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Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Anil Ananthaswamy
Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town
Hannah Kirshner
Sustainable Revolution: Permaculture in Ecovillages, Urban Farms, and Communities Worldwide
Juliana Birnbaum
Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
Joyce Vance
★★★★★
The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
Yi-Ling Liu
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★★★★★
The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
Gil Duran
★★★★
The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World
Trevor Jackson
★★★★
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
Edward Fishman
★★★★
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
Imagination: A Manifesto
Ruha Benjamin
★★★
The Land and Its People
David Sedaris
★★
The First Survivors of Alzheimer's: How Patients Recovered Life and Hope in Their Own Words
Dale E. Bredesen
★★★★
Tiny & Wild: Build a Small-Scale Meadow Anywhere
Graham Laird Gardner
★★★★
Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry
Ada Limon
★★★
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing
Alice Evelyn Yang
★★★★★
Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom
Camonghne Felix
★★★★
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
Ursula K. Le Guin
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
Eva Dou
★★★★
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Rebecca Solnit
★★★★★
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
Patrick McGee
Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads
Nick Hayes
★★★★
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
Michael Lewis
★★★★
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
Suzanne Simard
★★★★★
The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present
Steve Brusatte
★★★★
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee
★★★★
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times: How to Reclaim Your Power, Fight for Freedom, and Reimagine Democracy
Skye Perryman
★★★★
What Bees Want: Beekeeping as Nature Intended
Susan Knilans
★★★★★
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger
★★★★
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
Ferris Jabr
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Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom
Camonghne Felix
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★★★★★
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
Patrick McGee
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This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee
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★★★★★
The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present
Steve Brusatte
★★★★
Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China
Xiaolu Guo-
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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger
★★★★★
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
Barbara Demick
★★★★★
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow
★★★★★
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick
The One-Straw Revolution
Masanobu Fukuoka
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Dog Songs: Poems
Mary Oliver
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The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
António Damásio
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White Teeth
Zadie Smith
Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg
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Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong
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The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
Fritjof Capra
I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas R. Hofstadter
★★★★★
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
Isaac Asimov
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1984
George Orwell
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
Orson Scott Card
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
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Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
Peter Wohlleben
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Brian Greene
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
Winter Recipes from the Collective
Louise Glück
★★★★★
Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas
★★★★★
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
★★★★★
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
Howard Zinn
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Douglas Adams
★★★★★
The Road to Chinese Exclusion: The Denver Riot, 1880 Election, and Rise of the West
Liping Zhu
★★★★★
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
Douglas W. Tallamy
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Kin
Tayari Jones
★★★★★
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
Jennifer Pahlka
★★★★★
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
★★★★★
Review
The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters
★★★★★
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
★★★★★
Trust
Hernan Diaz
★★★★★
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
★★★★★
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
★★★★★
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Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
Brendan Ballou
★★★★★
A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs
Gulchehra Hoja
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Review
A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
Lauren Markham
★★★★★
Review
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
★★★★★
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
★★★★
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
Liu Cixin
★★★★★
The Displaced: Anthology of refugee writers describing loss, resilience, and unexpected new homes.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
★★★★★
Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre
Liao Yiwu
★★★★★
Review
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957
Frank Dikötter
★★★★★
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves
Madhur Anand
★★★★★
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Octavia E. Butler
★★★★★
Review
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert
★★★★★
Drawing Blood
Molly Crabapple
★★★★★
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
Vincent Bevins
Want to read
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The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
Alexander C. Karp
I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World
Sarah Wilson
Awakening Artemis: Deepening Intimacy with the Living Earth and Reclaiming Our Wild Nature
Vanessa Chakour
One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder
Brian Doyle
Divine Right's Trip: A Novel of the Counterculture
Gurney Norman
Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788–1836 (Harvard Historical Studies)
Lisa Ford
Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture
S. Elizabeth Bird
Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory (Historical Materialism)
Phil A Neel
Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830
Trevor Jackson
Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds
Helen Hiebert
Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
Jarod K. Anderson
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
Lyse Doucet
Forget Camus: Confronting the Humanist Myth
Oliver Gloag
Empire Ablaze: The American Revolution and the Atlantic Working Class
Tom Cutterham
Twisted Oak: A Journey to Create a Self-Sustaining Life and Home
Kristina Munroe Pe
Earthship: How to Build Your Own, Vol. 1
Michael Reynolds
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
Jill Lepore
Urban Permaculture: A Practical Handbook for Sustainable Living
David Watkins
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
Kelly Coyne
Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living
Rachel Kaplan
A Nation of Tinkerers: A History of Electronic Music in Canada from 1945 to 1985 (Bibliophonic, 8)
Michael Rancic
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
Susana M. Morris
All We Say: The Battle for American Identity: A History in 15 Speeches
Ben Rhodes
Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century
Ece Temelkuran
On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear
Julia Angwin
The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land
Aziz Abu Sarah
The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government
Barbara McQuade
The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary
Terry Tempest Williams
Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
Heather Ann Thompson
Yolk
Camonghne Felix
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science
Werner Heisenberg
She Will Last as Long as Stones
Kathy Wu
Book from the Sky
Xu Bing
Make: Solar Circuits for Artists
Alex Nathanson
A History of Solar Power Art and Design
Alex Nathanson
How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe
Harry Cliff
The Artful Wooden Spoon: How to Make Exquisite Keepsakes for the Kitchen
Joshua Vogel
Compost City: Practical Composting Know-How for Small-Space Living
Rebecca Louie
Permaculture Guide to Reed Beds: Designing, Building and Planting your Treatment Wetland System
Feidhlim Harty
Graywater Treatment Using Comstructed Wetlands
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The New Geography of Innovation: The global contest for breakthrough technologies
Mehran Gul
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
Mike Bird
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
Megan Greenwell
The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant
Tae Kim
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
Stephen Witt
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
Katie Holten
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
Prudence Peiffer
Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in Its Struggle to Be Understood
Grayson Perry
Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
Michael Shnayerson
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