
Finding good books today isn't all that easy. I created this page to record what I've thought of the books I've read. Reading it should help you get an idea of how similar our tastes are. If we like the same things and I've missed one of your favorites, then what are you doing still sitting there on your hands? E-mail me already! Even better, create a page like this and bring civilization closer to a state of perfect literary harmony.
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Microserfs
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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
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JPod
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Hey Nostradamus!
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End Zone
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Libra
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The Names
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Underworld
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White Noise
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Amazons: An Intimate Memoir By the First Woman to Play in the National Hockey League
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Great Jones Street
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Americana
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Players
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Mao II
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Cosmopolis
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The Body Artist
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Ratner's Star
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Running Dog was much less intellectual than the above and much more "plot-centered"/"pulpy". It was still "good," but not really my style. I think this book and Ratner's Star show DeLillo going too far to opposite extremes.
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The Last Samurai
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David Copperfield
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Great Expectations
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The Idiot |
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Demons/The Possessed |
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The Brothers Karamazov |
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Crime and Punishment |
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The Adolescent/A Raw Youth |
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The Gambler |
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Netochka Nezvanovna |
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The Village of Stepanchikovo |
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The House of the Dead |
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Notes From the Underground |
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Short stories |
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The Double is horrible. Anything else is worth reading. |
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Foucault's Pendulum |
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Baudolino |
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The Name of the Rose |
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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
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The Island of the Day Before |
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Invisible Man |
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American Gods |
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Anansi Boys
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The Sorrows of Young Werther |
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Faust |
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Faust: Part Two |
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Elective Affinities |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
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Catch-22
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Something Happened
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Closing Time
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Picture This
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Now and Then
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Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man
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God Knows
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Steppenwolf |
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Demian |
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Narcissus and Goldmund |
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Gertrude |
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Beneath the Wheel |
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Peter Camenzind |
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Rosshalde |
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The Glass Bead Game |
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Siddartha |
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Journey to the East |
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Strange News from Another Star
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The Hotel New Hampshire
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
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The Cider House Rules
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A Son of the Circus
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A Widow for One Year
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The Water Method Man
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The World According to Garp
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Until I Find You
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The 158-Pound Marriage
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Setting Free the Bears
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The Fourth Hand
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Trying to Save Piggy Sneed
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The Imaginary Girlfriend
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Sexus
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Plexus
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Nexus
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Moloch
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Tropic of Capricorn
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Tropic of Cancer
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The Colossus of Maroussi
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Mason and Dixon
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Gravity's Rainbow
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Vineland
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V.
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The Crying of Lot 49
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Slow Learner
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Against the Day
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The Human Stain
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I Married a Communist
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Portnoy's Complaint
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Operation Shylock
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Zuckerman Bound
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The Ghost Writer
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American Pastoral
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The Counterlife
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Sabbath's Theater
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The Plot Against America
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Exit Ghost
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The Great American Novel
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The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
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Letting Go
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The Satanic Verses
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The Catcher in the Rye
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The Reprieve |
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The Age of Reason |
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The Wall (American collection of short stories) |
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Nausea |
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Troubled Sleep |
Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
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Illuminatus! |
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Schrödinger's Cat |
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War and Peace |
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Anna Karenina was rather disappointing. It was full of absurd Christian conversions and pointless and detailed descriptions of social activities, without the redeeming qualities of War and Peace. |
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Rabbit is Rich
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Rabbit Redux
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Rabbit, Run
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Rabbit at Rest
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Licks of Love
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Infinite Jest
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
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Oblivion
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Girl with Curious Hair
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
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Consider the Lobster
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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
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The Broom of the System
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
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A Man In Full
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I am Charlotte Simmons
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe |
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Life, the Universe and Everything |
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish |
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Mostly Harmless |
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Young Zaphod Plays it Safe |
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World's End
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Radio Free Albemuth
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The Man in the High Castle
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Billy Bathgate
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The Waterworks
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Tender is the Night |
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The Great Gatsby
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The Mind-Body Problem
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The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind
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Mazel
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The Power and the Glory
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The Scarlet Letter |
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The Blithedale Romance |
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The House of the Seven Gables |
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The Marble Faun |
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Dune |
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Dune Messiah |
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Children of Dune |
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The Castle |
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The Trial |
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Short stories |
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On the Road
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It Can't Happen Here
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John Barleycorn
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The Sea Wolf |
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Life of Pi
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All the Pretty Horses
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The Defense |
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Pnin |
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Pale Fire |
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Invitation to a Beheading |
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Lolita |
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Nabokov's Dozen
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The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
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The Third Policeman
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1984 |
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Burmese Days |
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying
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Homage to Catalonia is really journalism and not an attempt at fiction, so don't expect otherwise! |
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Animal Farm |
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Fight Club |
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Survivor |
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Invisible Monsters |
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
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Lila
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Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth
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The Space Merchants
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Ishmael
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The Story of B
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My Ishmael
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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Mother Night |
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Breakfast of Champions
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Hocus Pocus
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Cat's Cradle
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Timequake
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Wuthering Heights
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The Big Sleep
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Carpenter's Gothic
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List
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Ringworld |
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The Ringworld Engineers |
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The Ringworld Throne |
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Doctor Zhivago |
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The Diary of Malta Laurid Brigge |
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Villa Incognito
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Fathers and Sons |
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Short stories |
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Rudin/On the Eve
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I'm not going to bother comparing these books to each other. I'll just say that I found each worth reading.
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Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
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David T. Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alexander Tabarrok
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The Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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The Tao of Physics |
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The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
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Keeping the Rabble in Line |
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Necessary Illusions |
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Profit over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order |
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The Selfish Gene |
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The Ancestor's Tale
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The God Delusion
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A Devil's Chaplain
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
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William H. Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins
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Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes
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The Underground History of American Education
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Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
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100 Million Unnecessary Returns: A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States
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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
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The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
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A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools
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George Lakoff and Rafael E. Nunez
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Where Mathematics Comes From |
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Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
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Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education
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Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
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Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
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Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows
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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
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The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
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Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count
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Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
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The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window Into Human Nature
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The Language Instinct
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Fortune's Formula
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The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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Walden |
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Democracy in America, Volume I
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The Outsider |
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Religion and the Rebel |
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The Occult: A History |
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The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries with Damon Wilson |
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Alien Dawn |
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The Age of Defeat
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Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
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The Moral Animal
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A People's History of the United States |
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train |
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Declarations of Independence |