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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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The Strength In Our Scars
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Co-Intelligence: The Definitive, Bestselling Guide to Living and Working with AI
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living
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Into the Wild
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
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Chris Voss (Goodreads Author)
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
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Twelve Years a Slave
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Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
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Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers
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Melody Godfred (Goodreads Author)
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
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Hanna Hasl-Kelchner (Goodreads Author)
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The Elements of Style
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What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
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Tom Standage (Goodreads Author)
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
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A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
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Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World
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Nick Bostrom (Goodreads Author)
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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A Stolen Life
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
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Notes from a Small Island
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The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
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Amanda Palmer (Goodreads Author)
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Blind Pony: As True A Story As I Can Tell
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Samantha Hart (Goodreads Author)
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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Christopher Ryan (Goodreads Author)
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)
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Courtney Peppernell (Goodreads Author)
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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How to Be a Woman
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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Austin Kleon (Goodreads Author)
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Hiroshima
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The Guns of August
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1776
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Bird by Bird
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Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author)
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The Sun and Her Flowers
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Rupi Kaur (Goodreads Author)
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
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Diane Ackerman (Goodreads Author)
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Bossypants
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
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The 48 Laws of Power
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Robert Greene (Goodreads Author)
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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Nathaniel Philbrick (Goodreads Author)
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
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10% Happier
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Dan Harris (Goodreads Author)
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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The Second Sex
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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Nathaniel Philbrick (Goodreads Author)
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
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Adam M. Grant (Goodreads Author)
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Steve Jobs
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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Timothy Snyder (Goodreads Author)
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The Library Book
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Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author)
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Nick Bostrom (Goodreads Author)
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A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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Naked
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
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Teenagers War: Vietnam 1969
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
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Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
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Marie Kondō (Goodreads Author)
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The Origin of Species
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The Complete Maus
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The Power of Myth
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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Just Mercy
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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
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The Feminine Mystique
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NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
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Becoming
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Girl, Interrupted
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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Cosmos
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
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More Than Love, A Husband's Tale
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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Escape
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Jan 23, 2010 05:52PM
This is a great list. I love non-fiction so will be able to use it as a guide. I don't know how to add a book but would like to reccomend Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris by Michael Allin.
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Great list! Some non-fiction is just so utterly boring . . thank you for creating such a wonderful list.
You add books at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."However, if you are the author I believe that is no longer possible; too many authors were abusing the privilege.
I read a ton of non fiction, I have added my limit of 100 books.
@StaceySaid it before and I'll say it again: As you share the same first name with the author, I can't escape the notion that you might be one and the same person?
# 757 The Woman in White and # 797 A Darkness Absolute are both fiction, as are #1014 Still Life, #1027 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and #1089 Murder on the Orient Express.#1181 The Great Gatsby (THE great American NOVEL!!!)
21 duplicates found and removedI’ll start in the next days removing fiction, appreciable any listings (less books to check it if I know for sure it’s fiction :-D)
Agnieszka wrote: "21 duplicates found and removedI’ll start in the next days removing fiction, appreciable any listings (less books to check it if I know for sure it’s fiction :-D)"
Murder on the Orient Express is fiction.
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