Book Reviews

1984
George Orwell
Finished.
Fiction.

Animal Farm
George Orwell
Finished.
Fiction.

Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Finished.
Fiction.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Finished.
Fiction.

To Kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Finished.
Fiction.

Catcher In The Rye
J.D. Salinger
Unfinished.
Fiction.

The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides
Finished.
Fiction.

Dracula
Bram Stoker
Finished.
Fiction.

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Finished.
Fiction.

The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
Finished.
Fiction.

The Midwich Cuckoos
John Wyndham
Finished.
Fiction.

Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan Swift
Finished.
Fiction.

Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Finished.
Fiction.

War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Finished.
Fiction.

Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Finished.
Fiction.

Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo
Finished.
Fiction.

Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Finished.
Fiction.

Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Finished.
Fiction.

House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
Unfinished.
Fiction.

The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
Finished.
Fiction.

The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Finished.
Fiction.

Cyrano De Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
Finished.
Fiction, Play.

The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
Theodore Gray
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Chemistry, Photographic Book.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Oliver Sacks
Finished.
Non-Fiction.

Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg
Finished.
Non-fiction.

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
Atul Gawande
Finished.
Non-Fiction.

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Atul Gawande
Finished.
Non-Fiction.

The Cinema of Isolation: A History of Physical Disability in the Movies
Martin F. Norden
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Film Studies, Photographic Book,

A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
Finished.
Non-Fiction.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Writing Guide.

Danse Macabre
Stephen King
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Writing Guide.

Stiff
Mary Roach
Finished.
Non-Fiction.

Spook
Mary Roach
Finished.
Non-Fiction.

Bonk
Mary Roach
Finished.
Non-Fiction.

Packing for Mars
Mary Roach
Finished.
Non-Fiction.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay
Finished.
Non-Fiction, History.

An Illustrated History of Britain
David McDowall
Finished.
Non-Fiction, History.

An Illustrated History of the USA
Bryn O'Callaghan
Finished.
Non-Fiction, History.

The Bible (International Version)
Various
Finished.
Religious Text.

Year of the Intern
Robin Cook
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Memoir.

Believing Bullshit
Stephen Law
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Philosophy.

The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Science.

The Extended Phenotype
Richard Dawkins
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Science.

The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Religion/Science.

The Good War
Studs Terkel
Finished.
Non-Fiction, History.

Conversations on Consciousness
Susan Blackmore
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Science.

Just Give Money to the Poor
Joseph Hanlon, David Hulme, and Armando Barrientos
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Economics.

Intellectual Impostures
Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Science/Critique.

The Psychic Mafia
Lamar Keene
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Paranormal.

Flim-Flam! Pseudoscience and the Paranormal
James Randi
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Skepticism.

Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Phenomena
Terry Hines
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Skepticism.

The Religion Virus
Craig A. James
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Religion/Science.

What to Do With a Chocolate Jesus
Christopher Loren
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Religion/Culture.

The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Finished.
Fiction.

Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
Finished.
Non-Fiction, History/Science.

Misquoting Jesus
Bart D. Ehrman
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Religion/History.

Godless
Dan Barker
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Religion.

The Age of Reason
Thomas Paine
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Philosophy/Religion.

The Qu'ran
Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali; distributed by Mohammad Jamil Sawar
Finished.
Religious Text.

Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Memoir.

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a natural phenomenon
Daniel C. Dennett
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Science/Religion.

A Military History of South Africa: From the Dutch-Khoi Wars to the End of the Apartheid
Timothy Joseph Stapleton
Finished.
Non-Fiction, History.

Mathematics and Humor
John Allen Paulos
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Science/Math.

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
John Allen Paulos
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Math.

Irreligion
John Allen Paulos
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Religion/Science.

A Brief History of Korea
Young Ick Lew
Finished.
Non-Fiction, History.

A Short History of Russia
Antony Jameson
Finished.
Non-Fiction, History.

France: An Outline of History
Denis C. Meyer
Finished.
Non-Fiction, History.

A Concise History of the Middle East
Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. and Lawrence Davidson
Finished.
Non-Fiction, History.

A History of the Middle East
Peter Mansfield and Nicolas Pelham
Finished.
Non-Fiction, History.

The Devil in History
Vladimir Tismaneanu
Finished.
Non-Fiction, History/Religion.

Trans People in Love
Tracie O’Keefe and Katrina Fox
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Sociology.

Killing Us Softly
Paul Offit
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Media/Culture.

Trick or Treatment
Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Science/Health.

The Beginning Runner’s Handbook
Ian MacNeill
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Sports/Health.

Why We Get Fat
Gary Taubes
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Health/Nutrition.

The Men’s Fitness Exercise Bible
Sean Hyson
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Health/Fitness.

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason
Sam Harris
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Religion/Philosophy.

QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Richard Feynman
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Science.

The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of Depression Epidemic
Jonathan Rottenberg
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Science/Psychology.

Atheist Universe
David Mills
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Religion/Philosophy.

The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes and Why
Amanda Ripley
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Psychology/Sociology.

What’s Luck Got to Do With It? The History, Mathematics and Psychology of the Gambler’s Illusion
Joseph Mazur
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Psychology.

Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
Natasha Dow Schüll
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Sociology/Psychology.

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Carl Sagan
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Science/Skepticism.

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Oliver Sacks
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Neuroscience.

The Logic of Lying
Robert Trivers
Finished.
Non-Fiction.

How We Know What Isn’t So
Thomas Gilovich
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Psychology.

False Messengers: How Addictive Drugs Change the Brain
David Friedman and Sue Rusche
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Psychology.

A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science.
Noretta Koertge (ed); Multiple Authors
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Psychology.

59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot.
Richard Wiseman
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Psychology.

The Psychology of Physical Attraction.
Viren Swami and Adrian Furnham
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Psychology.

Surviving: Random Acts of Nature and Man.
Julianne Schultz (ed); Multiple Authors
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Psychology.

Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out.
Susan Kuklin
Finished.
Non-Fiction, Psychology.

Body Beautiful
Viren Swami and Adrian Furnham (editors)
read
psychology / body image

Among the Creationists
Jason Rosenhouse
read
science / religion

The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
David Borgenicht and Joshua Piven
read
survival / humor

The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating and Sex
David Borgenicht, Joshua Piven, and Ben Winters
read
relationships / humor

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe
read
science / humor

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Extreme Edition
David Borgenicht and Joshua Piven
read
survival / humor

The Worst-Case Scenario Book of Survival Questions
David Borgenicht and Joshua Piven
read
survival / trivia

When Women Sexually Abuse Men
Philip Cook and Tammy Hodo
read
psychology / criminology

Deep Survival
Laurence Gonzales
read
survival / psychology

Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism
Paul Boghossian
read
philosophy / epistemology

Anti-intellectualism in American Life
Richard Hofstadter
read
history / sociology

The Age of American Unreason
Susan Jacoby
read
culture / sociology

How to Build a Time Machine
Paul Davies
read
physics / science

Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
Jim Al-Khalili
read
physics / science

Saving Face: Disfigurement and the Politics of Appearance
Heather Talley
read
sociology / body studies

Brain Candy: Science, Paradoxes, Puzzles, Logic, and Illogic to Nourish Your Neurons
Garth Sundem
read
science / puzzles

Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There
Richard Wiseman
read
psychology / skepticism

7 Billion: How Your World Will Change
National Geographic Society; Multiple Authors
read
geography / demographics

A Fortunate Life
Albert Facey
read
memoir / history

A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
read
fiction / war / classic literature

The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
read
fiction / classic literature

The Open Boat
Stephen Crane
read
fiction / naturalism

Quirkology
Richard Wiseman
read
psychology / science

Decoding Love
Andrew Trees
read
psychology / science

They Call Me Naughty Lola
David Rose (ed)
.
Book

Jokes Every Man Should Know
Don Steinberg (ed)
.
Book

Michael Kirby: Law, Love and Life
Daryl Dellora
.
Book

Is that a Fact? Frauds, Quacks and the Real Science of Everyday Life
Joe Schwarcz
.
Book

A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
John Allen Paulos
.
Book

Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives
Michael Specter
.
Book

Inside the Mind of Sexual Offenders: Predatory Rapists, Pedophiles, and Criminal Profiles
Dennis Stevens
.
Book

Doubt is their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens your Health
David Michaels
.
Book

Arrest-Proof Yourself
Dale Carson and Wes Denham
.
Book

A Universe from Nothing
Lawrence Krauss
.
Book

The Survival Medicine Handbook
Joseph Alton and Amy Alton
.
Book

The Survivor Personality
Al Siebert
.
Book

The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
.
Book

Merchants of Doubt
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
.
Book

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
.
Book

Handbook of the Medical Consequences of Alcohol and Drug Abuse
John Brick (eds); Multiple Authors
.
Book

History for the IB Diploma: Causes, Practices and Effects of War
Mike Wells
.
Book

The Red and the Black
Stendhal
.
Book

Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
.
Book

Need to Know First Aid
The Royal College of Practitioners
.
Book

Ghost Boy
Martin Pistorius
.
Book

Cry Silent Tears
Joe Peters
.
Book

Toxic Parents
Susan Forward, with Craig Buck
.
Book

Transitions of the Heart
Multiple contributors; Rachel Pepper (ed)
.
Book

Poisonous Parenting
Shea Dunham, Shannon Dermer and Jon Carlson
.
Book

Becoming a Visible Man
Jamison Green
.
Book

Nonsense on Stilts
Massimo Pigliucci
.
Book

Freakonomics
Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
.
Book

So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Jon Ronson
.
Book

The Elements of Style
William Strunk
.
Book

The Smartest Kids in the World and How they Got that Way
Amanda Ripley
.
Book

The Logic of Life
Tim Harford
.
Book

Getting to Yes: negotiating agreement without giving in
Roger Fisher, William Ury and Bruce Patton
.
Book

Alex's Adventures in Numberland
Alex Bellos
.
Book

The Man Who Couldn't Stop
David Adam
.
Book

Lost in the Jungle
Yossi Ghinsberg
.
Book

Adrift
Steven Callahan
.
Book

Death by Video Game
Simon Parkin
.
Book

Sexually, I'm more of a Switzerland
David Rose
.
Book

Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
.
Book

Why is Sex Fun
Jared Diamond
.
Book

Touching the Void
Joe Simpson
.
Book

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man: How Ponzi Schemes and Pyramid Frauds Work
James Walsh
.
Book

