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Love Poems & A Good Cry
Nikki Giovanni
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Clara E. Mattei
Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists
Kimberley A. Bobo
Testing AI-Powered Applications: Ensuring Quality in the Age of Intelligent Software
Evgeny Tkachenko
LLMs in Production: Engineering AI Applications
Christopher Brousseau
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller
Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (A Reader's Companion)
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century
Hahrie Han
Seeds: One Man's Serendipitous Journey to Find the Trees That Inspired Famous American Writers from Faulkner to Kerouac, Welty to Wharton – A Humorous Literary Nature Memoir (P.S.)
Richard Horan
★★★★
The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth
Nicolas Niarchos
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
Anil Ananthaswamy
★★★★★
The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
Yi-Ling Liu
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The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry
Maria Popova
★★★★
How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries
David George Haskell
Brain Defenders: Harness the Power of Your Immune Cells to Protect Your Brain for Life
David Perlmutter
★★★★
When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Beronda L. Montgomery
★★★★
Call Us What We Carry
Amanda Gorman
★★★★
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Barbara W. Tuchman
★★★
Twenty-five Books That Shaped America: How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity – An Entertaining and Enriching Guide to Literature, Culture, and Citizenship
Thomas C. Foster
★★★★★
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
Jason Roberts
★★★★★
Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
Scott Weidensaul
The Art of Butterfly Gardening: How to Make Your Backyard into a Beautiful Home for Butterflies
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★★★★
By Danney Goble PhD - Tulsa!: Biography of the American City (2nd Edition) (1995-10-16) [Hardcover]
Danney Goble PhD
★★★★★
Homie
Danez Smith
★★★
rekt
Alex Gonzalez
Sustainable Revolution: Permaculture in Ecovillages, Urban Farms, and Communities Worldwide
Juliana Birnbaum
★★★★★
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
Jill Lepore
★★★★
At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China
Edward Wong
★★★★★
Owed
Joshua Bennett
★★
The Boho Manifesto: An Insider's Guide to Postconventional Living
Julia Chaplin
The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land
Aziz Abu Sarah
★★★★★
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
Amanda Gorman
★★★
Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke
Field Guide to the Haunted Forest
Jarod K. Anderson
Butterfly Gardening with Native Plants: How to Attract and Identify Butterflies
Christopher Kline
★★★★★
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Joy Harjo
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
Jason Roberts
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★★★★★
Homie
Danez Smith
★★★★
Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
Joyce Vance
★★★★★
Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom
Camonghne Felix
★★★★★
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
Patrick McGee
★★★★
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee
★★★★★
The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present ― A Bestselling Paleontologist's Sweeping Story of Birds
Steve Brusatte
★★★★
Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China
Xiaolu Guo
★★★★★
The Light Eaters
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
★★★★★
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
★★★★★
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
★★★★★
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
★★★★★
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
★★★★★
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
Want to read
50 books
Traversal
Maria Popova
An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days (Marginalian Editions)
Maria Popova
America, América: A New History of the New World
Greg Grandin
The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects
Spike Carlsen
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Kyle Chayka
The Once & Future Witch Hunt: A Descendant's Reckoning from Salem to the Present
Alice Markham-Cantor
Theo of Golden
Allen Levi
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Jane Goodall
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World
Parmy Olson
Biological War: A Scenario
Annie Jacobsen
Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI - From the Bestselling Author of Co-Intelligence
Ethan Mollick
Notes from China
Barbara W. Tuchman
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45
Barbara W. Tuchman
Daytime Moon
Kerri Schlottman
City of Widows
Nadia Hashimi
Brawler
Lauren Groff
The Three Graces of Pearl Street
Elizabeth Wellington Rollins
The Things We Never Say
Elizabeth Strout
John of John
Douglas Stuart
Whistler
Ann Patchett
The Calamity Club
Kathryn Stockett
Exit Party
Emily St. John Mandel
Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
Marshall Ganz
People, Power, and Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal
Marshall Ganz
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler
Jason Roberts
The Guns of August
Barbara W. Tuchman
Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
Hahrie Han
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
Lulu Miller
Bluff: Poems
Danez Smith
Prepared Neighborhoods: Creating Resilience One Street at a Time
Scott James
Nexus
Ken Hada
Work Without the Worker
Phil Jones
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution
Lynn Margulis
Kingdoms and Domains: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth
Lynn Margulis
The Biophilia Hypothesis (Shearwater Book)
Edward O. Wilson
Serious Music
Percival Everett
The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time
Joshua Bennett
Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy
Anthony Harkins
Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich off America’s Poor
Anne Kim
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson
Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China
Emily Feng
Other Rivers: A Chinese Education
Peter Hessler
Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI
Nick Srnicek
The Memory Museum: Stories
M Lin
Adrift in the South
Xiao Hai
Walkaway
Cory Doctorow
Always Coming Home
Ursula K. Le Guin
Mujer sin vergüenza / Woman Without Shame (Spanish Edition)
Sandra Cisneros
No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Ursula K. Le Guin
From Post-Maoism to Post-Marxism
Kalpana Misra
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