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Books To Read
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Novels
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* Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Foer
* The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
* The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
* The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
* The Magic Mountain, thomas mann
* Grapes of Wrath
* The Illuminatus! Trilogy
* The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
* Red Plenty (historical fiction)
Old Classics:
* The Plum in the Golden Vase
* Romance of the Three Kingdoms
* Dream of the Red Chamber
Science/Tech
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* Engines of Creation
* The Society of Mind by Minsky
* Mind Children
* War in the Age of Intelligent Machines by Manuel De Landa
* Nonlinear Time Series Analysis, Holger Kantz Thomas Schreiber
* Field Notes on Science & Nature
Philosophy
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* The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir
* She Came to Stay, Simone de Beauvoir
* The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
* The Order of Things, Foucault
* Structuralism, Piaget
* Archaeology of Knowledge, Foucault
* The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt
History and Politics
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* Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
* The Art of Intelligence by Henry Crumpton (CIA history)
* The Conscience of a Conservative "by" Barry Goldwater
Chinese History:
* A Concise History of China, j.a.g. roberts
* Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History, keith schoppa
* On China, kissinger
Other Non-Fiction
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* Looking for a Ship, John McPhee (merchant marine)
* Uncommon Carriers, John McPhee (shipping)
* The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
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