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282 Reads

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72 books

Anthropology

Storyteller
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
Cyborg Selves: A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman

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3 books

Biology

Sex at Dusk
The Origin of Species
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

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2 books

Chick Lit

Someone Else's Shoes
The London Séance Society

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21 books

Cognitive Science

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
I Am A Strange Loop
Metamagical Themas
Zen and the Brain
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
Conversations on Consciousness

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7 books

Did Not Finish

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Before I Fall
Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
Monster: The Story of a Young Mary Shelley
The Sweet Spot
The Secret History
Family Lore

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5 books

Essays

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
Kick Me
SantaLand Diaries
How to Be a Woman

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5 books

Fantasy

The Wise Man's Fear
Shaman
The Black Company
Chronicles of the Black Company
The Mirror of Her Dreams

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25 books

Fiction

Stand on Zanzibar
The Stars My Destination
Sandry's Book
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Slaughterhouse-Five
Cat's Cradle
Breakfast of Champions

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2 books

Historical Fiction

The Queen of the Night
The London Séance Society

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8 books

History

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain
The Origin of Species
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

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3 books

History Of Science

Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age
Objectivity
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

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5 books

Humour

Kick Me
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
SantaLand Diaries
How to Be a Woman

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2 books

Literary Fiction

The Windup Girl
All the Light We Cannot See

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1 book

Math

The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics

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2 books

Mystery

Gone Girl
The London Séance Society

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99 books

Non Fiction

Storyteller
Synaptic Self
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Human
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia

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0 books

Owned

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32 books

Philosophy

The Self-Aware Universe
The Most Human Human
Metamagical Themas
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
Chaos, Creativity and Cosmic Consciousness
Human Nature in an Age of Biotechnology: The Case for Mediated Posthumanism
Posthuman Suffering and the Technological Embrace

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19 books

Science

Synaptic Self
The Self-Aware Universe
Human
The Most Human Human
Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
I Am A Strange Loop

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6 books

Sci Fi

Stand on Zanzibar
The Stars My Destination
Red Mars
The Windup Girl
A Scanner Darkly
Desert Creatures

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3 books

Sociology

Science of Science and Reflexivity
Strange Rites

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13 books

Sts

Science of Science and Reflexivity
We have never been modern
Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts, 2nd Edition
The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice
The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain

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3 books

Virtual Culture

The Proteus Paradox
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human

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3 books

Zen

The Three Pillars of Zen
Zen training: Methods and philosophy
The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating