Books Read
List of Books Read
2025
81. No One Goes Alone - Erik Larson
80. Cellar Rat - Hannah Selinger
79. The Way of Zen - Alan Watts
78. Raising Mentally Strong Kids - Daniel Amen, Charles Fay
77. The Great Transformation - Odd Arne Westad, Chen Jian
76. The Beast in the Clouds - Nathalia Holt
75. Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins
74. Zen and the Art of Archery -
73. Strange Pictures - Uketsu
72. The Compound - Aisling Rawle
71. No More Tears - Gardiner Harris
70. October 1964 - David Halberstam
69. Far from the Tree - Andrew Soloman
68. Flesh - David Szalay
67. The Devil’s Chessboard - David Talbot
66. Polostan - Neil Stephenson
65. Gambling Man - Lionel Barber
64. The Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life - Boyd Varty
63. Impossible Creatures - Katherine Rundell
62. Noble House - James Clavell
61. The Family Dynamic - Susan Dominus
60. The Genius of Athletes - Noel Brick, Scott Douglass
59. The Containment - Michelle Adams
58. Precipice - Robert Harris
57. Legacy - James Kerr
56. Hidden Valley Road - Robert Kolker
55. Things Become Other Things - Craig Mod
54. USA 94 - Matthew Evans
53. Emotion by Design - Greg Hoffman
52. There are Rivers in the Sky - Elif Shafak
51. History in the House - Richard Dvenport-Hines
50. Saudi, Inc. - Ellen Wald
49. Lost in Austin - Alex Hannaford
48. Time Anxiety - Chris Guillebeau
47. Careless People - Sarah Wynn-Williams
46. The Fourth Turning - William Strauss and Neil Howe
45. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop - Hwang Bo-reum
44. Covenant of Water - Abraham Verghese
43. The Accomplice - Joseph Kanon
42. Who is Government - Michael Lewis
41. Tokyo Vice - Jake Adelstein
40. The Explorers Gene - Alex Hutchinson
39. Bookshops & Bonedust - Travis Baldree
38. Believe - Jeremy
37. High Conflict - Amanda Ripley
36. Come Together - Emily Nagoski
35. The Story Behind -
34. Paris Diversion - Chris Pavone
33. Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Dittlevsen
32. The Great Alone - Kristen Hannah
31. The Hidden Globe - Atossa Araxia
30. Everything is Tuberculosis - John Green
29. American Zion - Benjamin E. Park
28. How the World Ran Out of Everything - Peter S. Goodman
27. Stay Sane - Greg Harden
26. Beirut - Jack Carr
25. Gai Jin - James Clavell
24. Three Kings - Todd Balf
23. The Coin - Yasmin Zaher
22. Modigliani Scandal - Ken Follet
21. Atonement - Ian McEwan
20. The Henna Artist - Alka Joshi
19. The House on the Cerulean Sea - T.J. Klune
18. All Fours - Miranda July
17. Tai-Pan - James Clavell
16. Thunder & Sunshine - Alastair Humphreys
15. Moods of Future Joys - Alastair Humphreys
14. Other Rivers - Peter Hessler
13. The Wednesday Wars - Gary Schmidt
12. A Bear Called Paddington - Michael Bond
11. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant - Curtis Chin
10. When the Clock Broke - John Ganz
9. The Women - Kristin Hannah
8. Warming Up - Madelein Orr
7. Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
6. Swimming Pool - Deborah Levy
5. The Labors of Hercules Beal - Schmidt
4. Gabriel’s Moon - William Boyd
3. The CIA: An Imperial History - Hugh Wilford
2. Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa
1. Creation Lake - Rachel Kushner
2024
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Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
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Gonzo Capitalism - Chris Guillebeau
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Upstairs Delicatessen - Dwight Garner
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Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingslover
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Championship Behaviors - Hugh McCutcheon
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Lyndon Johnson - Master of the Senate - Robert Caro
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Drops of God 9 - Shu Okimoto
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Biography of X -
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I Have Some Questions for You - Rebecca Makai
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Palo Alto - Malcolm Harris
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Small Worlds - Caleb
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How I Won a Nobel Prize -
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The Future - Naomi Alderman
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Up to Speed - Christine Yu
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Inclusify - Stefanie Johnson
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For the Culture - Marcus Collins
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Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain
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The Nutmeg’s Curse - Amitav Ghosh
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Lyndon Johnson - The Passage of Power - Robert Caro
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The Man from St. Petersburg - Ken Follett
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Children’s Bible - Lydia Millet
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Legends & Latte’s - Travis Baldree
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Same as Ever - Morgan Housel
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The Intellectual Toolkit of Geniuses - I.C. Robledo
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Fire Weather - John Vaillant
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The State of Affairs - Esther Perel
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Smoke and Ashes - Amit Ghosh
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Evening and Morning - Ken Follet
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Drops of God 10 - Shu Okimoto
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Good Inside - Dr. Karen
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Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel
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Great Divide - Christina Henriques
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Knowing What we Know - Simon Winchester
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How to Think Like a Lawyer -
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The Big Rich - Bryan Burrough
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The Formula - Joshua Robinson
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Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss &
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The Overstory - Richard Powers
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The Trading Game - Gary Stevenson
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Bluefishing - Steve Sims
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21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - John C. Maxwell
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Arabs - Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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On Power - Robert Caro
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Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
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Great Expectations - Vince Cunningham
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An American Brothel - Amanda Boczar
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Gnar Country - Steven Kotler
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Magic Words - Jonah Berger
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The Reckoning - David Halberstrom
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2054 - Elliot Ackerman
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What you Do is Who You Are - Ben Horowitz
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The Swerve - Stephen Greenblatt
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There’s Always This Year - Hanif Abdurraqib
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Chasing Greatness - Karch Kiraly
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The Year of Living Constitutionally - AJ Jacobs
