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16 books
America, América: A New History of the New World
Greg Grandin
Mastering Databricks Lakehouse Platform: Perform Data Warehousing, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, DevOps, and BI into a Single Platform (English Edition)
Sagar Lad
Data Governance: How to Design, Deploy, and Sustain an Effective Data Governance Program
John Ladley B.A.
DAMA-DMBOK: Data Management Body of Knowledge
DAMA International
A Government Librarian’s Guide to Information Governance and Data Privacy
Phyllis Elin
Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools
Natasha Singer
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
Kylie Lee Baker
Ode to the Half-Broken
Suzanne Palmer
Testing AI-Powered Applications: Ensuring Quality in the Age of Intelligent Software
Evgeny Tkachenko
LLMs in Production: Engineering AI Applications
Christopher Brousseau
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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24 books
Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy: Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement and Touch in Practice
Susan McConnell
★★★★
John of John
Douglas Stuart
★★★
The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming
Eric Holthaus
★★★★
A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
Becky Chambers
★★★★★
Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists
Kimberley A. Bobo
★★★★★
Organizing: People, Power, Change
Marshall Ganz
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller
Mujer sin vergüenza / Woman Without Shame (Spanish Edition)
Sandra Cisneros
Love Poems & A Good Cry
Nikki Giovanni
★★★★
Biological War: A Scenario
Annie Jacobsen
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
Lyse Doucet
The Promise of Unbroken Straw
Ken Steele
★★★★
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
Clara E. Mattei
★★★★
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
Mathew Tekulsky
★★★★
By Danney Goble PhD - Tulsa!: Biography of the American City (2nd Edition) (1995-10-16) [Hardcover]
Danney Goble PhD
All-time favorites
60 books
★★★★★
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
Jason Roberts
★★★★★
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 (The 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: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
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
Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm North Korea
Joel S. Wit
This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
Navied Mahdavian
Tulsa
Larry Clark
Impact: The Philbrook Indian Annual: 1946 to 1979
Philbrook Museum of Art
Tulsa Art Deco
Carol Newton Gambino
The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption
Georges Bataille
Ma mère
Georges Bataille
The Solar Anus
Georges Bataille
Algorithmic Realism: Data Science Practices to Promote Social Justice
Ben Green
Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Big Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare
Steve Feldstein
What it Means to Write About Art: Interviews with art critics
Jarrett Earnest
Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn
Brian Merchant
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
Lea Ypi
Wild Brains: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Well
Kelly Lambert
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
James Herriot
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
Becky Chambers
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
Susan Sontag
The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
Peter Burke
Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
Justin Farrell
The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America
Robert Wuthnow
Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State
Claire Dunning
You Only Get What You're Organized to Take: Lessons from the Movement to End Poverty
Liz Theoharis
How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
Stephanie Ternullo
And Housing for All: The Fight to End Homelessness In America
Maria Foscarinis
Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City
Steve Early
From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Rob Hopkins
Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassroots
Laura Visser-Maessen
The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart
Astra Taylor
From Presence to Power: How to Take On the Fights That Matter--and Win
Rashad Robinson
Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation
Nick Estes
LBJ and Mexican Americans: The Paradox of Power
Julie Leininger Pycior
The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods
Cormac Russell
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
Ruha Benjamin
The Kindred Life: Stories and Recipes to Cultivate a Life of Organic Connection
Christine Marie Bailey
The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History
Milton Leitenberg
Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World—Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It
Ken Alibek
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Sasha Costanza-Chock
We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
Birdsong After the Storm: Averting the Tragedy of Global Wildlife Loss
Margi Prideaux
Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People
David W. Orr
Connecting the Drops: A Citizens' Guide to Protecting Water Resources
Karen Schneller-McDonald
Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing
William J. Barber II
Roots to Power: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing
Lee Staples
Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
Mark R. Warren
Maybe the People Would Be the Times
Lucy Sante
In Xanadu: A Quest
William Dalrymple
What Comes After Farce
Hal Foster
The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
Lucy R. Lippard
Ways of Seeing
John Berger
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