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The Road
2006

Lolita
1955

Anna Karenina
1877

Foundation (Foundation #1)
1951

Stranger in a Strange Land
1961

I, Robot (Robot #0.1)
1950

Neuromancer
1984

A Confederacy of Dunces
1980

The Story of Art
1950

Beowulf
975

Ways of Seeing
1972

The Martian Chronicles
1950

Starship Troopers
1959

Mrs. Dalloway
1925

Invisible Man
1952

Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
1989

The Selfish Gene
1976

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
1984

Contact
1985

Childhood's End
1953

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
2011

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
2001

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
1966

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
1993

Cryptonomicon
1999

The Complete Persepolis
2003

A Canticle for Leibowitz
1959

Native Son
1940

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
1892

The Left Hand of Darkness
1969

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
2007

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
2014

The Maltese Falcon
1930

The Communist Manifesto
1848

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
1994

The Crying of Lot 49
1966

Anathem
2008

Seveneves
2015

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
2005

The Windup Girl
2009

The Interpretation of Dreams
1899

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
1995

Prelude to Foundation
1988

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
2008

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
1995

Player Piano
1952

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
2012

Dust (Silo, #3)
2013

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
1979

Absalom, Absalom!
1936

The Stars My Destination
1955

Alas, Babylon
1959

Sister Carrie
1900

The End of Eternity
1955

The Collected Poems
1981

Time Enough for Love
1973

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
2004

The Castle
1926

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
2006

The Postman
1985

Timequake
1997

On Photography
1973

A History of Western Philosophy
1945

Robots and Empire (Robot #4)
1985

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
1998

The Aleph and Other Stories
1947

Arcadia
1993

All My Sons
1947

What Do You Care What Other People Think?
1988

Double Star
1956

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
1994

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
2003

Rainbows End
2006

The Making of the Atomic Bomb
1986

The Professor
1857

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics By Its Most Brilliant Teacher
1962

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
1689

The Double Helix
1968

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
1916

Stand on Zanzibar
1968

Letter to My Daughter
2008

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
2011

Johnny Mnemonic
1981

In the Penal Colony
1919

The House of the Dead
1861

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
2002

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
1997

Candide
1759

A People's History of the United States
1980

Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
1968

Notes from a Small Island
1995

In a Sunburned Country
2000

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
2003

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
2011

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
2010

How the Irish Saved Civilization
1995

Anne McCaffrey's Dragonflight #1
1991

The Social Contract
1762

Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
2010

Civilization and Its Discontents
1930
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