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Man's Search for Meaning
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,366,516 ratings
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The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
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Jeff Goodell (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 4,975 ratings
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The Underground Railroad
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 439,024 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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Liu Cixin (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 475,858 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 794,973 ratings
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1984
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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It's Kind of a Funny Story
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Sourdough
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Robin Sloan (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 61,674 ratings
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 119,941 ratings
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The Small Big: Small Changes That Spark Big Influence
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A Brief History of Time
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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The World Without Us
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Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings
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Hallucinations
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The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
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Daniel James Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 356,780 ratings
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Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto
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4.36 avg rating — 2,494 ratings
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Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle
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Douglas J. Emlen (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 659 ratings
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
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Bill Schutt (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 7,017 ratings
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Norse Mythology
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 340,523 ratings
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The Thing About Jellyfish
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Homegoing
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Yaa Gyasi (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 394,175 ratings
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On Immunity: An Inoculation
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3.94 avg rating — 11,784 ratings
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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Brian Christian (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 34,475 ratings
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The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth's Newest Age
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3.46 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Ulysses
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Asteroid Hunters (TED Books)
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4.05 avg rating — 265 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
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4.22 avg rating — 252,767 ratings
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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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4.21 avg rating — 374,226 ratings
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The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
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Brian Christian (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 4,671 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.05 avg rating — 242,806 ratings
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The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
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4.04 avg rating — 4,486 ratings
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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3.94 avg rating — 58,514 ratings
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Laughter in the Dark
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4.01 avg rating — 21,113 ratings
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A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,271,043 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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4.06 avg rating — 236,964 ratings
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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
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4.32 avg rating — 29,067 ratings
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 202,935 ratings
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