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Washington Ron Chernow

The Emancipated Spectator Jacques Rancière

Ready Player One Ernest Cline

Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville

Full Surrogacy Now Sophie Lewis

Liquid Love Zygmunt Bauman

Rapture of the Nerds Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross

Other Minds Peter Godfrey-Smith

The Dancing Wu Li Masters Gary Zukav

Words of My Perfect Teacher Patrul Rinpoche

Unconditional Parenting Alfie Kohn

A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas S. Kuhn

Small Is Beautiful E. F. Schumacher

The Beginning of Infinity David Deutsch

Four Thousand Weeks Oliver Burkeman

Polysecure Jessica Fern

Shambhala Chögyam Trungpa

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry Jack Kornfield

In This Very Life Sayadaw U Pandita

Why Nations Fail Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

Understanding Institutional Diversity Elinor Ostrom

Governing the Commons Elinor Ostrom

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Richard W. Hamming

Buddhism Donald S. Lopez Jr.

Practical Insight Meditation Mahasi Sayadaw

Manual of Insight Mahāsi Sayādaw

The Making of Buddhist Modernism David L. McMahan

The Listening Society Hanzi Freinacht

The Scent of Time Byung-Chul Han

The Teachings of Don Juan Carlos Castaneda

Seeing Like a State James C. Scott

Legal Systems Very Different from Ours Peter Leeson, David Friedman, David Skarbek

Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond

Radical Candor Kim Scott

The Age of Em Robin Hanson

Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids Bryan Caplan

The Myth of the Rational Voter Bryan Caplan

The Origin of Others Toni Morrison

Against Democracy Jason Brennan

The Life and Death of Democracy John Keane

No Bad Parts Richard C. Schwartz

Plurality E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang

Poor Charlie's Almanack Charles T. Munger, Peter D. Kaufman

Build, Baby, Build Bryan Caplan

The Case Against Education Bryan Caplan

A Thousand Plateaus Gilles Deleuze,Félix Guattari

Anti-Oedipus Gilles Deleuze,Félix Guattari

The Art of Gathering Priya Parker

Thinking in Systems Donella H. Meadows

Talent Tyler Cowen, Daniel Gross

Ghost in the Wires Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon

Democracy for Realists Christopher H. Achen,Larry M. Bartels

Against Elections David Van Reybrouck

The Ego and Its Own Max Stirner

Bronze Age Mindset Bronze Age Pervert

Building the Intentional University Stephen M. Kosslyn, Ben Nelson

Lean Logic David Fleming

On the Existence of Digital Objects Yuk Hui

The Question Concerning Technology in China Yuk Hui

Postmodernism Fredric Jameson

Opt Art Robert Bosch

Opening the Heart of Compassion Martin Lowenthal

The Structure of World History Kojin Karatani

You Must Change Your Life Peter Sloterdijk

Democracy Paul Cartledge

This Is Going to Hurt Adam Kay

On Becoming a Person Carl R. Rogers

Hatred of Democracy Jacques Rancière

Phenomenology of Spirit Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Give Children the Vote John Wall

Accelerando Charles Stross

The Society of the Spectacle Guy Debord

What Is Sex? Alenka Zupančič

Envisioning Real Utopias Erik Olin Wright

The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben

Upheaval Jared Diamond

Less Than Nothing Slavoj Žižek

Ruhlman's Twenty Michael Ruhlman

Educated Tara Westover

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig

Diaspora Greg Egan

Political Order and Political Decay Francis Fukuyama

The Origins of Political Order Francis Fukuyama

How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie

Influence Robert B. Cialdini

Homeland Cory Doctorow

Punished by Rewards Alfie Kohn

The Lean Startup Eric Ries

The Three-Body Problem Liu Cixin

The Cathedral and the Bazaar Eric S. Raymond

The Imaginary Institution of Society Cornelius Castoriadis

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera

Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman

Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! Miran Lipovača

Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace

Snow Crash Neal Stephenson

The Collapse of Complex Societies Joseph A. Tainter

Game Programming Patterns Robert Nystrom

Quantum Computing since Democritus Scott Aaronson

Labyrinths Jorge Luis Borges

I Am a Strange Loop Douglas Hofstadter

A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle

Antifragile Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut

We Yevgeny Zamyatin

Brave New World Aldous Huxley

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Eliezer Yudkowsky

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Richard P. Feynman,Ralph Leighton

