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Cryptonomicon
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 116,207 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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Catch-22
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1984
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Animal Farm
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 43,108 ratings
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The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2)
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 25,094 ratings
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Blindsight
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Peter Watts (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 52,099 ratings
score: 197,
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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Christopher Ryan (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 31,469 ratings
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За писането: Мемоари на занаята
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 313,125 ratings
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Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 295,170 ratings
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
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Foucault’s Pendulum
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3.91 avg rating — 74,179 ratings
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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
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3.96 avg rating — 27,115 ratings
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Underground: Tales of hacking, madness, and obsession on the electronic frontier
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4.17 avg rating — 642 ratings
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
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3.88 avg rating — 929 ratings
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Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
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4.25 avg rating — 36,741 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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4.01 avg rating — 890,155 ratings
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In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 8,078 ratings
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Anathem
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 74,951 ratings
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The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, #3)
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 22,885 ratings
score: 155,
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The More Than Complete Hitchhikers Guide (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1-4 + short story)
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4.58 avg rating — 3,746 ratings
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Shooting an Elephant
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Take Back Your Government
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3.66 avg rating — 405 ratings
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The Night Shift
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Strong Medicine
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3.95 avg rating — 5,671 ratings
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The Invisible Gorilla and Other Ways Our Intuition Deceives Us
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3.91 avg rating — 14,853 ratings
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Дзен и изкуството да се поддържа мотоциклет
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3.78 avg rating — 243,004 ratings
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Правопис и пунктуация на българския език - основни правила
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4.57 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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3.95 avg rating — 156,304 ratings
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Промиване на мозъци - психологията на тоталитаризма
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4.15 avg rating — 310 ratings
score: 92,
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Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine (Danny Dunn, #3)
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3.91 avg rating — 502 ratings
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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
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4.12 avg rating — 3,623 ratings
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The Cartoon Guide to the Computer
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3.81 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Thinking about Cybersecurity: From Cyber Crime to Cyber Warfare
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3.76 avg rating — 246 ratings
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Черният лебед: Въздействието на слабо вероятното в живота и на пазара
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 120,242 ratings
score: 89,
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Brave New World
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3.99 avg rating — 2,039,585 ratings
score: 84,
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Barefoot Into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia
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3.71 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
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Katie Hafner (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 4,876 ratings
score: 78,
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 93,912 ratings
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
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4.12 avg rating — 20,749 ratings
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The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
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Alexandra Robbins (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 4,696 ratings
score: 74,
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Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
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4.28 avg rating — 51,935 ratings
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Thirty-One Hours: The Grindstone Experiment
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Rule 34
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Charles Stross (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 8,453 ratings
score: 70,
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Halting State (Halting State, #1)
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Charles Stross (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 12,376 ratings
score: 69,
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The Organization Man
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3.79 avg rating — 358 ratings
score: 68,
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Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
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Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 52,879 ratings
score: 67,
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Infidel
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4.20 avg rating — 92,255 ratings
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Надхитрени от случайността: Скритата роля на случайността в живота и на пазара
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 70,343 ratings
score: 63,
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 92,683 ratings
score: 60,
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V for Vendetta
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Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 322,409 ratings
score: 56,
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Как се пише дипломна работа
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3.93 avg rating — 4,525 ratings
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Solaris
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3.99 avg rating — 126,749 ratings
score: 53,
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The First Circle
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4.26 avg rating — 10,100 ratings
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