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#2
Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age
Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age
  • B. Jack Copeland
42 reads
#3
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
  • Simon Winchester
3.81130 reads
#5
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
  • Ethan Watters
4.25 reads
#6
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
  • Ken Jennings
3.7632 reads
#7
The numerati
The numerati
  • Stephen Baker
3.335 reads
#8
Quiet, Please
Quiet, Please
  • Scott Douglas
3.577 reads
#9
The Psychopath Test
The Psychopath Test
  • Jon Ronson
3.7694 reads
#10
Packing for Mars
Packing for Mars
  • Mary Roach
4.02137 reads
#11
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  • Rebecca Skloot
4.18406 reads
#12
The Men Who Stare At Goats
The Men Who Stare At Goats
  • Jon Ronson
3.5651 reads
#13
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
  • Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.23167 reads
#14
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London
  • Steven Johnson
3.9386 reads
#15
Pearls In Vinegar - Pillow Book Of Heather Mallick
Pearls In Vinegar - Pillow Book Of Heather Mallick
  • Heather Mallick
31 read
#16
What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything
What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything
    42 reads
    #17
    You are not a gadget
    You are not a gadget
    • Jaron Lanier
    3.3329 reads
    #18
    How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move?: Inside My Autistic Mind
    How Can I Talk If My Lips Don't Move?: Inside My Autistic Mind
    • Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay
    3.333 reads
    #19
    The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
    The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime
    • Miles Harvey
    3.335 reads
    #20
    Final Jeopardy
    Final Jeopardy
    • Stephen Baker
    43 reads
    #21
    Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
    Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
    • Steven D. Levitt
    • Stephen J. Dubner
    3.81795 reads
    #22
    Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors
    Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors
    • Lisa Appignanesi
    51 read
    #23
    Words Words Words
    Words Words Words
    • David Crystal
    42 reads
    #24
    Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
    Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
    • Judith Walzer Leavitt
    31 read
    #25
    A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
    A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
    • Robert McCracken Peck
    00 reads
    #26
    The Mole People
    The Mole People
    • Jennifer Toth
    3.136 reads
    #27
    50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior
    50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Misconceptions about Human Behavior
    • Scott O. Lilienfeld
    • Steven Jay Lynn
    • John Ruscio
    • Barry L. Beyerstein
    46 reads
    #28
    Godless: The Church of Liberalism
    Godless: The Church of Liberalism
    • Ann Coulter
    2.85 reads
    #29
    The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
    The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
    • Diane Ravitch
    42 reads
    #30
    The Most Human Human
    The Most Human Human
    • Brian Christian
    3.7320 reads
    #31
    A Million Little Pieces
    A Million Little Pieces
    • James Frey
    3.52110 reads
    #32
    The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
    The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
    • A.J. Jacobs
    3.7625 reads
    #33
    Cover 5

    Letter Perfect

    Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z
    • David Sacks
    31 read
    #34
    Kluge
    Kluge
    • Gary F. Marcus
    3.54 reads
    #35
    Just my type
    Just my type
    • Simon Garfield
    3.8441 reads
    #36
    A Pound of Paper
    A Pound of Paper
    • John Baxter
    01 read
    #37
    Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed
    Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed
    • Carl Zimmer
    3.25 reads
    #38
    Songcatchers: In Search of the World's Music
    Songcatchers: In Search of the World's Music
    • Mickey Hart
    • K.M. Kostyal
    31 read
    #39
    Cover 0

    The Last Time I Wore a Dress

    The Last Time I Wore a Dress
    • Daphne Scholinski
    • Dylan Scholinski
    • Jane Meredith Adams
    42 reads
    #40
    Why The Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down: The Science of Murphy's Law
    Why The Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down: The Science of Murphy's Law
    • Richard Robinson
    01 read
    #41
    The Year of Living Biblically
    The Year of Living Biblically
    • A.J. Jacobs
    3.8672 reads
    #42
    What Is Your Dangerous Idea? : Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
    What Is Your Dangerous Idea? : Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
      3.53 reads
      #43
      Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
      Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
      • Mary Roach
      3.563 reads
      #44
      A hard day's write
      A hard day's write
      • Steve Turner
      32 reads
      #45
      The Cap: The Price of a Life
      The Cap: The Price of a Life
      • Roman Frister
      • Hillel Halkin (Translator)
      00 reads
      #46
      Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
      Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
      • David Bellos
      3.333 reads
      #47
      Deepest Thoughts: So Deep They Squeak
      Deepest Thoughts: So Deep They Squeak
      • Jack Handey
      31 read
      #48
      Cover 7

      Tasting the Universe

      Tasting the Universe: People Who See Colors in Words and Rainbows in Symphonies
      • Maureen Ann Seaberg
      21 read
      #49
      The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
      The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
      • James Gleick
      4.1367 reads
      #50
      Cover 8

