Books Read
663 Books Read
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| Genre |
Total |
| Novels | 139 |
| Crime | 79 |
| Business | 77 |
| History | 71 |
| Sci-Fi | 41 |
| Fantasy | 37 |
| Economics | 33 |
| Historical Fiction | 24 |
| Travel | 23 |
| Biography | 22 |
| Geopolitics | 20 |
| Politics | 20 |
| Science | 16 |
| Apocalyptic | 16 |
| Food and Drink | 12 |
| True Crime | 12 |
| Culture | 10 |
| Humor | 6 |
| Philosophy | 5 |
| Totals: | 663 |
Books Read - Novels
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
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| The Holy Innocents | Gilbert Adair | 2004 |
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| Lucky Jim | Kingsley Amis | 2019 |
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| Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson | 2015 |
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| Farenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 2006 |
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| Angels and Demons | Dan Brown | 2004 |
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| The DaVinci Code | Dan Brown | 2004 |
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| Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | 2012 |
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| The Ugly American | Eugene Burdick | 2005 |
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| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | 2002 |
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| The Stranger | Albert Camus | 2002 |
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| Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 2008 |
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| Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll | 2007 |
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| The Secret Agent | Joseph Conrad | 2013 |
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| Timeline | Michael Crichton | 2001 |
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| The Lost World | Michael Crichton | 2001 |
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| Sphere | Michael Crichton | 2001 |
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| Deliverance | James Dickey | 2020 |
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| Less Than Zero | Bret Easton Ellis | 2004 |
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| The Rules of Attraction | Bret Easton Ellis | 2003 |
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| Lunar Park | Bret Easton Ellis | 2004 |
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| Glamorama | Bret Easton Ellis | 2004 |
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| American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis | 2002 |
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| The Informers | Bret Easton Ellis | 2004 |
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| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | 2007 |
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| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | 1999 |
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| The Thought Gang | Tibor Fischer | 2005 |
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| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 2005 |
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| A Passage to India | EM Forster | 2015 |
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| American Gods: A Novel | Neil Gaiman | 2006 |
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| Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch | Neil Gaiman | 2006 |
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| Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | 2017 |
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| The Beach | Alex Garland | 2002 |
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| The Pandora Room: A Novel | Christopher Golden | 2020 |
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| Ararat: A Novel | Christopher Golden | 2021 |
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| Exit West | Mohsin Hamid | 2018 |
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| Forever: A Novel | Pete Hamill | 2006 |
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| The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammet | 2019 |
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| Ash Wednesday | Ethan Hawke | 2002 |
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| The Hottest State | Ethan Hawke | 2002 |
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| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | 2005 |
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| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemingway | 1999 |
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| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | 1999 |
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| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | 2007 |
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| A Moveable Feast | Ernest Hemingway | 2008 |
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| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | 2006 |
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| Juliet, Naked: A Novel | Nick Hornby | 2011 |
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| High Fidelity: A Novel | Nick Hornby | 2001 |
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| A Long Way Down | Nick Hornby | 2009 |
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| How to Be Good | Nick Hornby | 2002 |
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| About a Boy | Nick Hornby | 2002 |
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| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 2002 |
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| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 1999 |
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| The Trial | Franz Kafka | 2013 |
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| In the Company of Angels | Thomas E. Kennedy | 2013 |
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| Kerrigan in Copenhagen: A Love Story | Thomas E. Kennedy | 2013 |
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| On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 2001 |
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| One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey | 2002 |
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| Sometimes a Great Notion | Ken Kesey | 2020 |
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| Darkness at Noon: A Novel | Arthur Koestler | 2018 |
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| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1999 |
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| Pachinko | Min Jin Lee | 2019 |
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| The Phantom of the Opera | Gaston Leroux | 2006 |
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| Motherless Brooklyn | Jonathon Lethem | 2020 |
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| The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States: A Speculative Novel | Jeffrey Lewis | 2020 |
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| It Can’t Happen Here | Sinclair Lewis | 2016 |
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| The Subject Steve: A Novel | Sam Lipsyte | 2005 |
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| Ik Ben Nummer Vier | Pittacus Lore | 2014 |
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| Yo Soy El Numero Cuatro | Pittacus Lore | 2013 |
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| Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.) | Malcolm Lowry | 2017 |
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| Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 2009 |
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| Wild Cards I | George R.R. Martin | 2014 |
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| Bright Lights, Big City | Jay McInerney | 2008 |
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| Slade House | David Mitchell | 2018 |
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| Watchmen | Alan Moore | 2007 |
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| The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel | Haruki Murakami | 2003 |
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| Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami | 2003 |
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| Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Haruki Murakami | 2003 |
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| Sputnik, Sweetheart | Haruki Murakami | 2014 |
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| Dance Dance Dance | Haruki Murakami | 2003 |
