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A Change of Plans Dennis E. Taylor · ★★★★☆
A Random Walk Down Wall Str...
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing Burton G. Malkiel · ★★★☆☆
Abundance: The Future is Be...
Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think Peter H. Diamandis · ★★★★☆
Berkshire Hathaway Letters ...
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders: 1965-2024 Warren Buffett · ★★★☆☆
Cockpit Confidential: Every...
Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections Patrick Smith · ★★★☆☆
Family Inc.: Using Business...
Family Inc.: Using Business Principles to Maximize Your Family's Wealth Douglas P McCormick · ★★★☆☆
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Eliezer Yudkowsky · ★★★★★

In this alternative version of J.K. Rowling's famous tale, Petunia Evans marries the biochemist Michael Verres. The c...

He Who Fights with Monsters...
He Who Fights with Monsters 3 (He Who Fights with Monsters, #3) Shirtaloon · ★★★★☆
He Who Fights with Monsters...
He Who Fights with Monsters (He Who Fights with Monsters, #1) Shirtaloon · ★★★★★
If Anyone Builds It, Everyo...
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All Eliezer Yudkowsky · ★★★★★
Last Argument of Kings (The...
Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3) Joe Abercrombie · ★★★☆☆
Of Sea and Shadow (The Elde...
Of Sea and Shadow (The Elder Empire: Sea, #1) Will Wight · ★★★☆☆
Of Shadow and Sea (The Elde...
Of Shadow and Sea (The Elder Empire: Shadow, #1) Will Wight · ★★★☆☆
Out of Spite, Out of Mind (Magic 2.0 #5) Scott Meyer · ★★★★☆
Reaper (Cradle, #10)
Reaper (Cradle, #10) Will Wight · ★★★★★
Salvation (Salvation Sequen...
Salvation (Salvation Sequence, #1) Peter F. Hamilton · ★★★★☆

"Humanity's complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from...

The DevOps 2.6 Toolkit: Jen...
The DevOps 2.6 Toolkit: Jenkins X: Cloud-Native Kubernetes-First Continuous Delivery (The DevOps Toolkit Series Book 7) Viktor Farcic · ★★★★★
The Dreaming Void (Void, #1)
The Dreaming Void (Void, #1) Peter F. Hamilton · ★★★★★
The Engineer (The Last Hori...
The Engineer (The Last Horizon, #2) Will Wight · ★★★★★
The Magician's Land (The Ma...
The Magician's Land (The Magicians, #3) Lev Grossman
The Perfect Run III Maxime J. Durand · ★★★★★

It's one thing to go back to the beginning, and another to reach the perfect ending. Ryan Romano has done it. He has...

The Snowball: Warren Buffet...
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life Alice Schroeder · ★★★★★
The World Walker (The World...
The World Walker (The World Walker, #1) Ian W. Sainsbury · ★★★★★
This Inevitable Ruin (Dunge...
This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl #7) Matt Dinniman · ★★★★★
Waybound (Cradle, #12)
Waybound (Cradle, #12) Will Wight · ★★★★★
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) ...
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1) Dennis E. Taylor · ★★★★★
Wintersteel (Cradle, #8)
Wintersteel (Cradle, #8) Will Wight · ★★★★★

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All These Worlds (Bobiverse...
All These Worlds (Bobiverse, #3) Dennis E. Taylor · ★★★★★
For We Are Many (Bobiverse,...
For We Are Many (Bobiverse, #2) Dennis E. Taylor · ★★★★★ reviewed
Nelf Rings
Nelf Rings Mervin Miller · ★★★★★
Quantum Space (Quantum #1)
Quantum Space (Quantum #1) Douglas Phillips · ★★★★★
The Fourth Transformation: ...
The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence Change Everything Robert Scoble · ★★★☆☆
The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham · ★★★★★

This classic text is annotated to update Graham's timeless wisdom for today's market conditions... The greatest inv...