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The Collected Regrets of Clover - Mikki Brammer
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Charlie Hustle - Keith O’Brien
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Challenger - Adam Higginbotham
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1919 - Wve Ewing
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Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote - Andrea Beaty
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Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants - Andrea Beaty
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Shanghailanders - Julie Min
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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jewish -
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Sex and Girls - Peggy Orenstein
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The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemison
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Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
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Weddings and Lies - Kevin Kwan
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How to Build and Sustain a Championship Culture - Jeff Janssen
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The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street - Karina Yan Glaser
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Reading the Room - Paul Yamazaki
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The Team Captain’s Culture Manual - Jeff Janssen
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Rowing Against the Current - Harry Strauss
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Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes - Lun Zhang
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Foundry - Eliot Pepper
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Call You When I Land - Nikki Vargas
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Brands Win Championships - Jeremy Darlow
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The Demon of Unrest - Erik Larson
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Exodus: The Shanghai Jews - Kate McAll
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City Spies -
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Lessons - Ian McEwan
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The First Rule of Mastery - Michael Gervais
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Drops of God 11 -
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Circe - Madeline Miller
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Ministry of Time -
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Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
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Fast Girls - Elise Hooper
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Just Add Water - Katie Ledecky
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The Shift from Me to Team - Fritz Seyferth
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Shanghai - Joseph Kanon
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Boys and Sex - Peggy Orenstein
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The Measure - Nikki Erlick
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Running to the Edge - Matthew Futterman
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Running the Dream - Matt Fitzgerald
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Quiet Americans - Scott Anderson
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University of Nike - Joshua Hunt
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Godwin - Jospeh O’Neill
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The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles
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A River Runs Through It - Norman Maclean
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A God of the Woods - Liz Moore
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We the Animals - Jessie Torres
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Selling Sexy -
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What’s Next -
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The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
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Saturday Night Supper Club - J Ryan Stradal
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The Man Who Quit Money - Mark Sundeen
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
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The Boys from Riverside - Thomas Fuller
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Swim, Bike, Bonk - Will McGough
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The Last Samurai - Helen Dewitt
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Want - Edited by Gillian Anderson
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Players - Matthew Futterman
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Be Ready When the Luck Happens - Ina Garten
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Night Watch - Jayne Anne Phillips
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The Striker and the Clock - Georgia Cloepfil
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Revenge of the Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
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Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King - Anupreeta Das
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Arriving Today - Christopher Mims
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How to Win the Premier League - Ian Graham
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My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
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Light from Uncommon Stars -
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Three Women - Lisa Taddeo
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The Last Rose of Shanghai -
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Ashenden - W. Somerset Maugham
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The Lego Story - Jens Andersen
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The Men Who United the States - Simon Winchester
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Private Equity -
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Wild Robot - Peter Brown
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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel - Douglas Brunt
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Question 7 - Richard Flanagan
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James - Percival Everett
2023
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No One is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood
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The Cartographers - Peng Shepherd
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Ducks - Two Years in the Oil Sands - Kate Beaton
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The Sassoons - Joseph Sassoon
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The Violin Conspiracy - Brendan Slocumb
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Move Your Bus - Ron Clark
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Do Hard Things - Steve Magness
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A Wizard of Earthsea -Ursula de Guin
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Discipline is Destiny- Ryan Holiday
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Americans in Paris - David McCullough
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Good for a Girl - Lauren Fleshman
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The World We Make - N.K. Jemisin
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Titan - Ron Chernow
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Your Table is Ready - Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
