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A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

Hornblower and the Atropos

C. S. Forester

How the World Made the West

Josephine Quinn

I Have the Streets: A Kutti Cricket Story

R. Ashwin, Siddharth Monga

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)

Leo Tolstoy

Red Country: A First Law Novel

Joe Abercrombie

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923

Caroline Finkel

Best Served Cold: A First Law Novel

Joe Abercrombie

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

William Dalrymple

Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking)

Christian Rudder

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

Maria Rosa Menocal

The Day of the Jackal

Frederick Forsyth

Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky

India After Gandhi

Ramachandra Guha

How the World Really Works

Vaclav Smil

Philip and Alexander

Adrian Goldsworthy

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

Will Larson

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

Mike Duncan

How Minds Change

David McRaney

Leviathan Wakes

James S. A. Corey

How to take smart notes

Sönke Ahrens

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Anna Lembke

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Selected Stories

Guy de Maupassant

The Leopard

Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track

Will Larson

An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

Will Larson

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

Richard W. Hamming

The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993

Jordan Mechner

Docs for Developers: An Engineer's Field Guide to Technical Writing

Jen Lambourne et al

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

Immune: a gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system

Philipp Dettmer

Shogun

James Clavell

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

Marc Levinson

The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness

Andy Puddicombe

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

A Perfect Spy

John le Carré

Hornblower and the Hotspur

C. S. Forester

Lieutenant Hornblower

C. S. Forester

Crafting Interpreters

Robert Nystrom

Not Without My Daughter

Betty Mahmoody

Salt Houses

Hala Alyan

The Heroes

Joe Abercrombie

A Little Hatred

Joe Abercrombie

Getting Things Done

David Allen

Drive

Daniel Pink

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, Jonathan Star

Rust for Rustaceans

Jon Gjengset

On Writing Well

William Zinsser

Prisoners of Geography

Tim Marshall

Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time

Titus Winters, Hyrum Wright et al

Circe

Madeleine Miller

Letters from an Astrophysicist

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Masala Lab

Krish Ashok

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

David Attenborough

Royal Assassin

Robin Hobb

Assassin's Apprentice

Robin Hobb

The Folio Book of Great Short Stories

Yiyun Li

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

Dune

Frank Herbert

Military Blunders

Saul David

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Secret Commonwealth

Philip Pullman

The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE

Betsy Bayer et al

Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems

Betsy Bayer et al

Deep Work

Cal Newport

The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications

Michal Zalewski

India in the Persianate Age

Richard M Eaton

Tiny Habits

BJ Fogg

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

C. S. Forester

UNIX: A History and a Memoir

Brian Kernighan

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

A Legacy of Spies

John le Carré

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

The Testaments

Margaret Atwood

Permanent Record

Edward Snowden

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

Ezra Vogel

Different Seasons

Stephen King

Building Git

James Coglan

Persepolis: The Story of an Iranian Childhood

Marjane Satrapi

La Belle Sauvage

Philip Pullman

Nonviolent Communication

Marshall B. Rosenberg

A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry

The Gene

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Last Argument of Kings

Joe Abercrombie

Before They Are Hanged

Joe Abercrombie

The Blade Itself

Joe Abercrombie

The Sea, The Sea

Iris Murdoch

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The Red Umbrella

Christina Gonzalez

Monkey

Wu Ch’êng-ên, Arthur Waley

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Hans Rosling

The Gulag Archipelago

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The Wizard Of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin

Rust in Action

Tim McNamara

Designing Data Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppman

The Song of Achilles

Madeleine Miller

The Silk Roads

Peter Frankopan

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

The Autumn of the Patriarch

Gabriel García Márquez

Skin in the Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

How not to be Wrong

Jordan Ellenberg

The English Constitution

Walter Bagehot

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

Suketu Mehta

Smiley's People

John le Carré

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

John le Carré

The Honourable Schoolboy

John le Carré

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

The Stone Sky

N.K. Jemisin

Homo Deus

Yuval Noah Harari

Sandman

Neil Gaiman

The Obelisk Gate

N.K. Jemisin

The Fifth Season

N.K. Jemisin

The Rust Programming Language

Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

Debt: The First 5000 Years

David Graeber

5/3/1: Training System for Raw Strength

Jim Wendler

Born to Run

Christopher McDougall

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

Born a Crime

Trevor Noah

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Philip K. Dick

The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land

Thomas Asbridge

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

Beren and Lúthien

J.R.R. Tolkien

Six Easy Pieces

Richard Feynmann

The Campaigns of Napoleon

David G. Chandler

The Hero of Ages

Brandon Sanderson

The Well of Ascension

Brandon Sanderson

The Final Empire

Brandon Sanderson

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau

Seneca: Letters from a Stoic

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Forever War

Joe Haldeman

The Practice of Programming

Brian Kernighan

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

George R.R. Martin

The Rosie Effect

Graeme Simsion

The Unix Programming Environment

Brian Kernighan

The Rosie Project

Graeme Simsion

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Gerald Sussman and Hal Abelson

The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Patrick Rothfuss

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Rogues

George R.R. Martin et al

A Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin

A Clash of Kings

George R.R. Martin

A Storm of Swords

George R.R. Martin

A Feast for Crows

George R.R. Martin

A Dance with Dragons

George R.R. Martin

Night Watch

Terry Pratchett

The Silmarillion

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Children of Húrin

J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings

J.R.R. Tolkien