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The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

The Three-Body Problem

Remembrance of Earth's Past #1

Cixin Liu

399 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction science fiction challenging dark mysterious medium-paced
How to Grow a Human: Adventures in How We Are Made and Who We Are by Philip Ball

How to Grow a Human: Adventures in How We Are Made and Who We Are

Philip Ball

272 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Biochemistry: A Very Short Introduction by Mark Lorch

Biochemistry: A Very Short Introduction

Mark Lorch

176 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health science
Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope by Sarah Bakewell

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope

Sarah Bakewell

464 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary by Frederick Buechner

Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary

Frederick Buechner

144 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction reflective slow-paced
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

268 pages • first pub 1932 (editions)

fiction classics dystopian literary science fiction challenging dark reflective medium-paced
Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction by Rodolfo Saracci

Epidemiology: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

Rodolfo Saracci

145 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

pr_holofernes's explanation
nonfiction health science challenging informative slow-paced
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Other Writings by Max Weber, Gordon C. Wells, Peter Baehr

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Other Writings

Gordon C. Wells, Peter Baehr, Max Weber

464 pages • first pub 1904 (editions)

pr_holofernes's explanation
nonfiction history philosophy sociology challenging informative slow-paced
Diplomacy: A Very Short Introduction by Joseph M. Siracusa

Diplomacy: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

Joseph M. Siracusa

160 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents by Edmund Burke
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
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Edmund Burke

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

Edmund Burke

130 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)