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In Cold Blood (1965) by Truman Capote
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The Prince (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) by Thomas S. Kuhn
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A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) by Stephen Hawking
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A Room of One's Own (1929) by Virginia Woolf
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The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx
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Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Homage to Catalonia (1938) by George Orwell
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Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited (1947) by Vladimir Nabokov
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The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA (1969) by James D. Watson
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The Elements of Style (1959) by William Jr. Strunk
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia (1941) by Rebecca West
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The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) by Anne Frank
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) by Gertrude Stein
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) by Malcolm X
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (1973) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986) by Richard Rhodes
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A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) by Bill Bryson
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The Confessions (1784) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Critique of Pure Reason (1781) by Immanuel Kant
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Eminent Victorians (1918) by Lytton Strachey
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Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography (1929) by Robert Graves
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Mere Christianity (1952) by C. S. Lewis
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The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin
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Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character (1985) by Richard Feynman
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The Art of War (500 BCE) by Sun Tzu
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The Golden Bough (1890) by James George Frazer
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The Making of the English Working Class (1963) by E. P. Thompson
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The Open Society and Its Enemies (1962) by Karl Popper
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The Souls of Black Folk (1903) by W. E. B. Du Bois
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The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) by William James
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Up from Slavery (1901) by Booker T. Washington
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Capitalism and Freedom (1962) by Milton Friedman
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997) by Jared Diamond
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The Civil War: A Narrative (1958) by Shelby Foote
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) by Jane Jacobs
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) by John Maynard Keynes
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The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) by Hannah Arendt
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The Second World War {complete} (1950) by Winston S. Churchill
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A Theory of Justice (1971) by John Rawls
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (1998) by Bill Bryson
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An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) by Gunnar Myrdal
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Black Boy (1945) by Richard Wright
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) by Dee Brown
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Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942) by Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear (1967) by Robert Coles
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995) by Barack Obama
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Economy and Society [complete] (1922) by Max Weber
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Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays (1580) by Michel de Montaigne
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (2001) by Eric Schlosser
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1939) by James Agee
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001) by Barbara Ehrenreich
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On Writing (2000) by Stephen King
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Out of Africa (1937) by Isak Dinesen
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The Constitution of Liberty (1960) by F. A. Hayek
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The Guns of August (1962) by Barbara W. Tuchman
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The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) by Sigmund Freud
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The Liberal Imagination (1950) by Lionel Trilling
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (1974) by Lewis Thomas
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) by Michael Pollan
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974) by Robert A. Caro
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The Selfish Gene (1976) by Richard Dawkins
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) by Robert M. Pirsig
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