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| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 2001 |
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| The Fuck-Up | Arthur Nersesian | 2004 |
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| Suicide Casanova | Arthur Nersesian | 2004 |
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| Dogrun | Arthur Nersesian | 2005 |
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| Amsterdam Stories | Nescio | 2014 |
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| The Sympathizer: A Novel | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2021 |
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| 1984 | George Orwell | 2008 |
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| Animal Farm: A Fairy Story | George Orwell | 1998 |
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| Appointment in Samarra | John O’Hara | 2017 |
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| Lullaby | Chuck Palahniuk | 2003 |
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| Invisible Monsters: A Novel | Chuck Palahniuk | 2001 |
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| Choke | Chuck Palahniuk | 2001 |
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| Survivor: A Novel | Chuck Palahniuk | 2001 |
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| Diary: A Novel | Chuck Palahniuk | 2004 |
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| Fight Club: A Novel | Chuck Palahniuk | 2001 |
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| Adjustment Day: A Novel | Chuck Palahniuk | 2020 |
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| The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese | Michael Paterniti | 2017 |
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| The Losers Club | Richard Perez | 2006 |
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| The Wishbones | Tom Perrotta | 2005 |
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| Joe College: A Novel | Tom Perrotta | 2003 |
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| Election | Tom Perrotta | 2003 |
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| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert M. Pirsig | 2004 |
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| The Colour of Magic | Terry Pratchett | 2017 |
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| The Cying of Lot 49 | Thomas Pynchon | 2007 |
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| Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit | Daniel Quinn | 2005 |
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| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand | 2008 |
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| Jitterbug Perfume | Tom Robbins | 2001 |
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| Still Life with Woodpecker | Tom Robbins | 2002 |
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| Another Roadside Attraction | Tom Robbins | 2002 |
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| Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates | Tom Robbins | 2004 |
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| Skinny Legs and All | Tom Robbins | 2002 |
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| Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | Tom Robbins | 2002 |
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| Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas | Tom Robbins | 2003 |
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| Tibetan Peach Pie | Tom Robbins | 2014 |
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| Villa Incognito | Tom Robbins | 2004 |
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| B Is for Beer | Tom Robbins | 2023 |
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| Shantaram | Gregory David Roberts | 2010 |
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| The Plot Against America | Philip Roth | 2007 |
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| Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie | 2019 |
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| The Catcher In the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 2001 |
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| Het Rosie Project | Graham Simsion | 2019 |
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| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 2022 |
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| The Magnificent Ambersons | Booth Tarkington | 2013 |
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| The Mosquito Coast | Paul Theroux | 2021 |
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| Slaughterhouse Five: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut | 2020 |
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| Breakfast of Champions: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut | 2003 |
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| Blue Beard | Kurt Vonnegut | 2019 |
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| Cat's Cradle: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut | 2001 |
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| Galapagos: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut | 2002 |
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| God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater | Kurt Vonnegut | 2002 |
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| Mother Night: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut | 2018 |
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| Player Piano | Kurt Vonnegut | 2019 |
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| The Sirens of Titan: A Novel | Kurt Vonnegut | 2001 |
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| All the King’s Men | Robert Penn Warren | 2018 |
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| Educated | Tara Westover | 2022 |
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| The Portrait of Dorien Gray | Oscar Wilde | 2005 |
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| The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel | Thornton Wilder | 2018 |
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| Bonfire of the Vanities | Thomas Wolfe | 2002 |
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| To the Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf | 2015 |
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| The Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruis Zafon | 2009 |
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Books Read - Crime
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
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| The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler | 2024 |
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| Jack Reacher: Killing Floor (#1) | Lee Child | 2019 |
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| Jack Reacher: Die Trying (#2) | Lee Child | 2019 |
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| Jack Reacher: Tripwire (#3) | Lee Child | 2019 |
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| Jack Reacher: Running Blind (#4) | Lee Child | 2019 |
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| Jack Reacher: Echo Burning (#5) | Lee Child | 2019 |
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| Jack Reacher: Without Fail (#6) | Lee Child | 2019 |
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| Jack Reacher: Persuader (#7) | Lee Child | 2019 |
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| Jack Reacher: The Enemy (#8) | Lee Child | 2019 |
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| Jack Reacher: One Shot (#9) | Lee Child | 2019 |
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| Jack Reacher: The Hard Way (#10) | Lee Child | 2020 |
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| Jack Reacher: Bad Luck and Trouble (#11) | Lee Child | 2019 |
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| Jack Reacher: Gone Tomorrow (#12) | Lee Child | 2020 |
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| Jack Reacher: Nothing to Lose (#13) | Lee Child | 2020 |
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| Jack Reacher: 61 Hours (#14) | Lee Child | 2020 |
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| Jack Reacher: Worth Dying For (#15) | Lee Child | 2020 |
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| Jack Reacher: The Affair (#16) | Lee Child | 2020 |
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| Jack Reacher: A Wanted Man (#17) | Lee Child | 2020 |
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| Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (#18) | Lee Child | 2020 |
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| Jack Reacher: Personal (#19) | Lee Child | 2020 |
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| Jack Reacher: Make Me (#20) | Lee Child | 2020 |
