bookshelf

The Samurai's Garden

Gail Tsukiyama

Ignition!

John Drury Clark

Seed Money

Bartow J. Elmore

Think Again

Adam Grant

Calypso

David Sedaris

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crude family humor

Bad Blood

John Carreyrou

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the liar of the century

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Dai Sijie

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a good reminder to be grateful

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Dale Carnegie

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one of those cheesey must-reads

Comic Wars

Dan Raviv

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Marvel's investors, junk bonds, dummy corporations

The Dawn of Everything

David Graeber & David Wengrow

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buried histories of ancient cultures

The Best of Peter Egan

Peter Egan

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wholesome motorcycle tales

Paved Paradise

Henry Grabar

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based

The Good Enough Job

Simone Stolzoff

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your reward for good work is more work

The Arbornaut

Meg Lowman

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ok we get it natural-born nature girl...

The Three-body Problem

Cixin Liu

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true sci-fi; 10/10 would unfold a proton again

The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch

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a long message left by a dad for his kids

Ghost in the Wires

Kevin Mitnick

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RIP a really cool person

Born Standing Up

Steve Martin

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sometimes not so funny behind the scenes

Freakonomics

Stephen Levitt & Stephen Dubner

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microeconomics/sociology thought candies

Tools for Conviviality

Ivan Illich

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choose technology wisely

Why Fish Don't Exist

Lulu Miller

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the answer is love

Salt Fat Acid Heat

Samin Nosrat

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Salt: liberally. Fat: also liberally. Acid: always. Heat: slow.

The Midnight Library

Matt Haig

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cliche but thoughtful and cozy

Lab Girl

Hope Jahren

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plants, cold pizza, road trips, smelly labmate

Weapons of Math Destruction

Cathy O'Neil

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mostly apologizing about 2008

The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell

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give it a tap at just the right angle

Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell

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luck snowballs

Blink

Malcolm Gladwell

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good instinct, or coincidence?

The Fine Art of Small Talk

Debra Fine

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just say it

The Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert Pirsig

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where is Quality?

Clean Code

Robert C. Martin

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thanks Uncle Bob!

Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!

Richard Feynman

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he's pretty cool

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

Richard Feynman

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worldview of a curious physicist

Dead Poets Society

N.H. Kleinbaum

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we love Robin Williams

What Every Body is Saying

Joe Navarro

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check the direction of their feet

Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

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it was a pleasure to burn

The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury

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fun short stories

Word by Word

Kory Stamper

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art of lexicography