Eloquent JavaScript Marijn Haverbeke

Introduction to Algorithms Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein

The C Programming Language Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

The Quantum Thief Hannu Rajaniemi

Compilers Alfred V. Aho,Ravi Sethi,Jeffrey D. Ullman

Systemantics John Gall

Radical Intimacy Sophie K Rosa

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Shunryu Suzuki

The Word for World Is Forest Ursula K. Le Guin

Abolish the Family Sophie Lewis

Monogamy Adam Phillips

Relationships The School of Life

Invisible Cities Italo Calvino

Solar Photovoltaic Projects in the Mainstream Power Market Philip Wolfe

A Secular Age Charles Taylor

When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut

When the Heavens Went on Sale Ashlee Vance

The Capitalist Manifesto Johan Norberg

The Sexual Revolution Laurie Penny

What Makes You Not a Buddhist Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand

The Science of Enlightenment Shinzen Young

Saints and Psychopaths Bill Hamilton

Fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism Rebecca McClen Novick

No Mud, No Lotus Thich Nhat Hanh

Philosophy of Care Boris Groys

Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture Apostolos Doxiadis

Symposium Plato

You Don't Know JS * Kyle Simpson

Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë

This Is Marketing Seth Godin

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Mark Manson

The Network State Balaji Srinivasan

The Mythical Man-Month Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

The Martian Andy Weir

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks

The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

The Courage to Be Disliked Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

Sum David Eagleman

A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle

So Yesterday Scott Westerfeld

Shape Up Ryan Singer

Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life Bryan Lee O'Malley

Right Concentration Leigh Brasington

Printcrime Cory Doctorow

Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Freire

Pain Free Pete Egoscue, Roger Gittines

On Tyranny Timothy Snyder

Notes from Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Lost Connections Johann Hari

Logicomix Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou

Little Brother Cory Doctorow

The Little Book of String Theory Steven S. Gubser

JavaScript Douglas Crockford

Jacques Lacan Sean Homer

It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

How to Relax Thich Nhat Hanh

How to Live Derek Sivers

Hell Yeah or No Derek Sivers

Experiments in Imagining Otherwise Lola Olufemi

Egghead Bo Burnham

Ego Is the Enemy Ryan Holiday

Dive Into Python Mark Pilgrim

Discrete Mathematics with Applications Susanna S. Epp

Designing Data-Intensive Applications Martin Kleppmann

Practical Typography Matthew Butterick

Being Nobody, Going Nowhere Ayya Khema

Anything You Want Derek Sivers

Animal Farm George Orwell

Agile Conversations Douglas Squirrel, Jeffrey Fredrick

The Sublime Object of Ideology Slavoj Žižek

Superintelligence * Nick Bostrom

Open Democracy * Hélène Landemore

Node.js Blueprints * Krasimir Tsonev

Radical Markets * Eric A. Posner,Glen Weyl

A Guide to the Good Life * William B. Irvine

Man's Search for Meaning * Viktor E. Frankl

The Spirit of Hope * Byung-Chul Han

Deschooling Society * Ivan Illich

Less is More * Jason Hickel

Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha * Daniel M. Ingram

A Consensus Handbook * Seeds for Change Lancaster Co-operative

Free Schools * Jonathan Kozol

The Agony of Eros * Byung-Chul Han

Capitalist Realism * Mark Fisher

Rework * Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

Psychopolitics * Byung-Chul Han

Zero to One * Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

Debating Democracy * Bruce Miroff

The Ignorant Schoolmaster * Jacques Rancière

The Shortest History of Democracy * John Keane

Walkaway * Cory Doctorow

Sapiens * Yuval Noah Harari

Meditations * Marcus Aurelius

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again * Katherine Angel

The Dawn of Everything * David Graeber, David Wengrow

For the Love of Men * Liz Plank

The Divide * Jason Hickel

The Trading Game Gary Stevenson

Open Borders * Bryan Caplan, Zach Weinersmith

Read Write Own Chris Dixon

Unsong * Scott Alexander

Sadly, Porn * Edward Teach

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs * Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman

Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell

Gödel, Escher, Bach Douglas R. Hofstadter

The Burnout Society * Byung-Chul Han

The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism Chögyam Trungpa

Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell