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13 books

Abandoned

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A Choice Of Gods
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving
The Cider House Rules
Different Mirror
The age of revolution, 1789-1848.
A Brief History of Equality
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

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4 books

Africa

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The country of my skull
A Dying Colonialism
Homegoing
God's Bits of Wood

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22 books

Alcohol

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Tasting Whiskey: An Insider's Guide to the Unique Pleasures of the World's Finest Spirits
The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World's Great Drinks
Bitters: A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas
The Craft of the Cocktail: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Master Bartender, with 500 Recipes
Can I Mix You a Drink?: Grammy Award-Winning T-Pain's Guide to Mixology - Classic Cocktail Book, Bartend er Book, Bar Book, and Funny Anecdotes

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11 books

Analytical Politics Recs

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Quick Calculus: A Self-Teaching Guide, 2nd Edition
An Introduction to Game Theory
Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science
Scientific Perspectivism
The World in the Model: How Economists Work and Think
Practical Ethics

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9 books

Anthropology

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Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
The Gift
Ghostly Matters
The Mismeasure of Man
Mathematics Elsewhere: An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures

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5 books

Art

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100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design
Just my type
Feast Your Eyes
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

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16 books

Asia

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Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Crazy Rich Asians
Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Volume 1
Showa 1926-1939: A History of Japan, Vol. 1
When the Emperor Was Divine
Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race

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5 books

Audiobook

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Failure Is an Option: An Attempted Memoir
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Ghosts in the Schoolyard
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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6 books

Book Riot 2018

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The Leopard
Manfried the Man
A Wrinkle in Time
Red Plenty
The God of Small Things
Crazy Rich Asians

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4 books

Books I Hate

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Caste
Gone Girl
Year of Wonders
The City We Became

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1 book

Botched The Landing

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Klara and the Sun

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3 books

Cartoons

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Life Begins at Incorporation: Cartoons and Essays
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Marbles

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7 books

Chicago

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Ghosts in the Schoolyard
High-Risers
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
Family Properties : Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955

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21 books

College Required

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The Republic
Assata: An Autobiography
The Wealth of Nations
Caliban and the Witch
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
Aimée & Jaguar

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13 books

Comics

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The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for
Step Aside, Pops
Sex Criminals: Volume One: One Weird Trick
Sex Criminals, Vol. 2: Due Piccioncini, Una Fava
Sex Criminals, Volume Three: Three the Hard Way
Saga, Book Two
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness: Special Edition

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43 books

Cookbooks

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Ruhlman's Twenty
The Food Lab
Mastering Pizza: The Art and Practice of Handmade Pizza, Focaccia, and Calzone
The Gaijin Cookbook: Japanese Recipes from a Chef, Father, Eater, and Lifelong Outsider
Pie Squared: Irresistibly Easy Sweet & Savory Slab Pies
Coconut & Sambal
Eat, Habibi, Eat!: Fresh Recipes for Modern Egyptian Cooking

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26 books

Creative Nonfiction

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In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction
Dear God, Have You Ever Gone Hungry?
How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
Scenes from an Impending Marriage
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Brainiac
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

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5 books

Criticism

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Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
Playing in the Dark
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques

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27 books

Cultural Critique

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Guyland the perilous world where boys become men
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
Sexing the Body
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
The Lifespan of a Fact
The Other Side of the River
Griftopia

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2 books

Cyberpunk

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Snow Crash
Infinite Detail

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7 books

Data Science

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Calling Bullshit : The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
The Alignment Problem
The Midrange Theory
Data versus Democracy: How Big Data Algorithms Shape Opinions and Alter the Course of History
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Beautiful Evidence

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3 books

Design

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100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design
Design Justice
Beautiful Evidence

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12 books

Dystopias

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The Running Man
The Lathe of Heaven
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Talents
Oryx and Crake
We
Ready Player One

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41 books

Economics

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Griftopia
Race and the Invisible Hand : How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Economics rules : the rights and wrongs of the dismal science

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42 books

Education

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Robot-Proof
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong
Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School
Despite the Best Intentions
Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education
The Ambitious Elementary School: Its Conception, Design, and Implications for Educational Equality
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