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“No Country for Old Men” by Cormac McCarthy

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“This is the Way the World Ends” by James Morrow

Physics

“Drawing Theories Apart : The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics” by David Kaiser
“An Introduction To Black Holes, Information And The String Theory Revolution: The Holographic Universe” by Leonard Susskind and James Lindesay
“Quantum Engima: Physics Encounters Consciousness by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner

Computer Science / Technology

“Dreaming in Code” by Scott Rosenberg
The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun

Scientists/Mathematicians

“A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Gödel and Einstein” by Palle Yourgrau

Popular Science

How Many Licks?: Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything by Aaron Santos
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell [Intro Chapter 1 Chapter 2]
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow

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