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Science and Nature
William Alexander The $64 Tomato |
Rick Bass With Every Great Breath |
Adam Becker What Is Real? |
Rutger Bregman Humankind: A Hopeful History |
Wendell Berry Our Only World |
Adam Frank Light of the Stars |
Brian Greene Until the End of Time |
John Gribbin Stardust |
James Hansen Storms of my Grandchildren |
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow The Grand Design |
Pico Iyer The Art of Stillness |
Barbara Kingsolver Small Wonder |
Torkel Klingberg The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and The Limits of Working Memory |
Barry Lopez Horizon |
J. Drew Lanham The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature |
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Katie Mack The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) |
Stefan Milosvljevich Tales of Ancient Worlds | ||
Michael Pollan The Omnivore's Dilemma |
Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh The Path |
Cristina del Río Fuentes Palimpsestos (Palimpsests: The Traces of Time in Architecture) |
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Carlos Rovelli Seven Brief Lessons on Physics |
Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity |
Carlos Rovelli The Order of Time |
Carlos Rovelli
Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution |
Carl Sagan The Varieties of Scientific Experience |
José Luis Sampedro The Perennial Life (La vida perenne) |
José Luis Sampedro Dictionary Sampedro (Diccionario Sampedro) |
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Suzanne Simard Finding the Mother Tree |
Max Tegmark Our Mathematical Universe | ||
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Phenomenon of Man |
Miguel de Unamuno Tragic Sense of Life |
Edward O. Wilson The Meaning of Human Existence |
Robert Wright Why Buddhism Is True |
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History, Economics and Politics
Kurt Andersen Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History |
Anne Applebaum Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism |
Isaías Barreñada Breve historia del Sahara Occidental (A Brief History of Western Sahara) |
Richard Bassett Hitler's Spy Chief |
Alfonso Carvajal Other Winds Will Blow |
Alfred W. Crosby The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600 |
William Davies Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason |
Nathaniel Davis The Last Two Years of Salvador Allende |
Will and Ariel Durant The Lessons of History |
W.E.B. Du Bois The Souls of Black Folk |
Bart Ehrman How Jesus Became God |
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto 1492: The Year the World Began |
Eric Foner Who Owns History? |
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Eduardo Galeano Genesis |
Eduardo Galeano Faces & Masks |
Eduardo Galeano Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History |
Eduardo Galeano Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone |
Anand Giridharadas Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World |
Brooke Gladstone The Influencing Machine |
Brooke Gladstone The Trouble with Reality |
Elisabeth Duquesne van Gogh Personal Recollections of Vincent van Gogh |
David Graeber and David Wengrow The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity |
Martin Hägglund This Life |
Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind |
Yuval Noah Harari 21 Lessons for the 21st Century |
Friedrich Hayek The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents, The Definitive Edition |
Peter Hessler Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present |
Eric Hoffer The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements | |
Ole R. Holsti Making American Foreign Policy |
Cathy Park Hong Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning |
Charlie LeDuff Detroit: An American Autopsy |
Jill Lepore This America: The Case for the Nation |
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt The Coddling of the American Mind |
Dan Lyons Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble | ||
Andreas Malm Fossil Capital |
Charles C. Mann 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus |
Charles C. Mann 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created |
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto |
Hisham Matar The Return |
Heather McGhee The Sum of Us | |
China Miéville A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto |
Pankaj Mishra Age of Anger: A History of the Present |
Elie Mystal Allow Me to Retort |
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market |
José Ortega y Gasset The Revolt of the Masses |
Thomas Piketty Capital in the 21st Century |
Thomas Piketty A Brief History of Equality | |
Ben Rhodes The World As It Is |
Jared Yates Sexton The Man They Wanted Me to Be |
Jeff Sharlet This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers |
Jonathan Steinberg Bismark: A Life |
Fritz Stern Das feine Schweigen (The Polite Silence) |
Fritz Stern Dreams and Delusions: The Drama of German History |
Max Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | |
Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns |
Martin Wolf The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism |
Reinhard Wolters Die Schlacht im Teutoburger Wald (The Battle in Teutoburger Forest) |
Stefan Zweig Die Welt von Gestern (The World of Yesterday) |
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Spain and Spanish History
International Center of Photography The Mexican Suitcase |
Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre Or I'll Dress You in Mourning: The Story of El Cordobés and the New Spain He Stands For |
Henry Kamen Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity |
Norman Lewis The Tomb in Seville: Crossing Spain on the Brink of Civil War |
Mateo Madridejos Diccionario onomástico de la guerra civil (Onomastic Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War) |
Eduardo Mendoza Qué está pasando en Cataluña (What is Happening in Catalonia) |
Hugh Thomas The Spanish Civil War |
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General
Jacques Bonnet Phantoms on the Bookshelves |
Barbara Aria The Nature of the Chinese Character | |
Jan Bergh Eriksen Trolls and their relatives |
Justin Martin and Liza Charlesworth Keep Curious and Carry a Banana |