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Epic
3
1975
Shōgun
Clavell
Shōgun
James Clavell
Published
1975
An English sailor cast into feudal Japan: power, language, and belonging at the edge of two worlds.
2013
The Son
Meyer
The Son
Philipp Meyer
Published
2013
A Texas family saga measured in land, violence, and the stories people tell to keep what they took.
1985
Lonesome Dove
McMurtry
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Published
1985
A cattle drive and a friendship that refuses to end where the map does.
History
2
1965
Guns, Sails & Empires
Cipolla
Guns, Sails and Empires
Technological Innovation and the Early Phases of European Expansion, 1400-1700
Carlo M. Cipolla
Published
1965
How guns and ships remade the balance of power and turned European expansion into a technological story.
2016
1956
Hall
1956
The World in Revolt
Simon Hall
Published
2016
A single year when revolts, reckonings, and Cold War pressure rewrote the map of the possible.
Leadership
2
1983
High Output Management
Grove
High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove
Published
1983
Intel’s legendary primer: management as a production system, measured by the output of the team.
2002
Five Dysfunctions
Lencioni
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni
Published
2002
A fable about trust, conflict, and the quiet ways teams fail, useful because it names the obvious with force.
Computing
3
2001
The Dream Machine
Waldrop
The Dream Machine
J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Published
2001
The biography of a vision, and of the research culture that turned interactive computing into infrastructure.
2017
Hardware Hacker
Huang
The Hardware Hacker
Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware
Andrew "bunnie" Huang
Published
2017
A maker’s tour of reverse engineering, supply chains, and the politics of devices we pretend we own.
2009
Thinking About Equations
Bernstein
Thinking About Equations
A Practical Guide for Developing Mathematical Intuition in the Physical Sciences and Engineering
Matt A. Bernstein & William A. Friedman
Published
2009
A practical guide to reading equations as ideas across physics and engineering.
Fiction
3
2015
A Little Life
Yanagihara
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Published
2015
Four friends in New York, and a life held together by devotion that refuses to look away.
1991
American Psycho
Ellis
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
Published
1991
A late-eighties satire of surface, status, and a man who catalogs everything except a self.
1986
IT
King
IT
Stephen King
Published
1986
Childhood terror in a small town, and the adult reckoning that follows when the thing under the street returns.
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