The Undercover Economist
Tim Harford
.
Non-fiction, Economics

SuperFreaknomics
Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
.
Non-fiction, Economics

The Undercover Economist Strikes Back
Tim Harford
.
Non-fiction, Economics

A Brief History of Infinity: the Quest to Think the Unthinkable
Brian Clegg
.
Non-fiction, Mathematics

The Housing Boom and Bust
Thomas Sowell
.
Non-fiction, Economics

A Random Walk Down Wall Street.
Burton Malkiel
.
Non-fiction, Economics

The Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
Randall Munroe
.
Non-fiction, Science, Illustrated

Why You Should Question Everything
Guy Harrison
.
Non-fiction, Critical Thinking

The Blue Hotel
Stephen Crane
.
Fiction, Short Story

Dubliners
James Joyce
.
Fiction, Short Story Collection

Where Are the Customer's Yachts?
Fred Schwed Jr.
.
Non-Fiction, Finance, Humor

The Improv Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre and Beyond
Tom Salinsky and Deborah Frances-White
.
Non-Fiction, Theatre, Acting

God and the Folly of Faith
Victor Stenger
.
Non-Fiction, Religion, Science

Heretic: Why Islam needs a Reformation Now
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
.
Non-Fiction, Religion, Politics

Uncommon Sense
Gary Becker and Richard Posner
.
Non-Fiction, Economics, Law

Some Assembly Required
Arin Andrews
.
Non-Fiction, Memoir, LGBT

The Great Design
Stephen Hawking
Read
Non-Fiction, Science

The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America - and Spawned a Global Crisis
Michael Hudson
Read
Non-Fiction, Economics, Finance

The Inquisition of Climate Science
James Powell
Read
Non-Fiction, Science

Sum – Forty Tales from the Afterlives
David Eagleman
Read
Fiction, Short Story Collection

Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Harari
Finished
Non-Fiction, History, Anthropology

Sudden Wealth: Blessing or Burden?
David Rust and Shane Moore
Finished
Non-Fiction, Finance, Self-Help

Confessions of a Funeral Director
Caleb Wilde
Finished
Non-Fiction, Memoir, Death, Funeral Industry

Hyperspace
Miko Kaku
Finished
Non-Fiction, Science

El Infierno
Pieter Titton
Finished
Non-Fiction, History

Surviving Hell: A POW's Journey
Leo Thorsness
Finished
Non-Fiction, Memoir, War

Trans Teen Survival Guide
Fox Fisher
Finished
Non-Fiction, LGBT

The Undertaking
Thomas Lynch
Finished
Non-Fiction, Memoir, Death, Funeral Industry

Money for Nothing: One Man's Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions
Edward Ugel
Finished
Non-Fiction, Finance, Self-Help

Buried Secrets: Anecdotes of a Funeral Director
Harry Pope
Finished
Non-Fiction, Memoir, Death, Funeral Industry

Who's Been Sleeping in Your Head?
Brett Kahr
Finished
Book

Men in Love
Nancy Friday
Finished
Book

What Women Want When They Test Men
Bruce Bryan
.
Book

Conversation Casanova
Dave Perrotta
.
Book

Mortuary Confidential
Multiple Contributors; Kenneth McKenzie and Todd Harra (eds)
Finished
Non-Fiction, Memoir, Death, Funeral Industry

Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
Roy Peter Clark
Finished
Non-Fiction, Writing, Reference

Extrasensory Deception
Henry Gordon
Finished
Book

The Landgrabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth
Fred Pearce
Finished
Book

The Manual to Manhood
Jonathan Catherman
.
Book

Forbidden Flowers
Nancy Friday
.
Book

Men's Society: A Guide Social Protocol, Necessary Skills, Superior Style, and Everything Else That Will Set You Apart from the Pack
Men's Society
.
Book

How To Give Her Absolute Pleasure
Lou Paget
Finished
Non-Fiction, Sex, Relationships

Stuff Every Man Should Know
Brett Cohen
.
Book

Man Up! 367 Classic Skills for the Modern Guy
Paul O'Donnell
.
Book

Tales from the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics
Alexander Frater
Finished
Book

Over the Edge: The True Story of the Kidnap and Escape of Four Climbers in Central Asia
Greg Child
Finished
Book

Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier
Finished
Fiction, Thriller

There Was No Jesus, There Is No God
Raphael Lataster
Finished
Non-Fiction, Religion, Criticism

Jesus, Interrupted
Bart D. Ehrman
Finished
Non-Fiction, Religion, Criticism

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
Christopher Hitchens
Finished
Non-Fiction, Religion, Criticism

The End of Art
Donald Kuspit
Finished
Non-Fiction, Art, Criticism

Escape: The True Story Of The Only Westerner Ever To Break Out Of Thailand's Bangkok Hilton
David McMillan
.
Book

Unforgettable Fire: Pictures Drawn by Atomic Bomb Survivors
Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Soji Matsumoto (eds)
Finished
Non-Fiction, History, Illustrated

Gulp
Mary Roach
Finished
Non-Fiction, Science

400 Things Cops Know
Adam Plantinga
Finished
Non-Fiction, Crime, Law Enforcement

The Midas Paradox: Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression
Scott Sumner
Finished
Non-Fiction, Economics, Finance, Politics

50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God
Guy P. Harrison
Finished
Non-Fiction, Religion, Criticism

Why Genes Are Not Selfish And People Are Nice
Colin Tudge
Finished
Non-Fiction, Science

Grunt
Mary Roach
Finished
Non-Fiction, Science

Welcome To Hell: One Man's Fight For Life Inside The Bangkok Hilton
Colin Martin
Finished
Non-Fiction, Crime, Incarceration, Memoir

The New Confessions Of An Economic Hitman
John Perkins
Finished
Non-Fiction, Economics, Politics

Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
Christopher Hitchens (auth), Simon Cottee and Thomas Cushman (eds)
Finished
Non-Fiction, Religious Criticism, Politics

Not After Midnight & Other Stories
Daphne du Maurier
Finished
Fiction, Short Story Collection

The Doré Gallery: His 120 Greatest Illustrations
Gustave Doré (illus), Carol Grafton (ed)
Finished
Illustrated, Art

The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook The Academy
The Editors of Lingua Franca
Finished
Non-Fiction, Academia, Criticism

A Prayer Before Dawn: A Nightmare In Thailand
Billy Moore
.
Book

Crap Taxidermy
Kat Su
Finished
Non-Fiction, Taxidermy, Art, Photography

Prisoners of Shangri-La
Donald S. Lopez Jr.
.
Book

Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Stephen Hawking
Finished
Non-Fiction, Science

Higher Superstition
Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt
Finished
Non-Fiction, Science, Academia, Criticism

The Backpacker
John Harris
Finished
Non-Fiction, Travel, Memoir

Fools, Frauds and Firebrands
Roger Scruton
.
Book

Beyond The Hoax
Alan Sokal
Finished
Non-Fiction, Academia, Criticism

The Stars' Tennis Balls
Stephen Fry
Not Finished
Fiction

Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
Lauren Rivera
Finished
Non-Fiction, Sociology, Economics, Academia