The Seventeenth Year (The W...
The Seventeenth Year (The World Walker #3) Ian W. Sainsbury · ★★★★★
The Unmaking Engine (The Wo...
The Unmaking Engine (The World Walker, #2) Ian W. Sainsbury · ★★★★★ reviewed
The Unnamed Way (The World ...
The Unnamed Way (The World Walker #4) Ian W. Sainsbury · ★★★★★
University of Berkshire Hat...
University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting Daniel Pecaut · ★★★★★
Warren Buffett's Ground Rul...
Warren Buffett's Ground Rules: Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World's Greatest Investor Jeremy C. Miller · ★★★★★
When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi · ★★★★★ reviewed

When Breath Becomes Air is a non-fiction autobiographical book written by American neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi. It is...

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1984 George Orwell · ★★☆☆☆

Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people every second of the day. He fights this world w...

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) George R.R. Martin

***A Game of Thrones*** is the inaugural novel in ***A Song of Ice and Fire***, an epic series of fantasy novels craf...

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing Lawrence M. Krauss · ★★★☆☆

"Internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling author Lawrence Krauss offers provocative, revelatory an...

A Wizard of Earthsea (Earth...
A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1) Ursula K. Le Guin · ★★★★★
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1) Dan Brown · ★★★☆☆

Angels & Demons is a 2000 bestselling mystery-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published by Po...

Animal Farm George Orwell · ★★☆☆☆

Animal Farm is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and...

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Malcolm Gladwell · ★★★☆☆

Intuition is not some magical property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. It is a product of long hour...

Brothers Majere (Dragonlance: Preludes, #3) Kevin Stein · ★★★★★

CATS ARE DISAPPEARING… What happened to them? And why had their disappearance sent the cityof Mereklar into a panic...

Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1) Margaret Weis · ★★★★★

Dragons. Creatures of legend. Stories told to children. But now dragons have returned to Krynn. The darkness of war...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) J.K. Rowling · ★★★★★

Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, ...

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael, #1) Daniel Quinn · ★★★☆☆
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything Joshua Foer · ★★★★★

The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory “H...

Outliers: The Story of Success Malcolm Gladwell · ★★★☆☆

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the ...

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 Michio Kaku

Free ebook link: brautech.co.za/info/FuturePhysics.pdf

Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · ★★★★★

Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Bi...

The Giver (The Giver, #1) Lois Lowry · ★★★☆☆

At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive specia...

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald · ★☆☆☆☆

Poignantly and with subtle finesse, Fitzgerald tells the story of the dazzling upstart Jay Gatsby, who celebrates lav...

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) Suzanne Collins · ★★★☆☆

The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the perspective o...

The Magicians (The Magician...
The Magicians (The Magicians, #1) Lev Grossman · ★★★★★

A thrilling and original coming-of- age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real worldQuentin Coldwater i...

The Name of the Wind (The K...
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1) Patrick Rothfuss · ★★★★★

***The Name of the Wind***, also called ***The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One***, is a heroic fantasy novel written by...

The Stand Stephen King · ★★★☆☆

One man escapes from a biological weapon facility after an accident, carrying with him the deadly virus known as Capt...

The Tipping Point: How Litt...
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Malcolm Gladwell · ★★★☆☆
The Wise Man's Fear (The Ki...
The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2) Patrick Rothfuss · ★★★★★

Preceded by: [The Name of the Wind][1] In The Wise Man's Fear, Kvothe searches for answers, attempting to uncover th...

Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1) Stephenie Meyer · ★☆☆☆☆

About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him -- and I d...

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4000 Weeks
4000 Weeks Robert Bosman
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole

A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, "huge,...

A Resistance History of the...
A Resistance History of the United States Tad Stoermer
A Theory of Justice John Rawls

The principles of justice Rawls set forth in this book are those that free and rational people would accept in an ini...

