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  • Abelson, Harold
    • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  • Adams, Douglas
    • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Aho, Alfred Vaino
    • Compilers: Principles, Techniques, & Tools
  • Anderson, Pam
    • How to Cook Without a Book
  • Antunes, Xana
    • The Objects that Power the Global Economy
  • Baggini, Julian
    • The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
  • Blackburn, Simon
    • Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
  • Blitzstein, Joseph k.
    • Introduction to Probability
  • Bohren, Craig
    • Clouds in a Glass of Beer: Simple Experiments in Atmospheric Physics
  • Bryson, Bill
    • The Body: A Guide for Occupants
  • Burgess, Anthony
    • A Clockwork Orange
  • Burrough, Bryan
    • Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco \
  • Camus, Albert
    • The Myth of Sisyphus
    • Sartre and Camus: A Historic Confrontation
  • Carson, Rachel
    • Silent Spring
  • Cheng, Eugenia
    • The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life
  • Chernow, Ron
    • The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
  • Clark, John Drury
    • Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
  • Close, Frank
    • The Particle Odyssey: A Journey to the Heart of the Matter
  • Cook, Mariana
    • Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World
  • Cunningham, Michael
    • The Hours
  • Danielewski, Mark
    • House of Leaves
  • Davis, Dan
    • Turn Left at Orion
  • Dawkins, Richard
    • The Selfish Gene
  • Diamond, Jeremy
    • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
  • Eco, Umberto
    • The Island of the Day Before
  • Fukuyama, Francis
    • The End of History and the Last Man
  • Greene, Brian
    • The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
  • Dully, Howard
    • My Lobotomy: A Memoir
  • Eidhammer, Ingvar
    • Protein Bioinformatics: An Algorithmic Approach to Sequence and Structure Analysis
  • El-Mohtar, Amal
    • This Is How You Lose the Time War
  • Feynman, Richard
    • QED: The Strange Theory of Light and matter
    • "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
  • Fink, Sheri
    • Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
  • Friedberg, Stephen H.
    • Linear Algebra
  • Garrett, Laurie
    • The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
  • Gordon, Richard
    • Great Medical Disasters
  • Haldeman, Joe
    • The Forever War
  • Hawthorne, Nathaniel
    • The Scarlet Letter
  • Heller, Joseph
    • Catch-22
  • Hofstadter, Douglas
    • Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
  • Horowitz, Paul
    • The Art of Electronics
  • Howland, John
    • The Surprising Archaea: Discovering Another Domain of Life
  • Huxely, Aldous
    • Brave New World
  • Jacobs, Jane
    • The Death and Life of Great American Cities
  • Janesick, James
    • Photon Transfer
  • Kafka, Franz
    • The Metamorphosis
  • Kesey, Ken
    • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • King, Stephen
    • Children of the Corn
  • Knuth, Donald
    • The Art of Computer Programming
  • Lewis, Michael
    • Liar's Poker
    • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
  • Lions, John
    • Lions' Commentary on Unix
  • Lowenstein, Roger
    • When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
  • Manly, Peter
    • Unusual Telescopes
  • McCarthy, Cormac
    • The Road
  • McPhee, John
    • The Control of Nature
  • Milewski, Bartosz
    • Category Theory for Programmers
  • Munroe, Randall
    • How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
    • Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
  • Norman, Don
    • The Design of Everyday Things
  • Nosrat, Samin
    • Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
  • Okasaki, Chris
    • Purely Functional Data Structures
  • Orwell, George
    • 1984
  • Orzel, Chad
    • Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks
  • Pollan, Michael
    • This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium—Caffeine—Mescaline
  • Park, Robert L.
    • Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
  • Quammen, David
    • The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
  • Reisner, Marc
    • Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
  • Remarque, Erich M.
    • All Quiet on the Western Front
  • Rich, Ben R.
    • Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
  • Richards, Steve
    • Making Every Photon Count
  • Rodgers, Nigel
    • Philosophers Behaving Badly
  • Rome, Adam
    • The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism
  • Ross, Benjamin
    • Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism
  • Sacks, Oliver
    • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul
    • Existentialism Is a Humanism
  • Sontag, Sherry
    • Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
  • Spiekermann, Eric
    • Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out how Type Works
  • Stewart, Ian
    • Seventeen Equations that Changed the World
  • Stein, Garth
    • The Art of Racing in the Rain
  • Taylor, William
    • Inventing Times Square: Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World
  • Twain, Mark
    • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  • Velleman, Daniel J.
    • How to Prove It: A Structured Approach
  • Wolfe, Thomas
    • The Bonfire of the Vanities
  • Wright, Lawrence
    • The Looming Tower
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