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Small Gods Terry Pratchett

A General Theory of Love Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini & Richard Lannon

Change Is the Only Constant Ben Orlin

Math with Bad Drawings Ben Orlin

Wired for Story Lisa Cron

Philosophy and the Social Problem Will Durant

The Complete Story of Civilization Will Durant

Story or Die Lisa Cron

Story of Philosophy Will Durant

Philosophy and the Social Problem Will Durant

The Storytelling Animal Jonathan Gottschall

The Where Jenny Volvovski, Julia Rothman & Matt Lamothe

The Storyteller's Secret Carmine Gallo

Literature Theodore Steinberg

Tyranny of the Minority Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt

Lost in Austin Alex Hannaford

Pandora's Jar Natalie Haynes

Jill Lepore

How Music Works John Powell

Cows Marvin Harris

Making a Good Script Great Linda Seger

Behave Robert M. Sapolsky

Writing to Be Understood Anne Janzer

Draft No. 4 John McPhee

Woe Is I Patricia T. O'Conner

The Graphic Design Bible Theo Inglis

Writing Better Lyrics Pat Pattison

Thoughts on Design Paul Rand

100 Mistakes that Changed History Bill Fawcett

What Every Novelist Needs to Know about Narrators Wayne C. Booth

The Conflict Thesaurus Becca Puglisi

The Conflict Thesaurus Becca Puglisi

Shakespeare's Philosophy Colin McGinn

Kluge Gary Marcus

The Social Animal David Brooks

The Bestseller Code Jodie Archer & Matthew L. Jockers

Lucid Dying Sam Parnia

Six Degrees of Paris Hilton Mark Ebner

The Art of Brevity Grant Faulkner

This Is What It Sounds Like Susan Rogers & Ogi Ogas

Accidental Gods Anna Della Subin

The Perfect Story Karen Eber

Everyday Shakespeare Ben Crystal & David Crystal

Margaret Atwood Jackie Shead

The Secret Lives of Numbers Kate Kitagawa & Timothy Revell

The Science of Fate Hannah Critchlow

The Mental Math Magician Hugo Briggs

The Idea Factory Jon Gertner

Character Design from the Ground Up Kevin Crossley

Empires of the Word Nicholas Ostler

Math for English Majors Ben Orlin

The Gift of the Gab David Crystal

Masterpieces Orson Scott Card

The Elements of Eloquence Mark Forsyth

Fuzz Mary Roach

Inside Animal Minds Mary Roach, Virgina Morell & Peter Miller

Politics and the English Language George Orwell

On Grand Strategy John Lewis Gaddis

Mind of the Raven Bernd Heinrich

Caroline Criado Perez

The Art of Comic Book Writing Mark Kneece

Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test Marlene Zuk

As You Wish Cary Elwes

Cathy O'Neil

Matt Kaplan

Gone Girl Gillian Flynn

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs Steve Brusatte

Probably Overthinking It Allen B. Downey

Midnight Sun Stephenie Meyer

Kant and the Platypus Umberto Eco

American Gods Neil Gaiman

Equal Rites Terry Pratchett

On Writing Well William Zinsser

Prisoners of Geography Tim Marshall

Interesting Times Terry Pratchett

Nero Anthony Everitt & Roddy Ashworth

The Ultimate Discworld Companion Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs & Paul Kidby

The Problem with Change Ashley Goodall

Editorial Design Cath Caldwell & Yolanda Zappaterra

This Means This Sean Hall

The Comfort of Crows Margaret Renkl

The Maths Behind... Colin Beveridge

The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories Ben Marcus

So Fetch Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

Philosophy in Minutes Marcus Weeks

Psychology in Minutes Marcus Weeks

Writing on Both Sides of the Brain Henriette Anne Klauser

Rule Makers Michele Gelfand

How to Stay in Love James J. Sexton

Invention and Innovation Vaclav Smil

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Betty Edwards

A Beautiful Question Frank Wilczek

Math Games with Bad Drawings Ben Orlin

Elements of Design Gail Greet Hannah

Nobody's Fool Daniel Simons & Christopher Chabris

Shadow Show Sam Weller & Mort Castle

Story Genius Lisa Cron

The Intelligent Conversationalist Imogen Lloyd Webber

Most Delicious Poison Noah Whiteman

Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury

A Woman of No Importance Oscar Wilde

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Through the Language Glass Guy Deutscher

Pitch Perfect Bill McGowan

Writing for Social Scientists Howard S. Becker

The Geography of Genius Eric Weiner

The Smear Sharyl Attkisson

Mary Poppins Valerie Lawson

60 Songs That Explain the '90s Rob Harvilla

Video Game Storytelling Evan Skolnick

Backyard Farming Kim Pezza

Logic Siu-Fan Lee

Super Thinking Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann

Life Moves Pretty Fast Hadley Freeman

Do You Think What You Think You Think? Julian Baggini & Jeremy Stangroom

Creating Characters Writer's Digest Books

Joseph J. Foy

Alix Strauss

The Silent Musician Mark Wigglesworth

This Explains Everything John Brockman

This Is Me Letting You Go Heidi Priebe

The Visual Mba Jason Barron

Build a Mathematical Mind - Even If You Think You Can't Have One Albert Rutherford

The Emotion Amplifier Becca Puglisi

Alchemy Rory Sutherland

The Negative Trait Thesaurus Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi

Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury

Gwen Adshead & Eileen Horne

J. W. Ocker

Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium Paul Kidby

Make Something Wonderful Steve Jobs

Mort Terry Pratchett

Veni Vidi Didici Jason Talley

The Elements of Style William Strunk, Jr. & E.B. White

Dyscalculia Camonghne Felix

Words That Built a Nation Marilyn Miller, Ellen Scordato, Dan Tucker & Mary Kate McDevitt

How to Fall in Love with Anyone Mandy Len Catron

The Armchair Economist Steven E. Landsburg

Mythology 101 Kathleen Sears

Slaying the Dragon Ben Riggs

Write Your First Ghost Story D.G. Mayes

The Journal of Best Practices David Finch

How Math Explains the World James D. Stein

A People's Guide to Capitalism Hadas Thier

I Is an Other James Geary

Matthew Desmond

Roxane Gay

The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music Timothy K. Smith

Octopus Roger Hanlon, Michael Vecchione & Louise Allcock

Neil Postman & Andrew Postman

Ask A Historian Greg Jenner

Ken Jennings

Not Pretty Enough Gerri Hirshey

The Genius of Birds Jennifer Ackerman

Entangled Life Merlin Sheldrake

Comedy Book Jesse David Fox

Jonathan Stray

Monster Lisa Kroger & Melanie R. Anderson

Heartbreak Florence Williams

Conformity Cass R. Sunstein & Robert H Frank

The Mathematics of Love Hannah Fry

Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies Moss Roberts

Winning Arguments Stanley Fish

Get to the Point! Joel Schwartzberg

The Practice Seth Godin

Sell with a Story Paul Smith

Seven Games Oliver Roeder

The Secret Life of Secrets Michael Slepian

The Perfect Theory Pedro G. Ferreira

Simone de Beauvoir, Constance Borde & Sheila Malovany-Chevallier

All the Knowledge in the World Simon Garfield

The Big Time Michael MacCambridge

What We Believe but Cannot Prove John Brockman

It Was the Best of Sentences June Casagrande

How We Eat With Our Eyes and Think With Our Stomach Melanie Mühl & Diana von Kopp

Selections from Fragile Things Neil Gaiman

Immune Philipp Dettmer

The Art of Explanation Ros Atkins

Don't Sleep Daniel L. Everett

Salt Sugar Fat Michael Moss

The Strategist Cynthia Montgomery

If This Isn't Nice Kurt Vonnegut

Moonwalking with Einstein Joshua Foer

The Restaurant William Sitwell

Verbal Judo George J. Thompson, PhD

A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens

An Immense World Ed Yong

An Emotional Dictionary Susie Dent

Word Perfect Susie Dent

Intangibles Joan Ryan

The Science of Storytelling Will Storr

The Secret Life of Pronouns James W. Pennebaker

The Literature Book DK

The Language Hoax John H. McWhorter

The Secret Poisoner Linda Stratmann

The Restless Clock Jessica Riskin

Interesting Stories about Curious Words Susie Dent

Blink Malcolm Gladwell

Other Minds Peter Godfrey-Smith

Catch and Kill Ronan Farrow

The Comedies Oscar Wilde

How to Tell a Story The Moth, Meg Bowles, Catherine Burns, Jenifer Hixson, Sarah Austin Jenness, Kate Tellers & Chenjerai Kumanyika

