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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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Cosmos
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1984
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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A Brief History of Time
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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The Time Machine
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,216,195 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 570,272 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,823,167 ratings
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What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.19 avg rating — 30,382 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,142,520 ratings
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A Clockwork Orange
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,271,089 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 999,675 ratings
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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James Gleick (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 40,422 ratings
score: 549,
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The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 189,903 ratings
score: 528,
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 93,643 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 111,915 ratings
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The Lord of the Rings
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4.54 avg rating — 719,994 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 — 241,490 ratings
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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4.03 avg rating — 29,329 ratings
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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Lisa Kaltenegger (Goodreads Author)
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
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3.98 avg rating — 7,097 ratings
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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4.08 avg rating — 168,456 ratings
score: 381,
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 119,902 ratings
score: 370,
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,274,864 ratings
score: 362,
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The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
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4.15 avg rating — 1,604 ratings
score: 361,
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 331,924 ratings
score: 350,
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Dune (Dune #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,584,735 ratings
score: 349,
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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James Gleick (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 16,906 ratings
score: 334,
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The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War
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James Graham Wilson (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 110 ratings
score: 299,
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MindHub: Personality Profiler
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Snapshot Systems (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 296,
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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 — 4,661 ratings
score: 293,
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 31,979 ratings
score: 292,
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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Margalit Fox (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 3,657 ratings
score: 291,
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,599,539 ratings
score: 291,
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The Fractal Geometry of Nature
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4.23 avg rating — 1,277 ratings
score: 290,
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Ideas and Opinions
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4.12 avg rating — 3,302 ratings
score: 289,
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Dragonsong (Harper Hall, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 58,376 ratings
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,179 ratings
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
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3.88 avg rating — 346,815 ratings
score: 278,
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 861,445 ratings
score: 277,
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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3.85 avg rating — 220,202 ratings
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
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4.15 avg rating — 24,030 ratings
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,426,546 ratings
score: 270,
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 299,178 ratings
score: 266,
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,455,792 ratings
score: 266,
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The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
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4.15 avg rating — 454,738 ratings
score: 260,
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,746,502 ratings
score: 259,
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Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
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4.02 avg rating — 2,312 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.56 avg rating — 606,078 ratings
score: 256,
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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4.14 avg rating — 379,092 ratings
score: 255,
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
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Richard P. Feynman (Contibutor)
4.27 avg rating — 214,465 ratings
score: 254,
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Siddhartha
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4.08 avg rating — 854,246 ratings
score: 250,
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 374,334 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,669,111 ratings
score: 236,
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The Neverending Story
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4.18 avg rating — 217,270 ratings
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Darwinia
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3.38 avg rating — 4,171 ratings
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Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic
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3.89 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time
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4.07 avg rating — 2,120 ratings
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Connections
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4.25 avg rating — 2,481 ratings
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Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)
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Patricia C. Wrede (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 93,749 ratings
score: 192,
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The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
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4.18 avg rating — 1,913 ratings
score: 192,
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Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 49,579 ratings
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
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4.06 avg rating — 34,000 ratings
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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4.20 avg rating — 11,646 ratings
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The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
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4.11 avg rating — 1,482 ratings
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The Idiot
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4.21 avg rating — 210,113 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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Les Miserables (Classics Illustrated #9)
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Rolland H. Livingstone (Adapter)
4.28 avg rating — 5,053 ratings
score: 164,
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The Call of the Wild
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3.91 avg rating — 463,692 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Cleopatra: A Life
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Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 121,943 ratings
score: 159,
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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
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4.08 avg rating — 15,389 ratings
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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
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The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
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4.09 avg rating — 2,748 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 — 34,317 ratings
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.26 avg rating — 100,272 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Steven Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 55,450 ratings
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 26,285 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
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3.87 avg rating — 30,403 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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3.97 avg rating — 73,023 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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4.05 avg rating — 43,444 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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3.87 avg rating — 34,661 ratings
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Rainbows End
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Spin (Spin, #1)
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Eisenhower in War and Peace
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The Windup Girl
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 77,554 ratings
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Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment
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Glasshouse
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Charles Stross (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 11,584 ratings
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Anthem
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Among the Hidden (Shadow Children, #1)
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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Jon Gertner (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 8,604 ratings
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
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The Chronicles of Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1-5)
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