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| Jack Reacher: Night School (#21) | Lee Child | 2021 |
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| Jack Reacher: The Midnight Line (#22) | Lee Child | 2021 |
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| Jack Reacher: Past Tense (#23) | Lee Child | 2021 |
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| Jack Reacher: Blue Moon (#24) | Lee Child | 2021 |
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| Jack Reacher: The Sentinel (#25) | Lee Child | 2022 |
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| No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories | Lee Child | 2022 |
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| No Plan B (Jack Reacher #27) | Lee Child | 2024 |
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| The Secret (Jack Reacher #28) | Lee Child | 2024 |
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| The Secret (Jack Reacher #26) | Lee Child | 2023 |
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| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie | 2018 |
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| Fair Warning (Jack McEvoy # 3) | Michael Connelly | 2024 |
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| The Late Show (Renee Ballard #1) | Michael Connelly | 2024 |
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| Dark Sacred Night (Renee Ballard #2) | Michael Connelly | 2024 |
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| The Dark Hours (Renee Ballard #4) | Michael Connelly | 2024 |
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| Desert Star (Renee Ballard #5) | Michael Connelly | 2024 |
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| Resurrection Walk (Lincoln Lawyer #7) | Michael Connelly | 2024 |
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| The Narrows (Harry Bosch #10) | Michael Connelly | 2023 |
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| The Closers (Harry Bosch #11) | Michael Connelly | 2023 |
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| Void Moon | Michael Connelly | 2023 |
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| The Lincoln Lawyer (Lincoln Lawyer #1) | Michael Connelly | 2023 |
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| Echo Park (Harry Bosch #12) | Michael Connelly | 2023 |
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| The Overlook (Harry Bosch #13) | Michael Connelly | 2023 |
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| The Brass Verdict (Lincoln Lawyer #2) | Michael Connelly | 2023 |
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| Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch #14) | Michael Connelly | 2023 |
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| The Drop (Harry Bosch #15) | Michael Connelly | 2023 |
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| Chasing the Dime | Michael Connelly | 2023 |
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| The Reversal (Lincoln Lawyer #3) | Michael Connelly | 2023 |
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| The Black Box (Harry Bosch #16) | Michael Connelly | 2023 |
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| The Fifth Witness (Lincoln Lawyer #4) | Michael Connelly | 2023 |
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| The Gods of Guilt (Lincoln Lawyer #5) | Michael Connelly | 2023 |
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| The Crossing (Harry Bosch #18) | Michael Connelly | 2023 |
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| The Wrong Side of Goodbye (Harry Bosch #19) | Michael Connelly | 2023 |
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| Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch #20) | Michael Connelly | 2024 |
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| The Poet (Jack McEvoy #1) | Michael Connelly | 2021 |
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| The Scarecrow (Jack McEvoy #2) | Michael Connelly | 2021 |
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| The Black Echo (Harry Bosch #1) | Michael Connelly | 2021 |
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| The Black Ice (Harry Bosch #2) | Michael Connelly | 2021 |
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| The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch #3) | Michael Connelly | 2022 |
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| The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch #4) | Michael Connelly | 2022 |
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| Trunk Music (Harry Bosch #5) | Michael Connelly | 2022 |
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| Angel’s Flight (Harry Bosch #6) | Michael Connelly | 2022 |
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| A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch #7) | Michael Connelly | 2022 |
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| City of Bones (Harry Bosch #8) | Michael Connelly | 2022 |
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| Lost Light (Harry Bosch #9) | Michael Connelly | 2022 |
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| The Burning Room (Harry Bosch #17) | Michael Connelly | 2021 |
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| The Law of Innocence (Lincoln Lawyer #6) | Michael Connelly | 2022 |
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| Already Dead: A Novel | Charlie Huston | 2006 |
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| No Dominion: A Novel | Charlie Huston | 2007 |
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| Half the Blood of Brooklyn: A Novel | Charlie Huston | 2008 |
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| Caught Stealing: A Novel | Charlie Huston | 2005 |
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| Six Bad Things: A Novel | Charlie Huston | 2005 |
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| A Dangerous Man: A Novel | Charlie Huston | 2006 |
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| March Violets | Philip Kerr | 2018 |
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| The Pale Criminal | Philip Kerr | 2018 |
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| A German Requiem | Philip Kerr | 2018 |
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| De Cock: Geen Excus voor Moord | Peter Romer | 2015 |
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| De Cock: De Dartele Weduwe | Peter Romer | 2016 |
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| De Cock & een Strop voor Bobby | Peter Romer | 2017 |
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Books Read - Business
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
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| The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America | Alex Berenson | 2017 |
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| Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies | Nick Bostrum | 2018 |
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| The Poker Face of Wall Street | Aaron Brown | 2019 |
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| Dare to Lead | Brené Brown | 2019 |
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| The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies | Erik Brynjolfsson | 2021 |
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| Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco | Bryan Burrough | 2004 |
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| Brewing Up a Business: Adventures in Beer from the Founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery | Sam Calagione | 2017 |
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| How To Win Friends and Influence People | Dale Carnegie | 2004 |
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| Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup | John Carreyrou | 2018 |
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| The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership Powered Company | Ram Charan | 2019 |
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| The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail | Clayton M. Christensen | 2021 |
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| Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion | Robert B. Cialdini | 2019 |
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| Principles | Ray Dalio | 2018 |
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| Traders, Guns & Money | Satyajit Das | 2010 |
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| My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance | Emanuel Derman | 2020 |
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| Measure What Matters | John Doerr | 2019 |
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| The Effective Executive | Peter F. Drucker | 2019 |
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| Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe | George Dyson | 2017 |
