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Genres
Memoirs
Critical Theory / History
Poetry
Technology / Science
Art History
Fiction (Series)
Fiction (Classic)
Fiction (Other)

Memoirs:
  1. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, Alison Bechdel, 5/5
  2. The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin, 5/5
  3. The Last Black Unicorn, Tiffany Haddish, 5/5
  4. Educated, Tara Westover, 5/5
  5. Thick: And Other Essays, Tressie McMillan Cottom, 5/5
  6. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Roxane Gay, 5/5
  7. Night, Elie Wiesel, 5/5
  8. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood, Trevor Noah, 5/5
  9. Uncanny Valley: A Memoir, Anna Wiener, 4/5
  10. The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank, 4/5
  11. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2), Marjane Satrapi, 4/5
  12. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1), Marjane Satrapi, 4/5
  13. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), Mindy Kaling, 3/5
  14. Bossypants, Tina Fey, 1/5
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Critical Theory / History:
  1. Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire, 5/5
  2. The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx, 5/5
  3. Are Prisons Obsolete?, Angela Y. Davis, 5/5
  4. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Michel Foucault, 5/5
  5. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, Michael Parenti, 5/5
  6. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander, 5/5
  7. The Discourses, Niccol Machiavelli, 5/5
  8. The End of Policing, Alexo S. Vitale, 4/5
  9. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge, 4/5
  10. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson, 4/5
  11. A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn, 4/5
  12. The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli, 4/5
  13. Two Treatises of Government, John Locke, 4/5
  14. Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes, 4/5
  15. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, Ta-Nehisi Coates, 3/5
  16. Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke, 3/5
  17. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich, 3/5
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Poetry:
  1. korean mourning rituals, Erin Kong, 5/5
  2. No Body in Particular, Giovanna Lomanto, 5/5
  3. Howl and Other Poems, Allen Ginsberg, 5/5
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Technology / Science:
  1. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, John Carreyrou, 5/5
  2. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, Anand Giridharadas, 4/5
  3. The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch, 4/5
  4. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions, Gayle Laakmann McDowell, 4/5
  5. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Matthew Walker, 4/5
  6. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, Safiya Umoja Noble, 3/5
  7. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World, Cal Newport, 2/5
  8. Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari, 2/5
  9. Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado-Perez, 1/5
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Art History:
  1. Staring: How We Look, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, 5/5
  2. The Mirror of the Artist: Northern Renaissance Art (perspectives): First Edition, Craig Harbison, 4/5
  3. Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the Museum, Richard Sandell, 4/5
  4. On Painting, Leon Battista Alberti, 3/5
  5. The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form, Kenneth Clark, 3/5
  6. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style, Michael Baxandall, 3/5
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Fiction (Series):
  1. Everlost (Skinjacker, #1), Neal Shusterman, 4/5
  2. Fablehaven (Fablehaven, #1), Brandon Mull, 4/5
  3. The Candy Shop War (The Candy Shop War #1), Brandon Mull, 4/5
  4. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, J.R.R. Tolkien, 4/5
  5. The Giver (The Giver, #1), Lois Lowry, 4/5
  6. The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1), Rick Riordan, 4/5
  7. Twilight (Twilight, #1), Stephenie Meyer, 4/5
  8. The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1), Suzanne Collins, 4/5
  9. The Never War (Pendragon, #3), D.J. MacHale, 4/5
  10. The Merchant of Death (Pendragon, #1), D.J. MacHale, 4/5
  11. The Lost City of Faar (Pendragon, #2), D.J. MacHale, 4/5
  12. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3), J.K. Rowling, 4/5
  13. A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1), Madeleine L'Engle, 4/5
  14. The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2), Dan Brown, 4/5
  15. Keys to the Demon Prison (Fablehaven, #5), Brandon Mull, 3/5
  16. Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary (Fablehaven, #4), Brandon Mull, 3/5