The Seventh Circle: A Former Australian Soldier's Extraordinary Story of Surviving Seven Years in Afghanistan's Most Notorious Prison
Rob Langdon
.
Book
Infinity In the Palm Of Your Hand
Marcus Chown
.
non-fiction / science / popular science
The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favorite Fetish
Christopher Hitchens
.
non-fiction / politics / critique
Confessions of a GP
Benjamin Daniels
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
Not Out Of Africa: How 'Afrocentrism' Became An Excuse To Teach Myth As History
Mary Lefkowitz
.
non-fiction / history / critique
Troll Hunting
Ginger Gorman
.
non-fiction / journalism / social issues
Unbearable Lightness
Portia de Rossi
.
non-fiction / memoir
The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel
William Goldbloom Bloch
.
non-fiction / mathematics / literature
The Image: A Guide To Pseudo-Events In America
Daniel Boorstin
.
non-fiction / media studies / history
The Quotable Atheist
Jack Huberman
.
non-fiction / religion / atheism
Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival
Robert Sabbag
.
non-fiction / memoir / adventure
Social Sciences As Sorcery
Stanislav Andreski
.
non-fiction / sociology / critique
Gender Trouble
Judith Butler
.
non-fiction / gender studies / philosophy
Why I Left The Ministry And Became An Atheist
G. Vincent Runyon
.
non-fiction / memoir / religion
Picasso
Pablo Picasso
.
non-fiction / art / biography
Alex Through The Looking-Glass
Alex Bellos
.
non-fiction / mathematics / popular science
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Chris Hedges
.
non-fiction / media / critique
Subliminal Ad-ventures in Erotic Art
Wilson Bryan Key
.
non-fiction / psychology / advertising
Self Comes To Mind
Antonio Damasio
.
non-fiction / neuroscience / psychology
Almost Chimpanzee
Jon Cohen
.
non-fiction / science / primatology
Eye of the Beholder: True Stories of People with Facial Differences
Laura Greenwald
.
non-fiction / memoir / social issues
SHAM: How The Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
Steve Salerno
.
non-fiction / psychology / critique
Confessions Of An Innocent Man: Torture And Survival In A Saudi Prison
William Sampson
.
non-fiction / memoir / politics
Enlightenment Now
Stephen Pinker
.
non-fiction / science / philosophy
Transformation And Identity: The Face And Plastic Surgery
Frances Cooke Macgregor
.
non-fiction / medicine / sociology
Why I Became An Atheist
John Loftus
.
non-fiction / memoir / religion
Night
Elie Wiesel
.
non-fiction / memoir / Holocaust
Alice In Quantumland: An Allegory
Robert Gilmore
.
non-fiction / science / physics
Improving Nature? The Science and Ethics of Genetic Engineering
Michael J. Reiss and Roger Straughan
.
non-fiction / science / ethics
Humanitarian Imperialism
Jean Bricmont
.
non-fiction / politics / critique
Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage
Pete Dexter
.
non-fiction / memoir / essays
50 Great Myths Of Popular Psychology
Scott O. Lilienfeld; Steven Jay Lynn; John Ruscio; and Barry L. Beyerstein
.
non-fiction / psychology / critique
The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
.
fiction / gothic / novella
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America
Barbara Ehrenreich
.
non-fiction / sociology / memoir
The Birds And Other Stories
Daphne Du Maurier
.
fiction / short stories
The Blank Slate
Stephen Pinker
.
non-fiction / psychology / science
The Breaking Point
Daphne Du Maurier
.
fiction / novel
The Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino
.
fiction / short stories / science fiction
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit Of The American Dream
Barbara Ehrenreich
.
non-fiction / sociology / memoir
The Cult Of Personality Testing
Annie Murphy Paul
.
non-fiction / psychology / critique
The Nurture Assumption
Judith Rich Harris
.
non-fiction / psychology / sociology
The Day That Went Missing: A Family Tragedy
Richard Beard
.
non-fiction / memoir / true crime
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Stephen Pinker
.
non-fiction / writing / style guide
Dreyer's English
Benjamin Dreyer
.
non-fiction / writing / style guide
70 Solutions to Common Writing Mistakes
Bob Mayer
.
non-fiction / writing / guide
A Manual of Writer's Tricks
David L. Carroll
.
non-fiction / writing / guide
The Craft of Writing
William Sloane William
.
non-fiction / writing / guide
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Writing
Laurie E. Rozakis
.
non-fiction / writing / guide
Crafting Novels & Short Stories
James Scott Bell
.
non-fiction / writing / guide
No Plot? No Problem! A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days
Chris Baty
.
non-fiction / writing / guide
Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One & Never Lets Them Go
Les Edgerton
.
non-fiction / writing / guide
How To Not Write Bad
Ben Yagoda
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non-fiction / writing / guide
Fiction Writers Toolkit
Bob Mayer
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non-fiction / writing / guide
Writing Popular Fiction
Dean Koontz
.
non-fiction / writing / guide
Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide
Gotham Writers' Workshop (ed)
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non-fiction / writing / guide
The Technique of Fiction Writing
Robert Saunders Dowst
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non-fiction / writing / guide
In Stitches: The Highs and Lows of Life as an A & E Doctor
Nick Edwards
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non-fiction / memoir / medicine
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
.
fiction / novel / gonzo journalism
Technique In Fiction
Robie Macauley & George Lanning (2nd ed)
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non-fiction / writing / guide
Techniques of Novel Writing
A. S Burack (ed)
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non-fiction / writing / guide
The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing
Alice LaPlante
.
non-fiction / writing / guide
The Idea: The Seven Elements of a Viable Story for Screen, Stage or Fiction
Erik Bork
.
non-fiction / writing / guide
The Art Of Fiction: Notes On Craft For Young Writers
John Gardner
.
non-fiction / writing / guide
The Art Of Character: Creating Memorable Characters For Fiction, Film, And TV
David Corbett
.
non-fiction / writing / guide
The Art Of War For Writers: Fiction Writing Strategies, Tactics, And Exercises
James Scott Bell
.
non-fiction / writing / guide
Storycraft: Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
Jack Hart
.
non-fiction / writing / guide
Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?
Charles Seife
.
non-fiction / science / media
Cults Of Unreason
Christopher Riche Evans
.
non-fiction / sociology / cults
Science And Its Fabrication
Alan Chalmers
.
non-fiction / philosophy / science
The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art
Linda Dalrymple Henderson
.
non-fiction / art / mathematics
Dogmatic Wisdom: How The Culture Wars Divert Education And Distract America
Russell Jacoby
.
non-fiction / education / critique
How To Grow A Novel
Sol Stein
.
non-fiction / writing / guide
A Visual Introduction to the Fourth Dimension (Rectangular 4D Geometry)
Chris McMullen
.
non-fiction / mathematics / visual guide
Save The Cat! Strikes Back: More Trouble For Screenwriters To Get Into...And Out Of
Blake Snyder
.
non-fiction / writing / screenwriting
The God Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
Victor Stenger
.
non-fiction / science / religion / atheism
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, And Neurosexism Create Difference
Cordelia Fine
.
non-fiction / psychology / gender studies
The Disneyization of Society
Alan Bryman
.
non-fiction / sociology / culture
Concrete Island
J. G. Ballard
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fiction / novel
Intimate Strangers: The Culture Of Celebrity
Richard Schickel
.
non-fiction / media / cultural studies
The Liberal Delusion
John Marsh
.
non-fiction / politics / critique
The McDonaldization Of Society: An Investigation Into The Changing Character Of Contemporary Social Life
George Ritzer
.
non-fiction / sociology / culture
Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
Robert L. Park
.
non-fiction / science / critique
Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science
Robert L. Park
.
non-fiction / science / skepticism
Facing Up: Science and its Cultural Adversaries
Steven Weinberg
.
non-fiction / science / philosophy
Barlowe's Inferno
Wayne Douglas Barlowe
.
fiction / illustrated / fantasy
The Blind Watchmaker
Richard Dawkins
.
non-fiction / science / evolution
Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip Mining of American Culture
Katharine Washburn; John F Thornton (eds)
.
non-fiction / essays / cultural critique
Executive Blues: Down And Out In Corporate America
C. J. Meyer
.
non-fiction / sociology / work
Conjuring Science: Scientific Symbols and Cultural Meanings in American Life
Christopher P. Toumey
.
non-fiction / science / sociology
The Sexual Paradox
Susan Pinker
.
non-fiction / psychology / gender studies
A Visual Introduction to the Fourth Dimension (Higher-Dimensional Polytopes, And Curved Hypersurfaces)
Chris McMullen
.
non-fiction / mathematics / visual guide
If on a winter's night a traveler
Italo Calvino
.
fiction / novel / experimental
Transgender Warriors: Making History From Joan of Arc To Dennis Rodman
Leslie Feinberg
.
non-fiction / history / LGBTQ+ studies
Transgender People
Roman Espejo (ed)
.
non-fiction / sociology / LGBTQ+ studies
Four Laws That Drive The Universe
Peter Atkins
.
non-fiction / science / physics
Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
.
non-fiction / philosophy / social theory
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
.
fiction / novel / allegorical
The Social Construction Of What?
Ian Hacking
.
non-fiction / philosophy / sociology
Who Stole Feminism: How Women Have Betrayed Women
Christina Hoff-Sommers
.
non-fiction / gender studies / critique
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri (auth); John Ciardi (transl)
.
fiction / epic poetry
Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain
.
non-fiction / memoir / food
Falling From Grace: The Experience Of Downward Mobility In The American Middle Class
Katherine Newman
.
non-fiction / sociology / social issues
The Killing Of History: How Literary Critics And Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past
Keith Windschuttle
.
non-fiction / history / critique
Subliminal Seduction
Wilson Bryan Key
.
non-fiction / psychology / advertising
The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island
Weta Workshop
.
non-fiction / art / film
Tales From Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made?
David Hughes
.
non-fiction / film / history
The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
.
fiction / novel / gothic
Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible
Jerry Coyne
.
non-fiction / science / religion
The Price Of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges-And Who Gets Left Outside The Gates
Daniel Golden
.
non-fiction / sociology / education
Fact and Fable in Psychology
Joseph Jastrow
.
non-fiction / psychology / critique
A Guide To Improvised Weaponry: How To Protect Yourself With Whatever You've Got
Terry Schappert
.
non-fiction / survival / self-defense
Economic Depressions: Their Cause & Cure
Murray N. Rothbard
.
non-fiction / economics / finance
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
.
fiction / novel / classic
The Mystics Of Islam
Reynold Alleyne Nicholson
.
non-fiction / religion / history
Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked?: Field Notes From A Funeral Director
Robert D. Webster
.
non-fiction / memoir / professional life
The Two Cultures
C. P. Snow
.
non-fiction / science / literature
Psychology as Religion
Paul C. Vitz
.
non-fiction / psychology / critique
No One Left To Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton
Christopher Hitchens
.
non-fiction / politics / critique
Gödel's Proof
Ernest Nagel and James Newman
.
non-fiction / mathematics / philosophy
Further Confessions of a GP
Benjamin Daniels
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
Confessions of a Sociopath
M.E. Thomas
.
non-fiction / memoir / psychology
ConCom: Conflict Communication - A New Paradigm in Conscious Communication
Rory Miller
.
non-fiction / communication / self-help
The Order Of Time
Carlo Rovelli
.
non-fiction / science / physics
Cheap Shots, Ambushes, and Other Lessons
Marc Animal MacYoung
.
non-fiction / self-defense / survival
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
Bertrand Russell
.
non-fiction / politics / history
