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The Odyssey

ByHomer,Robert Fagles(Translator)

The Physics of Star Trek

#1 of 2 in The Physics of Star Trek and Beyond

The Physics of Star Trek

ByLawrence M. Krauss

2061: Odyssey Three

#3 of 4 in Space Odyssey

2061: Odyssey Three

ByArthur C. Clarke

The Lathe of Heaven

The Lathe of Heaven

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step

Lateral Thinking

ByEdward de Bono

Paladin of Souls

#2 of 4 in World of the Five Gods (Publication)

Paladin of Souls

ByLois McMaster Bujold

Discover Your Genius

Discover Your Genius

ByMichael J. Gelb

Fragile Things

ByNeil Gaiman

The Drawing of the Three

#2 of 7 in The Dark Tower

The Drawing of the Three

ByStephen King

Crocodile on the Sandbank

#1 of 19 in Amelia Peabody

Crocodile on the Sandbank

ByElizabeth Peters

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit

BySeth Godin

The Player of Games

#2 of 10 in Culture

The Player of Games

ByIain M. Banks

Mort

#4 of 41 in Discworld

ByTerry Pratchett

The Mote in God's Eye

#1 of 3 in Moties

The Mote in God's Eye

ByLarry Niven,Jerry Pournelle

Axis

#2 of 3 in Spin

ByRobert Charles Wilson

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

ByNorman Doidge

Judas Unchained

#2 of 2 in Commonwealth Saga

Judas Unchained

ByPeter F. Hamilton,Marta García Martínez(Translator)

Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

ByKeith Ferrazzi,Tahl Raz

Surface Detail

#9 of 10 in Culture

ByIain M. Banks

Secret Life of Pronouns What Our Words Say about Us

The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us

ByJames W. Pennebaker

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

ByJames Gleick

Spark

ByJohn J. Ratey,Eric Hagerman

Pattern Recognition

#1 of 3 in Blue Ant

Pattern Recognition

ByWilliam Gibson

Player piano

ByKurt Vonnegut

1952 • 231 Readers • 295 pages • 3.8

Zero History

#3 of 3 in Blue Ant

ByWilliam Gibson

Inside Apple

ByAdam Lashinsky

Tribes

BySeth Godin

The Psychopath Test

The Psychopath Test

ByJon Ronson

The 4-Hour Body

The 4-Hour Body

ByTimothy Ferriss

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

ByKen Robinson,Lou Aronica

Spook Country

#2 of 3 in Blue Ant

ByWilliam Gibson

The Light Fantastic

#2 of 41 in Discworld

The Light Fantastic

ByTerry Pratchett

Equal Rites

#3 of 41 in Discworld

ByTerry Pratchett

On Human Nature

On Human Nature

ByEdward O. Wilson

Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems

Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems

ByDavid Rakoff

The Mongoliad: Book One

#1 of 5 in The Foreworld Saga

The Mongoliad: Book One

ByNeal Stephenson,Greg Bear,+5 more

The Mongoliad: Book Two

#2 of 5 in The Foreworld Saga

The Mongoliad: Book Two

ByNeal Stephenson,Erik Bear,+5 more

Cugel's Saga

#3 of 4 in The Dying Earth

ByJack Vance

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography

Books That Changed the World

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography

ByChristopher Hitchens

Liespotting

ByPamela Meyer

The UltraMind Solution

The UltraMind Solution

ByMark Hyman

Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions

Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions

ByZachary Shore

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

ByChristopher W. Alexander,Sara Ishikawa,+4 more

1977 • 118 Readers • 1,171 pages • 4.7

Free

ByChris Anderson

The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses

The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses

ByJesse Schell

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

ByMihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

Through the Language Glass

ByGuy Deutscher

2010 • 89 Readers • 308 pages • 3.6

The Elements of Typographic Style

The Elements of Typographic Style

ByRobert Bringhurst

The Computational Beauty of Nature

The Computational Beauty of Nature

ByGary William Flake

2000 • 9 Readers • 524 pages • 3

Wool

#1 of 3 in Silo

ByHugh Howey

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

#4 of 5 in Incerto

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

ByNassim Nicholas Taleb

This Immortal

ByRoger Zelazny

How to Solve it

How to Solve it

ByGeorge Pólya

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

ByBertrand Russell

1957 • 76 Readers • 266 pages • 3.8

About Face 3

ByAlan Cooper,Robert Reimann,+1 more

1995 • 19 Readers • 610 pages • 3.8

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

ByShunryu Suzuki

1970 • 163 Readers • 178 pages • 4

Nature Via Nurture

Nature Via Nurture

ByMatt Ridley,김한영(Translator)