AI: Unexplainable, Unpredic...
AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable (Chapman & Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series) Roman V. Yampolskiy
Apocalypse: Generic System
Apocalypse: Generic System Macronomicon
Apocalypse Tamer
Apocalypse Tamer Maxime J. Durand
Bastion (The Immortal Great...
Bastion (The Immortal Great Souls, #1) Phil Tucker
Bird by Bird Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott gives her perspective on the art and work of writing. The title comes from a family story when her brothe...

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Trevor Noah

Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find hims...

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member...

Clarifying the Natural State: A Principal Guidance Manual for Mahamudra Dakpo Tashi Namgyal
Consciousness Explained Daniel C. Dennett

This book revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that Cartesianism and Descartes' dualism of mind ...

Elder Race (Elder Race #1)
Elder Race (Elder Race #1) Adrian Tchaikovsky
Free Will Sam Harris

[Free Will][1] is a 2012 book by the American author and neuroscientist Sam Harris. Harris argues that the truth abou...

From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain 1765-76 Pauline Maier

In this classic account of the American revolution, Pauline Maier traces the step-by-step process through which the e...

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future Jean M. Twenge
Hackers: Heroes of the Comp...
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution Steven Levy
How to Write a Novel Using ...
How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method (Advanced Fiction Writing, #1) Randy Ingermanson
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre Keith Johnstone

Keith Johnstone's involvement with the theatre began when George Devine and Tony Richardson, artistic directors of th...

Meditations for Mortals: Fo...
Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts Oliver Burkeman
Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It Ari Berman

Among key issues covered in this book: Violation of One Citizen, One Vote is selection of candidates for US Supreme ...

Oathbringer (The Stormlight...
Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3) Brandon Sanderson
On Freedom Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons ...
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Graphic Edition Timothy Snyder

In previous books, Holocaust historian Timothy Snyder dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler...

Philosophical Devices: Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Sets David Papineau

"This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical w...

Rationality: From AI to Zombies Eliezer Yudkowsky
Steel World (Undying Mercen...
Steel World (Undying Mercenaries, #1) B.V. Larson
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard Chip Heath
Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion Jay Heinrichs

Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of persuasion, taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson t...

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Stephen R. Covey

*New York Times bestseller—over 40 million copies sold* *The #1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Centu...

The Alchemist Paulo Coelho

The Alchemist details the journey of a young Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago. Santiago, believing a recurring ...

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness Jonathan Haidt

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Ra...

The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar is the only novel written by American poet Sylvia Plath. It is an intensely realistic and emotional reco...

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Alan W. Watts

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz

Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but d...

The Crimson Vault (Traveler...
The Crimson Vault (Traveler's Gate, #2) Will Wight
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Carl Sagan

A prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a di...

The Elephant and the Blind:...
The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports Thomas Metzinger
The Experience Machine: How...
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality Andy Clark
The Grand Design Stephen W. Hawking

When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent grand design of ...

The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos Brian Greene

From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos comes his most expansive and access...

The Library at Mount Char Scott Hawkins

*A missing God. A library with the secrets to the universe. A woman too busy to notice her heart slipping away.* C...

The Magic of Reality: How W...
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True Richard Dawkins

What are things made of? What is the sun? Why is there night and day, winter and summer? Why do bad things happen? Ar...

The Nightingale Kristin Hannah

Despite their differences, sisters Vianne and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isabelle lives in Pari...

Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman

In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel P...

This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levitin

This book explores the connection between music and its performances, its composition, how we listen to it, why we en...

What Do We Do About Inequal...
What Do We Do About Inequality? Chris Oestereich
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches Erwin Schrödinger

What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. The book ...

Why Machines Learn: The Ele...
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI Anil Ananthaswamy
Write Your Story: A Simple Framework to Understand Yourself, Your Story, and Your Purpose in the World Allison Fallon
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1) Robert M. Pirsig

"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'"One of the most important and influential books of th...