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The Memory Police (Yōko Ogawa)
Rainbows End (Vernor Vinge)
Programming Pearls (Jon L. Bentley)

2020

Anathem (Neal Stephenson)
Foundation and Empire (Isaac Asimov)
Watchmen (Alan Moore)
Abaddon's Gate (James S.A. Corey)
Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
The Way of Zen (Alan W. Watts)
In the Garden of Beasts (Erik Larson)
Crazy Rich Asians (Kevin Kwan)
Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)
Ancillary Justice (Ann Leckie)
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
The Peripheral (William Gibson)
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller (Marc Levinson)
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (Samin Nosrat)
Caliban's War (James S.A. Corey)
Why We're Polarized (Ezra Klein)
Severance (Ling Ma)
The Plague (Albert Camus)
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (William Zinsser)
The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
Clojure for the Brave and True (Daniel Higginbotham)
Midnight in Chernobyl (Adam Higginbotham)
Wild Seed (Octavia E. Butler)
Permanent Record (Edward Snowden)
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson)
Atomic Habits (James Clear)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Robin Sloan)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (John C. Bogle)
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Robert F. Kennedy)
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Mark Fisher)
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Charles Yu)
Blindsight (Peter Watts)
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past (Chuck Klosterman)
Educated (Tara Westover)
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Michael Pollan)
On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal (Naomi Klein)
How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems (Randall Munroe)
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Jia Tolentino)
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber (Mike Isaac)

2019

A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Haruki Murakami)
Factfulness (Hans Rosling)
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (David Graeber)
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Being Geek (Michael Lopp)
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Michael Pollan)
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (David Eagleman)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
On the Clock (Emily Guendelsberger)
Medium Raw (Anthony Bourdain)
Kitchen Confidential (Anthony Bourdain)
Leviathan Wakes (James S.A. Corey)
Walkaway (Cory Doctorow)
How Bad Are Bananas? (Mike Berners-Lee)
The Fifth Risk (Michael Lewis)
Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 (Robert Kurson)
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Benjamin Dreyer)
The Bullet Journal Method (Ryder Carroll)
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Matthew Walker)
Radicalized (Cory Doctorow)
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (David Foster Wallace)
Exhalation: Stories (Ted Chiang)
Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson)
Thinking in Systems: A Primer (Donella H. Meadows)
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Harari)
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Ball Lightning (Liu Cixin)
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (David Wallace-Wells)
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Richard P. Feynman)
The Girl With All the Gifts (M.R. Carey)
Algorithms to Live By (Brian Christian)
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (Immanuel Kant)
Acceptance (Jeff VanderMeer)
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (Martin Kleppmann)
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (Michael Lewis)
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (David Foster Wallace)
I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
The Coddling of the American Mind (Jonathan Haidt)
How to Change Your Mind (Michael Pollan)
Bad Blood (John Carreyrou)
The Courage to be Disliked (Ichiro Kishimi)
The Fated Sky (Mary Robinette Kowal)
Utilitarianism (John Stuart Mill)
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Barbara Demick)
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Harold Abelson)
The Calculating Stars (Mary Robinette Kowal)
Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts (Marshall Goldsmith)
Authority (Jeff VanderMeer)
Solaris (Stanisław Lem)

2018

Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
Annihilation (Jeff VanderMeer)
Practical Ethics (Peter Singer)
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
Modern Romance (Aziz Ansari)
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
Death's End (Liu Cixin)
The Dark Forest (Liu Cixin)
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankl)
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
Lying (Sam Harris)
Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door (Rick Steves)
Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel)
Stories of Your Life and Others (Ted Chiang)
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Jonathan Haidt)
Free Will (Sam Harris)
Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson)
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google (Scott Galloway)
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility (James P. Carse)

2017

Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
Artemis (Andy Weir)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Childhood's End (Arthur C. Clarke)
Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter (Peter Singer)
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World (Cal Newport)
Ready Player One (Ernest Cline)
Marx: A Very Short Introduction (Peter Singer)
Eating Animals (Jonathan Safran Foer)
Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (Chade-Meng Tan)
How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety (Alan W. Watts)

2016

Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut Jr.)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
Make Room! Make Room! (Harry Harrison)
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Aurora (Kim Stanley Robinson)

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