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| Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist | Brad Feld | 2023 |
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| The Myth of the Rational Market | Justin Fox | 2014 |
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| Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business | Frances Frei | 2015 |
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| The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation | Jon Gertner | 2013 |
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| Talking to Strangers | Malcolm Gladwell | 2019 |
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| What Got You Here Won’t Get You There | Marshall Goldsmith | 2015 |
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| The Intelligent Investor | Benjamin Graham | 2005 |
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| Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric | Thomas Gryta | 2021 |
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| Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery | Steve Hindy | 2011 |
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| Trust Me, Im Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator | Ryan Holiday | 2023 |
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| Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives | John C. Hull | 2007 |
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| Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber | Mike Isaac | 2020 |
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| Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future | Joi Ito | 2020 |
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| Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation | Steven Johnson | 2015 |
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| Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World | Jill Jonnes | 2011 |
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| Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty | Patrick Radden Keefe | 2023 |
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| Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance | Tim Koller | 2011 |
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| Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It | Scott Kupor | 2023 |
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| The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger | Marc Levinson | 2015 |
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| Flashboys: Cracking the Money Code | Michael Lewis | 2020 |
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| Liar's Poker | Michael Lewis | 2004 |
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| When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of LTCM | Roger Lowenstein | 2005 |
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| Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business | John Mackey | 2012 |
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| The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck | Mark Manson | 2018 |
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| A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers | Lawrence G. McDonald | 2010 |
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| The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron | Bethany McLean | 2005 |
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| The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone | Brian Merchant | 2018 |
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| Chip War: The Fight for the Worlds Most Critical Technology | Chris Miller | 2024 |
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| Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN | James Miller | 2020 |
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| Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques | Sheldon Natenberg | 2007 |
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| Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World | Cal Newport | 2021 |
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| Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China | Evan Osnos | 2015 |
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| Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better | Jennifer Pahlka | 2023 |
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| Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader | Frank Partnoy | 2010 |
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| The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It | Scott Patterson | 2011 |
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| That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea | Marc Randolph | 2023 |
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| The End of Cheap China: Economic and Cultural Trends that Will Disrupt the World | Shaun Rein | 2017 |
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| Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle | John Rolfe | 2005 |
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| The King of Madison Avenue: David Ogilvy and the Making of Modern Advertising | Kenneth Roman | 2013 |
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| Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul | Harold Schultz | 2012 |
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| Starting With Why | Simon Sinek | 2019 |
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| Leaders Eat Last | Simon Sinek | 2020 |
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| Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know | Peter W. Singer | 2015 |
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| Heineken: Een leven in de brouwerij | Barbara Smit | 2015 |
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| The Perfect Prey: The Fall of ABN Amro | Jeroen Smit | 2015 |
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| Het Drama Ahold | Jeroen Smit | 2015 |
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| Money Game | Adam Smith | 2008 |
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| In the Beginning There Was the Command Line | Neal Stephenson | 2012 |
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| Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire | James B Stewart | 2023 |
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| DisneyWar | James B. Stewart | 2023 |
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| Den of Thieves | James B. Stewart | 2006 |
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| Cuckoo’s Egg | Clifford Stoll | 2014 |
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| The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon | Brad Stone | 2017 |
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| Die Man van Philips | Jan Timmer | 2018 |
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| China's Disruptors: How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies are Changing the Rules of Business | Edward Tse | 2021 |
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| When the Heavens Went on Sale | Ashleigh Vance | 2023 |
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| Never Split the Difference | Chris Voss | 2019 |
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| Billion Dollar Loser | Reeves Wiedeman | 2021 |
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| Global Convertible Investing: The Gabelli Way | Hart Woodson | 2006 |
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Books Read - History
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
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| Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City | Mark Adams | 2015 |
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| Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 | Anne Applebaum | 2014 |
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| The File: A Personal History | Timothy Garton Ash | 2013 |
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| Crossroads: A Popular History of Malaysia and Singapore | Jim Baker | 2017 |
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| Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Simon Baker | 2014 |
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| The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History | John Barry | 2020 |
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| The Great Siege: Malta 1565 | Ernie Bradford | 2012 |
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| Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization | Lars Brownworth | 2014 |
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| A Short History of Nearly Everything | Bill Bryson | 2012 |
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| Inventing Japan: 1853-1964 | Ian Buruma | 2002 |
