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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 2625 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,122,681 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 2306 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,259,050 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 2267 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,810,268 ratings — published 2010
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1729 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,062,757 ratings — published 2009
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 1308 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,066,042 ratings — published 2011
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1263 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.08 — 844,251 ratings — published 2010
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 1118 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,716,518 ratings — published 2006
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 1036 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,780,605 ratings — published 1996
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 982 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,494,311 ratings — published 2005
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 944 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,442,932 ratings — published 2011
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 832 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.26 — 997,661 ratings — published 2006
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 809 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,637,515 ratings — published 1997
Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse, #11)
by (shelved 789 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.82 — 134,168 ratings — published 2011
One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 788 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.88 — 416,837 ratings — published 2009
Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 787 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.62 — 818,790 ratings — published 2010
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
by (shelved 782 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.25 — 783,916 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 711 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,180,127 ratings — published 2007
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 696 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,038,287 ratings — published 1998
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 695 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,370,969 ratings — published 2011
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 690 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,591,808 ratings — published 1998
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 688 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.70 — 253,420 ratings — published 2010
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 677 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,957,442 ratings — published 1999
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 674 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.13 — 818,986 ratings — published 2010
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 670 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,121,974 ratings — published 2011
City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4)
by (shelved 652 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.07 — 646,721 ratings — published 2011
Delirium (Delirium, #1)
by (shelved 646 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.95 — 480,980 ratings — published 2011
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 629 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,283,606 ratings — published 2000
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 621 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,937,359 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 592 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,870,648 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 582 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,725,080 ratings — published 2005
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 551 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.02 — 565,250 ratings — published 2011
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 519 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.34 — 748,473 ratings — published 2011
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 504 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,375,929 ratings — published 1847
Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1)
by (shelved 492 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.96 — 466,381 ratings — published 2010
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 491 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.55 — 859,139 ratings — published 2000
Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3)
by (shelved 482 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.88 — 129,281 ratings — published 2011
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 473 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.85 — 888,238 ratings — published 2005
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 469 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.18 — 499,399 ratings — published 2006
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 464 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,196,845 ratings — published 2007
I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)
by (shelved 461 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.93 — 353,793 ratings — published 2010
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 460 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,009,861 ratings — published 2010
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 437 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.17 — 803,983 ratings — published 2005
Where She Went (If I Stay, #2)
by (shelved 430 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.96 — 306,964 ratings — published 2011
Smokin' Seventeen (Stephanie Plum, #17)
by (shelved 418 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.00 — 90,585 ratings — published 2011
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 410 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,924,141 ratings — published 1813
Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1)
by (shelved 410 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.77 — 119,578 ratings — published 2011
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 407 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,045,749 ratings — published 1925
Before I Go to Sleep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 398 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.90 — 372,927 ratings — published 2011
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 395 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.34 — 434,218 ratings — published 2009
Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 393 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.80 — 176,697 ratings — published 2010
“@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.”
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“For the purposes of science, information had to mean something special. Three centuries earlier, the new discipline of physics could not proceed until Isaac Newton appropriated words that were ancient and vague—force, mass, motion, and even time—and gave them new meanings. Newton made these terms into quantities, suitable for use in mathematical formulas. Until then, motion (for example) had been just as soft and inclusive a term as information. For Aristotelians, motion covered a far-flung family of phenomena: a peach ripening, a stone falling, a child growing, a body decaying. That was too rich. Most varieties of motion had to be tossed out before Newton’s laws could apply and the Scientific Revolution could succeed. In the nineteenth century, energy began to undergo a similar transformation: natural philosophers adapted a word meaning vigor or intensity. They mathematicized it, giving energy its fundamental place in the physicists’ view of nature.
It was the same with information. A rite of purification became necessary.
And then, when it was made simple, distilled, counted in bits, information was found to be everywhere.”
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
It was the same with information. A rite of purification became necessary.
And then, when it was made simple, distilled, counted in bits, information was found to be everywhere.”
― The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
