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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 2624 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,335,761 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 2303 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,364,085 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 2268 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,901,280 ratings — published 2010
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1730 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,109,498 ratings — published 2009
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 1308 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,076,723 ratings — published 2011
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1262 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.08 — 850,665 ratings — published 2010
Water for Elephants (Paperback)
by (shelved 1121 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,730,230 ratings — published 2006
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 1039 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,830,567 ratings — published 1996
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 985 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,540,270 ratings — published 2005
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 944 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,504,568 ratings — published 2011
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 834 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,009,818 ratings — published 2006
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 816 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,887,833 ratings — published 1997
One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 790 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.88 — 424,339 ratings — published 2009
Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse, #11)
by (shelved 788 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.82 — 134,943 ratings — published 2011
Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 785 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.62 — 822,494 ratings — published 2010
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
by (shelved 783 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.25 — 792,934 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 713 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,258,032 ratings — published 2007
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 697 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,384,427 ratings — published 2011
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 697 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,056,795 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 695 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,699,994 ratings — published 1998
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 688 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.70 — 257,266 ratings — published 2010
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 678 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.58 — 5,081,419 ratings — published 1999
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 673 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.14 — 833,418 ratings — published 2010
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 672 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,144,607 ratings — published 2011
City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4)
by (shelved 652 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.07 — 652,873 ratings — published 2011
Delirium (Delirium, #1)
by (shelved 645 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.95 — 482,736 ratings — published 2011
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 632 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,380,399 ratings — published 2000
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 621 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,993,791 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 593 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,952,857 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 583 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,800,596 ratings — published 2005
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
by (shelved 552 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.02 — 574,397 ratings — published 2011
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 519 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.35 — 759,101 ratings — published 2011
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 505 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,429,196 ratings — published 1847
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 493 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.55 — 875,226 ratings — published
Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1)
by (shelved 491 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.95 — 467,820 ratings — published 2010
Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3)
by (shelved 483 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.88 — 129,809 ratings — published 2011
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 474 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.85 — 922,897 ratings — published 2005
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 469 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.18 — 503,426 ratings — published 2006
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 465 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,222,220 ratings — published 2007
I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)
by (shelved 460 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.93 — 355,482 ratings — published 2010
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 459 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,021,793 ratings — published 2010
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 436 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.18 — 816,706 ratings — published 2005
Where She Went (If I Stay, #2)
by (shelved 430 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.96 — 308,289 ratings — published 2011
Smokin' Seventeen (Stephanie Plum, #17)
by (shelved 418 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.00 — 91,684 ratings — published 2011
Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1)
by (shelved 411 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.77 — 119,760 ratings — published 2011
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 410 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,040,576 ratings — published 1813
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 405 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,174,505 ratings — published 1925
Before I Go to Sleep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 401 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.89 — 377,499 ratings — published 2011
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 395 times as 2011)
avg rating 4.34 — 440,953 ratings — published 2009
Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 393 times as 2011)
avg rating 3.80 — 178,246 ratings — published 2010
“The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.”
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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