  17. Grip of the Shadow Plague (Fablehaven, #3), Brandon Mull, 3/5
  18. Rise of the Evening Star (Fablehaven, #2), Brandon Mull, 3/5
  19. The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1), James Dashner, 3/5
  20. The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1), Rick Riordan, 3/5
  21. The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5), Rick Riordan, 3/5
  22. The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3), Rick Riordan, 3/5
  23. The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #4), Rick Riordan, 3/5
  24. The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2), Rick Riordan, 3/5
  25. Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1), Eoin Colfer, 3/5
  26. Inkheart (Inkworld, #1), Cornelia Funke, 3/5
  27. The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1), Jeanne DuPrau, 3/5
  28. Holes (Holes, #1), Louis Sachar, 3/5
  29. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1), C.S. Lewis, 3/5
  30. New Moon (Twilight, #2), Stephenie Meyer, 3/5
  31. Eclipse (Twilight, #3), Stephenie Meyer, 3/5
  32. Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4), Stephenie Meyer, 3/5
  33. Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2), Suzanne Collins, 3/5
  34. Raven Rise (Pendragon, #9), D.J. MacHale, 3/5
  35. The Quillan Games (Pendragon, #7), D.J. MacHale, 3/5
  36. The Reality Bug (Pendragon, #4), D.J. MacHale, 3/5
  37. Black Water (Pendragon, #5), D.J. MacHale, 3/5
  38. The Soldiers of Halla (Pendragon, #10), D.J. MacHale, 3/5
  39. The Rivers of Zadaa (Pendragon, #6), D.J. MacHale, 3/5
  40. The Pilgrims of Rayne (Pendragon, #8), D.J. MacHale, 3/5
  41. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6), J.K. Rowling, 3/5
  42. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2), J.K. Rowling, 3/5
  43. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4), J.K. Rowling, 3/5
  44. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7), J.K. Rowling, 3/5
  45. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1), J.K. Rowling, 3/5
  46. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1), George R.R. Martin, 3/5
  47. Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle, #1), Christopher Paolini, 2/5
  48. Stargirl (Stargirl, #1), Jerry Spinelli, 2/5
  49. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5), J.K. Rowling, 2/5
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Fiction (Classic):
  1. The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, 5/5
  2. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, 5/5
  3. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare, 5/5
  4. 1984, George Orwell, 5/5
  5. Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller, 4/5
  6. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 4/5
  7. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 4/5
  8. King Lear, William Shakespeare, 4/5
  9. Othello, William Shakespeare, 4/5
  10. Candide, Voltaire, 4/5
  11. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 4/5
  12. Dracula, Bram Stoker, 4/5
  13. The Stranger, Albert Camus, 4/5
  14. Animal Farm, George Orwell, 4/5
  15. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck, 3/5
  16. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain, 3/5
  17. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, 3/5
  18. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, 3/5
  19. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson, 3/5
  20. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 3/5
  21. Macbeth, William Shakespeare, 3/5
  22. Hamlet, William Shakespeare, 3/5
  23. Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley, 3/5
  24. The Pearl, John Steinbeck, 2/5
  25. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, 2/5
  26. The Odessy, Homer, 2/5
  27. The Crucible, Arthur Miller, 2/5
  28. The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare, 2/5
  29. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 2/5
  30. Walden, Henry David Thoreau, 2/5
  31. The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, 2/5
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Fiction (Other):
  1. Matilda, Roald Dahl, 5/5
  2. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros, 4/5
  3. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak, 4/5
  4. Elsewhere, Gabrielle Zevin, 4/5
  5. Bud, Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis, 4/5
  6. Coraline, Neil Gaiman, 4/5
  7. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry, 4/5
  8. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley, 3/5
  9. The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams, 3/5
  10. The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton, 3/5
  11. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver, 2/5
  12. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt, 2/5
  13. Anthem, Ayn Rand, 1/5
  14. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, 1/5
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