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by Mark Caro


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by Nicholas Dawidoff


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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Kearns Goodwin


Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

by Sudhir Venkatesh


Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation

by Paul Kriwaczek


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by Black Hawk


Anathem

by Neal Stephenson


White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters

by Robert Schlesinger


A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today

by David A. Andelman


The Head Game: Baseball Seen from the Pitcher's Mound

by Roger Kahn


iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business

by Jeffrey S. Young


The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

by Barack Obama


Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

by Barack Obama


Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae

by Gale E. Christianson


Hello, I Must Be Going

by Charlotte Chandler


The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World

by David Berlinski


The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

by Erik Larson


I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould


How NASA Learned to Fly in Space: An Exciting Account of the Gemini Missions: Apogee Books Space Series 46

by David M. Harland


Ron Kittle's Tales from the White Sox Dugout

by Ron Kittle


James Madison: A Biography

by Ralph Ketcham


His Excellency: George Washington

by Joseph J. Ellis


America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

by Jon Stewart


Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy

by Jane Leavy


The Long Season

by Jim Brosnan


The Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source

by Martin Fink


The Lord of the Rings (Collector's Edition)

by J.R.R. Tolkien


The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould


The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary

by Eric S. Raymond


Moral Man And Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics (Moral Man Immoral Soc Lycem SL 28)

by Reinhold Niebuhr


The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

by Louis Menand


T.R.: The Last Romantic

by H. W. Brands


The Ginger Kid: The Buck Weaver Story

by Irving M. Stein


Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould


Neuromancer (Ace Science Fiction)

by William Gibson


The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O'Leary's Cow

by Richard F. Bales


Sputnik: The Shock of the Century

by Paul Dickson


Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!

by Arthur C. Clarke


Truman

by David McCullough


Hercule Poirot's Casebook

by Agatha Christie


Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould


Interface

by Stephen Bury


Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon

by James Harford


The Hobbit

by J.R.R. Tolkien


American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation

by Adam Cohen


Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of Largest, Most Fought Over T. Rex Ever Found

by Steve Fiffer


Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck

by Bill Veeck


Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

by Gene Kranz


All the President's Men

by Bob Woodward


The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould


Amistad

by David Pesci


A People's History of the Supreme Court

by Peter Irons


Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

by Joseph J. Ellis


I, Robot

by Isaac Asimov


Under the Radar: How Red Hat Changed the Software Business--and Took Microsoft by Surprise

by Robert Young


Conversations About the End of Time

by Stephen Jay Gould


The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)

by Neal Stephenson


High Fidelity (Movie-tie In): A Novel

by Nick Hornby


The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould


On the Road (Penguin 20th Century Classics)

by Jack Kerouac


The Essential Groucho: Writings by, for, and about Groucho Marx

by


The World of Jeeves

by P. G. Wodehouse


In the Beginning...was the Command Line

by Neal Stephenson


Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould


Cosmos

by Carl Sagan


Animal Farm (Signet classics)

by George Orwell


Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson


Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams

by Joseph J. Ellis


A Man on the Moon

by Andrew Chaikin


The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography

by Simon Singh


Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

by John Berendt


Who Wrote Shakespeare?

by John F. Michell


Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolutio

by Steven Levy


American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

by Joseph J. Ellis


John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life

by Paul C. Nagel


Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History (Norton Paperback)

by Stephen Jay Gould


Cryptonomicon

by Neal Stephenson


The Edible Woman

by Margaret Atwood


Sula.

by Toni. Morrison


John Adams: A Life

by John Ferling


Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould


The Third Rumpole Omnibus

by John Mortimer


Why Not Me?: The Inside Story

by Al Franken


All Too Human: A Political Education

by George Stephanopoulos


Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

by Stephen Jay Gould


Rocks of Ages - Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life (Library of Contemporary Thought)

by Stephen Jay Gould


The Second Rumpole Omnibus

by John Mortimer


The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions)

by Ray Bradbury


Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein


The Right Stuff

by Tom Wolfe


Beloved

by Toni Morrison

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Paul is a technologist and all around nice guy for technology oriented organizations and parties. Besides maintaining this blog and website you can follow Paul's particular pontifications on the Life Universe and Everything on Twitter.

   
   


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