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About a Mountain by John D'Agata

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5.0

Started it today, finished it today. Haunting, absolutely haunting.

The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy by Raj Patel

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5.0

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

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4.0

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky

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5.0

The most thoughtful book about technology and social change I've read. I'll definitely recommend it the next time I argue with a Twitter skeptic.

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman

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4.0

Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen by Mark Rudd

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3.0

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

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5.0

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

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5.0

Imperium by Klara Główczewska, Ryszard Kapuściński

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4.0

Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson

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5.0