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Adam Kay
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life
Patrick Van Horne and Jason Riley
.
non-fiction / military / survival
The Corrosion of Character: the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism
Richard Sennett
.
non-fiction / sociology / work
438 Days
Jonathan Franklin
.
non-fiction / memoir / adventure
The Universe Next Door: A Journey Through 55 Alternative Realities, Parallel Worlds and Possible Futures
Frank Swain (ed), New Scientist (pub)
.
non-fiction / science / popular science
Rescue in the Pacific: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in a Force 12 Storm
Tony Farrington
.
non-fiction / memoir / survival
Testosterone Rex
Cordelia Fine
.
non-fiction / psychology / gender studies
Not By Design: The Origin of the Universe
Victor Stenger
.
non-fiction / science / physics
Birth and Fortune: the impact of numbers on personal welfare
Richard Easterlin
.
non-fiction / economics / social science
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
Steven Weinberg
.
non-fiction / science / physics
Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
Michel Onfray
.
non-fiction / philosophy / religion
Hell In Barbados: The True Story Of A Man Imprisoned In Paradise
Terry Donaldson
.
non-fiction / history / crime
Confessions of an Islamophobe
Robert Spencer
.
non-fiction / memoir / religion
Suicide Among Gifted Children and Adolescents: Understanding the Suicidal Mind
Tracy Cross
.
non-fiction / psychology / education
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Eric Hoffer
.
non-fiction / sociology / political science
The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life
Richard Thaler
.
non-fiction / economics / behavioral finance
When Prophecy Fails
Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter
.
non-fiction / sociology / psychology
Confessions of a School Nurse
Michael Alexander
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
Confessions of a New York Taxi Driver
Eugene Salomon
.
non-fiction / memoir / transport
Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
Matt Parker
.
non-fiction / mathematics / popular science
Book Publishing: A Basic Introduction
John Dessauer
.
non-fiction / publishing / guide
Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate your Newsfeed
Guy P. Harrison
.
non-fiction / psychology / media
The Chick and the Dead: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
Carla Valentine
.
non-fiction / memoir / professional life
Them: Adventures with Extremists
Jon Ronson
.
non-fiction / journalism / sociology
The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel A. van der Kolk
.
non-fiction / psychology / medicine
The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
Bruce Perry
.
non-fiction / psychology / child development
50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True
Guy P. Harrison
.
non-fiction / skepticism / psychology
Postmodernism, Reason and Religion
Ernest Gellner
.
non-fiction / philosophy / religion
French Philosophy of the Sixties: An Essay on Antihumanism
Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut
.
non-fiction / philosophy / history
The Electronic Sweatshop
Barbara Garson
.
non-fiction / work / technology
Compassion Fatigue: How the Media sell Disease, Famine, War and Death
Susan D. Moeller
.
non-fiction / media / journalism
Angry White Pyjamas
Robert Twigger
.
non-fiction / memoir / martial arts
Confessions of a Police Constable
Matt Delito
.
non-fiction / memoir / law enforcement
Atheism: The Case Against God
George Smith
.
non-fiction / philosophy / religion
In Patagonia
Bruce Chatwin
.
non-fiction / travel / memoir
Other People's Money
Louis Brandeis
.
non-fiction / law / finance
What Should We Be Worried About: Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night
John Brockman (ed); Multiple Authors
.
non-fiction / science / speculation
Confessions of a Male Nurse
Michael Alexander
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions
Francis Wheen
.
non-fiction / history / critique
Confessions of a Barrister
Russell Winnock
.
non-fiction / memoir / law
Working in the Dark: Understanding the pre-suicide state of mind
Donald Campbell and Rob Hale
.
non-fiction / psychology / suicide prevention
All Quiet On The Western Front
Erich Remarque
.
fiction / novel / war
White-Collar Sweatshop
Jill Andresky Fraser
.
non-fiction / work / sociology
Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia
Dominic Kelly
.
non-fiction / politics / critique
Prison's Bloody Iron: Deadly Knife Fighting Revealed
Harold J. Jenks and Michael H. Brown
.
non-fiction / combat / self-defense
The Auctioneer: A memoir of great art, legendary collectors and record-breaking auctions
Simon de Pury
.
non-fiction / memoir / art
The Visual Guide to Extra Dimensions: The Physics Of The Fourth Dimension, Compactification, And Current And Upcoming Experiments to Detect It
Chris McMullen
.
non-fiction / physics / mathematics
The Men with Broken Faces: Gueules Cassées of the First World War
Marjorie Gehrhardt
.
non-fiction / history / medicine
An Atheists' Values
Richard Robinson
.
non-fiction / philosophy / ethics
Morgue: A Life in Death
Vincent Di Maio and Ron Franscell
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
The Psychology of Suicide
Edwin S. Shneidman
.
non-fiction / psychology / suicide
Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus
Dinesh D'Souza
.
non-fiction / education / politics
Phenomenology of Suicide: Unlocking the Suicidal Mind
Multiple Authors; Maurizio Pompili (ed)
.
non-fiction / psychology / suicide
Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism
Matt Young, Taner Edis (eds)
.
non-fiction / science / critique
Scarred
Dave Roever
.
non-fiction / memoir / military
Life Never Ends Well: A Cavalcade of Murders, Suicides, Accidental Deaths & Tragic Endings
Jim Goad
.
non-fiction / crime / social commentary
Eleven Seconds: A Story of Tragedy, Courage, and Triumph
Travis Roy and E. M. Swift
.
non-fiction / memoir / sports
Denial: A Memoir of Terror
Jessica Stern
.
non-fiction / memoir / terrorism
The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare
Paul Keany with Jeff Farrell
.
non-fiction / memoir / crime
Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers
Charles Seife
.
non-fiction / mathematics / statistics
Language, Truth and Logic
A. J. Ayer
.
non-fiction / philosophy / logic
What It Is Like To Go To War
Karl Marlantes
.
non-fiction / memoir / military
Scandals and Scoundrels: Seven Cases That Shook The Academy
Ron Robin
.
non-fiction / academia / history
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
.
fiction / novel / war
Mindless: Why Smarter Machines Are Making Dumber Humans
Simon Head
.
non-fiction / technology / society
Wall of Silence: The Untold Story of the Medical Mistakes that Kill and Injure Millions of Americans
Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh
.
non-fiction / medicine / health
With Speed and Violence
Fred Pearce
.
non-fiction / environment / science
Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman?
Richard Feynman
.
non-fiction / memoir / science
Face to Face: True stories of life, death and transformation from my career as a facial surgeon
Jim McCaul
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
Unusual Ways to Die
James Proud
.
non-fiction / true crime / medicine
How We Die: Reflections On Life's Final Chapter
Sherwin B. Nuland
.
non-fiction / medicine / philosophy
S/He Brain: Science, Sexual Politics, and the Myths of Feminism
Robert Nadeau
.
non-fiction / psychology / gender studies
To Cause A Death: The Aftermath of an Accidental Killing
Kelly O'Connor
.
non-fiction / true crime / memoir
Academic Capitalism and Literary Value
Harold Fromm
.
non-fiction / academia / sociology
Journeys Through Hell: Stories of Burn Survivors' Reconstruction of Self and Identity
Dennis Stouffer
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
Earth Then And Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World
Fred Pearce
.
non-fiction / environment / photography
The Naked Lady Who Stood On Her Head: A Psychiatrist's Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases
Gary Small
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
A Stitch In Time: The Year A Brain Injury Changed My Language And Life
Lauren Marks
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
The Lost City of the Monkey God
Douglas Preston
.
non-fiction / adventure / history
The Church of 80% Sincerity
David Roche
.
non-fiction / humor / religion
The Gift of Fire
Dan Caro
.
non-fiction / technology / ethics
Tell Me The Planets
Ben Platts-Mills
.
non-fiction / science / astronomy
The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics In America
David Horowitz
.
non-fiction / politics / academia
Beautiful
Katie Piper
.
non-fiction / memoir / inspirational
Panic Rising: True-Life Survivor Tales from the Great Outdoors
Brett Nunn
.
non-fiction / memoir / survival
Not One More Death
Brian Eno, John le Carre, Harold Pinter, Richard Dawkins, Haifa Zangana and Michel Faber
.
non-fiction / essays / social commentary
Sam: The Boy Behind The Mask
Tom Hallman Jr.
.
non-fiction / memoir / biography
Burn Unit
Barbara Ravage
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
All The Livelong Day: The Meaning and De-Meaning of Routine Work
Barbara Garson
.
non-fiction / work / sociology
A Brother's Journey: Surviving a Childhood of Abuse
Richard Pelzer
.
non-fiction / memoir / abuse
The Geography of Madness
Frank Bures
.
non-fiction / sociology / psychology
What We Believe but Cannot Prove
John Brockman
.
non-fiction / science / essays
Letters from the Pit: Stories of a Physician's Odyssey in Emergency Medicine
Patrick Crocker
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
Maximum Insecurity: A Doctor in The Supermax
William Wright
.
non-fiction / memoir / prison
Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds: A True Story of Tragedy and Triumph
Gary Pomerantz
.
non-fiction / memoir / sports
The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
Arlie Russell Hochschild
.
non-fiction / sociology / psychology
Mortal Evidence
Cyril H. Wecht
.
non-fiction / forensic science / memoir
Forever Different: A True Story of a Burn Victim's Survival and Perseverance
Scott Garrett
.
non-fiction / memoir / medical
A Plane Crash Survivor's Miraculous True Story
Samuel Aigbe
.
non-fiction / memoir / survival
The Show Won't Go On
Jeff Abraham
.
non-fiction / memoir / entertainment
Tested By Fire
Merrill Womach and Virginia Womach
.
non-fiction / memoir / inspirational
Unnatural Causes: The Extraordinary Life and Career of Britain's Foremost Forensic Pathologist
Richard Shepherd
.
non-fiction / memoir / forensic science
Tell Me Why, Mummy: A Little Boy's Struggle to Survive A Mother's Shameful Secret
David Thomas
.
non-fiction / memoir / abuse
Accidental Death?
Robin Bowles
.
non-fiction / true crime / medicine
The Nature of Space and Time
Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose
.
non-fiction / physics / cosmology
The Challenger Sale
Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson
.
non-fiction / business / sales
5 Survivors: Personal Stories
Tracy Stecker
.
non-fiction / memoir / survival
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
.
fiction / novel / drama
Inside The Criminal Mind
Stanton Samenow
.
non-fiction / psychology / criminology
Behind the Gates of Gomorrah
Stephen Seager
.
non-fiction / criminology / memoir
The Suicidal Mind
Edwin S. Shneidman
.
non-fiction / psychology / suicide
Survival of the Richest
Donald Jeffries
.
non-fiction / sociology / wealth
Escape from Freedom
Erich Fromm
.
non-fiction / psychology / philosophy
Climbing Mount Improbable
Richard Dawkins
.
non-fiction / science / evolution
Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
Richard Dawkins
.
non-fiction / science / philosophy
The Negotiator
Ben Lopez
.
non-fiction / memoir / law enforcement
What Have You Changed Your Mind About?
John Brockman
.
non-fiction / science / essays
Social Darwinism in American Thought
Richard Hofstadter
.
non-fiction / history / sociology
The Trouble With Billionaires
Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks
.
non-fiction / economics / society
Flight to Heaven
Dale Black
.
non-fiction / memoir / survival
Serving the Insane
Bruce Gilham
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
Trauma Room Two
Philip Green
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
Gutter Medicine: Twenty-Six Years as a Firefighter/Paramedic
Roger Huder
.
non-fiction / memoir / emergency services
Plutocrats
Chrystia Freeland
.
non-fiction / economics / society
Goodbye To All That
Robert Graves
.