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Chip War - Chip Miller
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The Hot Seat - Ben Mathis - Lilley
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Hero of the Empire - Candice Millard
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Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
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How High We Go in the Dark - Sequoia Nagamatsu
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Carrie Soto is Back - Taylor Jennings
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The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse - Charley Mackesie
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Be the Sun, Not the Salt - Dr. Harry Cohen
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Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
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Strengths Switch - Lia Waters
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The Gold in the Rings - Stephen Wenn
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The Art of the Impossible - Steven Kotler
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The Anarchy - William Dalyrample
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A Global Playbook - Nick Deforest
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The Power of Ritual - Casper ter Kuile
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In the Enemy's House - Howard Blum
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Unreasonable Hospitality - Will Guidera
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Termination Shock - Neil Stephenson
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Above the Line - Urban Meyer
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China - Edward Rutherford
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Raise Your Game - Alan Stein
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The Power of Agency - Dr. Paul Napper
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The Boy Crisis - Warren Farrel
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The Teachers - Alexandra Robbins
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The Last Guru - Daniel Pinkwater
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Happy Go Lucky - David Sedaris
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All the Beauty in the World - Patrick Bringley
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Counter Intelligence - Jonathan Gold
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Scary Close - Donald Miller
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City of Djinns - William Dalyrample
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Super Sushi Ramen Express - Michael Booth
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Fear and Trembling - Amélie Nothomb
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Secondhand Time - Svetlana Alexievich
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My Year Abroad - Chang Rae Lee
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Take Back the Game - Linda Flanagan
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Dopamine Nation - Dr. Anne Lembke
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Start at the end - Dan Bigham
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Steal like an Artist - Austin Kleon
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The Advantage - Patrick Lencioni
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Show your Work - Austin Kleon
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The Miracle of Castel de Sangro - Joe McGinniss
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A Column of Fire - Ken Follett
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We Share the Sun - Sarah Gearhart
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Outlive - Peter Attia
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Keep Focus - Austin Kleon
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The Next Big Thing - Ryan Baldi
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We Came, We Saw, We Left - Charles Wheelen
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It Takes What It Takes - Trever Moawad
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The Latinist - Mark Prins
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Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell
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The Secret Language of Maps - Carissa Carter
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Exteriors - Annie Ernaux
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Run like a pro (even if you are slow) - Matt Fitzgerald
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Banana Ball - Jesse Cole
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The Culture Playbook - Daniel Coyle
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Atlas Six - Olivia Blake
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Protocol - Capricia Penavic Marshall
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Immortal King Rao - Vauhini Vara
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Putin's People - Catherine Belton
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Leadership - Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Acts of Service - Lillian Fishman
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And Then What - Catherine Ashton
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Legacy of Ashes - Tim Weiner
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The Promise - Damon Galgut
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On Juneteenth - Annette Gordon-Reed
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Excellent Advice for Living - Kevin Kelly
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Fast Girl - Suzy Favor Hamilton
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The End is Always Near - Dan Carlin
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Age of Vice - Deepti Kapoor
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The Final Revival of Opal and Nev - Dannie Walton
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the Culture Map - Erin Meyer
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The First 90 Days - Michael D. Watkins
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Two Nights in Lisbon - Chris Pavone
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Drops of God 1 - Shu Okimoto
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The Once and Future King - T.H. White
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Burglars Guide to the City - Geoff Manaugh
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World Travel - Anthony Bourdain
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Hello Beautiful - Ann Napolitano
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The 6 Types of Working Genius - Patrick Lencioni
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Radical Candor - Kim Scott
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Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson
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The Right Call - Sally Jenkins
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Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
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Fortune's Bazaar - Vaudine England
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Counterfeit - Kirstin Chen
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American Prometheus - Kai Bird
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The End of the World is Just the Beginning - Peter Zeihan
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Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer
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Drops of God 2 - Shu Okimoto
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Perfect Sound Whatever - James Acaster
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Boss - Mike Royko
