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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

The Demon-haunted World

ByCarl Sagan

1996 • 340 Readers • 457 pages • 4.3

The Spine of the Continent

The Spine of the Continent

ByMary Ellen Hannibal

2012 • 1 Reader • 288 pages

The Heart Broke In

The Heart Broke In

ByJames Meek

2012 • 2 Readers • 560 pages

Coding Freedom

ByGabriella Coleman

2012 • 3 Readers • 272 pages

The Last Unicorn

1 The Last Unicorn

The Last Unicorn

ByPeter S. Beagle

1968 • 382 Readers • 3.9

States of denial : knowing about atrocities and suffering

States of denial : knowing about atrocities and suffering

ByStanley Cohen

2001 • 3 Readers • 360 pages

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

ByNate Silver

2012 • 223 Readers • 545 pages • 4

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

ByCordelia Fine

2005 • 95 Readers • 338 pages • 4.5

Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries

Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries

ByJon Ronson

2012 • 41 Readers • 400 pages • 4

Among Others

ByJo Walton

2011 • 186 Readers • 304 pages • 3.9

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How to Think Seriously about the Planet

How to Think Seriously about the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism

ByRoger Scruton

2011 • 2 Readers • 464 pages

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

#1 of 1 in Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

ByRobin Sloan

2012 • 574 Readers • 257 pages • 3.7

From the closet to the altar

From the closet to the altar

ByMichael J. Klarman

2012 • 1 Reader

Infinitely Demanding

Infinitely Demanding

BySimon Critchley

2007 • 3 Readers • 168 pages • 5

Can't stop won't stop

Can't Stop Won't Stop

ByJeff Chang

2005 • 22 Readers • 561 pages • 5

Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

ByJim Holt

2011 • 18 Readers • 279 pages • 3.3

Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream

Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream

ByNeil Young

2012 • 18 Readers • 514 pages • 3.8

Becoming Odyssa

Becoming Odyssa

ByJennifer Pharr Davis

2010 • 4 Readers • 304 pages

Dublinesque

ByEnrique Vila-Matas

2012 • 5 Readers • 311 pages • 3

The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person

The Book of Job: When Bad Things Happened to a Good Person

ByHarold S. Kushner

2012 • 2 Readers • 202 pages

ByZadie Smith

2012 • 95 Readers • 338 pages • 3.6

Pale Fire

ByVladimir Nabokov

1945 • 333 Readers • 282 pages • 4.3

Every Love Story is a Ghost Story

Every Love Story is a Ghost Story

ByDaniel T. Max

2012 • 11 Readers • 370 pages • 3.8

The 4-Hour Body

The 4-Hour Body

ByTimothy Ferriss

2000 • 109 Readers • 625 pages • 3.4

The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow

The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow

ByOpal Whiteley

1976 • 1 Reader • 384 pages

The Betrayal of the American Dream

The Betrayal of the American Dream

ByDonald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

2012 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

Logicomix

ByApostolos Doxiadis,Christos H. Papadimitriou,+1 more

2009 • 104 Readers • 352 pages • 3.9

Why Calories Count

Why calories count

ByMarion Nestle,Malden Nesheim

2012 • 2 Readers • 304 pages

Double Cross

Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies

ByBen Macintyre

2012 • 18 Readers • 399 pages • 3.8

Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved

The University Center for Human Values Series

Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved

ByFrans de Waal

2006 • 4 Readers • 230 pages

Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine

ByYang Jisheng,Stacy Mosher(Translator),+1 more

2008 • 14 Readers • 656 pages

11/22/63

ByStephen King

11 • 1,299 Readers • 849 pages • 4.4

Seating Arrangements

Seating Arrangements

ByMaggie Shipstead

2012 • 21 Readers • 432 pages • 3

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art

ByDon Thompson

2008 • 11 Readers • 272 pages • 2.3

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

ByBarack Obama

1995 • 160 Readers • 461 pages • 4

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

ByJonathan Haidt

2012 • 348 Readers • 500 pages • 4.3

Overdressed

ByElizabeth L. Cline

2012 • 27 Readers • 244 pages • 3.4

A Hologram for the King

A Hologram for the King

ByDave Eggers

2012 • 36 Readers • 312 pages • 3.2

Buddhism in the Modern World

Buddhism in the Modern World

ByDavid L. McMahan(Contributor)