non-fiction / memoir / war
Drawing life: Surviving the Unabomber
David Hillel Gelernter
.
non-fiction / memoir / crime
Trust Me, I'm a Junior Doctor
Max Pemberton
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
What Is Your Dangerous Idea?
John Brockman
.
non-fiction / science / essays
The Biology of Desire
Marc Lewis
.
non-fiction / psychology / neuroscience
Under the Wig: A Lawyer's Stories of Murder, Guilt and Innocence
William Clegg
.
non-fiction / memoir / law
Life Everywhere
David Darling
.
non-fiction / science / astronomy
This Explains Everything
John Brockman
.
non-fiction / science / essays
This Idea Must Die
John Brockman
.
non-fiction / science / essays
Waking
Matthew Sanford
.
non-fiction / memoir / disability
Struck
Douglas Segal
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
An Area of Darkness
V. S. Naipaul
.
non-fiction / travel / memoir
Confessions of a Trauma Therapist
Mary Armstong
.
non-fiction / memoir / psychology
All About The Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America
John McWhorter
.
non-fiction / sociology / music
The Dark Side: Real Life Accounts of an NHS Paramedic
Andy Thompson
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
How Can You Defend Those People? The Making of a Criminal Lawyer
James Kunen
.
non-fiction / memoir / law
Invisible: PTSD's Stealth Attack on a Vietnam Veteran
William Blaylock
.
non-fiction / memoir / psychology
The Psychology of Appearance
Nicola Rumsey and Diana Harcourt
.
non-fiction / psychology / health
The Prison Doctor
Amanda Brown
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
A Physicist's Guide to Skepticism
Milton Rothman
.
non-fiction / science / philosophy
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language
John McWhorter
.
non-fiction / linguistics / sociology
Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years
Bruce Sterling
.
non-fiction / futurism / technology
Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education
Roger Kimball
.
non-fiction / politics / education
Defending the Guilty: Truth and Lies in the Criminal Courtroom
Alex McBride
.
non-fiction / law / memoir
Jungleland
Christopher Stewart
.
non-fiction / memoir / music
How To Build A Time Machine
Paul Davies
.
non-fiction / science / physics
Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion
David Gelertner
.
non-fiction / sociology / politics
How to Escape from Prison
Paul Wood
.
non-fiction / true crime / survival
The Elephant in the Room: A Journey Into the Trump Campaign and The 'alt-Right'
Jon Ronson
.
non-fiction / politics / journalism
Connected
Christakis Fowler
.
non-fiction / sociology / science
The Psychopath Test
Jon Ronson
.
non-fiction / psychology / true crime
The Mathematics of Love
Hannah Fry
.
non-fiction / mathematics / relationships
Black Klansman
Ron Stalworth
.
non-fiction / memoir / crime
God is Not Here: A Soldier's Struggle with Torture, Trauma, and the Moral Injuries of War
Bill Russell Edmonds
.
non-fiction / memoir / military
How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice from White People
D. L. Hughley
.
non-fiction / social commentary / memoir
Mirror in the Mirror
Michael Ende
.
fiction / short stories / philosophical
Relentless: How A Massive Stroke Changed My Life For The Better
Ted Baxter
.
non-fiction / memoir / health
Mind Games: Exposing Today's Psychics, and False Spiritual Phenomena
André Kole and Jerry MacGregor
.
non-fiction / psychology / skepticism
Shots Fired in Terminal 2: A Witness to the Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting Reflects on America's Mass Shooting Epidemic
William Hazelgrove
.
non-fiction / memoir / crime
The Geography of Thought
Richard Nisbett
.
non-fiction / psychology / culture
The Neuroscience of Mindfulness
Stan Rodski
.
non-fiction / neuroscience / self-help
Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice
Harold J. Rothwax
.
non-fiction / law / criminology
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
George Johnson
.
non-fiction / science / experiments
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Michael Lewis
.
non-fiction / economics / travel
The Light Side
Andy Thompson
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
.
non-fiction / religion / psychology
The Dark Side Part 2: Real Life Accounts of an NHS Paramedic
Andy Thompson
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
Forged Through Fire
Mark McDonough
.
non-fiction / memoir / survival
Carrying the Black Bag: A Neurologist's Bedside Tales
Tom Hutton
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
Bad Call: A Summer Job on a New York Ambulance
Mike Scardino
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
The Actual
Saul Bellow
.
fiction / novel
How They Blew It
Jaime Oliver and Tony Goodwin
.
non-fiction / business / history
Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors
Caroline Elton
.
non-fiction / medicine / psychology
Abandoned: The Most Beautiful Forgotten Places From Around The World
Mathew Growcoot
.
non-fiction / photography / travel
How Lawyers Lose Their Way
Jean Stefancic and Richard Delgado
.
non-fiction / law / social commentary
Bulssi Japbyeon
Jeong Dojeon, translated by Charles Muller
.
non-fiction / philosophy / religion
The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer
Eric Hansen
.
non-fiction / memoir / travel
Scars and Stripes: The True Story of One Man's Courage in Facing Death as a Vietnam POW
Eugene McDaniel
.
non-fiction / memoir / military
Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine
Richard Sloan
.
non-fiction / medicine / religion
Visibly Different: Coping With Disfigurement
Richard Lansdown, Nichola Rumsey, Eileen Bradbury, Tony Carr, and James Patridge
.
non-fiction / psychology / health
How To Have Impossible Conversations
Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay
.
non-fiction / communication / self-help
Tooth and Nail
Linda Dahl
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
Out of the Ashes: The True Story of How One Man Turned Tragedy Into a Message of Safety
Charlie Morecraft
.
non-fiction / memoir / safety
In Case of Fire Please Remain Calm Then Slowly Rebuild Your Life
Spencer Beach and Naomi Scott
.
non-fiction / memoir / survival
Emergency Laughter: It Wasn't Funny When It Happened, But It Is Now!
.
non-fiction / memoir / humor
The Woman Who Swallowed a Toothbrush: and Other Bizarre Medical Cases
Robert Myers
.
non-fiction / medicine / unusual cases
The Addicted Lawyer
Brian Cuban
.
non-fiction / memoir / law
The Buddha Pill: Can Meditation Change You?
Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm
.
non-fiction / psychology / meditation
How Music Got Free
Stephen Witt
.
non-fiction / music / technology
None Of Us Were Like This Before
Joshua Phillips
.
non-fiction / memoir / education
McMindfulness
Ronald Purser
.
non-fiction / psychology / mindfulness critique
Law vs. Life
Walt Bachman
.
non-fiction / memoir / law
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas
Adam Kay
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine / humor
Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium
Mark Edward
.
non-fiction / memoir / psychology / spirituality
The Joy Of x
Steven Strogatz
.
non-fiction / mathematics
Lost In The Amazon
Stephen Kirkpatrick
.
non-fiction / memoir / adventure
Burning Down The House
Russell Wangersky
.
non-fiction / memoir / fire services
Running From The Law
Deborah Arron
.
non-fiction / memoir / crime
A Ladder In The Dark
Alan Eisenberg
.
non-fiction / memoir / psychology
What Makes You Not a Buddhist
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
.
non-fiction / religion / philosophy
Laughter: A Scientific Investigation
Robert Provine
.
non-fiction / psychology / science
The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism
Simon Baron-Cohen
.
non-fiction / neuroscience / psychology
Rethinking Psychology
Brian Hughes
.
non-fiction / psychology
Face To Face: An Astonishing True Story of Tragedy and Forgiveness
Audrey Conn and Sheryl Maloy-Davis
.
non-fiction / memoir / psychology
The Lawyer Bubble
Steven Harper
.
non-fiction / law / social commentary
Falling Into The Fire
Christine Montross
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
Lost In Mongolia
Colin Angus
.
non-fiction / memoir / adventure
Columbine
Dave Cullen
.
non-fiction / true crime / history
Danger To Self
Paul Linde
.
non-fiction / psychology / psychiatry
The Meme Machine
Susan Blackmore
.
non-fiction / sociology / psychology
The Unspeakable Mind
Shaili Jain, Wendy Kardiner
.
non-fiction / psychology / neuroscience
Sleeping With Extraterrestrials Transcendental Deception
Aryeh Siegel
.
non-fiction / paranormal / critical thinking
Dead Aid
Dambisa Moyo
.
non-fiction / economics / development
The Savage God
Al Alvarez
.
non-fiction / memoir / psychology
Snakes In Suits
Robert Hare and Paul Babiak
.
non-fiction / psychology / business
No Right To Remain Silent: What We've Learned From The Tragedy At Virginia Tech
Lucinda Roy
.
non-fiction / memoir / education / tragedy
I'm Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want To Come: One Introvert's Year Of Saying Yes
Jessica Pan
.
non-fiction / memoir / self-help
The Social Psychology of Facial Appearance
Ray Bull and Nichola Rumsey
.
non-fiction / psychology
In The Belly Of The Beast: Letters From Prison
Jack Henry Abbott
.
non-fiction / memoir / prison
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Jane Mayer
.
non-fiction / politics / history
The Lost Tribe
Edward Marriott
.
non-fiction / anthropology / travel
The Science Of Evil
Simon Baron-Cohen
.
non-fiction / psychology / neuroscience
A Critique Of Western Buddhism: Ruins Of The Buddhist Real
Glenn Wallis
.
non-fiction / religion / philosophy
The Sociopath Next Door
Martha Stout
.
non-fiction / psychology
Psychology Led Astray: Cargo Cult in Science and Therapy
Tomasz Witkowski
.
non-fiction / psychology / science critique
In A Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson
.
non-fiction / travel / humor
Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology
Various Contributors; Steven Jay Lynn, Jeffrey Lohr, and Carol Tavris (eds)
.
non-fiction / psychology / science
Quantum Sense and Nonsense
Jean Bricmont
.
non-fiction / physics / science critique
Infinity And The Mind
Rudy Rucker
.
non-fiction / mathematics / philosophy
Literature Lost
John Ellis
.
non-fiction / literature / cultural critique
Fake
Stephanie Wood
.
non-fiction / psychology / media
Why I Am Not A Feminist
Jessa Crispin
.
non-fiction / feminism / social commentary
Machaquila
Albert Lisi
.
non-fiction / archaeology / history
A Universe Of Consciousness
Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi
.
non-fiction / neuroscience / philosophy
The Book Of Numbers
John Conway
.
non-fiction / mathematics
The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
.
fiction / short story / classic
Breaking & Mending
Joanna Cannon
.
fiction / contemporary
Why I Am Not A Buddhist
Evan Thompson
.
non-fiction / religion / philosophy
The Village Effect
Susan Pinker
.
non-fiction / psychology / sociology
Silently Weeping: A Story Of Burn Survival, Rape and Abuse
Deborah Blaney Ward
.
non-fiction / memoir / trauma
The Murderer Next Door
David Buss
.
non-fiction / psychology / criminology
Down The Up Escalator
Barbara Garson
.
non-fiction / memoir / social commentary
Everything To Live For
Turia Pitt
.
non-fiction / memoir / survival
The Myth Of Sanity
Martha Stout
.
non-fiction / psychology / mental health
The Millennium Problems
Keith Devlin
.
non-fiction / mathematics
Every Patient Tells A Story
Lisa Sanders
.
non-fiction / medicine / memoir
Steel Will: My Journey Through Hell To Become The Man I Was Meant To Be
Shilo Harris
.
non-fiction / memoir / military / trauma
No Contest: Corporate Lawyers And The Perversion Of Justice America
Ralph Nader and Wesley Smith
.
non-fiction / law / social commentary
Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society
David Sloan Wilson
.
non-fiction / science / religion / sociology
Travels
Michael Crichton
.
non-fiction / travel / memoir
The Betrayed Profession
Sol M. Linowitz
.
non-fiction / law / memoir
Failing Law Schools
Brian Tamanaha
.
non-fiction / law / education
How Lawyers Screw Their Clients
Donald E. deKieffer
.
non-fiction / law / critique
Diagnosis
Lisa Sanders
.
non-fiction / medicine / diagnostic
If I Don't Make It, I Love You
Amye Archer
.
non-fiction / memoir / tragedy
The Death Of Common Sense
Philip Howard
.
non-fiction / social commentary / politics
The Red Badge Of Courage
Stephen Crane
.
fiction / classic / war
Weird Maths
David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee
.
non-fiction / mathematics
Talking With Psychopaths and Savages
Christopher Berry-Dee
.
non-fiction / criminology / psychology
Logically Fallacious
Bo Bennett
.
non-fiction / logic / critical thinking
America The Anxious
Ruth Whippman
.
non-fiction / sociology / psychology
Bad Men Do What Good Men Dream
Robert Simon
.
non-fiction / psychology / criminology
Heat
Bill Buford
.
non-fiction / culinary / memoir
Kon-Tiki
Thor Heyerdahl
.
non-fiction / travel / exploration
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty
.
fiction / horror / classic
Blinded By The Right
David Brock
.
non-fiction / politics / memoir
The Locked Ward: Memoirs Of A Psychiatric Orderly
Dennis O'Donnell
.
non-fiction / memoir / psychiatry
Deep Jungle
Fred Pearce
.
non-fiction / environment / adventure
The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is The Gospel Tradition?
Robert Price
.
non-fiction / religion / theology
EMT: Beyond the Lights and Sirens
Pat Ivey
.
non-fiction / memoir / emergency services
Monkeys, Myths, and Molecules
Joe Schwarcz
.
non-fiction / science / chemistry
Colour: Travels Through The Paintbox
Victoria Finlay
.
non-fiction / art / history
An Accidental Memoir: How I killed Someone and Other Stories
Wendy Reed
.
non-fiction / memoir / crime
The Girls
Chloe Higgins
.
fiction / contemporary
I Lost My Love In Baghdad
Michael Hastings
.
non-fiction / memoir / war
Darkness At Noon
Arthur Koestler
.
fiction / political / classic
The Gap
Benjamin Gilmour
.
non-fiction / memoir / travel
Stitches
David Small
.
non-fiction / memoir / graphic novel
The Faker's Guide To The Classics
Michelle Witte
.
non-fiction / literature / humor
Teacher Wars
Dana Goldstein
.
non-fiction / education / social commentary
Numericon
Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas
.
non-fiction / mathematics
Temps: The Many Faces Of The Changing Workplace
Jackie Krasas Rogers
.
non-fiction / sociology / work
A Five Hundred Pound Amoeba: And Other Psychiatric Tales
Steve Sobel
.
non-fiction / psychology / memoir
Fragile Earth
Fred Pearce
.
non-fiction / environment / science
CBT for Appearance Anxiety: Psychosocial Interventions for Anxiety due to Visible Difference
Alex Clarke, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Jenkinson, Nicola Rumsey
.
non-fiction / psychology / therapy
The Best Seat in the House: How I Woke Up One Tuesday and Was Paralyzed for Life
Allen Rucker
.
non-fiction / memoir / medical
The Red Market
Scott Carney
.
non-fiction / investigative journalism / economics
The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
Marilyn Johnson
.
non-fiction / journalism / memoir
Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms
.
fiction / poetry / modernist
Tournament Of Lawyers
Marc Galanter and Thomas Palay
.
non-fiction / law / sociology
Tales of a Prison Psychiatrist
Edward Kaufman
.
non-fiction / memoir / prison
The Ancestor's Tale
Richard Dawkins
.
non-fiction / science / evolution
Seven Days In The Art World
Sarah Thornton
.
non-fiction / art / sociology
The New Doublespeak
William Lutz
.
non-fiction / linguistics / social commentary
Ring
Koji Suzuki
.
fiction / horror / thriller
The Stepford Wives
Ira Levin
.
fiction / thriller / classic
Rosemary's Baby
Ira Levin
.
fiction / horror / classic
Outgrowing God
Richard Dawkins
.
non-fiction / religion / science
Outgrowing Dawkins: God For Grown-Ups
Rupert Shortt
.
non-fiction / religion / critique
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem
.
fiction / sci-fi / classic
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
.
fiction / sci-fi / classic
Neuromancer
William Gibson
.
fiction / sci-fi / cyberpunk
The Magic Of Reality
Richard Dawkins
.
non-fiction / science / education
When There Are Too Many Lawyers
Alan Manly
.
non-fiction / law / social commentary
Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment
Michael D. Smith; Rahul Telang
.
non-fiction / technology / media
The Science Of Yoga: The Risks And The Rewards
William J Broad
.
non-fiction / science / health
Into The Fire: My Life As A London Firefighter
Edric Kennedy-Macfoy
.
non-fiction / memoir / emergency services
The Vanishing
Tim Krabbé
.
fiction / thriller / mystery
Fallout
Fred Pearce
.
non-fiction / environment / science
Age of Propaganda
Anthony Pratkanis and Elliot Aronson
.
non-fiction / psychology / social commentary
Into The Wild
Jon Krakauer
.
non-fiction / memoir / adventure
Killer Kids
Clifford L. Linedecker
.
non-fiction / true crime / criminology
Appetite for Self-Destruction
Steve Knopper
.
non-fiction / music / journalism
Fatal Error: Confessions of An Accidental Killer
Thomas Munch-Petersen
.
non-fiction / memoir / crime
Who Gets What And Why
Alvin E. Roth
.
non-fiction / economics / social science
The Evolution of God
Robert Wright
.
non-fiction / religion / history
Homo Deus: A Brief History Of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
.
non-fiction / future studies / history
Ghost In The Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
Kevin Mitnik
.
non-fiction / memoir / hacking
The Literary Mind: Its Place In An Age Of Science
Max Eastman
.
non-fiction / literature / psychology
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Tim O'Brien
.
non-fiction / memoir / war
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
.
non-fiction / science / health
Why the West Rules - For Now
Ian Morris
.
non-fiction / history / comparative civilization
The Greatest Show On Earth
Richard Dawkins
.
non-fiction / science / evolution
God's Problem
Bart Ehrman
.
non-fiction / religion / critique
Forged
Bart Ehrman
.
non-fiction / religion / biblical studies
Cycles of Time
Roger Penrose
.
non-fiction / physics / cosmology
One Nation Under Therapy
Christina Hoff-Sommers and Sally Satel
.
non-fiction / psychology / society
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
The Coming Population Crash
Fred Pearce
.
non-fiction / science / demography
The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
Andrew L. Seidel
.
non-fiction / history / religion
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Kevin Kruse
.
non-fiction / history / religion / politics
No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller
Harry Markopolos
.
non-fiction / finance / memoir
The Age of Acquiescence
Steve Fraser
.
non-fiction / history / society
The War On Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs And Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
Andrew Yang
.
non-fiction / economics / politics
Dark Market
Misha Glenny
.
non-fiction / crime / economics
McMafia
Misha Glenny
.
non-fiction / crime / global economics
Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience
Michael Gazzaniga
.
non-fiction / neuroscience / memoir
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
.
non-fiction / memoir / adventure
The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language
Steven Pinker
.
non-fiction / linguistics / psychology
How I Rescued My Brain: A Psychologist's Remarkable Recovery From Stroke and Trauma
David Roland
.
non-fiction / memoir / psychology
Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
Jon Krakauer
.
non-fiction / investigative / memoir
How The Mind Works
Steven Pinker
.
non-fiction / psychology / cognitive science
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker
.
non-fiction / history / psychology / violence
Rise of the Robots
Martin Ford
.
non-fiction / technology / economics
American Fascists
Chris Hedges
.
non-fiction / politics / history
The Price of Inequality
Joseph Stiglitz
.
non-fiction / economics / politics
Defiance: Exposing the Dark Side of the Martial Arts
Bodhi Sanders
.
non-fiction / sports / martial arts
How to Build A Time Machine
Brian Clegg
.
non-fiction / physics / popular science
Judges on Judging: Views from the Bench
David M. O'Brien
.
non-fiction / law
Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
Helaine Olen
.
non-fiction / finance / critique
Clueless In Academe
Gerald Graff
.
non-fiction / education / critique
Hold On To Your Kids
Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté
.
non-fiction / parenting / psychology
I Am A Strange Loop
Douglas Hofstadter
.
non-fiction / philosophy / consciousness
Why We Love
Helen Fisher
.
non-fiction / psychology / relationships
Why Women Have Sex
Cindy Meston and David Buss
.
non-fiction / psychology / sexuality
Papillion
Henri Charrière
.
non-fiction / memoir / adventure
Dragons of Eden
Carl Sagan
.
non-fiction / science / evolution
Is The East Still Red?
Gary Blank
.
non-fiction / politics / history
Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment among Transsexual Men
Henry Rubin
.
non-fiction / sociology / gender studies
How Jesus Became God
Bart Ehrman
.
non-fiction / religion / history
I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional
Wendy Kaminer
.
non-fiction / psychology / society
Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Anonymous
.
non-fiction / memoir / personal essay
Fat Chance
Robert Lustig
.
non-fiction / health / nutrition
Evolution of Desire
David Buss
.
non-fiction / psychology / relationships
The Armchair Economist
Steven Landsburg
.
non-fiction / economics
Down And Out In Paris And London
George Orwell
.
non-fiction / memoir / social commentary
The Hunting Accident
David Carlson and Landis Blair
.
non-fiction / memoir / art
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly
Matt McCarthy
.
non-fiction / memoir / medicine
The Bottom Billion
Paul Collier
.
non-fiction / economics / development
The Red Queen
Matt Ridley
.
non-fiction / science / evolution
The White Man's Burden
William Easterly
.
non-fiction / economics / development
How Markets Fail
John Cassidy
.
non-fiction / economics
The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life
John A. List and Uri Gneezy
.
non-fiction / economics / behavioral science
The Management of Savagery
Max Blumenthal
.
non-fiction / politics / conflict studies
The Information
James Gleick
.
non-fiction / science / history
Inside Alcatraz
Jim Quillen
.
non-fiction / history / crime
The Voices Within
Charles Fernyhough
.
non-fiction / psychology / neuroscience
Holy Shit
Melissa Mohr
.
non-fiction / linguistics / culture
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil Money & Power the Battery for World Mastery
Daniel Yergin
.
non-fiction / history / energy
You're Lying: Secrets from an Expert Military Interrogator to Spot the Lies And Get to the Truth
Lena Sisco
.
non-fiction / psychology / military
In the Company of Heroes: The True Story of Black Hawk Pilot
Michael Durant
.
non-fiction / memoir / military
Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters
Peter Langman
.
non-fiction / psychology / criminology
Walden On Wheels
Ken Ilgunas
.
non-fiction / memoir / adventure
Bowling Alone
Robert Putnam
.
non-fiction / sociology
You Just Don't Understand
Deborah Tannen
.
non-fiction / linguistics / communication
The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley
.
non-fiction / economics / sociology
On Combat
Dave Grossman and Loren W. Christensen
.
non-fiction / military / psychology
The Beak of the Finch
Jonathan Weiner
.
non-fiction / science / biology
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Robert Whitaker
.
non-fiction / medicine / psychiatry
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
Kevin Young
.
non-fiction / media / culture
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
Douglas Hofstadter
.
non-fiction / cognitive science / psychology
Propaganda
Edward Bernays
.
non-fiction / media / politics
Naked Economics
Charles Wheelan
.
non-fiction / economics
A Brief History Of Mathematics
Marcus du Sautoy
.
non-fiction / mathematics / history
Lost in Shangri-La
Mitchell Zuckoff
.
non-fiction / history / survival
Proving History: Bayes' Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
Richard C. Carrier
.
non-fiction / history / philosophy
Survival of the Prettiest
Nancy Etcoff
.
non-fiction / psychology / beauty
Misbehaving
Richard Thaler
.
non-fiction / economics / behavioral science
Reach For The Sky
Patrick Brickhill
.
non-fiction / biography / aviation
Alice Munro's Best: Selected Stories
Alice Munro
.
fiction / short stories
The Great Courses: Medical School for Everyone: Grand Rounds Cases
Roy Benaroch
.
non-fiction / medicine / education
The Great Courses: Medical School for Everyone: Emergency Medicine
Roy Benaroch
.
non-fiction / medicine / education
The Great Courses: Medical School for Everyone: Pediatrics
Roy Benaroch
.
non-fiction / medicine / education
The Mathematics of Games and Puzzles: From Cards to Sudoku
Arthur Benjamin
.
non-fiction / mathematics / puzzles
How Numbers Work: Discover the Strange and Beautiful World of Mathematics
New Scientist
.
non-fiction / mathematics / science
The Fabric of Reality
David Deutsch
.
non-fiction / physics / philosophy
