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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
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Becoming
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Girl, Interrupted
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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Cosmos
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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More Than Love, A Husband's Tale
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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You're Never Weird on the Internet
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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Elizabeth Kolbert (Goodreads Author)
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The Feminine Mystique
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Alexander Hamilton
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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The Tao of Pooh
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The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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Brown Girl Dreaming
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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Cleopatra: A Life
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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
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The Design of Everyday Things
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
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Escape
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How We Decide
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Jonah Lehrer (Goodreads Author)
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Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
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Douglas Preston (Goodreads Author)
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Running with Scissors
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Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
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The Prince
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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The Monster of Florence
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Douglas Preston (Goodreads Author)
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
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Greg Mortenson (Goodreads Author)
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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Measure What Matters
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Strengths Finder 2.0
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Tom Rath (Goodreads Author)
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Robert B. Cialdini (Goodreads Author)
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Orange Is the New Black
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Piper Kerman (Goodreads Author)
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The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
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We Should All Be Feminists
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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
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A Moveable Feast
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Tao Te Ching
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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Not My Father's Son
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
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Blaine Harden (Goodreads Author)
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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The Know-It-All
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A.J. Jacobs (Goodreads Author)
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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Yes Please
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Adoption Stories
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Janine Myung Ja (Goodreads Author)
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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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Randall Munroe (Goodreads Author)
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Pro Leadership: Establishing Your Credibility, Building Your Following and Leading With Impact
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Andrew Wyatt (Goodreads Author)
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Living in Harmony with the Real World Vol 3: Coping with Loss and Grief
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Gary Edward Gedall (Goodreads Author)
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Searching for Ganesha: Collecting Images of the Sweet-Loving, Elephant-Headed Hindu Deity Everybody Admires
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Paul Spencer Sochaczewski (Goodreads Author)
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The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
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The Sociopath Next Door
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Salt: A World History
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
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Bad Feminist
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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Black Like Me
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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The God Delusion
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MindHub: Personality Profiler
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Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
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Liar's Poker
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The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Between the World and Me
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Just Kids
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Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
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This is a great list. I love non-fiction so will be able to use it as a guide. I don't know how to add a book but would like to reccomend Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris by Michael Allin.
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Great list! Some non-fiction is just so utterly boring . . thank you for creating such a wonderful list.
You add books at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."However, if you are the author I believe that is no longer possible; too many authors were abusing the privilege.
I read a ton of non fiction, I have added my limit of 100 books.
@StaceySaid it before and I'll say it again: As you share the same first name with the author, I can't escape the notion that you might be one and the same person?
# 757 The Woman in White and # 797 A Darkness Absolute are both fiction, as are #1014 Still Life, #1027 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and #1089 Murder on the Orient Express.#1181 The Great Gatsby (THE great American NOVEL!!!)
21 duplicates found and removedI’ll start in the next days removing fiction, appreciable any listings (less books to check it if I know for sure it’s fiction :-D)
Agnieszka wrote: "21 duplicates found and removedI’ll start in the next days removing fiction, appreciable any listings (less books to check it if I know for sure it’s fiction :-D)"
Murder on the Orient Express is fiction.
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