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• Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
• The Connected Home: The Future of Domestic Life

• This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
• The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook
• Shop Class As Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

• Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
• The End of Illness
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
• The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist
• 1Q84
• Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
• Steve Jobs
• Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
• The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
• The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
• Unfamiliar Fishes
• Waiting for "SUPERMAN": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools
• Living with Complexity
• Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle #1
• The Pillars of the Earth
• We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion
• The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
• The Heroes of Olympus, Book One: The Lost Hero
• Too Big to Fail
• The Probable Future
• The Magicians
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
• The Quiet Girl
• Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World
• Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science
• Prodigal Summer
• The Lost City of Z: A Talk of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
• Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
• The Girl Who Played with Fire
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• 826 CHI Compendium, Volume II
• The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
• Cryptonomicon
• The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1)
• Zeitoun +
• Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
• Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World
• Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
• The Wild Things
• Look at the Birdie
• Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
• Up In The Air
• Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
• Eating Animals
• The Time Traveler's Wife
• What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures (if he could spell Eigen he'd get more stars)
• SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
• Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
• The Image of the City
• Me of Little Faith
• You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall
• Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)
• Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
• My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
• Chasing Vermeer
• 13 Things that Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
• The Mysterious Benedict Society
• French Milk
• The Last Olympian
• The Battle of the Labyrinth
• The Titan's Curse
• The Sea of Monsters
• The God Delusion
• The Lightning Thief
• Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
• The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
• The Pluto Files
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
• The Last Lecture
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
• Outliers: The Story of Success
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• The Wordy Shipmates
• A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
• One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies
• Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities
• Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago
• There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America
• Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
• The Satanic Verses: A Novel
• Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Today's Big Changes
• Right In Front of Us
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time
• The Social Psychology of Telecommunications
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
• All Too Human
• Mobile Persuasion: 20 Perspectives of the Future of Behavior Change
• This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
• How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative
• A Thousand Splendid Suns
• The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
• The Design of Future Things
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
• I Am America (And So Can You!)
• The New Kings of Nonfiction
• Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
• The World Without Us
• What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
• The Republican War on Science
• Angela's Ashes
• The Assault on Reason
• A Sunday Afternoon Hotdog Meal: A guide to Chicago featuring shrimp from the future, a park shaped like a spot of paint, six-foot tall smelly, sweaty men, ... and cabs that smell like fresh flowers.
• Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing
• A Man Without a Country
• Designing Interactions
• I Am a Strange Loop
• Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
• The Individual In A Social World: Essays and Experiments
• What is the What
• The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage
• A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and "Low Mechaniks"
• The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward - A New Approach
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
• The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
• Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
• Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager
• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
• From Beirut to Jerusalem
• You Shall Know Our Velocity
• Runner's World Guide to Injury Prevention : How to Identify Problems, Speed Healing, and Run Pain-Free
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
• Patriots Act: Voices of Dissent and the Risk of Speaking Out
• How Would a Patriot Act: Defending American Values from a President Run Amok
• Perpetual Contact : Mobile Communication, Private Talk, Public Performance
• Placing Words : Symbols, Space, and the City
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
• Consuming Music Together : Social and Collaborative Aspects of Music Consumption Technologies
• The DaVinci Code
• Teacher Man: A Memior
• Society of Mind
• The Truth (with jokes)
• Audiophotography: Bringing Photos to Life with Sounds
• Personal, Portable, Pedestrian : Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
• The Plot Against America
• How We Are Hungry
• Love in the Time of Cholera
• Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America
• The Kite Runner
• The Devil in the White City
• Bringing Down the House
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
• Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
• Courtroom 302 : A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• Blink
• The Tipping Point
• Freakonomics
• The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
• McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
• Smart Mobs
• Belle de Jour
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
• Plan of Attack
• America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
• Through the Looking Glass
• The Rise of the Creative Class
• Innocent Erendira and Other Stories
• Hackers and Painters
• How Would You Move Mount Fuji? How the world's smartest companies select the most creative thinkers
• A Beautiful Mind
• Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• The Trial
• To Engineer in Human: The role of failure in successful design
• Crossing the Chasm
• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• Emotional Design
• Extra Spatial
• Blank Slate
• The Art of Innovation
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Dude, Where's My Country
• A People's History of the United States