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12 Rules for Life
Jordan Peterson
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The Innovator's Dilemma
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Made to Stick
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A People's History of the United States
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I Am a Strange Loop
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Radical Candor
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Introduction to the Theory of Computation
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Linear Algebra Done Right
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Algorithms to Live By
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I Am That
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A History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
The Elements of Statistical Learning
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Stories of Your Life and Others
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Enlightenment Now
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Feeling Good
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In Search of Lost Time
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A Brief History of Time
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Liar's Poker
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Kafka on the Shore
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The Player of Games
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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Mere Christianity
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The Courage to Be Disliked
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Anything You Want
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Time Enough for Love
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Skunk Works
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Critique of Pure Reason
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Behave
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The Inner Game of Tennis
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Peak
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Effective C++
Scott Meyers
How to Get Rich
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Functional Programming in Scala
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Breakfast of Champions
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Flash Boys
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Hooked
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Ecclesiastes
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Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
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Lila
Robert M. Pirsig
Narcissus and Goldmund
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The World as Will and Representation
Arthur Schopenhauer
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The 33 Strategies of War
Robert Greene
The Wisdom of Insecurity
Alan Watts
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
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Laura F. Dogu
Taylor Larimore
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The Art of Prolog
Leon Sterling
Ehud Shapiro
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
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Use of Weapons
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The Annotated Turing
Charles Petzold
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Exhalation
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
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Practical Common Lisp
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
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Invisible Cities
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Old Man's War
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Introduction to Probability
Dimitri P. Bertsekas
John N. Tsitsiklis
Visual Complex Analysis
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The Art of Learning
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The Master Switch
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Titan
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Seeking Wisdom
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Essentialism
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Pitch Anything
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Permanent Record
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Beyond Good and Evil
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Autobiography of a Yogi
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1491
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History of the Peloponnesian War
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The Denial of Death
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Homage to Catalonia
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
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VALIS
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The Startup Owner's Manual
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Business Model Generation
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Roadside Picnic
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The Forever War
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The Guns of August
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The Wise Man's Fear
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Shantaram
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Stumbling on Happiness
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Expert C Programming
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The Magic of Thinking Big
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The Dark Tower
Stephen King
Ender's Shadow
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Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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The Innovators
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A Deepness in the Sky
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Educated
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A Wizard of Earthsea
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Book of Proof
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How to Lie with Statistics
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Linear Algebra
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How to Prove It
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After Dark
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Shop Class as Soulcraft
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The Singularity Is Near
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The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson
Foundation and Empire
Isaac Asimov
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Venture Deals
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Jason Mendelson
The Expanse
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Revelation Space
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Tai-Pan
James Clavell
The Secrets of Consulting
Gerald M. Weinberg
Leaders Eat Last
Simon Sinek
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Charisma Myth
Olivia Fox Cabane
Metaphors We Live By
Mark Johnson
George Lakoff
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
The Culture Series
Iain M. Banks
Ego is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
Start with Why
Simon Sinek
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
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Einstein
Walter Isaacson
The Naked Ape
Desmond Morris
The Holy Bible
Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert
Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain
Chip War
Chris Miller
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Joy of Clojure
Michael Fogus
Chris Houser
Choose Yourself
James Altucher
Who Moved My Cheese?
Spencer Johnson
Be Here Now
Ram Dass
The Fabric of the Cosmos
Brian Greene
The Chronicles of Amber
Roger Zelazny
Remote
David Heinemeier Hansson
Jason Fried
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman
The Elegant Universe
Brian Greene
Running Lean
Ash Maurya
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Software Engineering at Google
Hyrum Wright
Tom Manshreck
Titus Winters
Computer Architecture
David A. Patterson
John L. Hennessy
TCP/IP Illustrated
W. Richard Stevens
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Elaine Mazlish
Adele Faber
The Unix Programming Environment
Brian W. Kernighan
Rob Pike
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
Daniel Dennett
Learn Python the Hard Way
Zed A. Shaw
Grokking Algorithms
Aditya Bhargava
Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
Sandi Metz
Recursion
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iWoz
Steve Wozniak
Inspired
Marty Cagan
About Face
Alan Cooper
Give and Take
Adam Grant
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
A Man for All Markets
Edward O. Thorp
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Dennis E. Taylor
Being Mortal
Atul Gawande
Excession
Iain M. Banks
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Walter M. Miller Jr.
Artemis
Andy Weir
The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
Leviathan Wakes
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The Art of Problem Solving
Richard Rusczyk
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
Steven Strogatz
Mastering the Complex Sale
Jeff Thull
Apology
Plato
Why Buddhism is True
Robert Wright
Awaken the Giant Within
Tony Robbins
Vagabonding
Rolf Potts
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan