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Last Updated: May 2023

2023 (10)

Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
Ian W. Toll
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
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Anansi Boys
Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman
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American Gods
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
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Liar's Poker
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
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American Nations
American Nations
Colin Woodard
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The Bomber Mafia
The Bomber Mafia
Malcolm Gladwell
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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
Fred Kaplan
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The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All
The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All
Mary Childs
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Snow Crash
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
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2022 (20)

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Annalee Newitz
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O'Neil
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What If? 2
What If? 2
Randall Munroe
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Chokepoint Capitalism
Chokepoint Capitalism
Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow
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The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
Tim Harford
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Responsible Javascript
Responsible Javascript
Jeremy Wagner
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The Night the Lights Went Out
The Night the Lights Went Out
Drew Magary
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Walkaway
Walkaway
Cory Doctorow
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Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns
Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns
Vladimir Khorikov
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Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
Albert Bourla
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The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)
Katie Mack
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Born a Crime
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
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Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
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The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century
The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century
Adam Davidson
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Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market
Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market
Scott Patterson
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It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness
It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness
Seth Wickersham
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The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl
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Nudge: The Final Edition
Nudge: The Final Edition
Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein
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The Apollo Murders
The Apollo Murders
Chris Hadfield
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Leviathan Falls
Leviathan Falls
James S. A. Corey
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2021 (9)

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
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The Buyout of America: How Private Equity is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American Economy
The Buyout of America: How Private Equity is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American Economy
Josh Kosman
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The Cult of We: Wework, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
The Cult of We: Wework, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
Eliot Brown & Maureen Farrell
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Think Again
Think Again
Adam Grant
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The Premonition
The Premonition
Michael Lewis
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Field of Schemes
Field of Schemes
Neil Demause & Joanna Cagan
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Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
Jacob Goldstein
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The MVP Machine
The MVP Machine
Ben Lindbergh & Travis Sawchik
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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Marcia Chatelain
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2020 (23)

The 99% Invisible City
The 99% Invisible City
Roman Mars & Kurt Kohlstedt
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The End is Always Near
The End is Always Near
Dan Carlin
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Head On
Head On
John Scalzi
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The Last Emperox
The Last Emperox
John Scalzi
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The Consuming Fire
The Consuming Fire
John Scalzi
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The Collapsing Empire
The Collapsing Empire
John Scalzi
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
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The Big Short
The Big Short
Michael Lewis
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The Outsider
The Outsider
Stephen King
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Open Borders
Open Borders
Bryan Caplan & Zach Weinersmith
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How To
How To
Randall Munroe
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The Fifth Risk
The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis
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Auberon
Auberon
James S.A. Corey
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The Soul of America
The Soul of America
Jon Meacham
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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Michael Lewis
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The Incomplete Book of Running
The Incomplete Book of Running
Peter Sagal
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Congo
Congo
Michael Crichton
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Sphere
Sphere
Michael Crichton
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Prey
Prey
Michael Crichton
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The Andromeda Strain
The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton
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Working Futures
Working Futures
Mike Masnick & Others
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Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
Sir Max Hastings
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2019 (6)

Midnight in Chernobyl
Midnight in Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham
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Tiamat's Wrath
Tiamat's Wrath
James S.A. Corey
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The Imagineers of War
The Imagineers of War
Sharon Weinberger
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The Forever War
The Forever War
Dexter Filkins
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Why Wall Street Matters
Why Wall Street Matters
William D. Cohan
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2018 (13)

2017 (13)

Soonish
Soonish
Kelly & Zach Weinersmith
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The Arm
The Arm
Jeff Passan
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Lock In
Lock In
John Scalzi
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Redshirts
Redshirts
John Scalzi
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The Trouble with Reality
The Trouble with Reality
Brooke Gladstone
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Babylon's Ashes
Babylon's Ashes
James S.A. Corey
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The Vital Abyss
The Vital Abyss
James S.A. Corey
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Nemesis Games
Nemesis Games
James S.A. Corey
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Cibola Burn
Cibola Burn
James S.A. Corey
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The Churn
The Churn
James S.A. Corey
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Abaddon's Gate
Abaddon's Gate
James S.A. Corey
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2016 (8)

Gods of Risk
Gods of Risk
James S.A. Corey
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Caliban's War
Caliban's War
James S.A. Corey
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Leviathan Wakes
Leviathan Wakes
James S.A. Corey
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The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work
Ben Lindbergh & Sam Miller
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Disillusioned
Disillusioned
Robert Kroese
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Distopia
Distopia
Robert Kroese
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The Martian
The Martian
Andy Weir
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2015 (4)

The Lost World
The Lost World
Michael Crichton
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Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
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2014 (28)

Pale Blue Dot
Pale Blue Dot
Carl Sagan
Starship Grifters
Starship Grifters
Robert Kroese
Think Like A Freak
Think Like A Freak
Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
Superfreakonomics
Superfreakonomics
Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
Freakonomics
Freakonomics
Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner
Because I Said So!
Because I Said So!
Ken Jennings
Zoo City
Zoo City
Lauren Beukes
Pebble in the Sky
Pebble in the Sky
Isaac Asimov
Robots and Empire
Robots and Empire
Isaac Asimov
I, Robot
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
Homeland
Homeland
Cory Doctorow
Little Brother
Little Brother
Cory Doctorow
Infernal Games
Infernal Games
Joseph Nassise
A Tear in the Sky
A Tear in the Sky
Joseph Nassise
A Scream of Angels
A Scream of Angels
Joseph Nassise
Cooked
Cooked
Michael Pollan
Mercury Revolts
Mercury Revolts
Robert Kroese
Schrodinger's Gat
Schrodinger's Gat
Robert Kroese
Disenchanted
Disenchanted
Robert Kroese
Mortality
Mortality
Christopher Hitchens
The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower
Stephen King
Song of Susannah
Song of Susannah
Stephen King

2013 (20)

The Waste Lands
The Waste Lands
Stephen King
Gunslinger
Gunslinger
Stephen King
Zoe's Tale
Zoe's Tale
John Scalzi
The Last Colony
The Last Colony
John Scalzi
Old Man's War
Old Man's War
John Scalzi
Just a Geek
Just a Geek
Wil Wheaton
Ready Player One
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Heretic
Heretic
Joseph Nassise
World War Z
World War Z
Max Brooks
Company Men
Company Men
Michael Kayatta
Missing Signals
Missing Signals
Michael Kayatta
John Gone
John Gone
Michael Kayatta
Lying
Lying
Sam Harris

2012 (24)

Bypass Gemini
Bypass Gemini
Joseph Lallo
Undersea
Undersea
Geoffrey Morrison
Mercury Rests
Mercury Rests
Robert Kroese
The Robots of Dawn
The Robots of Dawn
Isaac Asimov
The Naked Sun
The Naked Sun
Isaac Asimov
The Caves of Steel
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov
The Silmarillion
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
Lost Moon
Lost Moon
Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger
Farneheit 451
Farneheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Foundation's Edge
Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation
Second Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Foundation
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Dune
Dune
Frank Herbert
Drift
Drift
Rachel Maddow
A Dance with Dragons
A Dance with Dragons
George R.R. Martin
A Feast for Crows
A Feast for Crows
George R.R. Martin
A Storm of Swords
A Storm of Swords
George R.R. Martin
A Clash of Kings
A Clash of Kings
George R.R. Martin

2011 (15)