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jsomers.net/blog |
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deskotron |
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The Bad Version |
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Ginzametrics blog |
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Pivotal Labs blog |
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Genius |
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Neuromancer |
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Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters |
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Seymour: An Introduction |
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Narcissus and Goldmund |
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What is Thought? (2) |
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My Belief: Essays on Life and Art |
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Naomi |
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The U.S. Const**ution |
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Demian |
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The Mind's I |
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Permutation City |
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Swingers (screenplay) |
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The Autobiography of Yukichi f***uzawa |
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The Good Soldier: A Tale of Pa***ion |
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The Iliad |
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Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Language Will, and Political Power |
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I Am a Strange Loop |
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The Waste Land |
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track |
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The God Delusion |
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Zhuangzi |
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The Elements of Style |
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The Selfish Gene |
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Lost in the Funhouse |
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Three Lives |
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Siddhartha |
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Through the Looking Gla*** |
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The Analects |
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To the Lighthouse |
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The Animal Mind |
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Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence |
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Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity |
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Narrative Thought and Narrative Language |
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Life: What a Concept! |
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Evariste Galois |
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The Art of War |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity |
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Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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Comeuppance: Costly Altruistic Signaling Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction |
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Franny and Zooey (2) |
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Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment |
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Cat's Cradle |
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Welcome to the Monkey House |
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Metamagical Themas |
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid |
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Industrial Society and Its Future |
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Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction |
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Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity |
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Emergence: From Chaos To Order |
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A Mathematician's Apology |
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A People's History of the United States |
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The Big Lebowski: The Making of a Coen Brothers Film |
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
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Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe |
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men |
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Breaking The Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon |
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Dialogues with Children |
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Remarks on Color |
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Tao Te Ching |
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The Diamond Age |
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Hamlet |
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The Visual Display of Quant**ative Information |
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science |
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Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind |
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Dubliners |
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Autobiography of Malcolm X |
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Nine Stories |
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out |
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1000 Most Important Words |
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The Hedgehog and the Fox |
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Ulysses |
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Ithaca |
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Writing in Unreaderly Times |
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Zingerman's Guide to Giving Great Service |
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On Bulls**** |
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I Want to Be a Mathematician |
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature |
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Snow Crash |
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Godel's Proof |
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Godel, Escher, Bach |
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Winesburg, Ohio |
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The Equation that Couldn't Be Solved |
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The v****** Monologues |
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Anathem |
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Harry Potter |
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A Man Without a Country |
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Systemantics |
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The Dip |
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Fear and Trembling |
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Mythologies |
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The Stranger |
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Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams |
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Proof |
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Coders at Work |
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Unaccustomed Earth |
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Six Easy Pieces |
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Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons and Teachings from a Lifetime in Golf |
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Lolita |
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How Fiction Works |
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This Craft of Verse |
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Envisioning Information |
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The Nine |
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Girl With Curious Hair |
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The Best of Isaac Asimov |
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The Art and Craft of Judging: the Decisions of Judge Learned Hand |
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Junk Mail |
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Tinkers |
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! |
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The Human Stain |
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Gang Leader for a Day |
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Story of My Life |
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The Road |
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Wise Choices, Apt Feelings: A Theory of Normative Judgement |
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Zen Flesh, Zen Bones |
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Inside "Jeopardy!": What Really Goes on at TV's Top Quiz Show |
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The Chomsky-Foucault Debate on Human Nature |
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A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form |
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Look at the Birdie |
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The Catcher in the Rye |
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Dune |
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Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) |
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The Little Schemer |
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Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem |
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Armageddon in Retrospect |
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Communication With Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI), Proceedings of a conference held at the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Yerevan, USSR, 5-11 September 1971 |
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth |
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Honeybee Democracy |
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The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms |
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Cryptonomicon |
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For a Breath I Tarry |
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How Animals Work |
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How the Mind Works |
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And Then We Came to the End |
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Palindromes and Anagrams |
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Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Langauge |
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Yours Ever: People and Their Letters |
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Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre |
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Protagoras |
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One Two Three... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science |
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The s*****tape Letters |
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The Martian Chronicles |
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Star Maker |
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor |
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Mere Christianity |
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C. S. Lewis's Lost Aeneid |
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The John McPhee Reader |
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Let the Great World Spin |
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Maximum City |
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Field Notes on Science and Nature |
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Zodiac |
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The Best American Essays (2010) |
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The Quest for Artificial Intelligence: A History of Ideas and Achievements |
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Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: The Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought |
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Beatrice and Virgil |
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Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life |
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REAMDE |
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Spa**** Distributed Memory |
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Q.E.D: Beauty in Mathematical Proof |
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation |
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry |
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The Rules: Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right |
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Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the j***anese Psyche |
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My First Summer in the Sierra |
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The Lady in the Looking-Gla*** |
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The Way of Man: According to the Teaching of Hasidism |
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul |
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Final Approach: The Crash of Eastern 212 |
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The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups |
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The Gra***hopper: Games, Life and Utopia |
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Cloud Atlas |
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore |
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The Corrections |
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How to Win Friends and Influence People |
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The Imperfectionists |
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Both Flesh and Not: Essays |
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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe |
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The Giver |
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Tenth of December |
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The Novel |
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How to Be Alone |
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Child of God |
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Hiros***ma |
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking |
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Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do |
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Mortality |
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Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America |
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The Kite Runner |
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love |
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On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines |
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Aloft: Thoughts on the Experience of Flight |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
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In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives |
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The Mezzanine |
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The Logia of Yeshua |
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Conversations with David Foster Wallace |
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No One Else Can Have You |
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The Phantom Tollbooth |
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets |
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The Journalist and the Murderer |
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Infinite Jest |
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Oryx and Crake |
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Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Review |
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My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind |
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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood |
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The Design of Everyday Things |
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Vox |
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Coming into the Country |
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Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present |
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The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia |
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers |
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Libra |
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The Lifespan of a Fact |
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot |
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Total Recall |
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance |
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The Sense of Style |
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Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty |
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Bonfire of the Vanities |
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Metaphors We Live By |
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The Fermata |
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The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher |
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The Old Man and the Sea |
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The Fire Next Time |
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The Sun Also Rises |
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King Lear |
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Another Country |
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Seveneves |
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Into Thin Air |
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The Martian |
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Moby-d**** |
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The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed |
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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal |
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The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. |
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Station Eleven |
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The Big Short |
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The Ghost Writer |
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An Anthropologist on Mars |
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Changing Places |
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The Andromeda Strain |
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The Beautiful and d****ed |
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The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work |
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Ubik |
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Contact |
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A Confederacy of Dunces |
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Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis |
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The Stand |
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Pale Fire |
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Oranges |
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The Handmaid's Tale |
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The Guns of August |
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All the President's Men |
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The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses |
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Sourdough |
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Once a Runner |
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On Beauty |
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The Control of Nature |
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Childhood's End |
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The Machinery of Life |
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The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal |
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA |
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Uncommon Carriers |
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I, Claudius |
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s*** and the City |
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Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a 19th-century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry |
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My Brilliant Friend |
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11/22/63 |
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Sing, Unburied, Sing |
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Jura***ic Park |
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The White Darkness |
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The Soul of a New Machine |
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Don Quixote |
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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process |
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The Waves |
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The Course of Love |
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The Avalanche Hunters |
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Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style |
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Shogun |
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The Three-Body Problem |
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The Man Who Knew Infinity |
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The Dark Forest |
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Death's End |
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Medicine Walk |
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The Sense of an Ending |
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Night Boat to Tangier |
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A Computer Scientist's Guide to Cell Biology |