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Exhalation

ByTed Chiang

2019 • 596 Readers • 350 pages • 4.2

Introduction to graph theory

Introduction to graph theory

ByRichard J. Trudeau

1994 • 4 Readers • 224 pages • 4

Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment

ByCory Doctorow

2019 • 56 Readers • 305 pages • 4.1

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The rise and fall of the British nation

The rise and fall of the British nation : a twentieth-century history

ByDavid Edgerton

2018 • 6 Readers • 720 pages

As I walked out one midsummer morning

#2 of 3 in The Autobiographical Trilogy

As I walked out one midsummer morning

ByLaurie Lee

1969 • 9 Readers • 204 pages • 4.2

Everything Is Illuminated

Everything Is Illuminated

ByJonathan Safran Foer

2002 • 194 Readers • 398 pages • 3.9

The White Man's Burden

The White Man's Burden

ByWilliam Easterly(著)

2006 • 8 Readers • 448 pages

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The Perfect Fool

The Perfect Fool

ByStewart Lee

2001 • 1 Reader • 282 pages • 2

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

ByHans Rosling,Ola Rosling,+1 more

2018 • 406 Readers • 342 pages • 4.4

Energy and Civilization: A History

Energy and Civilization: A History

ByVaclav Smil

2017 • 35 Readers • 568 pages • 3.5

A Gentleman in Moscow

A Gentleman in Moscow

ByAmor Towles

2016 • 620 Readers • 512 pages • 4.2

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

ByRutger Bregman

2014 • 120 Readers • 262 pages • 4

The Alchemist

ByPaulo Coelho,Alan R. Clarke(Translator)

1988 • 1,440 Readers • 208 pages • 3.5

The Left Hand of Darkness

#4 of 9 in Hainish Cycle

The Left Hand of Darkness

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1969 • 870 Readers • 267 pages • 4

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

ByJohn Carreyrou

2018 • 457 Readers • 339 pages • 4.4

Facing the Dragon

Facing the Dragon

ByRobert L. Moore

2003 • 2 Readers • 273 pages • 4

The Stranger

ByAlbert Camus,Matthew Ward(Translator)

1942 • 1,242 Readers • 134 pages • 3.9

Oryx and Crake

#1 of 3 in MaddAddam

ByMargaret Atwood

2002 • 472 Readers • 376 pages • 3.9

Millefiori

ByOmar Musa

1 Reader

Cat's Cradle

ByKurt Vonnegut

1963 • 759 Readers • 192 pages • 4.1

The Willows

ByAlgernon Blackwood

1907 • 78 Readers • 105 pages • 3.9

I Am Legend

ByRichard Matheson

1954 • 195 Readers • 161 pages • 4

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

ByShirley Jackson

1962 • 637 Readers • 146 pages • 4

Letters from a Stoic

Letters from a Stoic

BySeneca

64 • 190 Readers • 254 pages • 4.5

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

ByChristopher Ryan,Cacilda Jethá

2010 • 82 Readers • 400 pages • 3.9

Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design

Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design

ByRichard Bird

2010 • 5 Readers • 286 pages

The Wealth of Nations, Book 1/Manifesto of the Communist Party

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

ByFriedrich Engels,Karl Marx,+1 more

2008 • 67 Readers • 172 pages • 4.2

Milk and Honey

ByRupi Kaur

2014 • 355 Readers • 208 pages • 3.5

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

ByWilliam Finnegan

2015 • 77 Readers • 447 pages • 4.3

Why Motivating People Doesn't Work ... and What Does

Why Motivating People Doesn't Work ... and What Does

BySusan Fowler

1 Reader

The Gunslinger

#1 of 7 in The Dark Tower

ByStephen King

1976 • 1,119 Readers • 238 pages • 3.6

The Songs of Distant Earth

The Songs of Distant Earth

ByArthur C. Clarke

1986 • 43 Readers • 256 pages • 3.8

Severance

ByLing Ma

2018 • 335 Readers • 304 pages • 3.9

Battle Angel Alita

#1 of 9 in Battle Angel Alita / Gunnm

Battle Angel Alita

ByYukito Kishiro,Fred Burke(Translator),+2 more

1990 • 38 Readers • 248 pages • 4

Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

ByMartin Kleppmann

2015 • 112 Readers • 562 pages • 4.8

Be Here Now

ByRam Dass

1971 • 38 Readers • 116 pages • 4.5

The End of History and the Last Man

The End of History and the Last Man

ByFrancis Fukuyama

1992 • 31 Readers • 464 pages • 3

Release It!

ByMichael T. Nygard

2007 • 34 Readers • 326 pages • 4.7

Living with a SEAL

Living with a SEAL

ByJesse Itzler

2015 • 22 Readers • 256 pages • 4.2

The Conquest of Bread

The Conquest of Bread

ByPyotr Kropotkin

1892 • 63 Readers • 206 pages • 3.3

Neverwhere

#1 of 2 in London Below, The World of Neverwhere

ByNeil Gaiman(Narrator)

1996 • 1,036 Readers • 480 pages • 4.2

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Wildlife Wars

Wildlife Wars: The Life and Times of a Fish and Game Warden

ByTerry Grosz

1999

Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China

Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China

ByDeborah S. Davis(Editor),Sara L. Friedman(Editor)

2014 • 1 Reader • 340 pages

Rise of the Red Engineers

Rise of the red engineers

ByJoel Andreas

3 Readers

Sleeping Giants

#1 of 3 in Themis Files

Sleeping Giants

BySylvain Neuvel

2016 • 418 Readers • 304 pages • 3.8

The Science of Programming

The Science of Programming

ByDavid Gries

2012 • 1 Reader • 388 pages

A Discipline of Programming

A Discipline of Programming

ByEdsger W. Dijkstra

1976 • 217 pages

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Sirocco

BySabrina Ghayour

1 Reader

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The Modern Cook’s Year

The Modern Cook’s Year

ByAnna Jones

Smarter Investing

Smarter Investing

ByTim Hale

2006 • 3 Readers • 301 pages

The Swerve

ByStephen Greenblatt

2011 • 53 Readers • 356 pages • 3.6

Rock the Shack: The Architecture of Cabins, Cocoons and Hide-Outs

Rock the Shack: The Architecture of Cabins, Cocoons and Hide-Outs

BySven Ehmann(editor),Sofia Borges(Editor)

2013 • 1 Reader • 239 pages

Not Enough

BySamuel Moyn

2018 • 2 Readers • 296 pages

Managing Oneself

Managing Oneself

ByPeter F. Drucker

2008 • 32 Readers • 69 pages • 3.7

Eaters of the Dead

Eaters of the Dead

ByMichael Crichton

1976 • 75 Readers • 210 pages • 3.6

The Andromeda Strain

#1 of 3 in Andromeda

The Andromeda Strain

ByMichael Crichton

1969 • 328 Readers • 288 pages • 3.7

Deep Work

ByCal Newport

532 Readers • 4.1

So Good They Can't Ignore You

So Good They Can't Ignore You

ByCal Newport

2012 • 218 Readers • 288 pages • 4

Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories

Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories

ByF. William Lawvere,Stephen H. Schanuel

1997 • 1 Reader • 383 pages

The Tyranny of Metrics

The Tyranny of Metrics

ByJerry Z. Muller

2017 • 16 Readers • 240 pages • 4.7

The First Confessor

#0 of 15 in Sword of Truth

The First Confessor

ByTerry Goodkind

2012 • 32 Readers • 481 pages • 3.8

Art and Artist

ByOtto Rank

1932 • 7 Readers • 532 pages

The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of Myth

The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Exploration of Myth

ByOtto Rank

1909 • 4 Readers • 106 pages

Men Explain Things to Me

Men Explain Things to Me

ByRebecca Solnit

2014 • 145 Readers • 130 pages • 3.8

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness

BySy Montgomery

2015 • 98 Readers • 261 pages • 3.8

Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger

Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger

ByGregory Hill

1965 • 24 Readers • 100 pages • 4.4

The Denial of Death

The Denial of Death

ByErnest Becker

1973 • 99 Readers • 338 pages • 3.8

Ulrich Haarburste's Novel of Roy Orbison in Clingfilm

Ulrich Haarburste's Novel of Roy Orbison in Clingfilm

ByUlrich Haarbürste

2006 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

ByItalo Calvino,William Weaver(Translator)

