Book List

Cover	Title	Author	My rating
	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
	The Martian Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills hi...	Andy Weir	3
	The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0) 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
	The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) ISBN 9780307277671 moved to this edition.While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert La...	Dan Brown	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
	Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds New York Times Best SellerOver 5 million copies soldFor David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare -- poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But th...	David Goggins	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2) Fitz has survived his first hazardous mission as king’s assassin, but is left little more than a cripple. Battered and bitter, he vows to abandon his oath to King Shrewd, remaining in the distant mo...	Robin Hobb	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 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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Animal Farm Librarian's note: There is an Alternate Cover Edition for this edition of this book here.	George Orwell	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
	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
	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
	The Six Sacred Stones (Jack West Jr, #2) THE END OF THE WORLD IS HEREUnlocking the secret of the Seven Ancient Wonders was only the beginning... After their thrilling exploits in Matthew Reilly's rampaging New York Times bes...	Matthew Reilly	3
	Recursion Memory makes reality.That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome—a mysterious affliction...	Blake Crouch	3
	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
	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 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
	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 Intelligent Investor More than one million hardcovers soldNow available for the first time in paperback!The Classic Text Annotated to Update Graham's Timeless Wisdom for Today's Market Conditions	Benjamin Graham	5
	Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2) Superior Glokta has a problem. 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�...	Joe Abercrombie	4
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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 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
	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
	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...	Aldous Huxley	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Best Served Cold Springtime in Styria. And that means war. Springtime in Styria. And that means revenge.There have been nineteen years of blood. The ruthless Grand Duke Orso is locked in a vicious struggle...	Joe Abercrombie	4
	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
	To Kill a Mockingbird The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. "To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it w...	Harper Lee	3
	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
	Atlas Shrugged This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators?Why did he have to fight his battle, not agai...	Ayn Rand	4
	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
	The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1) Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead fri...	Joe Abercrombie	5
	Brave New World Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, sociall...	Aldous Huxley	5
	Project Hail Mary Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t...	Andy Weir	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
	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
	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 there's only o...	Joe Abercrombie	4
	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
	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
	Gai-Jin (Asian Saga, #3) The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House…the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age…a beautiful young French w...	James Clavell	5
	Towers of Midnight (The Wheel of Time, #13) The end draws near....The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One’s prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to b...	Robert Jordan	5
	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
	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
	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 Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away?In 2016, New York Times...	Ben Shapiro	3
	Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2) Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic. In this second book in the saga set 3,000 years after the terrible war, Ender Wiggin is revi...	Orson Scott Card	4
	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
	The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story...	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
	The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2) The impossible has happened. The Lord Ruler is dead and has been vanquished. But so too is Kelsier, the man who masterminded the triumph. The awesome task of rebuilding the world has been left to his ...	Brandon Sanderson	5
	The Go Programming Language Go is an open-source programming language that makes it easy to build clean, reliable, and efficient software. It has been winning converts from dynamic language enthusiasts as well as users of tradit...	Alan A.A. Donovan	4
	Ulysses Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety...	James Joyce	3
	Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twe...	William Gibson	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
	Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2) Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.Expected by his enemies to die the miserable de...	Brandon Sanderson	5
	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
	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
	The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time, #2) The Forsaken are loose, the Horn of Valere has been found and the Dead are rising from their dreamless sleep. The Prophecies are being fulfilled - but Rand al'Thor, the shepherd the Aes Sedai have pro...	Robert Jordan	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
	Fool's Quest (The Fitz and the Fool, #2) Acclaimed and bestselling author Robin Hobb continues her Fitz and the Fool trilogy with this second entry, following Fool’s Assassin, ramping up the tension and the intrigue as disaster continue...	Robin Hobb	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
	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 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
	Crime and Punishment Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napole...	Fyodor Dostoevsky	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1) In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma.Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chi...	Robin Hobb	5
	The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) THE HUGO AWARD WINNER.1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but als...	Liu Cixin	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 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
	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
	Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1) After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land...	James Clavell	5

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