50 Math Tricks That Will Change Your Life Tanya Zakowich

Sex on Six Legs Marlene Zuk

Antifragile Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Show Sandra Gerth

Writing to Persuade Trish Hall

Keywords John Patrick Leary

Write Great Beginnings Sandra Gerth

Language and Silence George Steiner

How the Mind Works Steven Pinker

45 Master Characters Victoria Lynn Schmidt

The Occupation Thesaurus Becca Puglisi

Dent's Modern Tribes Susie Dent

Rewrite Right! Jan Venolia & Ellen Sasaki

On Language Noam Chomsky

The Chicago Guide to Grammar Bryan A. Garner

The Positive Trait Thesaurus Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi

Joseph Campbell & Bill Moyers

Crows Candace Savage

Who Geoff Smart & Randy Street

How Animals Grieve Barbara J. King

The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms Christine Ammer

Plastic Susan Freinkel

The Stuff of Thought Steven Pinker

David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell

Origin Story David Christian

Critical Thinking Jonathan Haber

The New York Times Book of Mathematics Gina Kolata

Welcome to Dunder Mifflin Brian Baumgartner & Ben Silverman

Rationality Steven Pinker

Do I Make Myself Clear? Harold Evans

Fooling Houdini Alex Stone

The Bomber Mafia Malcolm Gladwell

The Socrates Express Eric Weiner

Stumbling on Happiness Daniel Gilbert

Biomimicry Janine M Benyus

Forensics Val McDermid

Sleights of Mind Stephen Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde & Sandra Blakeslee

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

The Social Conquest of Earth Edward O. Wilson

Thank You for Arguing Jay Heinrichs

Chris Hedges

The Road to Character David Brooks

Biopiracy Vandana Shiva

The Conquest of Happiness Bertrand Russell

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Lori Gottlieb

Essays and Lectures Oscar Wilde

Quantum Shorts Michael Brooks, Jenny Hogan & Puah Xin Yi

Tom Payne

How to Be Miserable Randy J. Paterson

Weapons of Math Destruction Cathy O'Neil

Fooled by Randomness Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Siri Hustvedt

Sex in the Sea Marah J. Hardt

Hype Gabrielle Bluestone

Gini Graham Scott, Ph.D.

The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains Jon Morris

Your Brain on Art Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross

The Disappearing Spoon Sam Kean

The Sense of Style Steven Pinker

The Plot Machine Dale Kutzera

Evolution in Four Dimensions Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb & Anna Zeligowski

Denial Ajit Varki & Danny Brower

Word Play Peter Farb

The Field Guide to Citizen Science Darlene Cavalier, Catherine Hoffman & Caren Cooper

Genius James Gleick

Becoming Wild Carl Safina

No Beast So Fierce Dane Huckelbridge

The Soul of an Octopus Sy Montgomery

Crow Planet Lyanda Lynn Haupt

50 Psychology Classics Second Edition Tom Butler-Bowdon

The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars Lixing Sun

An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language Ali Almossawi & Alejandro Giraldo

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments Ali Almossawi & Alejandro Giraldo

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You Janelle Shane

Statistics 101 David Borman

Shadowfever Karen Marie Moning

Word by Word Kory Stamper

The Peter Principle Dr. Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull

Why the Germans Do it Better John Kampfner

Your Next Five Moves Patrick Bet-David

Complexity M. Mitchell Waldrop

Predictably Irrational Dr. Dan Ariely

Change by Design Tim Brown

Screenplay Syd Field

Great TED Talks Tom May

Scripts People Live Claude Steiner

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein

The Little Book of History DK

Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson

Superforecasting Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner

Botanical Shakespeare Gerit Quealy & Sumie Hasegawa Collins

Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere’s Fan Oscar Wilde

Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be Nichole Perkins

Wanting Luke Burgis

The Secret Life of Lobsters Trevor Corson

The Story of Alice Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

The Sociology Book Sarah Tomley, Mitchell Hobbs, Megan Todd, Marcus Weeks & DK

The Well-Spoken Thesaurus Tom Heehler

Mousy Cats and Sheepish Coyotes John Shivik

It's Raining Cats and Dogs and Other Beastly Expressions Christine Ammer

The Philosophy Book DK

Dark Matter and Trojan Horses. A Strategic Design Vocabulary. Dan Hill

What Got You Here Won't Get You There Marshall Goldsmith & Mark Reiter

The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten Julian Baggini

How Would You Move Mount Fuji? William Poundstone

Monoculture F.S. Michaels

Talent Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross

The Bogle Effect Eric Balchunas

Date-onomics Jon Birger

How to Tell Fate from Destiny Charles Harrington Elster

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, W. Chan Kim & Renée A. Mauborgne

Brave New World Aldous Huxley

Happiness Harvard Business Review, Daniel Gilbert, Annie McKee, Gretchen Spreitzer & Teresa Amabile

The Address Book Deirdre Mask

Good Self Judy Smith

Originals Adam Grant

Meeting the Shadow Connie Zweig & Jeremiah Abrams

A Generation of Sociopaths Bruce Cannon Gibney

The Expectation Effect David Robson

Spark Claudia Kalb

Stranger Than We Can Imagine John Higgs

The Code Breaker Walter Isaacson

Edith Hamilton, Aphrodite Trust & Apollo Trust

If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal Justin Gregg

From the Corner of the Oval Beck Dorey-Stein

A Practical Handbook for the Actor Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, Scott Zigler & David Mamet

The Lucifer Effect Philip Zimbardo

Lemonade Mouth Mark Peter Hughes

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Mark Manson

What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite David DiSalvo

Bookmarked Wendy W. Fairey

The Psychology of the Simpsons Alan S. Brown & Chris Logan

The Anatomy Of Motive John E. Douglas

Cracking Complexity Now David Komlos & David Benjamin

The Red Queen Matt Ridley

Shape Jordan Ellenberg

The Mind of the Mathematician Michael Fitzgerald & Ioan James

The Candidate's 7 Deadly Sins Dr. Peter A. Wish

Connected Nicholas A. Christakis & James H. Fowler

How to Speak Science Bruce Benamran

Poe for Your Problems Catherine Baab-Muguira

Think Again Adam Grant

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe Dr. Steven Novella, Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella & Evan Bernstein

The Emotion Thesaurus Becca Puglisi

Monkeys Joe Schwarcz

What Is Relativity? Jeffrey Bennett

Nudge Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein

The Spark of Life Frances Ashcroft

The Confidence Game Maria Konnikova

Smarter Faster Better Charles Duhigg

A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion Stephen Hawking

Lost in Math Sabine Hossenfelder

Blueprint Nicholas A. Christakis

Reading in the Brain Stanislas Dehaene

Give and Take Adam Grant

The Emotional Wound Thesaurus Becca Puglisi & Angela Ackerman

Endangered Phrases Steven D. Price

Love Sense Dr. Sue Johnson

The Dictionary of Clichés Christine Ammer

Handwriting Analysis Karen Kristin Amend & Mary Stanbury Ruiz

You Are the Universe Deepak Chopra & Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D.

High-Impact Interview Questions Victoria Hoevemeyer

The Data Detective Tim Harford

Games People Play Eric Berne

The Moral Landscape Sam Harris

Taming the Terminal Bart Busschots

Dreyer's English Benjamin Dreyer

How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies Will Witt

Models Mark Manson

Algorithms to Live By Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths

Looking For Alaska John Green

Remembering the Presidents of the USA Kevin Horsley, Eloise Cooper & Sophie Pretorius

Neurogastronomy Gordon M. Shepherd

Yearbook Seth Rogen

F*ck Love Michael Bennett, MD & Sarah Bennett

He's Just Not That Into You Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo

Blood Type O Food Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo & Catherine Whitney

Dictionary of English Idioms Manik Joshi

Option B Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant

Year of Yes Shonda Rhimes

Creating Emotional Attraction Alex Altman

It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken Greg Behrendt & Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think Brianna Wiest

The Art of War Sun Tzu

The Mastery of Love Don Miguel Ruiz

The Happiness Advantage Shawn Achor

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success Deepak Chopra