 448 pages

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The Perfect Fool

The Perfect Fool

ByStewart Lee

2001 • 1 Reader • 282 pages • 2

Energy and Civilization: A History

Energy and Civilization: A History

ByVaclav Smil

2017 • 52 Readers • 568 pages • 3.4

Factfulness

ByHans Rosling

29 • 542 Readers • 352 pages • 4.4

A Gentleman in Moscow

A Gentleman in Moscow

ByAmor Towles

2016 • 793 Readers • 512 pages • 4.3

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

ByRutger Bregman

2014 • 185 Readers • 262 pages • 3.9

The Alchemist

ByPaulo Coelho

1988 • 1,936 Readers • 181 pages • 3.5

The Left Hand of Darkness

#4 of 9 in Hainish Cycle

The Left Hand of Darkness

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1969 • 1,085 Readers • 267 pages • 4.1

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

ByJohn Carreyrou

2018 • 598 Readers • 339 pages • 4.4

Facing the Dragon

Facing the Dragon

ByRobert L. Moore

2003 • 4 Readers • 273 pages • 4

Oryx and Crake

#1 of 3 in MaddAddam

ByMargaret Atwood

2002 • 590 Readers • 376 pages • 3.9

The Stranger

ByAlbert Camus,Matthew Ward(Translator)

1942 • 1,753 Readers • 134 pages • 3.9

I Am Legend

ByRichard Matheson

1954 • 626 Readers • 312 pages • 3.9

The Willows

ByAlgernon Blackwood

1907 • 87 Readers • 105 pages • 4

Millefiori

ByOmar Musa

1 Reader

Cat's Cradle

ByKurt Vonnegut

1963 • 949 Readers • 192 pages • 4.1

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

ByShirley Jackson

1962 • 815 Readers • 146 pages • 4

Letters from a Stoic

Letters from a Stoic

BySeneca

64 • 262 Readers • 254 pages • 4.4

Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

ByChristopher Ryan,Cacilda Jethá

2010 • 107 Readers • 420 pages • 3.7

Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design

Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design

ByRichard Bird

2010 • 5 Readers • 286 pages

The Wealth of Nations, Book 1/Manifesto of the Communist Party

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

ByFriedrich Engels,Karl Marx,+1 more

2008 • 92 Readers • 172 pages • 4

Milk and Honey

ByRupi Kaur

2014 • 451 Readers • 208 pages • 3.4

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

ByWilliam Finnegan

2015 • 100 Readers • 447 pages • 4.3

Why Motivating People Doesn't Work ... and What Does

Why Motivating People Doesn't Work ... and What Does

BySusan Fowler

1 Reader

The Songs of Distant Earth

The Songs of Distant Earth

ByArthur C. Clarke

1986 • 57 Readers • 279 pages • 3.8

The Gunslinger

#1 of 7 in The Dark Tower

ByStephen King

1976 • 1,327 Readers • 238 pages • 3.6

Severance

ByLing Ma

2018 • 423 Readers • 304 pages • 3.9

Battle Angel Alita

#1 of 9 in Battle Angel Alita / Gunnm

Battle Angel Alita

ByYukito Kishiro,Fred Burke(Translator),+2 more

1990 • 38 Readers • 248 pages • 4

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

ByMartin Kleppmann

2015 • 139 Readers • 562 pages • 4.6

Be Here Now

ByRam Dass

1971 • 56 Readers • 116 pages • 4.6

The End of History and the Last Man

The End of History and the Last Man

ByFrancis Fukuyama

1992 • 38 Readers • 418 pages • 3

Release It!

ByMichael T. Nygard

2007 • 34 Readers • 326 pages • 4.7

Living with a SEAL

Living with a SEAL

ByJesse Itzler

2015 • 22 Readers • 256 pages • 4.2

The Conquest of Bread

The Conquest of Bread

ByPyotr Kropotkin

1892 • 73 Readers • 206 pages • 3.5

Neverwhere

#1 of 2 in London Below, The World of Neverwhere

ByNeil Gaiman(Narrator)

1996 • 1,250 Readers • 480 pages • 4.2

Wildlife Wars: The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden

Wildlife Wars: The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden

ByTerry Grosz

1999

Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China

Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China

ByDeborah S. Davis(Editor),Sara L. Friedman(Editor)

2014 • 1 Reader • 340 pages

Rise of the Red Engineers

Rise of the red engineers

ByJoel Andreas

3 Readers

Sleeping Giants

#1 of 3 in Themis Files

Sleeping Giants

BySylvain Neuvel

2016 • 507 Readers • 304 pages • 3.8

A Discipline of Programming

A Discipline of Programming

ByEdsger W. Dijkstra

1976 • 217 pages

The Science of Programming

The Science of Programming

ByDavid Gries

2012 • 1 Reader • 388 pages

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Sirocco

BySabrina Ghayour

1 Reader

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The Modern Cook’s Year

The Modern Cook’s Year

ByAnna Jones

Smarter Investing

Smarter Investing

ByTim Hale

2006 • 3 Readers • 301 pages

The Swerve

ByStephen Greenblatt

2011 • 71 Readers • 356 pages • 3.8

Rock the Shack: The Architecture of Cabins, Cocoons and Hide-Outs

Rock the Shack: The Architecture of Cabins, Cocoons and Hide-Outs

BySven Ehmann(editor),Sofia Borges(Editor)

