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AI & LLMs

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Unmasking AI
I, Human
How to Stay Smart in a Smart World
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
The Coming Wave
The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

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14 books

Books banned in Utah Public Schools

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A Court of Mist and Fury
A Court of Frost and Starlight
Milk and Honey
What Girls Are Made Of
Living Dead Girl
Blankets
A Court of Thorns and Roses

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23 books

Books everyone should read

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Quiet : The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
The Complete Maus
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Lord of the Rings
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Dune

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Business Books

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Economical Writing

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1 book

City Design and Infrastructure

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Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

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18 books

Classics

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Pattern Recognition
The Gods Themselves
Lord of Light
The City and the Stars
Galápagos
Ubik
It Can't Happen Here

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10 books

Colorful Covers

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Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
Grimm Tales
On Fragile Waves
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Crazy Rich Asians
Tokyo Ueno Station
The Vanishing Half

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4 books

Community Building

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The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities
Building Brand Communities
Governable Spaces

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7 books

Creative Inspiration

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Badass
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Creative Confidence
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Understanding Comics
Data Sketches

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7 books

Data Vizualization

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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Visual Explanations
Envisioning Information
Beautiful Evidence
The Art of Insight
Data Sketches
Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization

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10 books

Favorite Programming books

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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

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8 books

History of the Internet

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The Players Ball: A Genius, a Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet's Rise
Extremely Online
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
The History of the Future
The Internet Con

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Kindle

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They Knew How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent

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2 books

Learn more

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Light from Uncommon Stars
What Moves the Dead

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39 books

My Favorite Brandon Sanderson Books

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The Way of Kings
Mistborn: The Final Empire
The Emperor's Soul
Skyward
Tress of the Emerald Sea
The Hero of Ages
Steelheart

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New York Times: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2024

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The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
Long Live Evil
The Book of Love
Rakesfall
In Universes
The Melancholy of Untold History
Exordia

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Next to Read in Series

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Dark Age
Fire & Blood
A Gathering of Shadows
Unravel Me
The Strength of the Few
A Court of Frost and Starlight
Kushiel's Chosen

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100 books

NPR Top 100 Science Fiction Fantasy

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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

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41 books

On Deck

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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

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11 books

Owned

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Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
Recursion
The Time Traveler's Wife
Galatea
Envisioning Information
Crying in H Mart
Data Sketches

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26 books

Recommendations

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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

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6 books

Recommendations For Marilyn

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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Recursion
Six Wakes
We Are Legion
The Name of the Wind
Red Rising

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2 books

Romatasy

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Star Mother
The Shadows Between Us

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1 book

Scary Stories

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Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

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3 books

Society

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The Code of Capital
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
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