A Question of Intelligence
Daniel Seligman
.
non-fiction / psychology / intelligence
Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets
David Simon
.
non-fiction / crime / journalism
Into The Deep
Robert Rogers
.
non-fiction / memoir / military
Dataclysm: Who We Are When We Think No one's Looking
Christian Rudder
.
non-fiction / data science / sociology
Naked Statistics
Charles Wheelan
.
non-fiction / statistics / mathematics
How to Break a Terrorist
Matthew Alexander
.
non-fiction / military / strategy
Emancipation of a Black Atheist
D. K. Evans
.
non-fiction / memoir / religion
Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive
Robert Cialdini
.
non-fiction / psychology / persuasion
Overkill
Paul A. Offit
.
non-fiction / medicine / vaccine science
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
Robert Z. Aliber and Charles P. Kindleberger
.
non-fiction / economics / finance
The Darwin Economy
Robert H. Frank
.
non-fiction / economics
Into The Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
Jill Heinerth
.
non-fiction / memoir / adventure
Time Travel: A History
James Gleick
.
non-fiction / science / history
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky
.
non-fiction / psychology / behavioral science
Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings
Katherine Newman
.
non-fiction / sociology / criminology
The Dictator's Handbook
Bruce Bueno De Mesquita and Alastair Smith
.
non-fiction / political science
A Life of Lies and Spies: Tales of a CIA Covert Ops Polygraph Interrogator
Alan Trabue
.
non-fiction / memoir / intelligence
Gang Leader For A Day
Sudhir Venkatesh
.
non-fiction / sociology / criminology
Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely
.
non-fiction / behavioral economics / psychology
Why We Get Sick
Randolph M. Nesse
.
non-fiction / medicine / evolutionary biology
Still Me
Christopher Reeve
.
non-fiction / memoir
Titanic's Last Secrets
Brad Matsen
.
non-fiction / history / maritime
The Day Donny Herbert Woke Up
Rich Blake
.
non-fiction / memoir / medical
Sick Societies
Robert B. Edgerton
.
non-fiction / anthropology / sociology
The Great Courses: Money and Banking: What Everyone Should Know
Michael K. Salemi
.
non-fiction / finance / education
November Of The Soul: The Enigma Of Suicide
George Howe Colt
.
non-fiction / psychology / suicide
The Secret Barrister
Anonymous
.
non-fiction / law / memoir
Lying
Sam Harris
.
non-fiction / ethics / philosophy
Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives In North Korea
Barbara Demick
.
non-fiction / history / political science
Taming the Infinite
Ian Stewart
.
non-fiction / mathematics / science
The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business & Life
Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff
.
non-fiction / economics / strategy
Awakenings
Oliver Sacks
.
non-fiction / medicine / neurology
Green Delusions
Martin W. Lewis
.
non-fiction / environment / science
The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery
D. T. Max
.
non-fiction / medicine / mystery
A Most Elegant Equation
David Stipp
.
non-fiction / science / physics
Crimes Against Logic
Jamie Whyte
.
non-fiction / philosophy / critical thinking
A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking
David A. Hunter
.
non-fiction / philosophy / critical thinking
The Nocturnal Brain
Guy Leschziner
.
non-fiction / medicine / neurology
Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves
Jesse Bering
.
non-fiction / psychology / suicide
of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man
David Lehman
.
non-fiction / literary criticism
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
Barbara Oakley
.
non-fiction / education / self-help
The Lucifer Effect
Philip Zimbardo
.
non-fiction / psychology / social psychology
The Interrogators: inside the secret war against Al Qaeda
Chris Mackey and Greg Miller
.
non-fiction / military / intelligence
Iron Heart
Brian Boyle
.
non-fiction / memoir / adventure
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
Danielle Ofri
.
non-fiction / medicine / communication
Pseudoscience and Deception
Multiple Authors; Bryan Farha and Michael Shermer (eds)
.
non-fiction / science / skepticism
Around the World in 50 Years
Albert Podell
.
non-fiction / travel / memoir
The Great Courses: Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills
Steven Novella
.
non-fiction / education / critical thinking
Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea
Kira Salak
.
non-fiction / travel / adventure
Myths About Suicide
Thomas Joiner
.
non-fiction / psychology / suicide
Motoring with Mohammed: journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea
Eric Hansen
.
non-fiction / travel / memoir
The Undesirables
Mark Isaacs
.
non-fiction / social issues / history
Conjuring the Universe
Peter Atkins
.
non-fiction / science / physics
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
Henry Marsh
.
non-fiction / medicine / memoir
Drugs, Guns and Lies
Keith Banks
.
non-fiction / crime / memoir
Fighting Words
Hector Avalos
.
non-fiction / religion / critique
Cause Of Death: Forensic Files Of A Medical Examiner
Stephen Cohle and Tobin Buhk
.
non-fiction / medicine / forensic
God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction
Dan Barker
.
non-fiction / religion / critique
The Fun Also Rises Travel Guide International: The Most Fun Places to Be at the Right Time
Alan Davis
.
non-fiction / travel / guide
Into the Kill Zone: A Cop's Eye View of Deadly Force
David Klinger
.
non-fiction / law enforcement / memoir
God at War
Mark Juergensmeyer
.
non-fiction / religion / history
The Great Courses Plus: The Quantum Enigma
Professor Benjamin Schumacher
.
non-fiction / science / physics
The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition
Peter Hollins
.
non-fiction / self-help / skill development
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
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fiction / classic / literature
Escaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories
Mick West
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non-fiction / science / skepticism
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens...WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem
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non-fiction / science / astronomy
Confessions of a Political Hitman
Stephen Marks
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non-fiction / memoir / crime
The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Elite
Matt Kennard
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non-fiction / journalism / political
Skeletons In The Sahara
Dean King
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non-fiction / history / exploration
China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
Ted Fishman
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non-fiction / economics / geopolitics
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run The World And Why Their Differences Matter
Stephen Prothero
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non-fiction / religion / comparative
Face It: Facial Disfigurement and My Fight For Face Equality
James Partridge
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non-fiction / memoir / social issues
The Great Courses: Secrets of Sleep Science From Dreams to Disorders
H. Craig Heller
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non-fiction / medicine / neuroscience
Radio Astronomy: Observing the Invisible Universe
Felix J. Lockman
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non-fiction / astronomy / science
Too Big to Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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non-fiction / finance / history
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
Erving Goffman
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non-fiction / sociology / psychology
Cops: Their Lives in Their Own Words
Mark Baker
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non-fiction / law enforcement / interviews
What Is Life?
Erwin Schrödinger
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non-fiction / science / biology
How Many Licks?: or, how to estimate damn near anything
Aaron Santos
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non-fiction / science / estimation
The Origins of Political Order
Francis Fukuyama
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non-fiction / political science / history
Giants: The Global Power Elite
Peter Phillips
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non-fiction / sociology / power structures
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
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non-fiction / economics / history
Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives
Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
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non-fiction / psychology / economics
Lawyers On Their Own: a study of individual practitioners in Chicago
Jerome Edward Carlin
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non-fiction / law / sociology
Lawyers on Trial
Philip Giridharadas
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non-fiction / law / social issues
Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas
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non-fiction / economics / society
The Great Courses: Queen of the Sciences: A History of Mathematics
David M. Bressoud
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non-fiction / education / mathematics
The Disordered Mind
Eric R. Kandel
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non-fiction / neuroscience / psychology
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
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fiction / classic / literature
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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fiction / classic / literature
Paradise Lost
John Milton
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fiction / classic / epic poetry
A Concise History of Germany
Mary Fulbrook
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non-fiction / history
Mad In America
Robert Whitaker
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non-fiction / medicine / psychiatry
Pseudoscience in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: A Skeptical Field Guide
Multiple Contributors; Stephen Hupp (ed.)
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non-fiction / psychology / skepticism
The Varieties Of Religious Experience
William James
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non-fiction / psychology / religion
Talking to the Enemy: Faith, Brotherhood, and the (Un)Making of Terrorists
Scott Atran
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non-fiction / psychology / terrorism
A Brief History of Korea
Michael J. Seth
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non-fiction / history
Early Experience: Myth and Evidence
Ann Margaret Clarke and Alan Douglas Benson
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non-fiction / psychology / child development
Spiritual Bypassing
Robert Augustus Masters
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non-fiction / psychology / spirituality
The Origins of Virtue
Matt Ridley
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non-fiction / biology / evolution
A History of Japan
Richard Mason and John Caiger
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non-fiction / history
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
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non-fiction / finance / investing
What Is Mathematics?
Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins
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non-fiction / mathematics / education
Instant Influence
Robert Cialdini
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non-fiction / psychology / persuasion
The New Atheism
Victor Stenger
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non-fiction / religion / critique
Malignant Sadness
Lewis Wolpert
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non-fiction / psychology / mood disorders
Among the Believers
V.S. Naipaul
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non-fiction / travel / religion
Brain Sex
David Jessel and Anne Moir
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non-fiction / neuroscience / psychology
Codes of the Underworld
Diego Gambetta
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non-fiction / sociology / crime
Irregular Army
Matt Kennard
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non-fiction / journalism / military
