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Gödel's Proof, Revised Edition by Douglas R. Hofstadter, James R. Newman, Ernest Nagel

Gödel's Proof, Revised Edition

Douglas R. Hofstadter, James R. Newman, Ernest Nagel

129 pages • first pub 1958 (editions)

4.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction mathematics philosophy science informative slow-paced
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill

Autobiography

Collected Works of John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill

240 pages • missing pub info (editions)

4.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction business economics history philosophy challenging reflective medium-paced
Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace

Girl with Curious Hair

David Foster Wallace

373 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

4.0jpowerj's review
fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz

The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

Joseph E. Stiglitz

448 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction economics politics sociology challenging informative slow-paced
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

Michel Foucault

320 pages • first pub 1961 (editions)

2.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction history philosophy psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong by Matthew Stewart

The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong

Matthew Stewart

343 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

4.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction business philosophy informative medium-paced
Poor People by William T. Vollmann
Poor People
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William T. Vollmann

Poor People

William T. Vollmann

434 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction economics history sociology challenging reflective slow-paced
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

James Gleick

527 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

3.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction art history science technology challenging informative slow-paced
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

Zeitoun

Dave Eggers

342 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

4.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction biography history emotional informative tense medium-paced
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

South of the Border, West of the Sun

Haruki Murakami

186 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

4.0jpowerj's review
fiction contemporary literary romance emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced