Brainiac

Brainiac

By
Ken Jennings
Ken Jennings
2006 • 288 pages

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Average rating4.3

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822 books

Nonfiction

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Christina
Under the Banner of Heaven
The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
An American Requiem
A Fair Country
The Happiness Project
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
In Search of Grace

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39 books

Favorites

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Darby
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Out of My Mind
The One and Only Ivan
Mandy
The Mighty Miss Malone
The Lions of Little Rock

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33 books

Nonfiction

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Darby
The Diary of a Young Girl
Brainiac
I Will Always Write Back

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28 books

Biography

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Alex
Genius
Steve Jobs
I. Asimov
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
LSD: My Problem Child – Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

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19 books

To Read 2013

skryl
Alex
Computer Lib/Dream Machines
The Reasoned Schemer
Paradigms of artificial intelligence programming
The Practice of Programming
The Architecture of Open Source Applications
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Dealers of Lightning

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26 books

Creative Nonfiction

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Adam
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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47 books

Memoir

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Adam
Dear God, Have You Ever Gone Hungry?
Scenes from an Impending Marriage
Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Brainiac
Drinking at the Movies
The Fart Party, Vol. 2

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12 books

Science

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Rom
Introduction to Stochastic Processes
Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
Curve & Surface Fitting: an Introduction
Bottlemania
Brainiac
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

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35 books

Nonfiction

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Rom
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Night
Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
Brainiac
The Western Heritage Since 1300, AP Edition

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58 books

5 Stars

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Rom
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Chess Story
Airport
1984
Night
Galápagos
The Invention of Hugo Cabret

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73 books

Nonfiction

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Kelly Corn
On the Road
Lysistrata
The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition
He's Just Not That Into You
Travels in Siberia
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
The Corner

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140 books

Owned

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Amanda
Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Summer of '49
Ball Four
Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles
A Game of Brawl: The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

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115 books

Nonfiction

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Amanda
Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Summer of '49
Ball Four
Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O'Malley, Baseball's Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles
A Game of Brawl: The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and the Battle for the 1897 Pennant
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

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41 books

Kindle

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Amanda
Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North
All You Can Ever Know
House Rules: A Memoir
Columbine