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Stories That Stick -
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How to Work with Almost Anyone -
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Now You See Us - Balli Kaur Jaswal
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Tabula Rasa - John McPhee
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Believe -
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The Romantics - William Boyd
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Mobility - Lydia Kiesling
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Dickens and Prince - Nick Hornby
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The Company of Women - Khishurwant Singh
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Track in the Forest - Bob Burns
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Drops of God 3 - Shu Okimoto
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Multipliers - Liz Wiseman
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When the Game was War - Rich Cohen
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Going Infinite - Michael Lewis
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Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie - Lisa Napoli
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The Key Man - Simon Clark
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Democracy Awakening - Heather Cox Richardson
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Drops of God 4 - Shu Okimoto
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The Sense of Wonder -
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Fans First - Jesse Cole
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How To Do Nothing - Jenny Odell
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Drops of God 5 - Shu Okimoto
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What Would Ted Lasso Do - Lucy Broadbent
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Barbarians at the Gate - Bryan Burrough & John Helyar
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The Guest - Emma Cline
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Any Given Tuesday - Lis Smith
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An Ordinary Man - Richard Norton-Smith
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Drops of God 6 - Shu Okimoto
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Fan Mail - Nick Hornby
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The Exchange - John Grisham
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Yellowface - RF Kuang
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1% Better
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Drops of God 7 - Shu Okimoto
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Astor - Anderson Cooper
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Random Acts of Medicine - Anupam Jena & Christopher Worsham
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the Black Line Blues - George Tsakumis
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Drops of God 8 - Shu Okimoto
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The Ted Lasso Guide
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger - Christopher Hitchens
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A Line in the World - Dorthe Nors
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The Torqued Man - Peter Mann
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The Adventures of Amina Al -Sirafi - Shannon Chakraborty
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Hidden Potential - Adam Grant
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Land of Milk and Honey - C Pam Giang
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Victory in the Pool - Bill George
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The Book Tour - Andi Watson
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The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - James McBride
2022
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Man’s Search for Meaning - Victor Frankel
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Boomerang - Michael Lewis
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Letters to a Young Athlete - Chris Bosh
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Dead Lions - Mick Herron
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China Mirage - James Bradley
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Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
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Caste - Isabel Wilkerson
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The Chosen and the Beautiful - Nghi Vo
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The Power of Regret - Dan Heath
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The Good American - Robert Kaplan
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Ideal Team Player - Patrick Lencioni
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Fair Play - Eve Rodsky
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Finding Ultra - Rich Roll
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Iron War - Matt Fitzgerald
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The Widow Cliquot- Tilar Mazzeo
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Total Competition - Ross Braun
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EQ Applied - Justin Bariso
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The Gloaming - Melanie Flynn
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Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
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Dessert Can Save the World - Christina Tosi
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Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller - Nadia Wassef
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Champions' Day - James Carter
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Thank You Mr. Nixon - Gish Jen
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Innovator's Dilemma - Clayton Christensen
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Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
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Indelible City - Louisa Lim
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Crossing - Kai Bird
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Compete to Create - Michael Gervais
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There is never Anything But The Present - Alan Watts
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The Puzzler - AJ Jacobs
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Bourdain - Laurie Whitehead
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Lords of Finance -
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The Nineties - Chuck Klosterman
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Annoying People - Fredrick Backmann
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I Hate Running and You Can Too -
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Tokyo Ueno Station -
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Less - Andrew Sean Greer
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My Father's Dragon - Ruth Stiles Gannett
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Splendid and the Vile - Erik Larson
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Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
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The Committed - Viet Nguyen
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Interior Chinatown -
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Nazi Billionaires - David de Jong
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The Swimmers - Julie Otsuka
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My Turn - Johan Cruyff
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The Party - Richard McGregor
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Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu
