Book List

Cover	Title	Author	My rating
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away?In 2016, New York Times...	Ben Shapiro	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
	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
	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 Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2) While pursuing his quest for the Dark Tower through a world that is a nightmarishly distorted mirror image of our own, Roland, the last gunslinger, encounters three mysterious doorways on the beach. E...	Stephen King	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
	Blood of Dragons (Rain Wilds 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
	The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0618260269 (copyright page ISBN is 0618346252 - different from back cover)One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in t...	J.R.R. Tolkien	4
	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
	Animal Farm Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.	George Orwell	5
	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
	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
	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
	Thinking, Fast and Slow In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, ...	Daniel Kahneman	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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 th...	Joe Abercrombie	4
	The Old Man and the Sea Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereThis short novel, ...	Ernest Hemingway	5
	The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, #3) The Dragon Reborn—the leader long prophesied who will save the world, but in the saving destroy it; the savior who will run mad and kill all those dearest to him—is on the run from his dest...	Robert Jordan	5
	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
	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 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 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
	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 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
	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
	The Catcher in the Rye It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleet...	J.D. Salinger	4
	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
	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
	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
	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 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 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
	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
	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
	Gai-Jin (Asian Saga, #3) The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House…the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age…a beautiful young French w...	James Clavell	5
	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 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
	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
	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
	Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3) The ravaged continent of Genabackis is a terrifying new empire, the Pannion Domin, that devours all. An uneasy allliance resists: Onearm's army, Whiskeyjack's Bridgeburners and former enemies - forces...	Steven Erikson	5
	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
	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
	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
	A Crown of Swords (The Wheel of Time, #7) The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and go. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time....	Robert Jordan	5
	The Great Gatsby The only edition of the beloved classic that is authorized by Fitzgerald’s family and from his lifelong publisher.This edition is the enduring original text, updated with the auth...	F. Scott Fitzgerald	3
	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
	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 b...	Brandon Sanderson	5
	Recursion Memory makes reality.That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction...	Blake Crouch	3
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Dune Messiah (Dune #2) Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All TimeDune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known--and feared--as the...	Frank Herbert	5
	The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard, #3) With what should have been the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, Locke and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. But Locke is slo...	Scott Lynch	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
	Half the World (Shattered Sea, #2) Thorn Bathu was born to fight. But when she kills a boy in the training square she finds herself named a murderer.Fate places her life in the hands of the deep-cunning Father Yarvi as he s...	Joe Abercrombie	5
	Noble House (Asian Saga, #5) This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13: 9780440164845.The tai-pan, Ian Dunross,...	James Clavell	5
	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
	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
	Ship of Destiny (Liveship Traders, #3) An alternative cover of this ISBN can be found here.As Bingtown slides toward disaster, clan matriarch R...	Robin Hobb	5
	The Forever War, Vol. 1 The legendary novel of extraterrestrial war in an uncaring universe comes to comics, in a stunningly realized vision of Joe Haldeman's Vietnam War parable! The visionary Hugo and N...	Joe Haldeman	3
	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 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
	The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1) Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusa...	Stieg Larsson	4
	The Things They Carried A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imag...	Tim O'Brien	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
	Oathbringer In Oathbringer, the third volume of the New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as...	Brandon Sanderson	5
	The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1) ASIN B000JMKNJ2 moved to the more recent editionA...	Scott Lynch	5
	King Rat (Asian Saga, #4) The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both ca...	James Clavell	5
	Best Served Cold Springtime in Styria. And that means war.There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle with the squabbling League of Eight, and betw...	Joe Abercrombie	4
	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
	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
	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
	The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) 1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind.	Liu Cixin	4
	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
	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
	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 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 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 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
	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
	The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) Alternate covers for 9780307277671 can be found:The da Vinci Code, ...	Dan Brown	3
	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
	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
	The Golden Fool (Tawny Man, #2) 'Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. MartinThe second book in Robin Hobb’s thrilling fantasy series returns readers to the Six Duchies and the magical world of the Fitz and th...	Robin Hobb	5
	Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2) 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’s enough to make a torturer w...	Joe Abercrombie	4
	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
	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
	Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us ...	Yuval Noah Harari	2
	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

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