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Losing My Virginity is the unusual, frequently outrageous autobiography of one of the great business geniuses of our time. When Richard Branson started his first business, he and his friends decided that "since we're complete virgins at business, let's call it just that: Virgin." Since then, Branson has written his own "rules" for success, creating a group of companies with a global presence, but no central headquarters, no management hierarchy, and minimal bureaucracy.
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> Curated list of mind expanding books.
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Table of Contents
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- [Startups and Business](#startups-and-business)
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- [Philosophy and Psychology](#philosophy-and-psychology)
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* [Autobiographies and Biographies](#autobiographies-and-biographies)
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* [History](#history)
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* [Evolution, Science and Medicine](#science-and-medicine)
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* [Logic and Problem Solving](#logic-and-problem-solving)
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* [Politics](#politics)
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* [Economics](#economics)
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* [Sexuality](#sexuality)
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* [Education](#education)
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* [Writing](#writing)
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* [Theater and Film](#theater-and-film)
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* [Humor](#humor)
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* [Fiction](#fiction)
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* [Health](#health)
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* [Design](#design)
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* [Fantasy](#fantasy)
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* [Computer Science and Programming](#computer-science-and-programming)
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##Startups and Business
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* [Zero to One](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18050143-zero-to-one) by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
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* [Hackers and Painters](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41793.Hackers_Painters) by Paul Graham
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* [Linchpin: Are You Indispensable](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7155145-linchpin) by Seth Godin
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* [The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242472.The_Black_Swan) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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* [The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2612.The_Tipping_Point) by Malcolm Gladwell
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* [The Compound Effect](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9420697-the-compound-effect) by Darren Hardy
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* [Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76865.Good_to_Great) by Jim Collins
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* [The Four Steps to the Epiphany](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/762542.The_Four_Steps_to_the_Epiphany) by Steve Blank
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* [Contagious: Why Things Catch On](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15801967-contagious) by Jonah Berger
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* [David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15751404-david-and-goliath) by Malcolm Gladwell
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* [The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18176747-the-hard-thing-about-hard-things) by Ben Horowitz
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* [The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10639.The_Paradox_of_Choice) by Barry Shwartz
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* [Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/914211.Influencer) by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson
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* [The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37875.The_Art_of_the_Start) by Guy Kawasaki
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* [Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work) by Jessica Livingston
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* [The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10127019-the-lean-startup) by Eric Ries
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* [ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6732019-rework) by David Heinemeier Hansson
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* [The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81948.The_E_Myth_Revisited) by Michael E. Gerber
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* [Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828896-delivering-happiness) by Tony Hsieh
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* [Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211099.Losing_My_Virginity) by Richard Branson
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* [The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68985.The_Power_of_Full_Engagement) by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
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* [The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6667514-the-checklist-manifesto) by Atul Gawande
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* [The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12605157-the-100-startup) by Chris Guillebeau
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* [Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15815598-big-data) by Kenneth Cukier
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* [The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6342995-the-score-takes-care-of-itself) by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
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* [Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2601510-crowdsourcing) by Jeff Howe
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* [Where Good Ideas Come From](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8034188-where-good-ideas-come-from) by Steven Johnson
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* [The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99919.The_Strategy_and_Tactics_of_Pricing) by Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale
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* [Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95429.Leaving_Microsoft_to_Change_the_World) by John Wood
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* [The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1565533.The_22_Immutable_Laws_of_Branding) by Laura Ries and Al Ries
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* [Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Don't](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/69571.Rich_Dad_Poor_Dad) by Robert T. Kiyosaki
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* [Outliers: Story of Success](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3364437-outliers-the-story-of-success) by Malcolm Gladwell
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* [The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368593.The_4_Hour_Workweek) by Thomas Ferriss
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* [How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/96593.The_Success_Principles) by Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer
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* [Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1633.Getting_Things_Done) by David Allen
