Book List

Cover	Title	Author	My rating
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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 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
	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
	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
	Animal Farm Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.	George Orwell	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Noble House (Asian Saga, #5) This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13: 9780440164845.The tai-pan, Ian Dunross,...	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
	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
	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
	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 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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1) The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. What was, what...	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1) ASIN B000JMKNJ2 moved to the more recent editionA...	Scott Lynch	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
	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
	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-...	Frank Herbert	5
	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
	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
	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 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
	Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2) Fitz has survived his first hazardous mission as king’s assassin, but is left little more than a cripple. Battered and bitter, he vows to abandon his oath to King Shrewd, remaining in the distant mo...	Robin Hobb	5
	Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2) Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must pro...	Brandon Sanderson	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
	Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1) alternate cover for ISBN 9780006486015Fifteen years have passed s...	Robin Hobb	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 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
	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
	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 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
	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 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 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 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
	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 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
	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
	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
	The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3) Several months have passed, and Roland’s two new tet-mates have become proficient gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta’s two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more b...	Stephen King	3
	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
	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 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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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 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
	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 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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	American Psycho Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street. He is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to head-on collision with America's greatest dream�...	Bret Easton Ellis	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
	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
	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 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
	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 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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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

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