2012 • 1 Reader • 353 pages

Oblivion: Stories

Oblivion: Stories

ByDavid Foster Wallace

2004 • 50 Readers • 329 pages • 3.8

Ubik

ByPhilip K. Dick

1969 • 504 Readers • 241 pages • 4

Zoobiquity

ByKathryn Bowers,Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

2012 • 8 Readers • 416 pages • 4

How should a person be?

How Should a Person Be?

BySheila Heti

2012 • 53 Readers • 290 pages • 3.2

The Martian Chronicles

The Martian Chronicles

ByRay Bradbury

20 • 782 Readers • 182 pages • 4

Spin

#1 of 3 in Spin

ByRobert Charles Wilson

2005 • 292 Readers • 368 pages • 4

The Language Wars

The Language Wars

ByHenry Hitchings

2011 • 2 Readers • 408 pages

It's Even Worse Than It Looks

It's Even Worse Than It Looks

ByThomas E. Mann

2012 • 12 Readers • 247 pages • 3.7

The Vanishers

ByHeidi Julavits

2015 • 13 Readers • 304 pages • 3.3

Ecotopia

ByErnest Callenbach

1975 • 34 Readers • 181 pages • 4.1

Search Inside Yourself

Search Inside Yourself

ByChade-Meng Tan

2012 • 18 Readers • 288 pages • 4

An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies

An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies

ByTyler Cowen

2012 • 13 Readers • 304 pages • 3.3

Drift

ByRachel Maddow

2012 • 30 Readers • 288 pages • 4.2

Soldier Dogs: The Untold Story of America's Canine Heroes

Soldier Dogs: The Untold Story of America's Canine Heroes

ByMaria Goodavage

2012 • 2 Readers • 304 pages

Animal Liberation

Animal Liberation

ByPeter Singer

1975 • 59 Readers • 336 pages • 4

The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir

The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir

ByClaude Lanzmann

2009 • 3 Readers • 544 pages

House of stone

ByAnthony Shadid

2012 • 1 Reader

Imagine

ByJonah Lehrer

2012 • 37 Readers • 279 pages • 3.5

Religion for Atheists

Religion for Atheists

ByAlain de Botton

2011 • 32 Readers • 248 pages • 3.5

Venusberg

ByAnthony Powell

1932 • 2 Readers • 253 pages

Flagrant Conduct : The Story of Lawrence v. Texas

Flagrant Conduct : The Story of Lawrence v. Texas

ByDale Carpenter

2012 • 4 Readers • 345 pages • 4

Ingratitude

Byerin Khuê Ninh

2011 • 1 Reader • 224 pages

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

ByAldous Huxley

1939 • 8 Readers • 368 pages • 4

The power of habit why we do what we do and how to change it

The power of habit why we do what we do and how to change it

ByCharles Duhigg

2012 • 750 Readers • 402 pages • 4

Space Chronicles

Space Chronicles

ByNeil deGrasse Tyson

2012 • 11 Readers • 364 pages • 2.7

Apricot Jam, and Other Stories

Apricot Jam, and Other Stories

ByAleksandr Solzhenitsyn

2011 • 1 Reader

The Benefit and The Burden

The Benefit and The Burden

ByBruce Bartlett

2012 • 2 Readers • 288 pages

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

ByLawrence M. Krauss

2012 • 73 Readers • 226 pages • 3.9

Legally Poisoned

Legally Poisoned

ByCarl F. Cranor

2011 • 1 Reader • 315 pages

Killing the Messenger

Killing the Messenger

ByThomas Peele

2012 • 1 Reader • 464 pages

The End of Illness