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* [SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402364-superfreakonomics) by Steven D. Litt
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* [Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6553353-strategy-for-sustainability) by Adam Werbach
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* [The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8032112-the-big-short) by Michael Lewis
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* [Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/603985.Who_Says_Elephants_Can_t_Dance_) by Louis V Gerstner, Jr
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* [The Ten Faces of Innovation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95656.The_Ten_Faces_of_Innovation) by Tom Kelley
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* [Too Big to Fail](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6687247-too-big-to-fail) by Andrew Ross Sorkin
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* [The Innovator's Dilemma](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2615.The_Innovator_s_Dilemma) by clayton m. christensen
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* [The Paypal Wars](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4052.The_PayPal_Wars) by Eric M. Jackson
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* [One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11223478-one-click) by Richard Brandt
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* [Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7614793-cognitive-surplus) by Clay Shirky
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* [The Curse of the Mogul](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7162410-the-curse-of-the-mogul) by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave
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* [The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6326920-the-accidental-billionaires) by Ben Mezrich
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* [Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16071764-lean-in) by Sheryl Sandberg
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* [High Output Management](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/324750.High_Output_Management) by Andy Grove
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* [Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1202.Freakonomics) by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
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##Philosophy And Psychology
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* [The Art of War](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10534.The_Art_of_War) by Sun Tzu
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* [Predictably Irrational](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1713426.Predictably_Irrational) by Dan Ariely
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* [Thinking, Fast and Slow](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow) by Daniel Kahneman
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* [What the Dog Saw: and other adventures](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6516450-what-the-dog-saw-and-other-adventures) by Malcolm Gladwell
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* [The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/93409.The_Fine_Art_of_Small_Talk) by Debra Fine
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* [Gifs of Immperfection](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7015403-the-gifts-of-imperfection) by Brene Brown
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* [Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8520610-quiet) by Susan Cain
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* [Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6289283-born-to-run) by Christopher McDougall
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* [The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7815744-the-upside-of-irrationality) by Dan Ariely
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* [Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/300300.Why_Smart_People_Can_Be_So_Stupid) by Robert J Sternberg
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* [Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/582533.Creative_Visualization) by Shakti Gawain
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* [In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/315425.In_Defense_of_Food) by Michael Pollan
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* [Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6262510-rapt) by Winifred Gallagher
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* [You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/147222.You_Just_Don_t_Understand) by Deborah Tannen
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* [How to Win Friends and Influence People](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4865.How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influence_People) by Dale Carnegie
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* [Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17707599-moral-tribes) by Joshua Greene
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* [Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5040579-why-we-make-mistakes) by Joseph T. Hallinan
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* [Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7090193-tattoos-on-the-heart) by Gregory Boyle
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* [Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66354.Flow) by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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* [The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17978489-the-future-of-the-mind) by Michio Kaku
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* [Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8854815-why-does-the-world-exist) by Jim Holt
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* [Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Others](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together) by Sherry Turkle
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* [Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together) by Dean Radin
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* [Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/83321.Irrational_Man) by William Barrett
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* [The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit) by Charles Duhigg
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* [The Concise 48 Laws of Power](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18224060-the-concise-48-laws-of-power) by Robert Greene
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* [Prisoner's Dilemma](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29506.Prisoner_s_Dilemma) by William Poundstone
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* [The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/328734.The_Ethical_Brain) by Michael S. Gazzaniga
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* [Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1581330.Snoop) by Sam Gosling
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* [The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373969.The_Stuff_of_Thought) by Steven Pinker
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* [The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate) by Steven Pinker
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* [Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5752.The_Blank_Slate) by Robert B. Cialdini
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* [The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12263681-the-age-of-insight) by Eric Kandel
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* [A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99315.A_Whole_New_Mind) by Daniel H. Pink
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* [Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49176.Games_People_Play) by Eric Berne.
