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  1. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M/ Miller Jr
  2. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
  3. A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix by Edwin H/ Friedman
  4. A History of the Ancient Near East
  5. A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
  6. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
  7. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
  8. 1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline by Ray Huang
  9. Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old by Andrew Steele
  10. Albion: In Twelve Books
  11. An Education for Our Time by Josiah Bunting III
  12. An Empirical Introduction to Youth by Joseph Bronski
  13. Anthropic Bias by Nick Bostrom
  14. At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell
  15. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen Platt
  16. Bronze Age Mindset
  17. Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
  18. Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
  19. Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free by Cody Wilson
  20. Consciousness and the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene
  21. Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education
  22. Deep Work by Cal Newport
  23. Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
  24. Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul Battering System That Shapes Their Lives by Jeff Schmidt
  25. Economic Hierarchies by Gordon Tullock
  26. Exhaustion: A History by Anna Schaffner
  27. Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity by Robert Moore
  28. Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe by Roger Penrose
  29. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  30. From Paralysis to Fatigue: A History of Psychosomatic Illness in the Modern Era by Edward Shorter
  31. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965 2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
  32. Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
  33. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
  34. Golem XIV by Stanislaw Lem
  35. Haughey by Gary Murphy
  36. History Has Begun by Bruno Macaes
  37. How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low Carbon Innovation
  38. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Rene Girard
  39. In Search of Canadian Political Culture by Nelson Wiseman
  40. Industrial Society and Its Future by Ted Kaczynski (also known as the Unabomber Manifesto)
  41. Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress by Hasok Chang
  42. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier
  43. Island by Aldous Huxley
  44. Jamberry by Bruce Degen
  45. Japan at War: An Oral History by Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore Failor Cook
  46. Kora in Hell: Improvisations by William Carlos Williams
  47. Leisure: the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
  48. Making Nature: The History of a Scientific Journal by Melinda Baldwin
  49. Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions by Christian K/ Wedemeyer
  50. Memories of My Life by Francis Galton
  51. Mind and Cosmos by Thomas Nagel
  52. More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave by Ruth Schwartz Cowan
  53. MOSCOW PETUSHKI by Venedikt Yerofeyev
  54. Nobody wants to read your sh*t by Steven Pressfield
  55. Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project by General Leslie M/ Groves
  56. Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson
  57. Pericles by Vincent Aulay
  58. Private Government by Elizabeth Anderson
  59. Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Weapons Manufacturers, and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy by Richard Hanania
  60. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
  61. Reason and Society in the Middle Ages by Alexander Murray
  62. Robert E/ Lee: a life by Allen C/ Guelzo
  63. San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities by Michael Shellenberger
  64. Slaughterhouse Five and Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut
  65. Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
  66. Surface Detail by Iain M/ Banks
  67. Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal
  68. Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
  69. Troubled Blood by J/K/ Rowling
  70. The Age of the Infovore by Tyler Cowen
  71. The Anti Politics Machine by James Ferguson
  72. The Axis of Madness
  73. The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
  74. The Book of All Hours series "Vellum" and "Ink" by Hal Duncan
  75. The Book of Blam by Aleksander Tisma
  76. The Book of Why by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
  77. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  78. The Castrato by Martha Feldman
  79. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
  80. The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
  81. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
  82. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
  83. The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
  84. The Diamond Age or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
  85. The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg
  86. The Ecotechnic Future by John Michael Greer
  87. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon by Karl Marx
  88. The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World And Us by Richard Prum
  89. The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul
  90. The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris by Colin Jones
  91. The Future of Fusion Energy by Jason Parisi and Justin Ball
  92. The Goal / It's Not Luck by Eliyahu Goldratt
  93. The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space by Gerard K/ O'Neill
  94. The Hundred Year Marathon: China's secret strategy to replace America as the global superpower by Michael Pillsbury
  95. The Internationalists by Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro
  96. The Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr
  97. The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch by Lewis Dartnell
  98. The Man Who Quit Money by Mark Sundeen
  99. The Mathematics of Poker by Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman
  100. The Matter With Things by Iain McGilchrist
  101. The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
  102. The Motivation Hacker by Nick Winter
  103. The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz
  104. The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Matsuo Basho
  105. The New Science of Strong Materials by J/ E/ Gordon
  106. The One World Schoolhouse by Salman Khan
  107. The Origins of The Second World War by A/J/P/ Taylor
  108. The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter by Kai Bird
  109. The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor
  110. The Reckoning by David Halberstam
  111. The Republic by Plato
  112. The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
  113. The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
  114. The Russian Revolution: A New History, by Sean McMeekin
  115. The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
  116. The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z/ Muller
  117. The Virus in the Age of Madness by Bernard Henri Levy
  118. The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East by Abraham Rabinovich
  119. Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi
  120. Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality by Helen Joyce
  121. Troubled Blood by J/K/ Rowling
  122. Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz
  123. Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters by Steven Koonin
  124. Unsettled/ What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, And Why It Matters by Steven E/ Koonin
  125. Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
  126. Viral by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley
  127. War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat
  128. When men behave badly by David Buss
  129. Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities
  130. Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliott Friedman
  131. Yanomamo: The Fierce People by Napoleon Chagnon