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Trust - Hernan Diaz
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River of the Gods - Candice Millard
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Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters - Andrea Beaty
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Eleven Rings - Phil Jackson
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow -
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Building a Second Brain - Tiago Forte
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All the Birds in the Sky - Charlie Jane Anders
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On Java Road - Laurence Osborne
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Diddly Squat Farm - Jeremy Clarkson
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Winners - Frederik Bachman
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Cues - Vanessa Van Edwards
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How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division - Elif Shafak
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Born in Blackness - Howard French
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Path Lit by Lightning - David Maraniss
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jennings
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The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
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A Dangerous Business - Jane Smiley
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Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson
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Messi v. Ronaldo - One Rivalry, Two GOATs, and the Era that Remade the Worlds Game - Jonathan Clegg
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Imagine a City - Mark Vanhoenacker
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Babel - R.F. Kuang
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Down and Out in Paradise - Charles Leehsen
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The Mirage Factory - Gary Krist
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Less is Lost - Andrew Sean Greer
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Ali - Jonathan Eig
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Confidence Man - Maggie Haberman
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The Last Folk Hero - Jeff Peralman
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Molecule of More - Daniel Lieberman
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Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
2021
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Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr
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Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
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Utopia Avenue - David Mitchell
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The Master
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Great Circle - Maddie Shipstead
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The Plague Year - Lawrence Wright
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Glory Days - L Jon Wertheim
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Think Again - Adam Grant
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The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
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Federer and Me - William Skidelsky
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Deep State - Chris Hauty
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Leading Without Authority - Keith Ferrazi
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The Cold Millions - Jess Walter
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Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
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The Premonition - Michael Lewis
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The Secret Lives of Color - Kassia St. Clair
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Last Boat Out of Shanghai
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Come Fly the World
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Flight of the Diamond Smugglers
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The Lager Queen of Minnesota
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On the Wings if Eagles - Ken Follet
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Shibumi - Trevanian
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The Victory Machine
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How Much of These Hills is Gold
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Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
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Pappyland - Wright Thompson
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The Organized Mind
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Midnight Library - Matt Haig
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The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue
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2034: A Novel of the Next World War - Elliot Ackerman
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Upstream - Dan Heath
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You Can’t Be Serious - Kal Penn
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A Promised Land - Barack Obama
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In the Weeds - Tom Vitale
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The Anthropocene Reviewed - John Green
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The Barcelona Complex - Simon Kuper
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Falling - TJ Newman
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The Data Detective - TIm Harford
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Reborn in the USA - Roger Bennett
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Jackpot - Michael Mechanic
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Hoover - Kenneth Whyte
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Door to Door - Edward Humes
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Eat a Peach - David Chang
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We Ride Upon Sticks - Quan Berry
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This is Chance - Jon Mooallem
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Long Peace Street - Jonathan Chatwin
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Slough House - Mick Herron
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The Best - Mark Williams and Tim Wigmore
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One Day - Gene Weingarten
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The Power of Moments - Chip & Dan Heath
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The Border
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American Dirt
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Wine for Normal People
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Life Undercover - Amarylis Fox
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Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell
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Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner
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End of the Affair - Graham Greene
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Climbing with Mollie - William Finnegan
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Clear Coaching - Todd Bean
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Flourishing - Martin Seligman
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The Unquiet Englishman: The Life of Graham Greene - Richard Greene
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Passport - Sophia Glock
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Boyd - Robert Coram
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The Every - Dave Eggers