Bitwise: A Life in Code
By: David B. Auerbach
3.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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1. Doctor Zhivago
By: Boris Pasternak , John Bayley , Manya Harari , Max Hayward
4.01
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family … read more
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"Only the superfluous is sordid"-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"The last moments slipped by, one by one, irretrievable."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
"And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble."-Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
2. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
By: Robert A. Heinlein
4.15
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its maste… read more
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- audiobook
"Drop dead-but first get permit"-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
"Women talk when they want to. Or don't."-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
"Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument."-Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
3. Seven Years in Tibet
By: Heinrich Harrer
4.10
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"The name Kyirong means “the village of happiness,"-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"There are times when visible poverty has its advantages."-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred."-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight.…"-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
4. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
By: None
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Audio CD
How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of be… read more
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- computer science
- science
- nonfiction
- technology
5. The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld
By: Jamie Bartlett
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS AND LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE Beyond the familiar o… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- technology
6. Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence, #2)
By: Max Gladstone
3.90
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
The new novel set in the addictive and compelling fantasy world of Three Parts Dead Shadow demon… read more
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"To desperation,"-Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence, #2)
"I’m on a quest, I think,"-Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence, #2)
"You live in a grim universe."-Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence, #2)
"Everyone likes to be needed."-Max Gladstone, Two Serpents Rise (Craft Sequence, #2)
7. A Long Way Home
By: Saroo Brierley
3.99
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made gl… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People
By: None
5.00
Format: None pages,
An algorithm is nothing more than a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem. The algorithms yo… read more
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9. The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
By: Dave Thomas , Andy Hunt
3.28
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
-- Ward Cunningham Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through th… read more
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10. String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis
By: David Foster Wallace , John Jeremiah Sullivan
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
An instant classic of American sportswriting--the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, "the best … read more
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11. The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency #1)
By: John Scalzi
3.29
Format: 368 pages, ebook
The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning,… read more
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12. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an in… read more
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13. City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)
By: Robert Jackson Bennett
4.09
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutali… read more
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"Death is for the weak."-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)
"There is no crueler hells then committee work...."-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)
"Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not."-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)
"I am lost among the seas of fate and time But at least I have love."-Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1)
14. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
15. Factory Summers
By: Guy Delisle
3.77
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
The legendary cartoonist aims his pen and paper toward his high school summer jobFor three summers … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
16. Silence for the Dead
By: Simone St. James
3.83
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
“Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow...… read more
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17. How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
By: Tim Harford
4.12
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whet… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The corporation feels no pain."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
19. The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
By: Ben Mezrich
3.61
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Post! From one of our most innovative and celebrated aut… read more
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- technology
- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Because so many people were betting against GameStop —and brick-and-mortar retail in general — the overall short position was enormous, almost comically so. At certain points over the past six months…"-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
"And as a long-short fund, he'd also been obligated to take short positions — betting against companies — which was a tactic that, to most experts in finance, was uncontroversial. The thinking went, w…"-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
"Which meant, if somehow GameStop did start to go up, the people who had shorted the company would begin to feel pressure to buy; the more the stock went up, the heavier that pressure became. As the s…"-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
"Keith was sophisticated enough to understand the inherent risk of options; buying options wasn't as dangerous as short selling, because your potential for loss was capped, because you could always le…"-Ben Mezrich, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees
20. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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- technology
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Uncanny Valley
By: Anna Wiener
3.64
Format: 281 pages, Hardcover
The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digita… read more
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- audiobook
- science
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- technology
"Tech, for the most part, wasn't progress. It was just business."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"if personalised playlists were full of sad singers and song writers, I could only blame myself for getting algorithm depressed."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"The platforms designed to accommodate and harvest infinite data inspired infinite scroll...people were saying nothing and saying it all the time."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
"I felt rising frustration and resentment. I was frustrated because I felt stuck, and I was resentful because I was stuck in an industry that was chipping away at so many things I cared about."-Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley
22. A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back
By: Bruce Schneier
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
It’s not just computers―hacking is everywhere. Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times… read more
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- computers
- audiobook
- science
- nonfiction
- technology
23. The Infinite Game
By: Simon Sinek
4.17
Format: 251 pages, Hardcover
Do you know how to play the game you're in? In finite games, like football or chess, the players a… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"In any game, there are always two currencies required to play - will and resources."-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
"And like all infinite games, in the game of life, the goal is not to win, it is to perpetuate the game."-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
"The best way to drive performance in an organization is to create an environment in which information can flow freely, mistakes can be highlighted and help can be offered and received."-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
"Traditional competition forces us to take on an attitude of winning. A worthy rival inspires us to take an attitude of improvement. The former focuses our attention on the outcome, the latter focuses…"-Simon Sinek, The Infinite Game
24. The Boy and the Dog
By: Seishū Hase
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One dog changes the life of everyone who takes him in on his journey to reunite with his first owne… read more
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"And yet, Yaichi was well aware that dogs had a special relationship to humans. Maybe it was God who sent them, or maybe Buddha. Who knew? But he knew they had been dispatched for the benefit of our f…"-Seishū Hase, The Boy and the Dog
25. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
By: Cade Metz
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives… read more
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- audiobook
- science
- biography
- nonfiction
- computer science
- technology
"It was a combination of genetics, stupidity, and bad luck, like everything else that goes wrong in life"-Cade Metz, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
26. That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
By: Marc Randolph
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went fr… read more
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- audiobook
- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- technology
27. Private Equity: A Memoir
By: Carrie Sun
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indict… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"A gift weighed down by the imposition of gratitude becomes an expectation; over time, it becomes debt."-Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir
28. The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
By: Matthew L. Ball
3.82
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ― United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and China ( Wall Street Journal, … read more
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- technology
- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Dreadful Orbits, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets and the Origins of Today's Night Sky
By: Erik Asphaug
3.82
Format: None pages, Audiobook
An astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the world s most i… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Academics walk around with one or two big questions in their heads, which is why they lose track of time and bump into branches."-Erik Asphaug, When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Dreadful Orbits, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets and the Origins of Today's Night Sky
"As you read this book, keep in mind that you have the liberty to move on to a different paragraph or chapter as you please, aided by the illustrations that correspond to text in various chapters. Lan…"-Erik Asphaug, When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Dreadful Orbits, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets and the Origins of Today's Night Sky
30. Bitwise: A Life in Code
By: David B. Auerbach
3.43
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An exhilarating, elegant memoir and a significant polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our… read more
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- audiobook
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- programming
- computer science
- technology
