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#2
Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
  • Kelly G. Wilson
  • Troy Dufrene
01 read
#3
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
  • David Graeber
4.12124 reads
#4
No god but God
No god but God
  • Reza Aslan
3.8323 reads
#5
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
  • Ken Jennings
3.7830 reads
#6
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
  • Nate Silver
3.95121 reads
#7
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History
  • Rob Neyer
00 reads
#8
Crossworld
Crossworld
  • Marc Romano
00 reads
#9
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
  • Thomas Piketty
  • Arthur Goldhammer (Translator)
4.1770 reads
#10
Ever Since Darwin
Ever Since Darwin
  • Stephen Jay Gould
4.2912 reads
#11
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
  • Burton G. Malkiel
431 reads
#12
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow
  • Daniel Kahneman
4.12604 reads
#13
The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth
  • Frantz Fanon
  • Richard Philcox (Translator)
4.4247 reads
#14
Tasting Whiskey: An Insider's Guide to the Unique Pleasures of the World's Finest Spirits
Tasting Whiskey: An Insider's Guide to the Unique Pleasures of the World's Finest Spirits
  • Lew Bryson
3.52 reads
#15
Economics rules : the rights and wrongs of the dismal science
Economics rules : the rights and wrongs of the dismal science
  • Dani Rodrik
00 reads
#16
The Public Domain
The Public Domain
  • James Boyle
4.52 reads
#17
The Utopia of Rules
The Utopia of Rules
  • David Graeber
430 reads
#18
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.54540 reads
#19
Wait Till Next Year: The Story of a Season When What Should've Happened Didn't, and What Could've Gone Wrong Did
Wait Till Next Year: The Story of a Season When What Should've Happened Didn't, and What Could've Gone Wrong Did
  • William Goldman
  • Mike Lupica
31 read
#20
The Food Lab
The Food Lab
  • J. Kenji López-Alt
4.6364 reads
#21
Voices of protest
Voices of protest
  • Alan Brinkley
21 read
#22
Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good
Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good
  • Chuck Collins
41 read
#23
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
  • Ben Lindbergh
  • Sam Miller
4.0716 reads
#24
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
  • Sarah Glidden
4.339 reads
#25
Anti-intellectualism in American Life.
Anti-intellectualism in American Life.
  • Richard Hofstadter
4.339 reads
#26
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
  • Julia Serano
4.3738 reads
#27
Flash Boys
Flash Boys
  • Michael Lewis
4.14172 reads
#28
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
  • Matthew Desmond
4.59176 reads
#29
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
  • Ellen Meiksins Wood
4.675 reads
#30
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks
  • Amy Stewart
3.8336 reads
#31
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
  • Cathy O'Neil
3.73127 reads
#32
Steal Like an Artist
Steal Like an Artist
  • Austin Kleon
4.16298 reads
#33
Smart Baseball
Smart Baseball
  • Keith Law
3.55 reads
#34
Robot-Proof
Robot-Proof
  • Joseph E. Aoun
35 reads
#35
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
  • David Graeber
3.98141 reads
#36
Pym
Pym
  • Mat Johnson
4.178 reads
#37
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
  • Oliver Sacks
3.9279 reads
#38
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
  • Matt Taibbi
4.1712 reads
#39
Tranny
Tranny
  • Laura Jane Grace
4.3119 reads
#40
Winners Take All
Winners Take All
  • Anand Giridharadas
3.8235 reads
#41
Words Are My Matter
Words Are My Matter
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
48 reads
#42
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
  • Sara Goldrick-Rab
41 read
#43
Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race
Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race
  • Naben Ruthnum
42 reads
#44
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
  • Ibram X. Kendi
4.5588 reads
#45
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
  • Jenny Odell
3.65181 reads
#46
Economics
Economics
  • Ha-Joon Chang
422 reads
#47
Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas
Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas
  • Brad Thomas Parsons
3.66 reads
#48
Cover 5