2003 • 6 Readers • 352 pages

The Amulet of Samarkand

#1 of 3 in Bartimaeus

The Amulet of Samarkand

ByJonathan Stroud

The Years of Rice and Salt

The Years of Rice and Salt

ByKim Stanley Robinson

Phantoms in the Brain

Phantoms in the Brain

ByV. S. Ramachandran

1998 • 88 Readers • 320 pages • 4.4

The (Mis)Behavior of Markets

The (Mis)Behavior of Markets

ByBenoît B. Mandelbrot,Richard L. Hudson

Designing Interactions

Designing Interactions

ByBill Moggridge

Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions

Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions

ByGary Klein

1998 • 17 Readers • 372 pages

V for Vendetta

#1 of 10 in V for Vendetta

ByAlan Moore

1982 • 721 Readers • 4.2

The Velveteen Rabbit

The Velveteen Rabbit

ByMargery Williams Bianco

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

#1 of 2 in Feynman

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

ByRichard P. Feynman,Микола Климчук(Translator)

$The fractal geometry of nature$

The fractal geometry of nature, by Benoit B. Mandelbrot

ByBenoit B. Mandelbrot

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

The Elegant Universe

ByBrian Greene

The prologue to the Canterbury tales

The Canterbury Tales

ByGeoffrey Chaucer

1372 • 356 Readers • 80 pages • 3.4

Consider Your Options: Get the Most from Your Equity Compensation

Consider Your Options: Get the Most from Your Equity Compensation

ByKaye A. Thomas

Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society

Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society

ByJim Manzi

Flores en el ático

#1 of 11 in Dollanganger

Flores en el ático

ByV.C. Andrews,Jesús Pardo(Translator)

The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing

The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing

BySteven W. Smith

The Two Towers

#2 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

ByJ.R.R. Tolkien

God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

ByChristopher Hitchens

Society Of Mind

Society Of Mind

ByMarvin Minsky

The Art of the Start

The Art of the Start

ByGuy Kawasaki

No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men

ByCormac McCarthy

2005 • 627 Readers • 309 pages • 4.1

The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War

#2 of 3 in The Civil War Trilogy

The Killer Angels

ByMichael Shaara

1974 • 115 Readers • 369 pages • 4.2

Pitch Anything

ByOren Klaff

The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

ByWilliam Shakespeare,SparkNotes,+1 more

13 Things That Don't Make Sense

13 Things That Don't Make Sense

ByMichael Brooks

NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children

ByPo Bronson,Ashley Merryman

The Second Angel

The Second Angel

ByPhilip Kerr

Flatland

ByEdwin A. Abbott

The Bonobo and the Atheist

The Bonobo and the Atheist

ByFrans de Waal,Frans B. M. Waal

2013 • 12 Readers • 289 pages

Harrison Bergeron

Harrison Bergeron

ByKurt Vonnegut

Thinking with Type

Thinking with Type

ByEllen Lupton

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

ByWilliam Shakespeare

Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

#2 of 3 in The Comic Books

Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

ByScott McCloud

Connections

ByJames Burke

1978 • 15 Readers • 304 pages • 3.6

Frankenstein

ByMary Shelley

181 • 2,771 Readers • 353 pages • 3.8

Sketching User Experiences

Sketching User Experiences

ByBill Buxton

Trainspotting

#2 of 5 in Mark Renton

ByIrvine Welsh,Eric Lindor Fall(Translator)

1993 • 366 Readers • 344 pages • 4.3

The sixty-minute Shakespeare--Twelfth night

Sixty-Minute Shakespeare

ByCass Foster

The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

BySteven Pinker

1994 • 120 Readers • 506 pages • 4

The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

ByDashiell Hammett

1929 • 266 Readers • 165 pages • 3.8

The Humane Interface

The Humane Interface

ByJef Raskin

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Short History of Nearly Everything

ByBill Bryson

Ender's Shadow

#1 of 5 in The Shadow Series

ByOrson Scott Card