Game-Changer: Game Theory and The Art of Transforming Strategic Situations
David McAdams
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non-fiction / game theory / strategy
My Lobotomy
Howard Dully and Charles Fleming
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non-fiction / memoir / medicine
Race: The Reality of Human Difference
Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele
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non-fiction / science / anthropology
The Genie in the Bottle: 64 all new commentaries on the fascinating chemistry of everyday life
Joe Schwarcz
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non-fiction / science / chemistry
Extraterrestrial Life
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non-fiction / science / astronomy
A Primer of Higher Space: The Fourth Dimension
Claude Bragdon
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non-fiction / mathematics / geometry
Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe
Dionys Burger
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fiction / science / math-inspired
Flatterland
Ian Stewart
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fiction / science / math-inspired
Emotional Intelligence: Science & Myth
Gerald Matthews, Moshe Zeidner and Richard D. Roberts
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non-fiction / psychology / emotional intelligence
Lawyers on Trial
Philip Stern
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non-fiction / law / social issues
Reactions
Peter Atkins
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non-fiction / chemistry / science
How To Make Your Car Last Forever
Thomas Torbjornsen
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non-fiction / practical guide / mechanics
The Limits of Family Influence
David Rowe
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non-fiction / psychology / sociology
Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs
John Bowe
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non-fiction / sociology / work life
All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Varying Fortunes of Man
Nemo Ramjet
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fiction / speculative evolution / sci-fi
Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions
Richard Harris
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non-fiction / science / medicine
All Yesterdays
John Conway, C.M. Kosemen, Darren Naish
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non-fiction / speculative paleontology / science
Zen and the Art of Writing
Ray Bradbury
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non-fiction / writing / memoir
Self-Contradictions of the Bible
William Henry Burr
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non-fiction / religion / critique
Confessions of an Advertising Man
David Ogilvy
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non-fiction / business / advertising
The Non-Existence of God
Nicholas Everitt
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non-fiction / religion / atheism
Telling Lies for Fun and Profit
Lawrence Block
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non-fiction / crime / psychology
Society without God
Phil Zuckerman
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non-fiction / sociology / religion
Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals
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non-fiction / sociology / criminology
Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors
Edward Leslie
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non-fiction / adventure / survival
Working
Studs Terkel
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non-fiction / sociology / work life
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood
Barbara Demick
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non-fiction / history / war
Eat the Buddha
Barbara Demick
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non-fiction / history / religion
The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World
A. K. Dewdney
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fiction / science / math-inspired
Suicide and Attempted Suicide: Methods and Consequences
Geo Stone
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non-fiction / psychology / medicine
Shadows of Reality: The Fourth Dimension: The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought
Tony Robbin
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non-fiction / science / art
Structuring Your Novel
K. M. Weiland
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non-fiction / writing / guide
School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators
Peter Langman
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non-fiction / psychology / criminology
The Trouble with Lawyers
Deborah Rhode
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non-fiction / law / social critique
Mass Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq
Michael Anthony
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non-fiction / memoir / military
Casualties: The Beach
Alex Garland
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fiction / novel / survival
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas Hofstadter
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non-fiction / mathematics / philosophy
The Impossibility of God
Multiple Contributors; Michael Martin and Ricki Monnier (eds)
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non-fiction / religion / philosophy
Homicide
Margo Wilson and Martin Daly
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non-fiction / criminology / sociology
The Collected Stories
Leonard Michaels
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fiction / short stories
Being No One
Thomas Metzinger
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non-fiction / philosophy / neuroscience
The Road To Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
Roger Penrose
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non-fiction / physics / mathematics
Cracking the China Conundrum
Yukon Huang
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non-fiction / economics / politics
Irrational Exuberance
Robert Schiller
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non-fiction / economics / finance
The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach
Christof Koch
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non-fiction / neuroscience / consciousness
Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol; Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (transl)
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fiction / classic / literature
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
Pete Walker
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non-fiction / psychology / trauma
The Crisis in Criticism: theory, literature, and reform in English studies
William Cain
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non-fiction / literary criticism
The Affective Fallacy
W. K. Wimsatt Jr. and M. C. Beardsley
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non-fiction / literary criticism
The Bible Against Itself
Randel Helms
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non-fiction / religion / critique
Why Christianity Is Not Great
John Loftus
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non-fiction / religion / critique
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
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fiction / classic / literature
Just Temp
Kevin Henson
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non-fiction / memoir / military
In Their Words: Criminals On Crime
Paul Cromwell
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non-fiction / criminology / sociology
Sex Differences In Cognitive Abilities
Diane Halpern
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non-fiction / psychology / cognitive science
Into The Heart Of Borneo
Redmond O'Hanlon
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non-fiction / travel / nature
The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe
Russell Jacoby
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non-fiction / sociology / culture
Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
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fiction / contemporary literature
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
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fiction / classic / literature
How a Car Works
www.howacarworks.com
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non-fiction / practical guide / mechanics
A Brief History of Korea
Michael J. Seth
read
history
Early Experience: Myth and Evidence
Ann Margaret Clarke and Alan Douglas Benson
read
psychology / development
Spiritual Bypassing
Robert Augustus Masters
read
spirituality / psychology
The Origins of Virtue
Matt Ridley
read
evolution / sociology
A History of Japan
Richard Mason and John Caiger
read
history
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
read
finance / investing
What Is Mathematics?
Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins
read
mathematics
Instant Influence
Robert Cialdini
read
psychology / persuasion
The New Atheism
Victor Stenger
read
religion / philosophy
Malignant Sadness
Lewis Wolpert
read
psychology / mental health
Among the Believers
V.S. Naipaul
read
religion / society
Brain Sex
David Jessel and Anne Moir
read
neuroscience / gender
Codes of the Underworld
Diego Gambetta
read
criminology / sociology
Irregular Army
Matt Kennard
read
military / history
Game-Changer: Game Theory and The Art of Transforming Strategic Situations
David McAdams
read
game theory / strategy
My Lobotomy
Howard Dully and Charles Fleming
read
memoir / neurology
Race: The Reality of Human Difference
Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele
read
anthropology / sociology
The Genie in the Bottle: 64 all new commentaries on the fascinating chemistry of everyday life
Joe Schwarcz
read
chemistry / science
A Primer of Higher Space: The Fourth Dimension
Claude Bragdon
read
mathematics / geometry
Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe
Dionys Burger
read
mathematics / fiction
Flatterland
Ian Stewart
read
mathematics / fiction
Emotional Intelligence: Science & Myth
Gerald Matthews, Moshe Zeidner and Richard D. Roberts
read
psychology
Lawyers on Trial
Philip Stern
read
law / sociology
Reactions
Peter Atkins
read
chemistry / science
How To Make Your Car Last Forever
Thomas Torbjornsen
read
practical / automotive
The Limits of Family Influence
David Rowe
read
psychology / sociology
Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs
John Bowe
read
sociology / labor
All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Varying Fortunes of Man
Nemo Ramjet
read
science fiction / evolution
Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions
Richard Harris
read
science / medicine
All Yesterdays
John Conway, C.M. Kosemen, Darren Naish
read
paleontology / speculative biology
Zen and the Art of Writing
Ray Bradbury
read
writing / memoir
Self-Contradictions of the Bible
William Henry Burr
read
religion / critique
Confessions of an Advertising Man
David Ogilvy
read
business / memoir
The Non-Existence of God
Nicholas Everitt
read
philosophy / religion
Telling Lies for Fun and Profit
Lawrence Block
read
true crime / memoir
Society without God
Phil Zuckerman
read
sociology / religion
Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals
Edward Leslie
read
criminology / true crime
Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors
Edward Leslie
read
survival / memoir
Working
Studs Terkel
read
sociology / memoir
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood
Barbara Demick
read
history / memoir
Eat the Buddha
Barbara Demick
read
history / religion
The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World
A. K. Dewdney
read
mathematics / science fiction
Suicide and Attempted Suicide: Methods and Consequences
Geo Stone
read
psychology / mental health
Shadows of Reality: The Fourth Dimension: The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought
Tony Robbin
read
art / mathematics / physics
Structuring Your Novel
K. M. Weiland
read
writing / guide
School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators
Peter Langman
read
psychology / criminology

The Trouble with Lawyers
Deborah Rhode
read
law / sociology
Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq
Michael Anthony
read
memoir / military

The Beach
Alex Garland
read
fiction / adventure
Any Ordinary Day: Blindsides, Resilience, and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life
Leigh Sales
read
non-fiction / memoir/ journalism