Bookshelf
A running list of books I've read.
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Finite and Infinite Games -
Content Design -
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War -
Simple Marketing For Smart People -
Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results
2026
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Remarkably Bright Creatures -
The Agile Comms Handbook -
How to Make Sense of Any Mess Read my book notes -
My Friends
2025
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Four Seasons in Japan
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The Life Impossible
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Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
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Becoming a Technical Leader
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Husk
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Dirty Genes: A Breakthrough Program to Treat the Root Cause of Illness and Optimize Your Health
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Bookshops & Bonedust
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Portnoy's Complaint
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The Science of Gardening: Discover How Your Garden Really Grows
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The Design of Everyday Things
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Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
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Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life
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Meditations for Mortals: Four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts
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Very Good Copy: 207 Micro-Lessons on Thinking and Writing Like a Copywriter
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Unprocessed: How the Food We Eat Is Fuelling Our Mental Health Crisis
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Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
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Babylonia
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How to Be a Dad: The ultimate guide to pregnancy, birth & dirty nappies
2024
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Life Ceremony
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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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Crypto Confidential: Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance
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What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
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Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
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How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
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The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout -
The Burnout Society
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The Chrysalids -
This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You -
Solo: How to Work Alone (and Not Lose Your Mind) -
The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
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Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun
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Convenience Store Woman
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
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Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era
2023
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The Sicilian
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The Godfather
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Blankets
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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon -
Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book
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Why Women Are Blamed For Everything: Exposing the Culture of Victim-Blaming
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Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)
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Going Zero
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Crying in H Mart
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Mindset -
With Winning in Mind
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Fahrenheit 451
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Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors: Covert Techniques for a Remarkable Practice
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Draw to Win: A Crash Course on How to Lead, Sell, and Innovate With Your Visual Mind
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Ghost Music
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Klara and the Sun
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The Great Depression: A Diary
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Lord of the Flies
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Anathem
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Stories From A Whisky Bar
2022
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The Anthropocene Reviewed
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Dark Days: A Memoir
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How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
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The Death of Kings (Emperor, #2)
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Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past
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The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time
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The Gates of Rome (Emperor, #1)
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Dopamine Detox : A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Train Your Brain to Do Hard Things (Productivity Series Book 1)
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The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
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Britt-Marie Was Here
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Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
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Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success
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The Listening Book
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Kettlebell Simple & Sinister
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In Praise of Shadows
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Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It
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Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)
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Beartown (Beartown, #1)
2021
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The Effective Executive
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The Psychology of Money
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Badass Your Brand: The Impatient Entrepreneur's Guide to Turning Expertise into Profit
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Project Hail Mary
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Eleven Rings
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Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
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The Problems of Philosophy: Brief and Accessible Guide to the Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell's Philosophical Exploration: Navigating the Problems of Philosophy
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Norwegian Wood
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Good Services: How to Design Services that Work -
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
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Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics)
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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
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Anxious People
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The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts -
The Secret Life of Bees
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Humankind: A Hopeful History -
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Hell Yeah or No: What's Worth Doing -
The Richest Man in Babylon
2020
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The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
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The Rings of Saturn
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Andy Warhol Was a Hoarder: Inside the Minds of History's Great Personalities -
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son (Illustrated) -
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness -
The Midnight Library
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Digital Minimalism: On Living Better with Less Technology -
How to Be an Antiracist -
Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: Practical wisdom for everyday life: embrace perseverance, strength and happiness with stoic philosophy (Teach Yourself) -
Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion -
I am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban -
Sum: Tales from the Afterlives
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Brunel: The Man Who Built the World -
How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers -
Turn The Ship Around! -
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow -
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Search for a whisky bothy
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
2019
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Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money - That The Poor And Middle Class Do Not!
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Artemis
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Changer (KESTREL #1)
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Stillness is the Key: An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life -
Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day -
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory -
Educated -
This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See -
The Trusted Advisor -
The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth -
The Lessons of History
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Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win
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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life -
I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary Relationships -
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs -
The Psychopath Test
2018
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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work -
How To Be Right… in a World Gone Wrong -
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones -
Total Competition: Lessons in Strategy from Formula One -
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead -
Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine -
Notes on a Nervous Planet -
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing -
The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life -
The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness -
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
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The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Shit Together: How to Run Your Business Without Letting it Run You -
Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen -
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
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Landscape Photography On Location: Travel, Learn, Explore, Shoot
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The Alchemist
2017
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Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture -
The Fault in Our Stars -
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman #1) -
Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine -
Confessions of a Public Speaker
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Wonder -
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Picador Collection) -
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days -
A Man Called Ove -
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE -
The Inner Game of Tennis: The ultimate guide to the mental side of peak performance -
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life -
The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity -
Creativity, Inc.: an inspiring look at how creativity can - and should - be harnessed for business success by the founder of Pixar -
The Miracle Of Mindfulness: The Classic Guide to Meditation by the World's Most Revered Master (Classic Edition) -
Ready Player One
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Reinvent Yourself -
Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content -
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It -
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less -
The War of Art -
Poke the Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?
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The Day of the Triffids
2016
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
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Ego Is the Enemy
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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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Pricing Design
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Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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Do the Work
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Zen to Done
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
2015
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I Am Legend
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The Win Without Pitching Manifesto
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The Good Creative
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UnMarketing: Stop Marketing, Start Engaging
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The 22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing
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Anything You Want
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The Positioning Manual for Technical Firms
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The Brain Audit: Why Customers Buy (and Why They Don't)
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Michael Schumacher
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18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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Steve Jobs
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59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot
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Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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The 7 Day Startup: You Don't Learn Until You Launch
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Fight Club
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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The Martian
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The Whisky Cabinet: Your guide to enjoying the most delicious whiskies in the world
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Authority: A Step-by-Step Guide to Self-Publishing
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Life's a Game So Fix the Odds: How to Be More Persuasive and Influential in Your Personal and Business Life
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Double Your Freelancing Rate
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The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
2014
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The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph -
American Gods
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Stop Thinking Like a Freelancer: The Evolution of a $1M Web Designer
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Responsible Responsive Design
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The Choose Yourself Stories
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Choose Yourself: Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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Brand You
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Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems
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Cat’s Cradle
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Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose (Voices That Matter)
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Bird by Bird
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Execute
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Mobile First
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Everything I Know
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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Coraline
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Work for Money, Design for Love: Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Starting and Running a Successful Design Business (Voices That Matter)
2013
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Sophie's World
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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SuperEgo
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1984
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Life of Pi