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The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery

325 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

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fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Donella H. Meadows

240 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

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nonfiction business design science informative slow-paced
Exadelic by Jon Evans

Exadelic

Jon Evans

448 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

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fiction science fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith

Bea Wolf

Zach Weinersmith

181 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

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fiction graphic novel middle grade adventurous emotional medium-paced
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back by Bruce Schneier

A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

Bruce Schneier

288 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

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nonfiction economics politics technology informative medium-paced
Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Tom Griffiths, Brian Christian

Algorithms to Live by: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Tom Griffiths, Brian Christian

368 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

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nonfiction computer science psychology science technology informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
A Fish Has No Word For Water: A punk homeless San Francisco memoir by Violet Blue

A Fish Has No Word For Water: A punk homeless San Francisco memoir

Violet Blue

390 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

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nonfiction memoir
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong

449 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

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nonfiction nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley

High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

Amanda Ripley

368 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

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nonfiction business psychology self help challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

Stand on Zanzibar

John Brunner

672 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

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fiction classics science fiction adventurous challenging slow-paced