Books Read in 2016

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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
by Nick Lane
634 members
19 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 110
2 Members
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Night Watch
by Terry Pratchett
11,323 members
167 reviews
½ 4.4
Global Rank 114
4 Members
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The Golem and the Jinni
by Helene Wecker
5,470 members
366 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 135
3 Members
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4
Thief of Time
by Terry Pratchett
9,916 members
115 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 204
3 Members
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In a Different Key: The Story of Autism
by John Donvan
414 members
66 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 446
2 Members
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
by Gordon S. Wood
1,312 members
12 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 1,004
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The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough
3,335 members
134 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 1,064
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The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity
by Pedro G. Ferreira
240 members
7 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 1,172
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Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
11,840 members
785 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 42
8 Members
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Going Postal
by Terry Pratchett
11,841 members
207 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 448
2 Members
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Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins
by Donald C. Johanson
140 members
4 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 1,383
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944
by Rick Atkinson
1,886 members
44 reviews
½ 4.4
Global Rank 1,414
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An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943
by Rick Atkinson
2,772 members
63 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 1,470
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I Shall Wear Midnight
by Terry Pratchett
4,880 members
165 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 157
4 Members
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The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture
by Adam Zamoyski
212 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 1,617
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Thud!
by Terry Pratchett
10,222 members
143 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 496
2 Members
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The Shepherd's Crown
by Terry Pratchett
2,720 members
117 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 257
3 Members
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The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution
by Donald R. Prothero
130 members
4 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 1,767
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The Truth
by Terry Pratchett
8,518 members
83 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 501
2 Members
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20
Small Gods
by Terry Pratchett
12,179 members
181 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 1,839
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Lords and Ladies
by Terry Pratchett
9,767 members
125 reviews
4
Global Rank 296
3 Members
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Monstrous Regiment
by Terry Pratchett
9,438 members
132 reviews
4
Global Rank 145
4 Members
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Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics
by Amir R. Alexander
57 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
Global Rank 2,075
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Making Money
by Terry Pratchett
8,754 members
178 reviews
4
Global Rank 548
2 Members
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A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
by Witold Rybczynski
697 members
7 reviews
4
Global Rank 2,149
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Soul Music
by Terry Pratchett
10,307 members
126 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 537
2 Members
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What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be!
by John McWhorter
246 members
8 reviews
4
Global Rank 2,232
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
by Natasha Pulley
1,930 members
91 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 532
2 Members
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Witches Abroad
by Terry Pratchett
10,213 members
141 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 172
4 Members
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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
by Adam Cohen
337 members
13 reviews
4
Global Rank 2,371
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Raising Steam
by Terry Pratchett
3,517 members
114 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 189
4 Members
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Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory
by George Gamow
407 members
1 review
3.9
Global Rank 2,454
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The First World War
by John Keegan
3,243 members
42 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 539
2 Members
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
by Janette Sadik-Khan
158 members
4 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 2,536
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Maskerade
by Terry Pratchett
9,354 members
120 reviews
4
Global Rank 303
3 Members
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Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages
by Derek Bickerton
171 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 2,608
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The History of Money: From Sandstone to Cyberspace
by Jack Weatherford
384 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 2,636
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Carpe Jugulum
by Terry Pratchett
9,424 members
106 reviews
4
Global Rank 274
3 Members
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The Way of the Cell: Molecules, Organisms, and the Order of Life
by Franklin M. Harold
116 members
3.9
Global Rank 2,709
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Moving Pictures
by Terry Pratchett
9,707 members
107 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 192
4 Members
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The Origins of Modern Germany
by Geoffrey Barraclough
193 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
Global Rank 2,766
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Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
by Chrystia Freeland
439 members
13 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 2,800
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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
by Melvyn Bragg
1,712 members
35 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 2,832
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The King of Infinite Space: Euclid and His Elements
by David Berlinski
116 members
5 reviews
3.2
Global Rank 2,880
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Wildwood: A Journey through Trees
by Roger Deakin
626 members
8 reviews
4
Global Rank 2,908
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The Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year Old Puzzle Behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space
by Joseph Mazur
175 members
8 reviews
½ 3.3
Global Rank 2,947
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The Lightning Thief
by Rick Riordan
32,055 members
1,254 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 2,960
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