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* [How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112731.How_to_Win_Every_Argument) by Madsen Pirie
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* [Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/402843.Zen_Mind_Beginner_s_Mind) by Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick
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* [The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10483171-the-beginning-of-infinity) by David Deutsch
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* [This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13035774-this-will-make-you-smarter) by John Brockman
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* [Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18378002-intuition-pumps-and-other-tools-for-thinking) by Daniel C. Dennett
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* [Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12838972-just-the-arguments) by Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone
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* [The History of Western Philosophy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243685.A_History_of_Western_Philosophy) by Bertrand Russell
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* [The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18528861-the-truth-about-everything) by Matthew Stewart
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* [Bulfinch's Mythology](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588147.Bulfinch_s_Mythology) by Thomas Bulfinch
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* [Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55981.Consilience) by Edward O. Wilson
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* [Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/757403.Every_Thing_Must_Go) by James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al
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* [Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13530973-antifragile) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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* [Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181239.Metamagical_Themas) by Douglas Hofstadter
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* [Education and the Significance of Life](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/353435.Education_and_the_Significance_of_Life) by Krishnamurti
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* [Metaphors We Live By](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34459.Metaphors_We_Live_By) by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
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* [The Hero with a Thousand Faces](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces) Joseph Campbell
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* [The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/106732.The_User_Illusion) by Tor Norretranders
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* [Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1008488.Outsmarting_Iq) by David Perkins
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* [Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6283340-spent) by Geoffrey Miller
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* [The Social Contract](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12651.The_Social_Contract) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston
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* [Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100247.Vagabonding) by Rolf Potts
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* [Jonathan Livingston Seagull](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71728.Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull) by Richard Bach
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* [Man's Search for Meaning](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning) by Viktor E. Frankl
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* [Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180116.Awaken_the_Giant_Within) by Anthony Robbins
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* [Ego Is the Enemy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27036528-ego-is-the-enemy) by Ryan Holiday
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##Autobiographies and Biographies
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* [Elon Musk: Inventing the Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22543496-elon-musk) by Ashlee Vance
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* [My Experiments with Truth](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112803.The_Story_of_My_Experiments_With_Truth) by Mahatma Gandhi
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* [The Diary of a Young Girl](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48855.The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl) by Anne Frank
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* [Wings of Fire](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/634583.Wings_of_Fire) by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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* [An Autobiography: Toward Freedom](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/322939.An_Autobiography) by Jawaharlal Nehru
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* [The Story of My Life](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821611.The_Story_of_My_Life) by Helen Keller
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* [Long Walk to Freedom](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/318431.Long_Walk_to_Freedom) by Nelson Mandela
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* [Freedom in Exile](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/567720.Freedom_in_Exile) by Dalai Lama XIV
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* [Steve Jobs](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11084145-steve-jobs) by Walter Issacson
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* [My Life and My Work](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1122054.My_Life_And_Work) by Henry Ford
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* [Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5544.Surely_You_re_Joking_Mr_Feynman_) by Richard Feynman
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* [The Autobiography of Malcolm X](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92057.The_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X) by Malcolm X, Alex Haley
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* [Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8664353-unbroken) by Laura Hillenbrand
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* [Madame Curie: A Biography](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341166.Madame_Curie) by Marie Curie
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* [iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/798635.iWoz) by Steve Wozniak
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* [The Last Lecture](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2318271.The_Last_Lecture) by Randy Pausch
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* [Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker] (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10256723-ghost-in-the-wires) by Kevin Mitnick
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* [An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18170143-an-astronaut-s-guide-to-life-on-earth) by Chris Hadfield
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* [Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9533705-losing-my-virginity) by Richard Branson
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##History
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* [Discovery of India](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/154126.The_Discovery_of_India) by Jawaharlal Nehru