      The Philosopher's Dictionary - Third Edition

      The Philosopher's Dictionary - Third Edition
      • Robert M. Martin
      21 read
      #51
      Free Radicals
      Free Radicals
      • Michael Brooks
      43 reads
      #52
      Paris, 1919
      Paris, 1919
      • Margaret MacMillan
      4.1112 reads
      #53
      Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
      Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
      • Mary Roach
      3.91332 reads
      #54
      Going sane
      Going sane
      • Adam Phillips
      41 read
      #55
      Memories Are Made of This : The Biological Building Blocks of Memory
      Memories Are Made of This : The Biological Building Blocks of Memory
      • Rusiko Bourtchouladze
      00 reads
      #56
      PostSecret
      PostSecret
      • Frank Warren
      4.1634 reads
      #57
      Cover 5

      To Bedlam and Part Way Back

      To Bedlam and Part Way Back
      • Anne Sexton
      43 reads
      #58
      Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
      Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
      • Mary Roach
      3.91118 reads
      #59
      Edison's Eve
      Edison's Eve
      • Gaby Wood
      32 reads
      #60
      Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
      Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
        4.0720 reads
        #61
        The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini
        The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini
        • Rebecca Messbarger
        00 reads
        #62
        Cover 2

        Invisible Ink

        Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution
        • John A. Nagy
        00 reads
        #63
        Cover 6

        Radioactivity

        Radioactivity: A History of a Mysterious Science
        • Marjorie C. Malley
        31 read
        #64
        The Love You Make
        The Love You Make
        • Peter Brown
        • Steven S. Gaines
        2.53 reads
        #65
        Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
        Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
        • John Gray
        3.1762 reads
        #66
        The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
        The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
        • Matt Ridley
        3.929 reads
        #68
        The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
        The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
        • Oliver Sacks
        3.9293 reads
        #69
        The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
        The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
        • A.J. Jacobs
        3.5760 reads
        #70
        Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams
        Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams
        • M.J. Simpson
        31 read
        #71
        Rockin' in Time: A Social History of Rock-and-roll
        Rockin' in Time: A Social History of Rock-and-roll
        • David P. Szatmary
        52 reads
        #72
        Cover 7

        Psychology for Dummies

        Psychology for Dummies
        • Adam Cash
        2.675 reads
        #73
        Science: The Definitive Visual Guide
        Science: The Definitive Visual Guide
          01 read
          #74
          The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
          The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
          • Steven Pinker
          3.5620 reads
          #75
          On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
          On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
          • Dave Grossman
          3.5716 reads
          #76
          Blood Work
          Blood Work
          • Holly Tucker
          49 reads
          #77
          I Was Bono's Doppelganger
          I Was Bono's Doppelganger
          • Neil McCormick
          31 read
          #78
          Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
          Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
          • Mary Roach
          3.94112 reads
          #79
          Cover 5

          Psychiatric Tales

          Psychiatric Tales
          • Darryl Cunningham
          3.673 reads
          #82
          Boxers
          Boxers
          • Gene Luen Yang
          3.7148 reads
          #83
          Orange Is the New Black
          Orange Is the New Black
          • Piper Kerman
          3.58143 reads
          #84
          Words to live by
          Words to live by
          • Whitehead, William
          41 read
          #85
          Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
          Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
          • Ray Jayawardhana
          45 reads
          #86
          Persepolis, Vol. 1
          Persepolis, Vol. 1
          • Marjane Satrapi
          • Mihaela Dobrescu (Translator)
          4.37291 reads
          #87
          Woman Rebel
          Woman Rebel
          • Peter Bagge
          3.755 reads
          #88
          We Won't See Auschwitz
          We Won't See Auschwitz
          • Jérémie Dres
          • Edward Gauvin (Translator)
          31 read
          #89
          The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
          The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
          • Thomas King
          4.4137 reads
          #90
          Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
          Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
          • David Sedaris
          3.77185 reads
          #92
          The Virtual Self: How Our Digital Lives Are Altering the World Around Us
          The Virtual Self: How Our Digital Lives Are Altering the World Around Us
          • Nora Young
          32 reads
          #96
          The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
          The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
          • Henry Gee
          3.53 reads
          #98
          Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature
          Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature
          • David Philip Barash
          • Nanelle R. Barash
          10 reads
          #99
          Shocked
          Shocked
          • David Casarett
          3.754 reads
          #100
          Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book: An Anatomy of a Book Burning
          Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book: An Anatomy of a Book Burning
          • Lawrence Hill
          33 reads
          #101
          Drinking at the Movies
          Drinking at the Movies
          • Julia Wertz
          3.812 reads
          #104
          It's Actually a Good Thing
          It's Actually a Good Thing
          • J.L. Witterick
          11 read
          #105
          The First Man-Made Man
          The First Man-Made Man
          • Pagan Kennedy
          2.52 reads
          #107
          So You've Been Publicly Shamed
          So You've Been Publicly Shamed
          • Jon Ronson
          3.96183 reads
          #110
          March
          March
          • John Lewis
          • Andrew Aydin
          4.6881 reads
          #111
          Charity and Sylvia
          Charity and Sylvia
          • Rachel Hope Cleves
          4.673 reads
          #114
          Talking Hands
          Talking Hands
          • Margalit Fox
          44 reads
          #115
          My Heart Glow
          My Heart Glow
          • Emily Arnold McCully
          31 read
          #118
          Seeing Voices
          Seeing Voices
          • Oliver Sacks
          3.59 reads
          #119
          Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
          Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry
          • Jacquie McNish
          • Sean Silcoff
          3.6328 reads