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| A Japanese Mirror: Heroes and Villains of Japanese Culture | Ian Buruma | 2002 |
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| Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart | Tim Butcher | 2018 |
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| The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II | Iris Chang | 2002 |
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| Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia | Christopher Clark | 2012 |
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| The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 | Christopher Clark | 2015 |
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| 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed | Eric H. Cline | 2014 |
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| Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World | Roger Crowley | 2016 |
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| Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire | Roger Crowley | 2018 |
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| Venice: City of Fortune | Roger Crowley | 2017 |
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| Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations | Norman Davies | 2017 |
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| Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition | Jared Diamond | 2014 |
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| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Jared Diamond | 2008 |
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| One Minute to Midnight | Michael Dobbs | 2018 |
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| Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire | Michael Dobbs | 2018 |
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| Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II | John Dower | 2012 |
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| The Crimean War: A History | Orlando Figes | 2014 |
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| Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Wall | Anna Funder | 2014 |
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| Life in a Medieval Castle | Joseph Gies | 2019 |
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| The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Region, and Their Peoples | David Gilmour | 2012 |
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| The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon | David Grann | 2014 |
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| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari | 2017 |
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| Homo Deus | Yuval Noah Harari | 2020 |
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| Post War: A History of Europe Since 1945 | Tony Judt | 2011 |
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| The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism | Doris Kearns Goodwin | 2017 |
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| China: A History | John Keay | 2013 |
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| India: A History | John Keay | 2013 |
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| Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis | Robert F. Kennedy | 2016 |
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| Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams | Charles King | 2022 |
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| The Low Countries 1780-1940 (Oxford History of Modern Europe) | E.H. Kossmann | 2016 |
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| The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles | Gary Krist | 2021 |
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| Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization | Paul Kriwaczek | 2015 |
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| The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz | Erik Larson | 2024 |
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| In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin | Erik Larson | 2014 |
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| The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America | Erik Larson | 2020 |
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| Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History | Erik Larson | 2020 |
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| Detroit: An American Autopsy | Charlie LeDuff | 2016 |
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| The Premonition: A Pandemic Story | Michael Lewis | 2023 |
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| Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City | Geert Mak | 2012 |
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| Gedoemd en Kwetsbaarheid | Geert Mak | 2015 |
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| 1776 | David McCullough | 2014 |
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| The State of Africa | Martin Merideth | 2012 |
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| Carthage Must Be Destroyed | Richard Miles | 2018 |
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| Fighting Traffic The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City | Peter Norton | 2020 |
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| Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition | Daniel Okrent | 2011 |
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| Homage to Catalonia | George Orwell | 2011 |
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| A History of the Popes: From Peter to the Present | John O’Malley | 2014 |
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| The Edge of the World: A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe | Michael Pye | 2015 |
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| A Bridge Too Far: The Classic History of the Greatest Battle of World War II | Cornelius Ryan | 2016 |
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| Orientalism | Edward Said | 2016 |
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| Jerusalem: The Biography | Simon Sebag Montefiore | 2014 |
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| Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City | Russell Shorto | 2013 |
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| The Island at the Center of the World | Russell Shorto | 2014 |
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| Astoria | Peter Stark | 2020 |
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| American Colonies: The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume 1) | Alan Taylor | 2019 |
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| The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I | Barbara Tuchman | 2012 |
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| Korea: The Impossible Country | Daniel Tudor | 2015 |
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| Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World | Jack Weatherford | 2024 |
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| The Penguin History of Latin America | Edwin Williamson | 2014 |
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| Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and their History | Simon Winder | 2015 |
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| Danubia: A Personal History of the Habsburg Empire | Simon Winder | 2015 |
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| American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America | Colin Woodard | 2018 |
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Books Read - Sci-Fi
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
|---|
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | 2018 |
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| Foundation | Isaac Asimov | 2017 |
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| Ender’s Game | Orson Scott Card | 2011 |
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| The City and the Stars | Arthur C. Clarke | 2019 |
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| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | 2017 |
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| Los Juegos del Hambre | Suzanne Collins | 2013 |
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| En Llamas | Suzanne Collins | 2013 |
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| Sinsajo | Suzanne Collins | 2014 |
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| Dark Matter | Blake Crouch | 2024 |
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| Diaspora | Greg Egan | 2019 |
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| The Book of Strange New Things | Michel Faber | 2015 |
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| Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat | Philip Jose Farmer | 2016 |
