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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
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Cosmos
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1984
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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A Brief History of Time
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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The Time Machine
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,219,050 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 571,554 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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The Catcher in the Rye
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What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
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4.19 avg rating — 30,407 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,157,069 ratings
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A Clockwork Orange
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The Secret Garden
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 1,001,080 ratings
score: 552,
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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James Gleick (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 40,468 ratings
score: 549,
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The Selfish Gene
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 190,088 ratings
score: 528,
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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4.05 avg rating — 93,737 ratings
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 112,084 ratings
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The Lord of the Rings
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4.54 avg rating — 720,640 ratings
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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4.05 avg rating — 241,813 ratings
score: 458,
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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4.03 avg rating — 29,378 ratings
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Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos
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Lisa Kaltenegger (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 1,347 ratings
score: 400,
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Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
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3.97 avg rating — 7,122 ratings
score: 398,
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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4.08 avg rating — 168,711 ratings
score: 381,
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 120,044 ratings
score: 370,
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,277,646 ratings
score: 362,
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The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
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4.15 avg rating — 1,605 ratings
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 332,200 ratings
score: 350,
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Dune (Dune #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,587,358 ratings
score: 349,
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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James Gleick (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 16,925 ratings
score: 334,
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The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War
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James Graham Wilson (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 110 ratings
score: 299,
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MindHub: Personality Profiler
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Snapshot Systems (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 74 ratings
score: 296,
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The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
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Brian Christian (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 4,665 ratings
score: 293,
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Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
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Neil deGrasse Tyson (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 31,998 ratings
score: 292,
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The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
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Margalit Fox (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 3,661 ratings
score: 291,
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,600,523 ratings
score: 291,
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The Fractal Geometry of Nature
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4.23 avg rating — 1,278 ratings
score: 290,
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Ideas and Opinions
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4.12 avg rating — 3,303 ratings
score: 289,
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Dragonsong (Harper Hall, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 58,417 ratings
score: 284,
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
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4.14 avg rating — 10,186 ratings
score: 280,
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
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3.88 avg rating — 346,999 ratings
score: 278,
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 862,144 ratings
score: 277,
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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3.85 avg rating — 220,501 ratings
score: 272,
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
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4.15 avg rating — 24,053 ratings
score: 271,
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,428,786 ratings
score: 270,
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 299,575 ratings
score: 266,
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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4.31 avg rating — 1,456,926 ratings
score: 266,
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The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
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4.15 avg rating — 455,031 ratings
score: 260,
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,751,609 ratings
score: 259,
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Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science
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4.02 avg rating — 2,313 ratings
score: 258,
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.56 avg rating — 606,697 ratings
score: 256,
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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4.14 avg rating — 379,646 ratings
score: 255,
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"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
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Richard P. Feynman (Contibutor)
4.27 avg rating — 214,722 ratings
score: 254,
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Siddhartha
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4.08 avg rating — 855,607 ratings
score: 250,
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 374,934 ratings
score: 244,
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,681,956 ratings
score: 236,
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The Neverending Story
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4.18 avg rating — 217,553 ratings
score: 208,
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Darwinia
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3.38 avg rating — 4,175 ratings
score: 199,
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Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic
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3.89 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time
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4.06 avg rating — 2,122 ratings
score: 194,
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Connections
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4.25 avg rating — 2,482 ratings
score: 192,
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Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)
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Patricia C. Wrede (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 93,792 ratings
score: 192,
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The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
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4.18 avg rating — 1,913 ratings
score: 192,
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Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 49,610 ratings
score: 188,
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
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4.06 avg rating — 34,039 ratings
score: 183,
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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4.20 avg rating — 11,665 ratings
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The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
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4.10 avg rating — 1,485 ratings
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The Idiot
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4.21 avg rating — 210,596 ratings
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
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4.16 avg rating — 27,402 ratings
score: 167,
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Les Miserables (Classics Illustrated #9)
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Rolland H. Livingstone (Adapter)
4.28 avg rating — 5,052 ratings
score: 164,
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The Call of the Wild
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3.91 avg rating — 464,215 ratings
score: 164,
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The Grapes of Wrath
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4.02 avg rating — 977,968 ratings
score: 163,
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Cleopatra: A Life
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Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 122,080 ratings
score: 159,
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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
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4.08 avg rating — 15,393 ratings
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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,845 ratings
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The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
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4.09 avg rating — 2,751 ratings
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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Brian Christian (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 34,349 ratings
score: 150,
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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4.26 avg rating — 100,400 ratings
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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
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Steven Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 55,510 ratings
score: 146,
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
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3.91 avg rating — 26,328 ratings
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The Feminine Mystique
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3.87 avg rating — 30,437 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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3.97 avg rating — 73,111 ratings
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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4.05 avg rating — 43,512 ratings
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
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3.87 avg rating — 34,708 ratings
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Rainbows End
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3.77 avg rating — 18,812 ratings
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Spin (Spin, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 43,879 ratings
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Eisenhower in War and Peace
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4.08 avg rating — 11,157 ratings
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The Windup Girl
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 77,584 ratings
score: 126,
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Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment
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4.31 avg rating — 5,103 ratings
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Glasshouse
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Charles Stross (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 11,588 ratings
score: 123,
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Anthem
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3.61 avg rating — 165,018 ratings
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Among the Hidden (Shadow Children, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 130,214 ratings
score: 113,
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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Jon Gertner (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 8,613 ratings
score: 113,
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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4.15 avg rating — 137,493 ratings
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The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
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4.05 avg rating — 592,596 ratings
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The Chronicles of Amber (The Chronicles of Amber, #1-5)
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4.36 avg rating — 11,478 ratings
score: 107,
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