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Steven Rongley

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4 books

Science Linguistics

Language of the Third Reich
The World's Writing Systems
The Rise and Fall of Languages
When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

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58 books

Science Medicine

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Called for Life: How Loving Our Neighbor Led Us into the Heart of the Ebola Epidemic
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
The Anatomy of Melancholy
When Breath Becomes Air

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1 book

Science Medicine Emergency

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8 books

Science Medicine Public Health

The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It
Phantom Plague
Anti-Vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement
Private Guns, Public Health
Smallpox
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future

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6 books

Science Medicine Surgery

When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
All That Moves Us
The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

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4 books

Science Physics

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat

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16 books

Science Psych

Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal About Our Uniquely Mathematical Minds
I Don't Want to Talk About It
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Tribe
Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

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17 books

Science Sociology

Nonverts: The Making of Ex-Christian America
Less Than Human
When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World
Stranger at the Gate : To be Gay and Christian in America

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1,563 books

Scifi

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
2001: A Space Odyssey
Jurassic Park
Stranger in a Strange Land
Contact
Speaker for the Dead
The Andromeda Strain

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10 books

Scifi Alt History

The Man in the High Castle
Aztec Century
Ack-Ack Macaque
Homunculus
Osama
The Guns of the South

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12 books

Scifi Dystopia

Animal Farm
Divergent
1984
V for Vendetta
Feed
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire

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19 books

Scifi Star Wars

Star Wars: Darth Vader - Dark Lord of the Sith, Vol. 2: Legacy's End
Star Wars: Darth Vader, Vol. 4: End of Games
Star Wars: Darth Vader, Vol. 3: The Shu-Torun War
Star Wars: Darth Vader, Vol. 2: Into the Fire
Red Harvest
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection: Legacy

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4 books

Scifi Supers

The Boys Vol. 1: The Name of the Game
All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
Tales From The Umbrella Academy: You Look Like Death
Batman: The Killing Joke

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2 books

Scifi Time

Replay
This Is How You Lose the Time War

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5 books

Scifi Zombies

Red Harvest
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
I Am Legend
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

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97 books

Self Help

How to Win Friends and Influence People
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
Thinking strategically: competitive edge in business, politics and everyday life
The talent code
Eat That Frog!
The Noticer

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15 books

Sexuality

Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973
The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Obscene Obsession
Sexual Minorities and Politics: An Introduction
Eroticism
Corydon

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157 books

Short Stories

A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
Tutte le Cosmicomiche
The Last Wish
Tin Man
The Cyberiad

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162 books

Sooner Tbr

Jerusalem Delivered
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality
The Golden Age
Ribofunk
The Probability Broach
Anatomy of Criticism

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2 books

Sports

Moneyball
The Art of Fielding

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5 books

Spy Or Spy Adjacent

Ark Angel
Enemy of the State
Executive Orders
The Bear and the Dragon
Eagle Strike

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8 books

Textbook

Organic Chemistry
Prescott's Microbiology
Principles of Instrumental Analysis
Concepts of Genetics
Quantitative Chemical Analysis
Developmental Biology

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72 books

Thriller

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Gone Girl
The Shining
Carrie
H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Hellboy, Vol. 8: Darkness Calls

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6 books

Travel

A Sentimental Journey
Italian Journey
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
The frigate Pallada
The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations
Space in Motion

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18 books

Ttrpg

The Monsters Know What They're Doing
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons