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Slouching Towards Utopia by Bradford DeLong

An examination of global economic behavior in the long twentieth century from 1870 to 2010.

Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant

The true story of what happened the first time machines came for human jobs, when an underground network of 19th …

Camera Man by Dana Stevens

I Bought a Mountain by Thomas Firbank

Death's End by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #03)

Death's End (Chinese: 死神永生, pinyin: Sǐshén yǒngshēng) is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is …

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (The Three-Body Triology, #1)

Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien worlds. A nearby alien society …

Animal by Sara Pascoe

The Ancient Paths by Graham Robb

Cols and Passes of the British Isles by Graham Robb

What If? 2 by Randall Munroe, Randall Munroe

A second collection of Fermi problems so ridiculous that Fermi would be disgusted.

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, Dodie Smith

Cassandra, the 17-year-old narrator, lives an eccentric existence in a crumbling castle in the English countryside in the 1930s. Her …

Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Robin Miles

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American …

Method by Isaac Butler