Book List

Cover	Title	Author	My rating
	Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation Sparked by a provocative comment to BigThink.com last fall, and fueled by a highly controversial debate with Creation Museum curator Ken Ham, Bill Nye's campaign to confront the scientific shortcomin...	Bill Nye	2
	To Kill a Mockingbird The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. "To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it w...	Harper Lee	3
	Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonneg...	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	5
	Dust: (Wool Trilogy 3) by Howey, Hugh (2014) Paperback Wool introduced the world of the silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfallJuliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn’t trust Silo 1, especially its leader, D...	Hugh Howey	5
	Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2) Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It�...	Joe Abercrombie	4
	Fahrenheit 451 Sixty years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its messa...	Ray Bradbury	4
	The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLEROne of America’s most accomplished entrepreneurs—a pioneer who made the internet part of everyday life and orchestrated the...	Steve Case	5
	The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, #8) The Seanchan invasion force is in possession of Ebou Dar. Nynaeve, Elayne, and Aviendha head for Caemlyn and Elayne's rightful throne, but on the way they discover an enemy much worse than the Seancha...	Robert Jordan	5
	The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) Alternate covers for 9780307277671 can be found:The da Vinci Code, ...	Dan Brown	3
	The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0) In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat...	J.R.R. Tolkien	3
	Ulysses Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety...	James Joyce	3
	The Rum Diary Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent alcoholic lust in the Caribbean boomtown that was San Juan, ...	Hunter S. Thompson	4
	City of Dragons (Rain Wild Chronicles, #3) New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb returns to world of the Rain Wilds—called “one of the most gripping settings in modern fantasy” (Booklist)—in City of Dragons. Continuing th...	Robin Hobb	5
	The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story...	F. Scott Fitzgerald	3
	Atlas: From the Streets to the Ring: A Son's Struggle to Become a Man "Of all the people who have affected by my life and influence the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father." So begins the autobiography of legendary boxing trainer and commentat...	Teddy Atlas	4
	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 years contained some of the most catastrophic events Western civilization has ever known.No other po...	William L. Shirer	5
	Half a War (Shattered Sea, #3) Words are weaponsPrincess Skara has seen all she loved made blood and ashes. She is left with only words. But the right words can be as deadly as any blade. She must conquer her fea...	Joe Abercrombie	5
	The Go Programming Language The Go Programming Language is the authoritative resource for any programmer who wants to learn Go. It shows how to write clear and idiomatic Go to solve real-world problems. ...	Alan A.A. Donovan	4
	The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1) Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead fri...	Joe Abercrombie	5
	The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors A faltering war in the middle east. A band of elite warriors determined to fight to the death to protect Christianity’s holiest sites. A global financial network unaccountable to any government. ...	Dan Jones	2
	The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2) The impossible has happened. The Lord Ruler is dead and has been vanquished. But so too is Kelsier, the man who masterminded the triumph. The awesome task of rebuilding the world has been left to his ...	Brandon Sanderson	5
	The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of warA New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceIn The Bomber Mafia, M...	Malcolm Gladwell	4
	Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1) The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought...	Iain M. Banks	3
	Dune (Dune, #1) Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, ...	Frank Herbert	5
	The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. The intimate narrative of his childhood in...	Patrick Rothfuss	5
	The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War From the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war—and Presidents’ actions in nuclear...	Fred Kaplan	5
	Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and structure of the world itself? Jo...	Jordan B. Peterson	5
	Think like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podca...	Steven D. Levitt	3
	The Wise Man’s Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2) “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”My name is Kvothe.I have stolen princesses back from slee...	Patrick Rothfuss	5
	Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1) Vast legions of gods, mages, humans, dragons and all manner of creatures play out the fate of the Malazan Empire in this first book in a major epic fantasy series from Steven Erikson.	Steven Erikson	4
	Blood of Dragons (Rain Wild Chronicles, #4) The dragons' survival hangs in the balance in the thrilling final volume in the acclaimed River Wilds Chronicles fantasy seriesThe dragons and their dedicated band of keepers have at last ...	Robin Hobb	5
	Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground The true story of Max Butler, the master hacker who ran a billion dollar cyber crime network.The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: an audacious c...	Kevin Poulsen	4
	Plant Science: An Introduction to Botany In Plant Science: An Introduction to Botany, Dr. Catherine Kleier invites us to open our eyes to the phenomenal world of plant life and to the process she calls “Natura Revelata”, the joy of celeb...	Catherine Kleier	2