2013 • 1 Reader • 239 pages

Not Enough

BySamuel Moyn

2018 • 2 Readers • 296 pages

Managing Oneself

Managing Oneself

ByPeter F. Drucker

2008 • 46 Readers • 69 pages • 3.6

Eaters of the Dead

Eaters of the Dead

ByMichael Crichton

1976 • 88 Readers • 222 pages • 3.5

The Andromeda Strain

#1 of 2 in The Andromeda Strain

The Andromeda Strain

ByMichael Crichton

1969 • 417 Readers • 354 pages • 3.7

Deep Work

ByCal Newport

2016 • 699 Readers • 296 pages • 4.1

So Good They Can't Ignore You

So Good They Can't Ignore You

ByCal Newport

2012 • 282 Readers • 288 pages • 3.9

Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories

Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories

ByF. William Lawvere,Stephen H. Schanuel

1997 • 2 Readers • 383 pages

The Tyranny of Metrics

The Tyranny of Metrics

ByJerry Z. Muller

2017 • 25 Readers • 240 pages • 3.4

The First Confessor

#0 of 15 in Sword of Truth

The First Confessor

ByTerry Goodkind

2012 • 35 Readers • 481 pages • 3.8

Art and Artist

ByOtto Rank

1932 • 7 Readers • 532 pages

The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of Myth

The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of Myth

ByOtto Rank

1909 • 6 Readers • 106 pages

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

BySy Montgomery

2015 • 141 Readers • 273 pages • 3.8

Men Explain Things to Me

Men Explain Things to Me

ByRebecca Solnit

2014 • 187 Readers • 130 pages • 3.8

Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger

Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger

ByGregory Hill

1965 • 24 Readers • 100 pages • 4.4

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

ByCharles Bukowski

1974 • 9 Readers • 232 pages

Ulrich Haarburste's Novel of Roy Orbison in Clingfilm

Ulrich Haarburste's Novel of Roy Orbison in Clingfilm

ByUlrich Haarbürste

2006 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

Post Office

ByCharles Bukowski

1971 • 189 Readers • 204 pages • 3.7

With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

ByKathryn Mannix

2017 • 12 Readers • 342 pages • 4.3

The Denial of Death

The Denial of Death

ByErnest Becker

1973 • 142 Readers • 239 pages • 3.5

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

ByItalo Calvino,William Weaver(Translator)

1979 • 378 Readers • 260 pages • 4.1

Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

ByJake Adelstein

2009 • 60 Readers • 335 pages • 3.6

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

ByHenry Marsh

2014 • 34 Readers • 278 pages • 3.9

Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist

Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist

ByDiana Walstad

1999 • 2 Readers • 194 pages

The Race between Education and Technology

The Race between Education and Technology

ByClaudia Goldin,Lawrence F. Katz

2010 • 3 Readers • 496 pages

La Belle Savage

#1 of 3 in The Book of Dust

La Belle Savage

ByPhilip Pullman

2017 • 343 Readers • 466 pages • 4

The Rise of the Meritocracy

The Rise of the Meritocracy

ByMichael Young

1958 • 5 Readers • 198 pages

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

#1 of 2 in Rules for Life

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

ByJordan B. Peterson

2018 • 431 Readers • 16 pages • 3.5

Embracing Defeat

Embracing Defeat

ByJohn W. Dower

1999 • 20 Readers • 676 pages • 4

Thanks for the Feedback

Thanks for the Feedback

ByDouglas Stone,Sheila Heen

2014 • 62 Readers • 348 pages • 4.2

Americanah

ByChimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2013 • 546 Readers • 608 pages • 4.3

Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero

Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero

ByCharles Sprawson

1992 • 2 Readers • 307 pages

A Philosophy of Walking

A Philosophy of Walking

ByFrédéric Gros,John Howe(Translator)

2009 • 18 Readers • 273 pages • 3

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

ByShaun Usher(Compiler)

2013 • 2 Readers • 384 pages

In Defense of Flogging

In Defense of Flogging

ByPeter Moskos

2011 • 1 Reader • 194 pages

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

ByFyodor Dostoevsky,Andrew H. MacAndrew(Translator)

19 • 1,036 Readers • 796 pages • 4.4

They Became What They Beheld

They Became What They Beheld

ByEdmund Carpenter

1970 • 1 Reader • 176 pages

Poems 1962-2012

Poems 1962-2012

ByLouise Glück

2012 • 8 Readers • 656 pages

Midlife

ByKieran Setiya

2017 • 4 Readers • 189 pages

The Gene

The Gene: An Intimate History

BySiddhartha Mukherjee

2016 • 291 Readers • 742 pages • 4.2

Nudge: The Final Edition

ByRichard H. Thaler,Cass R. Sunstein

2008 • 190 Readers • 229 pages • 3.6