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* [The Rise and Fall of the British Empire](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143980.The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_British_Empire) by Lawrence James
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* [The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29608.The_Codebreakers) by David Kahn
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* [The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7776209-the-rational-optimist) by Matt Ridley
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* [One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2606779-one-minute-to-midnight) by Michael Dobbs
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* [The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/173187.The_Nazi_Doctors) by Robert Jay Lifton
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* [Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10475421-civilization) by Niall Ferguson
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* [The Discoverers](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/714380.The_Discoverers) by Daniel J. Boorstin
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* [From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58233.From_Dawn_to_Decadence) by Jacques Barzun
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* [The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8201080-the-master-switch) by Tim Wu
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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](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36086.The_Ghost_Map) by Steven Johnson
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* [Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1842.Guns_Germs_and_Steel) by Jared M. Diamond
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* [Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9491855-why-the-west-rules-for-now) by Ian Morrisage
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* [Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8890989-churchill-s-secret-war) by Madhusree Mukerjee
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* [The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13330422-the-revenge-of-geography) by Robert D. Kaplan
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* [God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2096.God_Created_The_Integers) by Stephen Hawking
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* [The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/<1911 class="The_World_Is_Flat"></1911>) by Thomas L. Friedman
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* [El Tiempo Entre Costuras (The Time Between Seams / The Time In Between)](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7502166-el-tiempo-entre-costuras) by María Dueñas
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* [Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground] (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9319468-kingpin) by Kevin Poulson
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* [Spycraft] (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/971936.Spycraft) Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger
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##Science and Medicine
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* [The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61539.The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions) by Thomas S. Kuhn
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* [Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24113.G_del_Escher_Bach) by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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* [The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9778945-the-shallows) by Nicholas Carr
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* [A Brief History of Time](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3869.A_Brief_History_of_Time) by Stephen Hawking
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* [A Short History of Nearly Everything](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21.A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything) by Bill Bryson
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* [Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32145.Stiff) by Mary Roach
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* [Asimov's New Guide to Science](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977262.Asimov_s_New_Guide_To_Science) by Isaac Asimov
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* [The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/733691.The_Symbolic_Species) by Terrence W. Deacon
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* [The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6033964-the-10-000-year-explosion) by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
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* [Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254489.Origins_of_Genius) by Dean Keith
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* [At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319006.At_Home_in_the_Universe) by Stuart Kauffman
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* [The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14721.The_Wealth_of_Networks) by Yochai Benkler
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* [Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/172645.Heaven_in_a_Chip) by Bart Kosko
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* [The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17841838-the-outer-limits-of-reason) by Noson S. Yanofsky
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* [The Selfish Gene](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61535.The_Selfish_Gene) by Richard Dawkins
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* [Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/599321.Mind_Wars) by Jonathan D. Moreno
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* [Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/159062.Evolution_for_Everyone) by David Sloan Wilson
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* [Darwin's Dangerous Idea](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2068.Darwin_s_Dangerous_Idea) Daniel C. Dennett
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* [The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6745893-the-new-executive-brain) by Elkhonon Goldberg
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* [Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11148989-catching-fire) by Richard Wrangham
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* [The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/270881.The_Quark_and_the_Jaguar) by Murray Gell-Mann
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* [Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164560.Figments_of_Reality) by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
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* [How to Find a Habitable Planet](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7551498-how-to-find-a-habitable-planet) by James kasting
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* [Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1752295.Scientific_Genius) Dean Keith Simonton
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* [The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61538.The_Extended_Phenotype) Richard Dawkins
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* [Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88552.Rare_Earth) Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee
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* [Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/648195.Mind_Children) by Hans Moravec.