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| The Forever War | John Halderman | 2019 |
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| The Moon is a Harsh Mistress | Robert Heinlein | 2019 |
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| Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert Heinlein | 2018 |
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| Dune | Frank Herbert | 2012 |
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| The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas: A Story (A Wind's Twelve Quarters Story) | Ursula K. Le Guin | 2018 |
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| The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia | Ursula K. Le Guin | 2019 |
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| The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | 2020 |
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| The Three Body Problem (Book 1 of Remembrance of Earth’s Past) | Cixin Liu | 2021 |
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| The Dark Forest (Book 2 of Remembrance of Earth’s Past) | Cixin Liu | 2021 |
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| Death’s End (Book 3 of Remembrance of Earth’s Past) | Cixin Liu | 2021 |
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| Infomocracy: Book One of the Centenal Cycle | Malka Ann Older | 2019 |
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| New York 2140 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2021 |
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| Red Shirts | John Scalzi | 2023 |
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| The Kaiju Preservation Society | John Scalzi | 2024 |
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| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | 2012 |
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| Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson | 2012 |
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| The Diamond Age | Neal Stephenson | 2012 |
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| Anathem | Neal Stephenson | 2016 |
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| Zodiac | Neal Stephenson | 2017 |
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| Seveneves: A Novel | Neal Stephenson | 2017 |
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| The Cobweb | Neal Stephenson | 2017 |
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| Reamde: A Novel | Neal Stephenson | 2019 |
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| Interface | Neal Stephenson | 2020 |
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| Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel | Neal Stephenson | 2021 |
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| The Martian | Andy Weir | 2017 |
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| The Invisible Man; A Grotesque Romance. | H. G. Wells | 2011 |
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| The Time Machine | H. G. Wells | 2011 |
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| Shadow & Claw | Gene Wolfe | 2017 |
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| Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' | Gene Wolfe | 2017 |
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Books Read - Fantasy
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
|---|
| Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell | Sussanna Clarke | 2015 |
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| The Lies of Locke Lamora | Scott Lynch | 2013 |
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| A Game of Thrones | George R.R. Martin | 2011 |
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| A Clash of Kings | George R.R. Martin | 2011 |
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| A Storm of Swords | George R.R. Martin | 2011 |
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| A Feast for Crows | George R.R. Martin | 2011 |
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| A Dance with Dragons | George R.R. Martin | 2011 |
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| Nona the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir | 2023 |
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| Gideon the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir | 2020 |
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| Harrow the Ninth | Tamsyn Muir | 2022 |
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| The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman | 2005 |
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| The Subtle Knife | Philip Pullman | 2005 |
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| The Amber Spyglass | Philip Pullman | 2006 |
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| The Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss | 2016 |
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| The Wise Man’s Fear | Patrick Rothfuss | 2016 |
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| Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosifal | J.K. Rowling | 2009 |
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| Harry Potter y la Camara de Secretos | J.K. Rowling | 2010 |
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| Harry Potter y el Prisonero de Azkaban | J.K. Rowling | 2010 |
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| Harry Potter y el Caliz de Fuego | J.K. Rowling | 2010 |
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| Harry Potter y el Orden del Fenix | J.K. Rowling | 2010 |
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| Harry Potter y el Misterio del Principe | J.K. Rowling | 2010 |
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| Harry Potter y las Reliquas de la Muerte | J.K. Rowling | 2010 |
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| The Bands of Mourning: Book Six of Mistborn | Brandon Sanderson | 2020 |
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| Elantris | Brandon Sanderson | 2023 |
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| Warbreaker | Brandon Sanderson | 2023 |
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| The Way of Kings: Book One of the Stormlight Archive | Brandon Sanderson | 2024 |
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| Words of Radiance: Book Two of the Stormlight Archive | Brandon Sanderson | 2024 |
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| Oathbringer: Book Three of the Stormlight Archive | Brandon Sanderson | 2024 |
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| The Rhythm of War: Book Four of the Stormlight Archive | Brandon Sanderson | 2024 |
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| Mistborn: The Final Empire: Book One of Mistborn | Brandon Sanderson | 2018 |
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| The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn | Brandon Sanderson | 2018 |
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| The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn | Brandon Sanderson | 2018 |
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| The Alloy of Law: Book Four of Mistborn | Brandon Sanderson | 2020 |
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| Shadows of Self: Book Five of Mistborn | Brandon Sanderson | 2020 |
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| Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R. Tolkein | 2003 |
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| Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | J.R.R. Tolkein | 2003 |
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| Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | J.R.R. Tolkein | 2003 |
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Books Read - Economics
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
|---|
| Other People's Money: Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Real Estate Deal Ever Made | Charles V. Baglin | 2014 |
|
| Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street | Peter L. Bernstein | 2008 |
|
| Against the Gods: A History of Risk | Peter L. Bernstein | 2007 |
|
| The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession | Peter L. Bernstein | 2007 |
|
| A Demon of Our Own Design | Richard Bookstabber | 2010 |
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| Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream | Conor Dougherty | 2022 |
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| Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters | Walter Friedman | 2016 |
|
| Diary of a Very Bad Year: Interviews with an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager | Keith Gessen | 2018 |
|
| Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | Malcolm Gladwell | 2006 |
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| The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference | Malcolm Gladwell | 2002 |
