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Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

320 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

5.0mchester24's review
fiction science fiction short stories challenging reflective medium-paced
Time Travel: A History by James Gleick

Time Travel: A History

James Gleick

304 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

4.0mchester24's review
nonfiction history science adventurous reflective medium-paced
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

Antonio Garcia Martinez

528 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

3.0mchester24's review
nonfiction business memoir technology reflective fast-paced
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery

Henry Marsh

320 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

4.0mchester24's review
nonfiction health memoir science informative reflective medium-paced
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

Jordan Ellenberg

480 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

4.0mchester24's review
nonfiction mathematics psychology science informative reflective slow-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

4.0mchester24's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science by Alice Dreger

Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science

Alice Dreger

352 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

4.0mchester24's review
nonfiction history politics science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution by Rebecca Stott

Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution

Rebecca Stott

432 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

3.0mchester24's review
nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

Daniel Yergin

805 pages • missing pub info (editions)

4.0mchester24's review
nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences

John Allen Paulos

208 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

3.0mchester24's review
nonfiction education mathematics science informative medium-paced