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* [The Little Schemer](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/548914.The_Little_Schemer) by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman
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* [Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16080353-out-of-control) by Kevin Kelly
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* [The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future] (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209431-the-inevitable)by Kevin Kelly
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* [Tomorrowland: Our Staggering Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact] (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25060233-tomorrowland) by Steven Kotler
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##Logic and Problem Solving
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* [What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493576.What_Is_the_Name_of_This_Book_) by Raymond M. Smullyan
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* [How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192221.How_to_Solve_It) by George Polya
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* [Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55436.Labyrinths_of_Reason) by William Poundstone
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* [A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18693655-a-mind-for-numbers) by Barbara Oakley
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##Politics
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* [Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149206.Resource_Wars) by Michael Klare
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* [The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/698866.The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter) by Bryan Caplan
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* [Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6452731-justice) by Michael J. Sandel
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* [Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6694937-game-change) by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
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* [The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9742.The_Audacity_of_Hope) by Barack Obama
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* [The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11324722-the-righteous-mind) by Jonathan Haidt
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##Economics
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* [The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13588394-the-signal-and-the-noise) by Nate Silver
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* [The Thank You Economy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9203287-the-thank-you-economy) by Gary Vaynerchuk
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* [Origin of Wealth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22456.The_Origin_of_Wealth) by Eric D. Beinhocker
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* [Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1081413.Super_Crunchers) by Ian Ayres by Ian Ayres
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* [Capital in the Twenty-First Century](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18736925-capital-in-the-twenty-first-century) by Thomas Piketty
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* [23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8913542-23-things-they-don-t-tell-you-about-capitalism) by Ha-Joon Chang
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* [The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2714607-the-ascent-of-money) by Niall Ferguson
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* [Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6617037-debt) by David Graeber
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* [A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World: A Brief Economic History of the World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10799.A_Farewell_to_Arms) by Gregory Clark
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* [The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/493371.The_Bottom_Billion) by Paul Collier
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* [Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11515298-currency-wars) by James Rickards
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* [Economic Facts and Fallacies](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2064279.Economic_Facts_and_Fallacies) by Thomas Sowell
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* [Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy] (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17674971-every-shot-counts) by Mark Broadie
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##Sexuality
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* [Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7640261-sex-at-dawn) by Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
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* [The Sex Myth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13569582-the-sex-myth) by Brooke Magnanti
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* [The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54944.The_Ethical_Slut?from_search=true) by Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt.
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##Education
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* [The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/857333.The_Art_of_Learning) by Josh Waitzkin
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* [How Children Fail](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/573009.How_Children_Fail) by John Holt
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* [Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6425208-wounded-by-school) by Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer
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* [Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178734.Summerhill) by A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb
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* [Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/703532.Mindstorms) by Seymour A. Papert
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* [Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/409588.Curious_Minds) by John Brockman
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* [Teaching as a Subversive Activity](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79681.Teaching_as_a_Subversive_Activity) by Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner
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##Writing
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* [Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12909101-hat-box) by Stephen Sondheim
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* [Clear and Simple as the Truth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/120549.Clear_and_Simple_as_the_Truth) by Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner
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* [The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821371-the-sense-of-style) by Steven Pinker
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* [On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10569.On_Writing) by Stephen King
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##Theater and Film
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* [In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2141.In_the_Blink_of_an_Eye) by Walter Murch
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* [Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306940.Impro) by Keith Johnstone
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* [A Practical Handbook for the Actor](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166207.A_Practical_Handbook_for_the_Actor) by Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet
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* [The Actor and the Target](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/611466.The_Actor_and_the_Target) by Declan Donnellan
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* [How to Stop Acting](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/808735.How_to_Stop_Acting) by Harold Guskin
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* [Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3493241-different-every-night) by Mike Alfreds
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* [Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254808.Notes_on_Directing) by Frank Hauser, Russell Reich
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##Shakespeare
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* [Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1334872.Thinking_Shakespeare) by Barry Edelstein.
