Thoughtful Reads / Book Club
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
by:
Peter Wohlleben
4.07 avg rating β 84,767 ratings 
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating β 109,946 ratings 7. 
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
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J.D. Vance
3.85 avg rating β 488,822 ratings 8. 
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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Trevor Noah
4.49 avg rating β 778,784 ratings 
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
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Sean Carroll
4.18 avg rating β 9,959 ratings 
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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Atul Gawande
4.49 avg rating β 210,896 ratings 15. 
Grit: Passion, Perseverance, and the Science of Success
by:
Angela Duckworth
4.08 avg rating β 137,584 ratings 16. 
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
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Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating β 30,337 ratings 17. 
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 4.08 avg rating β 69,679 ratings
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
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Nancy Isenberg
3.76 avg rating β 24,555 ratings 
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 4.12 avg rating β 17,562 ratings
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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Michael Lewis
3.99 avg rating β 62,918 ratings 34. 
Easy Money Management: A Give and Save 3-6-5 Approach to Personal Finance
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Laurick Ingram
4.73 avg rating β 67 ratings 35. 
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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Susan Cain
4.08 avg rating β 465,728 ratings 
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After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond
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Bruce Greyson
4.19 avg rating β 4,789 ratings 
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The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
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Tim Flannery
4.20 avg rating β 931 ratings 
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The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet
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Dave Goulson
4.40 avg rating β 1,627 ratings 42. 
Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
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Sarah Chayes
4.11 avg rating β 1,050 ratings 43. 
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
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Kevin Kelly
3.89 avg rating β 11,884 ratings 
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$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
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Kathryn J. Edin
3.96 avg rating β 8,643 ratings 
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
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Ed Catmull
4.21 avg rating β 100,171 ratings 
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The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy
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Mervyn A. King
4.07 avg rating β 2,180 ratings 51. 
Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder: A Mother's Story of Research and Recovery
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Karyn Seroussi
3.43 avg rating β 7 ratings 52. 
Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
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Matthew Syed
4.28 avg rating β 14,009 ratings 52. 
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by:
Bill Browder
4.44 avg rating β 104,281 ratings 
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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
by:
Gretchen Bakke
3.87 avg rating β 4,503 ratings 56. 
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
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Brian Alexander
3.91 avg rating β 1,852 ratings 
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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
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Ben Rawlence
4.24 avg rating β 1,718 ratings 60. 
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness 3.84 avg rating β 92,730 ratings
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The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age
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Archie Brown
3.65 avg rating β 787 ratings 
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Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia
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Billy Griffiths
4.32 avg rating β 574 ratings 66. 
The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time
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Maria Konnikova
3.66 avg rating β 5,851 ratings 67. 
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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Dava Sobel
3.59 avg rating β 3,470 ratings 68. 
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1,092 ratings
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The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
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Lynda Gratton
3.82 avg rating β 2,196 ratings 71. 
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government 3.98 avg rating β 1,087 ratings
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The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
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Richard Baldwin
3.85 avg rating β 516 ratings 73. 
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
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Robert J. Gordon
4.19 avg rating β 2,091 ratings 
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Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
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Therese Oneill
3.82 avg rating β 9,083 ratings 
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution 4.22 avg rating β 1,785 ratings
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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
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David Reich
4.13 avg rating β 5,852 ratings 
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How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons From a Renaissance Education
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Scott L. Newstok
3.87 avg rating β 379 ratings 75. 
Reimagining Collaboration: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and the Post-COVID World of Work
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Phil Simon
3.50 avg rating β 105 ratings 75. 
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths 3.95 avg rating β 3,269 ratings
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Intention: The Surprising Psychology of High Performers
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Mike James Ross
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 41 ratings 
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Ibram X. Kendi
4.53 avg rating β 37,882 ratings 
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy AnswersβStraight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
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Ben Horowitz
4.21 avg rating β 105,255 ratings 88. 
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
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Erin Meyer
4.33 avg rating β 27,913 ratings 88. 
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy 4.07 avg rating β 3,565 ratings
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Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
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Tim Low
4.22 avg rating β 658 ratings 
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Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth
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John Darnell
3.60 avg rating β 643 ratings 97. 
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
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Nathaniel Fick
4.20 avg rating β 11,561 ratings 97. 
The Circadian Code: Lose Weight, Supercharge Your Energy, and Transform Your Health from Morning to Midnight: Longevity Book
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Satchin Panda
4.17 avg rating β 5,228 ratings 