The Bar Book

The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Technique
  • Jeffrey Morgenthaler
4.53 reads
#49
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
  • Charles Wheelan
3.5437 reads
#50
Caste
Caste
  • Isabel Wilkerson
4.43225 reads
#51
How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong
How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong
  • Douglas B. Downey
51 read
#52
The Lady Tasting Tea
The Lady Tasting Tea
  • David Salsburg
3.56 reads
#53
Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School
Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School
  • Jessica McCrory Calarco
31 read
#54
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
  • Greg Tate
00 reads
#55
Bottle of Lies
Bottle of Lies
  • Katherine Eban
4.756 reads
#56
How Antitrust Failed Workers
How Antitrust Failed Workers
  • Eric A. Posner
00 reads
#57
McMindfulness
McMindfulness
  • Ronald E. Purser
3.55 reads
#58
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
  • Dara Horn
4.6222 reads
#59
Against Schooling: For an Education That Matters
Against Schooling: For an Education That Matters
  • Stanley Aronowitz
00 reads
#60
Neda ' Al-Barari =
Neda ' Al-Barari =
  • Cristina Viviana Groeger
00 reads
#61
The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech
The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech
  • Jeff Kosseff
00 reads
#62
Locked In
Locked In
  • John F. Pfaff
01 read
#63
The Midrange Theory
The Midrange Theory
  • Seth Partnow
01 read
#64
Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education: Politics and Policymaking in the Postsecondary Sector
Reexamining the Federal Role in Higher Education: Politics and Policymaking in the Postsecondary Sector
  • Rebecca S. Natow
00 reads
#65
Shut Down the Business School: What's Wrong with Management Education
Shut Down the Business School: What's Wrong with Management Education
  • Martin Parker
00 reads
#66
A Chronicle of the Last Pagans
A Chronicle of the Last Pagans
  • Pierre Chuvin
  • B.A. Archer (Translator)
00 reads
#67
Cover 7

Integration Interrupted

Integration Interrupted: Tracking, Black Students, and Acting White after Brown
    41 read
    #68
    Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
    Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
    • Robin Wall Kimmerer
    4.53240 reads
    #69
    Story Mode: Video Games and the Interplay Between Consoles and Culture
    Story Mode: Video Games and the Interplay Between Consoles and Culture
    • Trevor Strunk
    00 reads
    #70
    The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
    The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
    • David Graeber
    • David Wengrow
    4.1796 reads
    #71
    Pedagogy of the Depressed
    Pedagogy of the Depressed
    • Christopher Schaberg
    00 reads
    #72
    A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum
    A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum
    • Jessica McCrory Calarco
    53 reads
    #73
    Privilege
    Privilege
    • Shamus Rahman Khan
    41 read
    #74
    Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
    Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
    • Kelefa Sanneh
    3.836 reads
    #75
    The Outsider
    The Outsider
    • Colin Wilson
    3.837 reads
    #76
    Calling Bullshit : The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
    Calling Bullshit : The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
    • Carl T. Bergstrom
    • Jevin D. West
    4.2127 reads
    #77
    Majoritarian Cities: Policy Making and Inequality in Urban Politics
    Majoritarian Cities: Policy Making and Inequality in Urban Politics
    • Neil Kraus
    00 reads
    #78
    Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
    Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
    • Matt Alt
    4.3914 reads
    #79
    Collective Visioning: How Groups Can Work Together for a Just and Sustainable Future
    Collective Visioning: How Groups Can Work Together for a Just and Sustainable Future
    • Linda Stout
    00 reads
    #80
    Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
    Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
    • John Womack
    00 reads
    #81
    Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States
    Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States
    • Jonathan I. Levy
    51 read
    #82
    Silicon Values
    Silicon Values
    • Jillian C. York
    51 read
    #83
    Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
    Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
    • Bill Burnett
    • Dave Evans
    3.6270 reads
    #84
    A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture
    A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture
    • Raúl Coronado
    00 reads
    #85
    Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
    Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
    • Leah Platt Boustan
    00 reads
    #86
    The Triple Helix
    The Triple Helix
    • Richard Lewontin
    52 reads
    #87
    It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!
    It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!
    • Tom Scharpling
    4.1710 reads
    #88
    All the Young Men
    All the Young Men
    • Ruth Coker Burks
    • Kevin Carr O'Leary
    4.6710 reads
    #89
    Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan, Vol. 1
    Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan, Vol. 1
    • Shigeru Mizuki
    3.59 reads
    #90
    Cruel Optimism
    Cruel Optimism
    • Lauren Berlant
    42 reads
    #91
    Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families
    Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families
    • Thomas J. Elpel
    00 reads
    #92
    100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design
    100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design
    • Steven Heller
    • Veronique Vienne
    51 read
    #93
    Genesis: Memory of Fire, Volume 1
    Genesis: Memory of Fire, Volume 1
    • Eduardo Galeano
    4.674 reads
    #94
    Las venas abiertas de América Latina
    Las venas abiertas de América Latina
    • Eduardo Galeano
    3.9630 reads
    #95
    Football in Sun and Shadow
    Football in Sun and Shadow
    • Eduardo Galeano
    41 read
    #96
    Behind the Screen
    Behind the Screen
    • Sarah T. Roberts
    41 read
    #97
    Cover 7

    The Gutenberg Elegies

    The Gutenberg Elegies
    • Sven Birkerts
    00 reads
    #98
    The Alignment Problem
    The Alignment Problem
    • Brian Christian
    4.2620 reads
    #99
    Design Justice
    Design Justice
    • Sasha Costanza-Chock
    4.25 reads
    #100
    Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing
    Thin Blue Lie: The Failure of High-Tech Policing
    • Matt Stroud
    00 reads
    #101
    The reactionary mind
    The reactionary mind
    • Corey Robin
    3.8910 reads