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Leonardo da Vinci
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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4.20 avg rating — 31,992 ratings
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
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Seveneves
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
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Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
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Randall Munroe (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 12,182 ratings
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Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
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Allie Brosh (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 214,909 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
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The Art of War
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Life of Pi
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Steve Jobs
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4.15 avg rating — 1,343,555 ratings
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A Separate Peace
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The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 3,487,484 ratings
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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
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Lincoln in the Bardo
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
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Measure What Matters
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Turtles All the Way Down
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 633,554 ratings
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The Best We Could Do
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Matthew Desmond (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 111,703 ratings
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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
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The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
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Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 135,162 ratings
score: 87,
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Energy and Civilization: A History
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The Heart
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety
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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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When Breath Becomes Air
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String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age
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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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3.95 avg rating — 21,111 ratings
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
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The Power to Compete: An Economist and an Entrepreneur on Revitalizing Japan in the Global Economy
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3.54 avg rating — 419 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
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The Road to Character
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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Randall Munroe (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 193,207 ratings
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xkcd: volume 0
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Randall Munroe (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
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Being Nixon: A Man Divided
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Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open: Future buildings, vehicles, products and equipment - made efficiently and made with less new material
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4.07 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?
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3.65 avg rating — 114 ratings
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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 27,200 ratings
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
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How to Lie with Statistics
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Should We Eat Meat?: Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory
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Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.
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Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
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Business adventures
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How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region
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The Rosie Effect (Don Tillman, #2)
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Graeme Simsion (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 140,769 ratings
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The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
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Graeme Simsion (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 589,077 ratings
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Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization
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3.76 avg rating — 586 ratings
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 1
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4.62 avg rating — 1,769 ratings
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 2
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 3
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For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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Joshua Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 93,572 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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Think and Grow Rich
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The Grand Design
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