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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

A Canticle for Leibowitz
1959

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

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
2005

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

The Magic Mountain
1924

Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
1992

Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
2003

Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
1901

Silence
1966

The Beet Queen
1985

Angels in America
1993

Istanbul: Memories and the City
2003

The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain
2015

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
1983

Season of Migration to the North
1966

The Road
2006

Lolita
1955

Ready Player One
2011

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

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
1974

Starship Troopers
1959

Mrs. Dalloway
1925

Congo
1980

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

The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
2009

Native Son
1940

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
1892

god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
2007

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

Wool (Wool, #1)
2011

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

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

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
2001

The Gods Themselves
1972

Player Piano
1952

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

MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3)
2013

Dust (Silo, #3)
2013

Invisible Cities
1972

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
1979

Catherine, Called Birdy
1994

Absalom, Absalom!
1936

The Stars My Destination
1955

Alas, Babylon
1959

Sister Carrie
1900

The Heart Goes Last
2015

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
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