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| Outliers: The Story of Success | Malcolm Gladwell | 2019 |
|
| The Undercover Economist | Tim Harford | 2007 |
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| The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers | Robert L. Heilbroner | 2011 |
|
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman | 2016 |
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| Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly | John Kay | 2018 |
|
| Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope | Nicholas D. Kristof | 2020 |
|
| Freakonomics | Steven D. Levitt | 2006 |
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| The Money Culture | Michael Lewis | 2004 |
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| Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity | Michael Lewis | 2020 |
|
| Boomerang: Travels in the New Third Wold | Michael Lewis | 2023 |
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| The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds | Michael Lewis | 2017 |
|
| Fortune’s Formula | William Poundstone | 2019 |
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| Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) | William Poundstone | 2016 |
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| Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody | William Poundstone | 2016 |
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| Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It | Richard V. Reeves | 2021 |
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| The Great Depression: A Diary | Benjamin Roth | 2023 |
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| The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time | Jeffrey Sachs | 2009 |
|
| Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Risk | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 2003 |
|
| The Black Swan | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 2007 |
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| Skin in the Game | Nicholas Nassim Taleb | 2022 |
|
| Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction | Philip E. Tetlock | 2018 |
|
| Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness | Richard H. Thaler | 2004 |
|
| In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic | David Wessel | 2010 |
|
Books Read - Historical Fiction
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
|---|
| The Alienist: A Novel | Caleb Carr | 2005 |
|
| The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco | 2011 |
|
| La Catedral del Mar | Ildefonso Falcones | 2016 |
|
| The Pillars of the Earth | Ken Follett | 2014 |
|
| Assassin's Creed: The Official Movie Novelization | Christie Golden | 2017 |
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| Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | Seth Graeme-Smith | 2020 |
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| Unholy Night | Seth Graeme-Smith | 2020 |
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| The Boys from Brazil | Ira Levin | 2013 |
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| Mexico | James Michener | 2013 |
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| Poland | James Michener | 2014 |
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| The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel | David Mitchell | 2014 |
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| The Dante Club: A Novel | Matthew Pearl | 2009 |
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| London | Edward Rutherford | 2008 |
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| Russka: The Novel of Russia | Edward Rutherford | 2013 |
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| Paris: The Novel | Edward Rutherford | 2018 |
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| The Princes of Ireland | Edward Rutherford | 2018 |
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| The Rebels of Ireland | Edward Rutherford | 2019 |
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| New York: The Novel | Edward Rutherford | 2021 |
|
| The Terror | Dan Simmons | 2019 |
|
| Red Plenty | Francis Spufford | 2010 |
|
| Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle No. 1) | Neal Stephenson | 2011 |
|
| The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle No. 2) | Neal Stephenson | 2011 |
|
| The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle No. 3) | Neal Stephenson | 2011 |
|
| Saint Jack: A Novel | Paul Theroux | 2017 |
|
Books Read - Travel
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
|---|
| Swiss Watching: Inside the Land of Milk and Money | Diccon Bewes | 2016 |
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| The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia | Michael Booth | 2016 |
|
| A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson | 2012 |
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| In a Sunburned Country | Bill Bryson | 2008 |
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| Neither Here Nor There | Bill Bryson | 2016 |
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| Pecked to Death by Ducks | Tim Cahill | 2017 |
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| Why The Dutch Are Different: A Journey Into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands | Ben Coates | 2015 |
|
| The Good Rain | Timothy Egan | 2020 |
|
| Travels in Siberia | Ian Frazier | 2015 |
|
| Downtown: My Manhattan | Pete Hamill | 2008 |
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| Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside | Nick Offerman | 2023 |
|
| Fugitives & Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon | Chuck Palahniuk | 2022 |
|
| Kingdom by the Sea | Paul Theroux | 2023 |
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| On the Plain of Snakes | Paul Theroux | 2023 |
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| The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas | Paul Theroux | 2024 |
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| Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town | Paul Theroux | 2019 |
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| Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads | Paul Theroux | 2019 |
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| Ghost Train to the Eastern Star | Paul Theroux | 2018 |
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| The Great Railway Bazaar | Paul Theroux | 2016 |
|
| The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific | Paul Theroux | 2021 |
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| Riding the Iron Rooster | Paul Theroux | 2016 |
|
| The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific | J. Maarten Troost | 2007 |
|
| The Black Lamb & the Grey Falcon | Rebecca West | 2012 |
|
Books Read - Biography
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
|---|
| The Education of Henry Adams | Henry Adams | 2013 |
|
| Open | Andre Agassi | 2020 |
|
| If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor | Bruce Campbell | 2014 |
|
| The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York | Robert Caro | 2020 |
|
| Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures of The Radical Soviet Poet | Emmanuel Carrere | 2015 |
|
| Where Nobody Knows Your Name | John Feinstein | 2022 |
|
| Hitch-22: A Memoir | Christopher Hitchens | 2012 |
|
| Steve Jobs | Walter Isaacson | 2013 |
|
| The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World | A.J. Jacobs | 2006 |
|
| Macho Row: The 1993 Phillies and Baseball's Unwritten Code | William C. Kashatus | 2017 |
|
| Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike | Phil Knight | 2016 |
|
| Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game | Michael Lewis | 2004 |
|
| Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist | Roger Lowenstein | 2018 |
|
| Born to Run | Christopher McDougall | 2015 |
|
| Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy | Frank McLynn | 2016 |
|
| What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | Haruki Murakami | 2018 |
|
| Born a Crime | Trevor Noah | 2020 |
|
| Dad's Maybe Book | Tim O’Brien | 2022 |
|
| A Fighter’s Heart: One Man’s Journey Through the World of Fighting | Sam Sheridan | 2006 |
|
| Permanent Record | Edward Snowden | 2020 |
|
| The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger | Greg Steinmetz | 2016 |
|
| Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future | Ashlee Vance | 2016 |
|
Books Read - Geopolitics
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
|---|
| Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty | Daron Acemoglu | 2017 |
|
| The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations? | Ian Bremmer | 2012 |
|
| The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge in an Uncertain World | Ian Bremmer | 2011 |
|
| The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall | Ian Bremmer | 2007 |