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* [Hamlet in Purgatory](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33179.Hamlet_in_Purgatory) by Stephen Greenblatt
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* [Hamlet and Revenge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625956.Hamlet_Revenge_) by Eleanor Prosser
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* [Shakespeare's Metrical Art](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428615.Shakespeare_s_Metrical_Art) George T. Wright
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##Fiction
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###Classics
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* [The Catcher in the Rye](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5107.The_Catcher_in_the_Rye) by J.D. Salinger
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* [If on a Winter's Night a Traveler](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/374233.If_on_a_Winter_s_Night_a_Traveler) by Italo Calvino and William Weaver
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* [Sense and Sensibility](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14935.Sense_and_Sensibility) by Jane Austen
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* [A Prayer for Owen Meany](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4473.A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany) by John Irving
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* [Steppenwolf: A Novel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16631.Steppenwolf) by Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton
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* [The Glass Bead Game](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16634.The_Glass_Bead_Game) by Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston
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* [The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10031.The_Wall) by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander
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* [The Brothers Karamazov](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4934.The_Brothers_Karamazov) Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
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* [Pride And Prejudice](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1885.Pride_and_Prejudice) by Jane Austen
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* [Mansfield Park](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45032) by Jane Austen
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* [Wuthering Heights](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6185.Wuthering_Heights) by Emily Bronte
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* [The House of Mirth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17728.The_House_of_Mirth) by Edith Wharton
|
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* [Confessions of a Mask](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62794.Confessions_of_a_Mask) by Yukio Mishima
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* [Letters From The Earth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37813.Letters_from_the_Earth) by Mark Twain
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* [One Hundred Years of Solitude](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/320.One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa
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* [One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332613.One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo_s_Nest) by Ken Kesey
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* [Watership Down: A Novel](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76620.Watership_Down) by Richard Adams
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* [Bleak House](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31242.Bleak_House) by Charles Dickens
|
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* [War and Peace](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/656.War_and_Peace) by Leo Tolstoy
|
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* [The Death of Ivan Ilych](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18386.The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilych) by Leo Tolstoy
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* [Anna Karenina](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15823480-anna-karenina) by Leo Tolstoy
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* [Crime and Punishment](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7144.Crime_and_Punishment) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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* [The Picture of Dorian Gray](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5297.The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray) by Oscar Wilde
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* [Catch 22](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4610.Catch_22) by Joseph Heller
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* [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2956.The_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn) by Mark Twain
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* [Jane Eyre](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10210.Jane_Eyre) by Charlotte Brontë
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* [The Master and Margarita](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117833.The_Master_and_Margarita) by Mikhail Bulgakov
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* [Germinal](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28407.Germinal) by Emile Zola
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* [J'accuse](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816964.J_accuse) by Emile Zola
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* [Père Goriot](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59145.P_re_Goriot) by Honoré de Balzac
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* [Eugénie Grandet](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59142.Eug_nie_Grandet) by Honoré de Balzac
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* [Confessions](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12649.Confessions) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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* [Candide](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19380.Candide) by Voltaire
|
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* [Madame Bovary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2175.Madame_Bovary) by Gustave Flaubert
|
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* [De L'esprit Des Lois](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29854007-de-l-esprit-des-lois-nouvelle-edition) by Montesquieu
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* [Lettres persanes](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509686.Persian_Letters) by Montesquieu
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* [Don Quixote](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3836.Don_Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes
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* [The Director] (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23316525-the-director) by David Ignatius
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###Fantasy
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* [Harry Potter](https://www.goodreads.com/series/45175-harry-potter) by J.K. Rowling
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* [The Lord of the Rings](https://www.goodreads.com/series/66175-the-lord-of-the-rings) by J.R.R. Tolkien
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* [The Kingkiller Chronicle](https://www.goodreads.com/series/45262-the-kingkiller-chronicle) by Patrick Rothfuss
|
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* [Discworld](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40650-discworld) by Terry Pratchett
|
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* [The Broken Empire](https://www.goodreads.com/series/64473-the-broken-empire) by Mark Lawrence
|
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* [A Song of Ice and Fire](https://www.goodreads.com/series/43790-a-song-of-ice-and-fire) by George R.R. Martin
|
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* [The City & The City](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4703581-the-city-the-city) by China Mieville
|
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* [His Dark Materials](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18116.His_Dark_Materials) by Philip Pullman
