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"if you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking" — Haruki Marukami"Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking" — Albert Einstein
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Book (current reads highlighted)GenreThemeRecommendedNotes
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
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Cool Gray City of Love by Gary Kamiya
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Dominion by Tom HollandErik
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The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
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"Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States" by Kenneth T. Jackson
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"The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City" by Neil Smith
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Paved Paradise by Henry GrabarRobin
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Art of Loving by Eric Fromm
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Joseph Tainter book
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Constructing the IneffableDesignPatricia
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Cloud Cuckoo LandJK
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Properties of Thirst
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Last Kings of Shanghai
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The Will to Power by Fredrick Nietschze
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Emile, or Treatise On Education by RousseauEducation
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Bloodland by Thomas SnyderRussia, GermanyDaria
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Anna KareninaDaria
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Writers and Lovers by Lily KingDaria
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Posession by AB WyattDaria
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Portrait of a Lady by Henry JamesDaria
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Rainbows End by Vernon VingeEducation Sci-FiAndy M
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Mindstorms, by Seymour PapertEducationDaniel W, Taylor
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Living Untethered by Michael SingerMichael Singer
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I Hate You — Don't Leave MePsychology
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The Affordability City by Shane Phillipsjessica
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4 Chinese classic literature booksChina
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The Book of Rites by ConfuciusChinaMike's dad
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Talent by Tyler Cowan and Daniel GrossTalent
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The Browns of CA by Miriam PawelCA Politicsannie f
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Leading in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwingiselle h
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Imperial San FranciscoSF politicsrobin
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cool gray city of love by gary kamiyaannie f
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The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San FranciscoSF politicsannie f
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what my bones know by stephanie foominn
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Roberts Rules of Orderpoliticsdaniel g
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governing the commons by ostromandy
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before the storm: barry goldwater and the unmaking of the american consensus by rick perlsteinzack
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the rise of the conservative legal movement by stephen m teleszack
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the big leap by gay hendricksaike
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the populist delusionerik
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affordable city strategiesjessica
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white devil's daughters by julia flynn silerannie f
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run river by joan didionmolly
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angle of repose by wallace stengermolly
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elephant and the brain by robin hansonbanu
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concrete economics by brad delongmisha
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i hotelbrian
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the coddling by jonathan haidtzack
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stories of your life by ted chiangdaniel d
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the entrepreneurial state by mazzucutonoah smith
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doing capitalism in the innovation economy by bill janewaynoah smith
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The Places that Scare You by Pema Chodroncurrently tabled
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White Teeth by Zadie SmithContemporary FictionErikcurrently tabled
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Atlas of the Heart by Brené Browncurrently tabled
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Amp it Up by Frank SlootmanBusinesscurrently tabled
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo FreireSocial Justice literature, EducationBrandon, Sankofa Bookstore & Cafecurrently tabled
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A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaLogancurrently tabled
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High Output Management by Andy GroveBusinessMatt Mochary, Ben Horowitzcurrently tabled
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The Mind Illuminated by CuladasaBuddhismKanjuncurrently tabled
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Development as Freedom by Amartya SenHamza, Tinacurrently tabled
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The Holy Bible (English Standard Version)Religioncurrently tabled
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The Teacher Wars by Dana GoldsteinHistory of US EducationKim-Maicurrently tabled
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Letters to a Young Poet By RilkeArmandcurrently tabled
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The Way to Love by Anthony DimelloArmandcurrently tabled
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Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererWes, Yangcurrently tabled
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emergent strategy by adrienne maree brownKimberlycurrently tabled
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The Rock Warriors WayWescurrently tabled
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Being Upright: Zen Meditation & the Boddhisatva PreceptsSpirituality, EthicsLauriecurrently tabled
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Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown
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The Crusades of Cesar Chavez by Miriam Pavel
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Zhuangzi: The Complete WritingsChinese PhilosophyPatty
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A Source Book in Chinese PhilosophyChinese PhilosophyPatty
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Derrida
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Marx
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Joseph Campbell
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The Genealogy of Morals by NietszcheJosh
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In An Unspoken Voice by Peter LevineLaurie
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. GordonMom
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The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinZack
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I should have loved biology by James SomersMax Krieger
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Class: A Guide Through the AmricanMT
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A History of America in Ten StrikesMT
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A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
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A Little Book on the Human ShadowGatsby
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Built for Change: Neighborhood Architecture in San FranciscoChristopher Robbins
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Great Streets by Alan JacobChristopher Robbins
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Status Anxiety by Alain de BottonRyan Holiday
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Permutation City
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Strong Towns: A bottom-up revolution to rebuild amerincan prosperitydevon zuegel
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The State of Affairs by Esther PerelCindy
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The Way We Never Were by Stephanie KoonsCindy
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The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
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Thinking Big: The Story of the Los Angeles TimesMarc Andreesen
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The Ancient City - Imperium PressMarc Andreesen
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The New World OrderJSwanson
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The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist RulersChinaJSwanson
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Structure of belonging by peter blockMike
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Communion by bell hooksMinn