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Steven Rongley

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91 books

Horror

My Heart Is a Chainsaw
The Cabin at the End of the World
Bag of Bones
Desperation
Fires of Eden
The Golden
Children of the Night

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4 books

Humanitarian

More than good intentions
Solomon's Knot: How Law Can End the Poverty of Nations
The White Man's Burden
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World

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14 books

Humor

The Princess Bride
Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic: The Graphic Novel
Gone Whalin'
The Pole Vault Championship of the Entire Universe
How To Talk To Your Cat About Gun Safety

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20 books

Insanely Good Titles

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Macroscope
A Choice Of Gods
Shadrach in the Furnace
The Psychology of Time Travel

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39 books

Justice

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work
Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System
Simple Justice
People to Be Loved: Why Homosexuality Is Not Just an Issue
In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World

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21 books

Justice Race

The White Racial Frame
Women, Race & Class
Worldview Theory, Whiteness, and the Future of Evangelical Faith
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
Reparations
The Myth of Colorblind Christians: Evangelicals and White Supremacy in the Civil Rights Era

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50 books

Law

Order without Law
The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
Law, Liberty, and Morality
The Enforcement of Morals
The Rule of Law

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46 books

Leadership

The Book of the Courtier
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
In the Shadow of Greatness: Voices of Leadership, Sacrifice, and Service of the Naval Academy Class of 2002
Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer
The Way of the SEAL
Power and Influence

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63 books

Literary Criticism

An Apology for Poetry: Or The Defence of Poesy
The Sense of an Ending
The Norton Anthology of English Literature
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
Classics: Why It Matters
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

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31 books

Literary Meta

Inkheart
The Norton Anthology of English Literature
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
An Experiment in Criticism
Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life
Writing Great Fiction: Storytelling Tips and Techniques

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1,206 books

Literature

Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Clockwork Orange
The Invisible Man
Atlas Shrugged
A Princess of Mars

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1 book

Literature Africa

Things Fall Apart

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7 books

Literature America

The Red Badge of Courage: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism
Of Mice and Men
A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Color Purple
Mason & Dixon
Vineland

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2 books

Literature Ancient

The Iliad
Beowulf

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34 books

Literature Europe

Swann's Way
Les Misérables
The Count of Monte Cristo
Kristin Lavransdatter
A Glastonbury Romance
Ulysses
The Name of the Rose

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5 books

Literature German

Slow Homecoming
Stiller
Man in the Holocene
The Flounder
The Visit

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6 books

Literature Japan

Silence
Pachinko
A Pale View of Hills
An Artist of the Floating World
Fires on the Plain

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2 books

Marriage

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

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1 book

Martial Arts

The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe

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12 books

Mathematics

Infinite Powers
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
How to Lie with Statistics
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel's Proof
Moneyball

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172 books

Military

The Red Badge of Courage: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
Warfighting

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6 books

Military Fiction

A Time to Love and a Time to Die
The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War
Das Boot
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War

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41 books

Mystery

The Name of the Rose
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
And Then There Were None
A Time to Kill
The Club Dumas
The Silent Patient
The Sign of Four

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4 books

Mythology

The epic of the kings
Sundiata
Mahabharata
The Mabinogion

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10 books

Nonfiction Gladwellian

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Outliers: The Story of Success
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The Future Is Faster Than You Think
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
Blink
Thinking, Fast and Slow