The End of Illness

ByDavid B. Agus

2011 • 7 Readers • 335 pages • 5

How to Be Black

How to Be Black

ByBaratunde R. Thurston

2012 • 29 Readers • 336 pages • 3.6

Guitar Zero

ByGary F. Marcus

2012 • 4 Readers • 4

Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why

Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why

ByFrank R. Baumgartner,Jeffrey M. Berry,+3 more

2009 • 1 Reader • 360 pages

The Sounding of the Whale

The Sounding of the Whale

ByD. Graham Burnett

2012 • 3 Readers • 793 pages

Mushroom

ByNicholas P. Money

2011 • 2 Readers • 224 pages

A Moment in the Sun

A Moment in the Sun

ByJohn Sayles

8 Readers • 5

Distrust that Particular Flavor

Distrust that Particular Flavor

ByWilliam Gibson

2012 • 27 Readers • 258 pages • 3.9

Pulphead

ByJohn Jeremiah Sullivan

2011 • 36 Readers • 365 pages • 4.1

The Dream of Perpetual Motion

The Dream of Perpetual Motion

ByDexter Palmer

2010 • 14 Readers • 352 pages • 4

Zero History

#3 of 3 in Blue Ant

ByWilliam Gibson

2010 • 92 Readers • 479 pages • 3.9

Into the Silence

Into the Silence

ByWade Davis

2011 • 9 Readers • 672 pages

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

ByDaniel Kahneman

2011 • 1,201 Readers • 499 pages • 4.1

Time Travel and Warp Drives

Time Travel and Warp Drives

ByAllen Everett,Thomas Roman

2012 • 2 Readers • 282 pages

A Storm of Swords

#3 of 7 in A Song of Ice and Fire

A Storm Of Swords

ByGeorge R.R. Martin

2000 • 1,505 Readers • 992 pages • 4.5

Constitution 3.0

Constitution 3.0

ByJeffrey Rosen(Editor),Benjamin Wittes(Editor)

2011 • 1 Reader • 271 pages

Death Comes to Pemberley

Death Comes to Pemberley

ByP.D. James

2011 • 80 Readers • 291 pages • 2.8

An Edible History of Humanity

An Edible History of Humanity

ByTom Standage

2009 • 14 Readers • 288 pages • 3

Peaceful Revolution

Peaceful Revolution

ByMaxwell Bloomfield

2000 • 1 Reader • 224 pages

Liar's Poker

#1 of 2 in Liar's Poker

ByMichael Lewis

2010 • 140 Readers • 256 pages • 4

How the Dog Became the Dog: From Wolves to Our Best Friends

How the Dog Became the Dog: From Wolves to Our Best Friends

ByMark Derr

2011 • 2 Readers • 288 pages

Food justice

ByGottlieb, Robert

2013 • 1 Reader • 321 pages

The Price Of Civilization

The Price Of Civilization

ByJeffrey D. Sachs

2010 • 5 Readers • 324 pages • 4.5

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

ByMindy Kaling

2011 • 275 Readers • 222 pages • 3.7

A Tolerable Anarchy

A Tolerable Anarchy

ByJedediah Purdy

2010 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

The Mere Future

The Mere Future

BySarah Schulman

2009 • 1 Reader • 184 pages

The God Delusion

The God Delusion

ByRichard Dawkins

2006 • 453 Readers • 463 pages • 3.9

The Ecology of Commerce

The Ecology of Commerce

ByPaul Hawken

1993 • 4 Readers • 272 pages

Republic, Lost

ByLawrence Lessig

2011 • 11 Readers • 400 pages

The Intuitionist

The Intuitionist

ByColson Whitehead

1999 • 78 Readers • 273 pages • 3.2

Biophilia

ByEdward O. Wilson

1984 • 1 Reader • 176 pages