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The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
Kathleen DuVal
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Eliezer Yudkowsky
★★★★
Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China
Xiaolu Guo
★★★★
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Dan Wang
★★★★
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
Cory Doctorow
The Summer War
Naomi Novik
★★★★
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference
Arvind Narayanan
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
Roger McNamee
How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food
Vaclav Smil
★★★★★
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
Barbara Demick
★★★★★
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick
★★★★
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
Elizabeth Strout
★★★★
Water Moon
Samantha Sotto Yambao
★★★★★
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
John Green
★★★★★
Kin
Tayari Jones
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan
★★★
The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables that Connect our World
Samanth Subramanian
★★★★★
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow
★★★★
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin
★★★★★
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
Mohammed El-Kurd
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Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Frans de Waal
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
Peter Attia
★★★
Build Your Own Beekeeping Equipment: How to Construct 8- & 10-Frame Hives; Top Bar, Nuc & Demo Hives; Feeders, Swarm Catchers & More
Tony Pisano
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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
Barbara Demick
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★★★★★
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow
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★★★★★
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Barbara Demick
The One-Straw Revolution
Masanobu Fukuoka
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
★★★★★
Dog Songs: Poems
Mary Oliver
★★★★★
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
António Damásio
★★★★
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg
★★★★★
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong
★★★★★
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
★★★★★
1984
George Orwell
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
★★★★★
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
Orson Scott Card
★★★★★
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
★★★★★
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
Peter Wohlleben
★★★★★
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
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
Howard Zinn
★★★★★
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
★★★★★
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
★★★★★
Review
Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
Brendan Ballou
★★★★★
A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs
Gulchehra Hoja
★★★★★
Review
A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
Lauren Markham
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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
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Drawing Blood
Molly Crabapple
★★★★★
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
Vincent Bevins
★★★★★
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
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Animal Dreams
Barbara Kingsolver
★★★★★
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy
Barbara Ehrenreich
★★★★★
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Jessica Bruder
★★★★★
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
★★★★★
Review
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Saidiya Hartman
Want to read
50 books
The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain's Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War
Aaron Shulman
Babylon, South Dakota
Tom Lin
Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories
Amal El-Mohtar
America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History
Caroline Tracey
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Rebecca Solnit
Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom
Camonghne Felix
Amulet
Roberto Bolaño
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
Eva Dou
Green Island
Shawna Yang Ryan
Tales from Ancient Chinas Imperial Harem
Yuan Yang
Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order
Yuan Yang
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
Peter Hessler
Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass – An Urgent Investigation into the Invisible Human Labor Powering AI and the Digital Economy
Mary L. Gray
The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud
Cecilia Rikap
Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn
Chris Hughes
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
Guy Standing
Human Capital: The Tragedy of the Education Commons (Pelican Books)
Guy Standing
Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-hour Workweek
Rutger Bregman
Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything
Matthew Johnson
Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income (The Life of Ideas)
Anton Jäger
Nonstop Bodies: How Dance Shaped New York City
Rennie McDougall
Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
Xiaolu Guo
UFO in Her Eyes
Xiaolu Guo
Call Me Ishmaelle
Xiaolu Guo
Blindness / Seeing
José Saramago
Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry
JS Tan
Power and the People: A History of British Energy
Arthur Downing
Restraining Power: The Law of Nature and the Theory of International Relations
David C. Hendrickson
A Right to Housing?
Samuel Stein
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
The Care Collective
The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late
Andreas Malm
The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
Sebastian Mallaby
The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
Tim Wu
These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
Christopher Summerfield
The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present
Steve Brusatte
Riverwork
Lisa Robertson
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
Kashmir Hill
The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
Kang Chol-Hwan
The Devil's Workshop: A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation
Adolf Burger
Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance
Ben Passmore
Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)
Elizabeth Strout
Review
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Stuart Russell
Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology
Tara Dawson McGuinness
A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide
Cyd Harrell
Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)
Marianne Bellotti
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service
Michael Lewis
Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means
Pamela Herd
Theory for Moving Houses (The Bagley Wright Lecture Series)
Renee Gladman
Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America
Eugene Robinson
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