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The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that …

The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to …

Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives by James Salzman, Michael A. Heller, Michael Heller, and 1 other

Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattacharya

The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Self-replicating moon bases …

Several short sentences about writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg

Most of what you think you know about writing is useless. It's the harmful debris of your education'a mixture of …

Data Detective by Tim Harford

An informal approach to examining statistical information to determine its worth and, if it's worthy, extract its value.

The Shape of Water (Inspector Maltalbano Mysteries) by Andrea Camilleri

The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano.

The …

Enemy of All Mankind by Steven Johnson

Henry Every was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular--and wildly inaccurate--reports of his nefarious adventures. …

Civilizations by Sam Taylorhas, Laurent Binet

An ambitious and highly entertaining novel of revisionist history from the author of the international bestseller HHhH, Laurent Binet’s Civilizations …

The premonition : a pandemic story by Michael Lewis

For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted …

We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins

We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News is a 2021 autobiographical account of open …

Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth

Zero day: a software bug that allows a hacker to break into your devices and move around undetected. One of …

Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson

Visionary near- future techno thriller about climate change.

A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, …