	The Gathering Storm (The Wheel of Time, #12) The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age...	Robert Jordan	5
	Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business A new book that explores the science of productivity, and why, in today’s world, managing how you think—rather than what you think—can transform your life....	Charles Duhigg	4
	The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children Per essere dei buoni genitori, bisogna essere consapevoli. Solo essendo consapevoli delle nostre emozioni presenti potremo influenzare positivamente il futuro dei nostri figli. Un libro con tanti esem...	Shefali Tsabary	3
	The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5) The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!In The Fires of Heaven, the fifth novel in Robert Jordan’s #1 New York Times bestselling ep...	Robert Jordan	5
	The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Gu...	Douglas Adams	3
	Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard, #2) Librarian note: An older cover for this edition can be found here: 31-Jul-2007....	Scott Lynch	5
	The Old Man and the Sea Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereThis short novel, ...	Ernest Hemingway	5
	Sharp Ends Sharp Ends is the ultimate collection of award winning tales and exclusive new short stories from the master of grimdark fantasy, Joe Abercrombie.Violence explodes, treachery...	Joe Abercrombie	4
	Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2) In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha’ik and her followers prepare for the long-prophesied uprising known as the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in size and savagery...	Steven Erikson	4
	The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution Gregory Zuckerman, the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever and The Frackers, answers the question investors have been asking for decades: How did Jim Simons do it?	Gregory Zuckerman	5
	House of Chains (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #4) An alternate cover edition can be found here.In Northern Genabackis, a raiding par...	Steven Erikson	5
	1984 Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers polit...	George Orwell	4
	The Idiot Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya an...	Fyodor Dostoevsky	3
	Brave New World Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, sociall...	Aldous Huxley	5
	Atlas Shrugged This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators?Why did he have to fight his battle, not agai...	Ayn Rand	4
	Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5) Roland and his tet have just returned to the path of the Beam when they discover that they are being followed by a group of inexperienced trackers. The trackers are from the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis...	Stephen King	3
	Assassin's Fate (The Fitz and the Fool, #3) More than twenty years ago, the first epic fantasy novel featuring FitzChivalry Farseer and his mysterious, often maddening friend the Fool struck like a bolt of brilliant lightning. Now New York Time...	Robin Hobb	5
	Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Explosion Aboard the Deepwater Horizon A real-life thriller in the tradition of The Perfect StormIn the spring of 2010 the world watched for weeks ...	Tom Shroder	5
	The Six Sacred Stones (Jack West Jr, #2) THE END OF THE WORLD IS HEREUnlocking the secret of the Seven Ancient Wonders was only the beginning... After their thrilling exploits in Matthew Reilly's rampaging New York Times bes...	Matthew Reilly	3
	The Island In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years.Inevitably...	Aldous Huxley	5
	Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1) In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma.Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chi...	Robin Hobb	5
	The Hero of Ages (The Mistborn Saga, #3) From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.Who is the Hero of Ag...	Brandon Sanderson	5
	Midnight Tides (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #5) After decades of warfare, the five tribes of the Tiste Edur are united under the implacable rule of the Warlock King of the Hiroth. But the price of peace is a pact with a hidden power whose motives m...	Steven Erikson	5
	Ham on Rye In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly ...	Charles Bukowski	5
	The Intelligent Investor More than one million hardcovers soldNow available for the first time in paperback!The Classic Text Annotated to Update Graham's Timeless Wisdom for Today's Market Conditions	Benjamin Graham	5
	The Grapes of Wrath The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning...	John Steinbeck	3
	Mistborn: The Final Empire (Book One): A BookCaps Study Guide Brandon Sanderson's "Misborn" trilogy has been called one of the greatest fantasies of all time--but it is massive! There are dozens of characters, plots, and settings. This study guide is a companion...	BookCaps	5
	The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive Book One Speak again the ancient oaths. Life before death. Strength before weakness, Journey before destination. And return to men the shards they once bore. The knights radiant must stand again.	Brandon Sanderson	5
	The Anatomy of a Golf Course: The Art of Golf Architecture Behind every golf hole lies an influence on every golfer's game that few golfers ever the course architect. Why a hole dog-legs left and not right, why bunkers end up where they are, the length of a h...	Tom Doak	5
	The Martian Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills hi...	Andy Weir	3
	Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3) King Shrewd is dead at the hands of his son Regal. As is Fitz--or so his enemies and friends believe. But with the help of his allies and his beast magic, he emerges from the grave, deeply scarred in ...	Robin Hobb	5
	Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2) Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic. In this second book in the saga set 3,000 years after the terrible war, Ender Wiggin is revi...	Orson Scott Card	4
	Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4) Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged b...	Stephen King	3
	The Four Foundations of Golf: How to Build a Game That Lasts a Lifetime (The Foundations of Golf Book 1) #1 Amazon Golf Book Best-SellerLower Your Scores, Increase Enjoyment Are you struggling to take your golf game to the next level? Learn the philosophy that has helped thou...	Jon Sherman	5
	The Mad Ship (Liveship Traders, #2) The Farseer trilogy continues the dramatic tale of piracy, serpents, love and magic. The Vestrit family's liveship, Vivacia, has been taken by the pirate king, Kennit. Held captive on board, Wintrow V...	Robin Hobb	5
	Towers of Midnight (The Wheel of Time, #13) The end draws near....The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One’s prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to b...	Robert Jordan	5
	Foundation (Foundation, #1) The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But on...	Isaac Asimov	4
	Crime and Punishment Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napole...	Fyodor Dostoevsky	2
	Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force, #1) We were fighting on the wrong side, of a war we couldn't win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our litt...	Craig Alanson	4
	Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1) After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land...	James Clavell	5
	The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, #4) The seals of Shayol Ghul are weak now, and the Dark One reaches out. The Shadow is rising to cover humankind.In Tar Valon, Min sees portents of hideous doom. Will the White Tower itself be...	Robert Jordan	5
	Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1) alternate cover for ISBN 9780006486015Fifteen years have passed s...	Robin Hobb	5
	Lord of Chaos (The Wheel of Time, #6) In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Fires of Heaven, we plunge again into Robert Jordan's extraordinarily rich, totally unforgettable world:On the slopes of Shay...	Robert Jordan	5
	Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the sto...	Hugh Howey	5
	Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twe...	William Gibson	5
	Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who ha...	Dan Simmons	3
	Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1) Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of B...	Robin Hobb	5
	A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14) The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age...	Robert Jordan	5
	Fool's Fate (Tawny Man, #3) The triumphant conclusion to the Tawny Man trilogy, from the author of the bestselling Farseer and Liveship Traders trilogies. The moving end to the tale of the Farseers, in which kingdoms must stand ...	Robin Hobb	5
	Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2) Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a p...	James Clavell	5
	Animal Farm Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.	George Orwell	5
	Fool's Quest (The Fitz and the Fool, #2) Acclaimed and bestselling author Robin Hobb continues her Fitz and the Fool trilogy with this second entry, following Fool’s Assassin, ramping up the tension and the intrigue as disaster continue...	Robin Hobb	5
	Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3) The end is coming. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the King of the Northmen still stands firm, and there's only o...	Joe Abercrombie	4
	The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spel...	Stephen King	4
	Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds New York Times Best SellerOver 5 million copies soldFor David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare -- poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But th...	David Goggins	5
	Outliers: The Story of Success Learn what sets high achievers apart — from Bill Gates to the Beatles — in this #1 bestseller from "a singular talent" (New York Times Book Review).In this stunning book,...	Malcolm Gladwell	5
	Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1) (Alternate cover edition of ISBN 031624662X / 9780316246620.) On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Ju...	Ann Leckie	3
	Project Hail Mary Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t...	Andy Weir	5
	The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time, #2) The Forsaken are loose, the Horn of Valere has been found and the Dead are rising from their dreamless sleep. The Prophecies are being fulfilled - but Rand al'Thor, the shepherd the Aes Sedai have pro...	Robert Jordan	5
	The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or "ems." Scan a human brain, then run a model with the ...	Robin Hanson	2
	Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military geniu...	Orson Scott Card	4
	Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2) From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began....	Brandon Sanderson	5
	On the Road A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the N. American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snow...	Jack Kerouac	4
	The Light Fantastic (Discworld, #2; Rincewind, #2) As it moves towards a seemingly inevitable collision with a malevolent red star, the Discworld has only one possible saviour. Unfortunately, this happens to be the singularly inept and cowardly wizard...	Terry Pratchett	2
	Shift (Wool, #2) The much anticipated prequel to bestseller Wool that takes us back to the beginnings of the silo.In a future less than fifty years away, the world is still as we know it. Tim...	Hugh Howey	5
	The Dragon Keeper (Rain Wild Chronicles, #1) Too much time has passed since the powerful dragon Tintaglia helped the people of the Trader cities stave off an invasion of their enemies. The Traders have forgotten their promises, weary of the labo...	Robin Hobb	5
	The Man in the High Castle It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty year...	Philip K. Dick	3

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