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Adam

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Hey hey! I'm Adam, Hardcover's founder. I love science fiction, fantasy, sciencey-nonfiction and anything that helps me learn a little bit more about the world, or help empathize with others.

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Location:Salt Lake City, UT

Link:https://adamfortuna.com

Adam's Books by Status

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Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
The AI Con
There Are Rivers in the Sky
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Around the World in 80 Games
The Devourers

Adam's Reading Goals

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7/12 books
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2025 By Women

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10/52 books
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2025 Reading Goal

Read 52 books by . You're right on schedule! 🙌

Adam's Pinned Prompts

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3,901 books

What are your favorite books of all time?

When you think back on every book you've ever read, what are some of your favorites? These can be from any time of your life – books that resonated with you as a kid, ones that shaped your personal...

Children of Time
Ender's Game
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
A Court of Mist and Fury
Redwall
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
The Dark Forest
Head First Design Patterns
Badass
The Absolute Sandman, Volume One
The Midnight Library
Project Hail Mary

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79 books

What are your favorite science fiction books of all time?

Science fiction as a genre includes a wide range of topics. From imaginative and futuristic concepts to space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life and more. What stan...

The Time Traveler's Wife
Ender's Game
The Dark Forest
Wool
Red Rising
Recursion
Dark Matter
Project Hail Mary
The Martian
Hyperion

Featured Prompt

52 books

Which books had characters you resonated with the most?

Memorable characters can leave an impression as long as the story or plot. What characters stand out to you the most? These could be characters who you were able to identify with, ones that inspire...

Circe
S.
Outlander
The Name of the Wind
Crazy Rich Asians
The Way of Kings
The Walking Dead Compendium One
Hyperion
The Martian
The Lord of the Rings
The Absolute Sandman, Volume One
Vicious

Featured Prompt

55 books

What are your favorite book recommendations for new readers?

New readers often struggle to find books that they connect with. It often takes exploring different genres and writing styles from a many points of views to understand your own tastes. If you've ma...

Redwall
Project Hail Mary
Wool
Circe
Uprooted
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Steelheart
We Are Legion
Off to Be the Wizard
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Ender's Game

Featured Prompt

59 books

What fantasy romance books have left you spellbound?

Some readers differentiate between “fantasy romance” in which the fantastical elements of the storyline are more prominent, and “romantic fantasy” in which the romantic elements of the storyline ar...

A Court of Mist and Fury
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Stardust
The Princess Bride
Uprooted
Outlander

Prompt

8 books

What are your favorite dark academia books?

Fantasy books set in school have a certain allure. That school experience is one we can all relate to. Couple that with learning about a new fantastical world and you get a recipe for a world that ...

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The Will of the Many
Fourth Wing
The Magicians
Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
A Deadly Education

Featured Prompt

50 books

What is the most unique or thought-provoking time travel book you've ever read?

Time travel books are a great way to explore the possibilities and consequences of changing the past. They can also be a lot of fun, as you follow the adventures of characters who travel through time.

Doomsday Book
This Is How You Lose the Time War
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Hyperion
Outlander
11/22/63
Paper Girls, Book One
The Time Machine
Recursion
The Time Traveler's Wife

Prompt

6 books

What are the most fun science fiction series?

There are many great stand-alone fun science fiction books, but what about series? Connected stories that stay lighthearted while tackling serious situations. What’s the first book in that series p...

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
All Systems Red
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
We Are Legion

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62 books

Which books made you think deeply about freedom, truth, and society?

Books have the power to challenge our perspectives, reveal hidden truths, and inspire us to think critically about the world around us. Stories—both real and imagined—can illustrate the importance ...

The Handmaid's Tale
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
1984
Animal Farm

Adam's Pinned Lists

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Favorite Programming books

Programming books that inspired and helped shape my mindset on how to be a developer.

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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Peopleware
Joel on Software
The Pragmatic Programmer
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
Refactoring UI
Code Complete
Atomic Design

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100 books

NPR Top 100 Science Fiction Fantasy

More than 60,000 ballots were cast in NPR's annual summer reader's survey. These are the top 100 winners - ordered by the number of votes they received.

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The Lord of the Rings
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Ender's Game
Dune
A Game of Thrones
1984
Fahrenheit 451
The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation, Second Foundation, Foundation And Empire

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44 books

On Deck

Books I'm planning to read soon are added to this list to help keep track of what's high on my want to read list.

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Dark Age
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Just City
Consider Phlebas
The Left Hand of Darkness
A Canticle for Leibowitz
You Deserve a Tech Union

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26 books

Recommendations

These are some of my favorite books of all time that I constantly recommend to anyone who will listen. 😂

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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Ready Player One
Hyperion
The Way of Kings
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Speaker for the Dead
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Redshirts

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