1979 • 312 Readers • 260 pages • 4.1

With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

ByKathryn Mannix

2017 • 12 Readers • 342 pages • 4.3

Post Office

ByCharles Bukowski

1971 • 152 Readers • 204 pages • 3.7

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

ByCharles Bukowski

1974 • 9 Readers • 232 pages

Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

ByJake Adelstein

2009 • 39 Readers • 335 pages • 3.5

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

ByHenry Marsh

2014 • 34 Readers • 278 pages • 3.9

Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist

Ecology of the Planted Aquarium: A Practical Manual and Scientific Treatise for the Home Aquarist

ByDiana Walstad

1999 • 1 Reader

The Race between Education and Technology

The Race between Education and Technology

ByClaudia Goldin,Lawrence F. Katz

2010 • 3 Readers • 496 pages

The Book of Dust

#1 of 3 in The Book of Dust

La Belle Sauvage

ByPhilip Pullman

2018 • 274 Readers • 4

The Rise of the Meritocracy

The Rise of the Meritocracy

ByMichael Young

1958 • 5 Readers • 198 pages

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

#1 of 2 in Rules for Life

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

ByJordan B. Peterson

2018 • 339 Readers • 16 pages • 3.5

Thanks for the Feedback

Thanks for the Feedback

ByDouglas Stone,Sheila Heen

2014 • 51 Readers • 348 pages • 4.1

Embracing Defeat

Embracing Defeat

ByJohn W. Dower

1999 • 17 Readers • 676 pages • 3.7

Americanah

ByChimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2013 • 411 Readers • 608 pages • 4.3

Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero

Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero

ByCharles Sprawson

1992 • 2 Readers • 307 pages

A Philosophy of Walking

A Philosophy of Walking

ByFrédéric Gros,John Howe(Translator)

2009 • 18 Readers • 273 pages • 3

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

ByShaun Usher(Compiler)

2013 • 2 Readers • 384 pages

In Defense of Flogging

In Defense of Flogging

ByPeter Moskos

2011 • 1 Reader • 194 pages

The Brothers Karamazov

#1 of 4 in The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

ByFyodor Dostoevsky,David McDuff(Translator)

1879 • 787 Readers • 1,495 pages • 4.4

They Became What They Beheld

They Became What They Beheld

ByEdmund Carpenter

1970 • 1 Reader • 176 pages

Poems 1962-2012

Poems 1962-2012

ByLouise Glück

2012 • 8 Readers • 656 pages

Midlife

ByKieran Setiya

2017 • 4 Readers • 189 pages

The Gene

The Gene: An Intimate History

BySiddhartha Mukherjee

2016 • 228 Readers • 742 pages • 4.2

Nudge: The Final Edition

ByRichard H. Thaler,Cass R. Sunstein

2008 • 151 Readers • 229 pages • 3.7

Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong

Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong

ByNeil Monnery

2017 • 1 Reader • 320 pages

Man's Search for Meaning

Man's Search for Meaning

ByViktor E. Frankl

1946 • 870 Readers • 240 pages • 4.2

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Geometry of Meaning

Geometry of Meaning

ByArthur M. Young

1984 • 1 Reader

Prisoners of Geography

#1 of 5 in Politics of Place

Prisoners of Geography

ByTim Marshall

2015 • 179 Readers • 256 pages • 3.8

East of Eden

ByJohn Steinbeck

1952 • 824 Readers • 601 pages • 4.5

To Mock a Mockingbird

To Mock a Mockingbird

ByRaymond M. Smullyan

1985 • 4 Readers • 246 pages

The Satanic Verses

The Satanic Verses

BySalman Rushdie

1988 • 183 Readers • 568 pages • 3.7

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash

ByEka Kurniawan

2017 • 1 Reader • 160 pages • 3