|
| Every Nation for Itself: What Happens When No One Leads the World | Ian Bremmer | 2016 |
|
| Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden | Steve Coll | 2009 |
|
| The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook | Niall Ferguson | 2019 |
|
| Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America | Thomas L. Friedman | 2008 |
|
| The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution | Francis Fukuyama | 2011 |
|
| Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy | Francis Fukuyama | 2015 |
|
| The Eagle’s Shadow | Mark Hertsgaard | 2003 |
|
| How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance | Parag Khanna | 2017 |
|
| The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the Twenty-first Century | Parag Khanna | 2011 |
|
| Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia | Peter Pomerantsev | 2015 |
|
| The World As We Know It | Ben Rhodes | 2019 |
|
| The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World | Paul Roberts | 2009 |
|
| The Arabs: A History | Eugene Rogan | 2012 |
|
| The Looming Tower | Lawrence Wright | 2024 |
|
| The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power | Daniel Yergin | 2012 |
|
| The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World | Daniel Yergin | 2012 |
|
Books Read - Politics
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
|---|
| America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System | Steven Brill | 2015 |
|
| What It Takes: The Way to the White House | Richard Ben Cramer | 2022 |
|
| Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World | Henry Grabar | 2024 |
|
| Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime | John Heilemann | 2011 |
|
| Hiding in Plain Site: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America | Sarah Kendzior | 2020 |
|
| Why We're Polarized | Ezra Klein | 2020 |
|
| The Fifth Risk | Michael Lewis | 2019 |
|
| Confessions of a Recovering Engineer | Charles L. Marohn, Jr. | 2024 |
|
| Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity | Charles L. Marohn, Jr. | 2024 |
|
| Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right | Jane Mayer | 2019 |
|
| The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream | Barack Obama | 2018 |
|
| Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus | Rick Perlstein | 2022 |
|
| Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America | Rick Perlstein | 2020 |
|
| Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter and Trump | Dan Pfeiffer | 2020 |
|
| On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century | Timothy Snyder | 2017 |
|
| Tangled Webs: How False Statements Are Undermining America: From Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff | James B. Stewart | 2020 |
|
| Deep State: Trump, the FBI and the Rule of Law | James B. Stewart | 2020 |
|
| What’s Our Problem: A Self-Help Book for Societies | Tim Urban | 2024 |
|
| Fire and Fury | Michael Wolff | 2018 |
|
| Fear: Inside the Trump White House | Bob Woodward | 2018 |
|
Books Read - Science
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
|---|
| The Happiest Kids in the World | Rina Mae Acosta | 2021 |
|
| A Brief History of Time | Stephen Hawking | 2016 |
|
| The Perfect Storm | Sebastian Junger | 2019 |
|
| Breathe | James Nestor | 2022 |
|
| A Place of My Own: the Architecture of Daydreams | Michael Pollan | 2019 |
|
| How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence | Michael Pollan | 2021 |
|
| The Botany of Desire | Michael Pollan | 2020 |
|
| The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Richard Rhodes | 2024 |
|
| Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash | Elizabeth Royte | 2021 |
|
| The Bet | Paul Sabin | 2017 |
|
| NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity | Steve Silberman | 2015 |
|
| The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography | Simon Singh | 2021 |
|
| Never Enough | Jennifer Wallace | 2024 |
|
| A City on Mars | Kelly Weinersmith | 2024 |
|
| The Hidden Life of Trees | Peter Wohlleben | 2023 |
|
| She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity | Carl Zimmer | 2022 |
|
Books Read - Apocalyptic
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
|---|
| Leave the World Behind | Rumaan Alam | 2021 |
|
| The Future | Naomi Alderman | 2024 |
|
| World War Z | Max Brooks | 2014 |
|
| The Girl With All the Gifts | MR Carey | 2018 |
|
| The Passage | Justin Cronin | 2017 |
|
| The Twelve | Justin Cronin | 2017 |
|
| City of Mirrors | Justin Cronin | 2017 |
|
| The Man in the High Castle | Philip K. Dick | 2015 |
|
| American War | Omar El Akkad | 2020 |
|
| 11/22/63 | Stephen King | 2023 |
|
| The Stand | Stephen King | 2023 |
|
| Station Eleven | Emily St. John Mandel | 2022 |
|
| The Dervish House | Ian McDonald | 2011 |
|
| Day of the Oprichnik: A Novel | Vladimir Sorokin | 2019 |
|
| Termination Shock | Neal Stephenson | 2023 |
|
| Underground Airways | Ben H. Winters | 2017 |
|
Books Read - Food and Drink
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
|---|
| The Beer Bible: The Essential Beer Lover's Guide | Jeff Alworth | 2016 |
|
| Celis Beer: Born in Belgium, Brewed in Texas | Jeremy Banas | 2024 |
|
| Animal, Vegetable, Junk | Mark Bittman | 2023 |
|
| The Craft Beer Revolution: How a Band of Microbrewers Is Transforming the World's Favorite Drink | Steve Hindy | 2012 |
|
| The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements | Sam Kean | 2017 |
|
| Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World | Mark Pendergrast | 2017 |
|
| Cooked | Michael Pollan | 2019 |
|
| The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | Michael Pollan | 2009 |
|
| In Defense of Food | Michael Pollan | 2020 |
|
| On Eating Animals | Jonathon Safron Foer | 2014 |
|
| The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet | Nina Teicholz | 2016 |
|
| Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat | Bee Wilson | 2015 |
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Books Read - True Crime
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
|---|
| Catch Me If You Can | Frank Agbagnole | 2001 |
|
| Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists | Anthony M. Amore | 2015 |
|
| Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun | Paul M. Barrett | 2019 |
|
| Lucifers Banker Uncensored: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy | Bradley C. Birkenfeld | 2024 |
|
| Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice | Bill Browder | 2015 |
|
| The Informant: A True Story | Kurt Eichenwald | 2015 |
|
| Tracers in the Dark | Andy Goldberg | 2023 |
|
| Ugly Americans : The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions | Ben Mezrich | 2004 |
|
| Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas | Ben Mezrich | 2004 |
|
| Confessions of an Economic Hit Man | John Perkins | 2010 |
|
| Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History | Scott Andrew Selby | 2018 |
|
| The Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World | Tom Wright | 2022 |
|
Books Read - Culture
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
|---|
| What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art | Will Gompertz | 2014 |
|
| Love All the People | Bill Hicks | 2012 |
|
| Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto | Chuck Klosterman | 2009 |
|
| The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of Americas Childhood | Jane Leavy | 2024 |
|
| Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being | Grant Morrison | 2013 |
|
| The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature | Steven Pinker | 2009 |
|
| Boom Chicago: The 25 Most Important Years in Dutch History | Pep Rosenfeld | 2018 |
|
| The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory | John Seabrook | 2015 |
|
| All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told | Douglas Wolk | 2023 |
|
| The Classic Era of American Comics | Nicky Wright | 2024 |
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Books Read - Humor
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
|---|
| How to Archer: The Ultimate Guide to Espionage, Style, Women, and Cocktails Ever Written | Sterling Archer | 2013 |
|
| Big Trouble | Dave Barry | 2000 |
|
| Double Whammy | Carl Hiaasen | 2020 |
|
| Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal | Christopher Moore | 2007 |
|
| Me Talk Pretty One Day | David Sedaris | 2008 |
|
| Look Who's Back | Timur Vermes | 2016 |
|
Books Read - Philosophy
| Book Title | Author | Year Read |
|---|
| No God but God | Reza Aslan | 2014 |
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| Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth | Reza Aslan | 2014 |
|
| Norse Mythology | Neil Gaimann | 2021 |
|
| Beyond Good and Evil | Friedrich Nietzsche | 2002 |
|
| The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World | Matthew Stewart | 2024 |
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