|
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* [Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10016013-harry-potter-and-the-methods-of-rationality) by Eliezer Yudkowsky
|
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* [The Chronicles of Narnia](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11127.The_Chronicles_of_Narnia) by Clive Staples Lewis
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* [The Dark Tower](https://www.goodreads.com/series/40750-the-dark-tower) by Stephen King
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###Historical Fiction
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* [All the Light We Cannot See](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see) by Anthony Doerr
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* [The Book Thief](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19063.The_Book_Thief) by Markus Zusak
|
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* [The Help](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4667024-the-help) by Kathryn Stockett
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* [Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10959.Sophie_s_World) by Jostein Gaarder and Paulette Moller
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* [Emma](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6969.Emma) by Jane Austen
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* [Lonesome Dove](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256008.Lonesome_Dove) by Larry McMurtry
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* [Kane and Abel](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78983.Kane_and_Abel) by Jeffrey Archer
|
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* [The Pillars of the Earth](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5043.The_Pillars_of_the_Earth?from_search=true) by Ken Follett
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###Humor
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* [I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9010.I_Hope_They_Serve_Beer_in_Hell) by Tucker Max
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###Mystery
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* [The Eight](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113310.The_Eight) by Katherine Neville
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* [The Murder of Roger Ackroyd](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16328.The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd) by Agatha Christie
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* [Sherlock Holmes](https://www.goodreads.com/series/49996-sherlock-holmes) by Arthur Conan Doyle
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* [The Da Vinci Code](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/968.The_Da_Vinci_Code) by Dan Brown
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* [Memory Man](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23153154-memory-man) by David Baldacci
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* [The Girl on the Train](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22557272-the-girl-on-the-train) by Paula Hawkins
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###Science Fiction
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* [The Diamond Age](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827.The_Diamond_Age) by Neal Stephenson
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* [Ender's Game - Saga](https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ender%27s+saga&search_type=books&search%5Bfield%5D=on) by Orson Scott Card
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* [Foundation](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29579.Foundation) by Isaac Asimov
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* [Dune Chronicles](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=dune) by Frank Herbert
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* [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11.The_Hitchhiker_s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy) by Douglas Adams
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* [Snow Crash](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830.Snow_Crash) by Neal Stephenson
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* [The Fifth Sacred Thing](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80689.The_Fifth_Sacred_Thing) by Starhawk
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* [The Player of Games](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18630.The_Player_of_Games) by Iain M. Banks
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* [Fahrenheit 451](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17470674-fahrenheit-451) by Ray Bradbury
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###Horror
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* [Dracula](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17245.Dracula) by Bram Stoker
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* [Frankenstein](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490.Frankenstein) by Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle
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* [House of Leaves](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves) by Mark Z. Danielewski
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###Miscellaneous
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* [The Bone People](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/460635.The_Bone_People) by Keri Hulme
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* [Cat's Eye](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51019.Cat_s_Eye) by Margaret Atwood
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* [The Queen's Gambit](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62022.The_Queen_s_Gambit) by Walter Tevis
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* [Xeelee Sequence](http://www.goodreads.com/series/49784-xeelee-sequence) by Stephen Baxter
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* [Future Crimes](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22318398-future-crimes?from_search=true) by Marc Goodman
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* [Ghost Fleet](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22749719-ghost-fleet?from_search=true) by P.W. Singer and August Cole
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##Health
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* [8 Weeks to Optimum Health](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37124.8_Weeks_to_Optimum_Health) by Andrew Weil
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* [Convict Conditioning](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7305111-convict-conditioning) by Paul Wade
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* [Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness] (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13202092-eat-and-run?from_search=true) by Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman
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##Design
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* [Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/79766.A_Pattern_Language) by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel
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* [Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18197267-don-t-make-me-think-revisited) by Steve Krug
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* [The Design of Everyday Things](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840.The_Design_of_Everyday_Things) by Donald Norman
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##Computer Science and Programming
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* [Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6593810-learn-you-a-haskell-for-great-good) by Miran Lipovača.
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* [The Pragmatic Programmer](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4099.The_Pragmatic_Programmer) by Andrew Hunt, Dave Thomas
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* [Introduction to Algorithms](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108986.Introduction_to_Algorithms) by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
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## License
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To the extent possible under law, [Vishnu Ks](http://www.vishnuks.com) has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.
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