Book List

Cover	Title	Author	My rating
	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 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
	Dust (Wool Trilogy, #3) 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
	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
	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
	The Hobbit, or There and Back Again 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
	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
	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
	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
	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 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
	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
	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
	Noble House (Asian Saga, #5) This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN13: 9780440164845.The tai-pan, Ian Dunross,...	James Clavell	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 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
	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
	Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1) alternate cover for ISBN 9780006486015Fifteen years have passed s...	Robin Hobb	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
	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 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
	Project Hail Mary A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined.Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself...	Andy Weir	5
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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 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
	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 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
	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
	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
	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 Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1) ASIN B000JMKNJ2 moved to the more recent editionA...	Scott Lynch	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
	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
	Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3) Marking the return of many characters from Gardens of the Moon and introducing a host of remarkable new players, Memories of Ice is both a momentous new chapter in Steven Erikson's magnificent epic...	Steven Erikson	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Animal Farm Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.	George Orwell	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
	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
	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
	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 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
	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
	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
	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
	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 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
	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
	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 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
	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
	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
	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 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 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
	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
	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
	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 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 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 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, this isla...	Aldous Huxley	5
	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 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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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 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
	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
	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
	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 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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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 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
	12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition...	Jordan B. Peterson	5
	The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) This is an alternate cover for 9780307277671. Others can be found:here,	Dan Brown	3
	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 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
	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 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
	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 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 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
	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 Windup Girl Anderson Lake is a company man, AgriGen's Calorie Man in Thailand. Under cover as a factory manager, Anderson combs Bangkok's street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to re...	Paolo Bacigalupi	2

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