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41 books

Africa

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
I Didn't Do It for You : How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
The Scramble for Africa

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123 books

American History

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
John Adams
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Washington: A Life
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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39 books

Art

Leonardo da Vinci
John Lennon: The Life
In Montmartre
Can't Buy Me Love
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

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12 books

Artificial Intelligence

Cybernetics
On Intelligence
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
The Computer and the Brain

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81 books

Asia

Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Hun Sen’s Cambodia
China's Last Empire
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

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155 books

Biography

Henry Clay
Eisenhower: in War and Peace
Grant
On the Move: A Life
Chronicles: Volume One
Wishful Drinking
Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

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33 books

California

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Troublemakers
Pacific: The Ocean of the Future
Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay
The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream

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17 books

Canada

Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown
A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
Three Against The Wilderness
Headhunter
The Tenderness of Wolves
Indian Horse

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49 books

Economics

The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Economic Science Fictions
Who Owns the Future?
Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality

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22 books

Essays

Dear Ijeawele: A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Where I Was From
Can You Tolerate This?
The Argonauts
Bluets

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91 books

Europe

A Moveable Feast
The Judgment of Paris
Paris: The Secret History
Venice: A New History
Seven Ages Of Paris
History of Rome
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

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142 books

Fiction

Independent People
The Name of the Rose
Headhunter
Dracula
The Great Gatsby
Mrs Dalloway
A Farewell to Arms

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12 books

Food

The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
Uncommon Grounds
Salt: A World History

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10 books

Geology

Uranium
The Source
Annals of the Former World
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
The Life and Death of Planet Earth
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom

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16 books

Humor

Vacationland
Bossypants
Yes Please
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
America
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

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30 books

Indigenous

Trail Of Feathers: In Search of the Birdmen of Peru
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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4 books

Lgbtq

Sissy
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
The Song of Achilles

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9 books

Mexico

The life and times of Pancho Villa
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1493
The Diary of Frida Kahlo
Conquest
Oaxaca Journal
Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs

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13 books

Middle East

Couchsurfing in Iran: Revealing a Hidden World
The Kite Runner
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
A History of the Arab Peoples
Exit West
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

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0 books

Owned

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18 books

Paleontology

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Wonderful life
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
Ever Since Darwin
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

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43 books

Philosophy

On Revolution
Are Prisons Obsolete?
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
The Stranger
The Plague
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
The age of reason

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21 books

Physics

The First War of Physics
The Second Creation
Marie Curie
The Electric Life of Michael Faraday
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

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99 books

Politics

The secretary
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
On Revolution
Dark Money
Pathologies of Power

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9 books

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