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Alex

284 Reads

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12 books

Art

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The Camera
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
The Elements of Style: With Revisions, an Introduction, and a Chapter on Writing
The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera

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28 books

Biography

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
Steve Jobs
I. Asimov: A Memoir
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
LSD: My Problem Child
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

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42 books

Business

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
A primer on money, banking, and gold
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
Investing 101
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Come into my trading room

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148 books

Computing

A Programming Language
Dive Into Python 3
On LISP
The Little Schemer
JavaScript: The Good Parts
JavaScript Patterns

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107 books

Fiction

Consider Phlebas
Starship Troopers
The Gods Themselves
Nightfall
Foundation's Edge
Ringworld
Atlas Shrugged

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9 books

History

A People's History of the United States
Night
Apollo
The Lessons of History
If This Is a Man / The Truce: Omnibus
The Right Stuff
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way

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0 books

Owned

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24 books

Philosophy

The God Delusion
A History of Western Philosophy
The Communist Manifesto
The Road to Serfdom
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Anarchism and Other Essays
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

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4 books

Politics

Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
All the Kremlin's Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
The Future Is History

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40 books

Psychology

Stumbling on Happiness
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Blink
Listening to Prozac

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14 books

Read 2005

The Da Vinci Code
The Catcher in the Rye
State of Fear
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Fermat's last theorem
Timeline

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1 book

Read 2006

Heart of Darkness

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9 books

Read 2007

Forward the Foundation
I, Robot
Foundation
Foundation and Empire
The Caves of Steel
Second Foundation
Foundation's Edge

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9 books

Read 2008

Stranger in a Strange Land
Brave New World Revisited
The End of Eternity
The Genius And The Goddess
Nightfall
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The Gods Themselves

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17 books

Read 2009

Of Mice and Men
This Timeless Moment: A Personal View of Aldous Huxley
Neuromancer
Outliers: The Story of Success
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
Starship Troopers
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

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20 books

Read 2010

1984
We the Living
Schneier on Security
On Intelligence
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Anthem
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

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15 books

Read 2011

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Blink
Chaos: Making a New Science
Design Patterns in Ruby
Eloquent Ruby

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29 books

Read 2012

Masterminds of Programming
Breakthrough rapid reading
Steve Jobs
Animal Farm
Consider Phlebas
Ringworld
Snow Crash

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26 books

Read 2013

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
The Alchemist
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Great Gatsby
Digital Fortress
JavaScript: The Good Parts
JavaScript Patterns

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16 books

Read 2014

The Selfish Gene
The Annotated Turing
The Little Schemer
The Ruby Programming Language: Everything You Need to Know
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
Hackers
Ready Player One

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9 books

Read 2015

Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer
The Giver
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Stories of Your Life and Others
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

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19 books

Read 2016

Structures
ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever
Leviathan Wakes
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
When Breath Becomes Air
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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16 books

Read 2017

Artemis
Dark Matter
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
The Soul of a New Machine
For We Are Many
The Cuckoo's Egg

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24 books

Read 2018

A Random Walk Down Wall Street
A Fire Upon the Deep
The Collapsing Empire
Artificial Condition
Infinite
The Singularity Trap
Educated: A Memoir

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3 books

Read Twice

1984
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Ender's Game
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