Books

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The Troop

by Nick Cutter

★★★★ · 2014 ·358 pages

A Canadian Boy Scout Troop ventures to an island of Prince Edward expecting a weekend of merit badge work; instead, a sick man comes ashore and brings with him a...

fictionhorror
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Psycho-cybernetics

by Maxwell Maltz

★★★★★ · 1960

A friend at my gym recommended the book to me. I went through it once; took notes. While on a hike, I started jotting how the book applies to me......

non-fictionself-help
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We Used to Live Here

by Marcus Kliewer

★★★★ · 2024

I think it was some thread on Reddit which got me to check out this book. The classic "young couple moves to an old, eerie house" trope starts well, however...

horror
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Adult children of emotionally immature parents

by Lindsay C. Gibson

★★★★★ · 2015

If somebody asks me one book to read, I answer with this one. I wish I had read it a decade ago. All of us know, or will know emotionally...

self-help
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Altered Carbon. Vol. 1

by Richard K. Morgan

★★★★★ · 2002

I LOVED Altered Carbon. It's a neonoir with a lot going on philisophically. The core underpinning of the world of the book is that humanity has escaped death by loading...

sci-fi
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American Rapture

by C. J. Leede

★★★★ · 2024

A dystopian novel set in a nearfuture America where a virus has turned most of the population into sexcrazed zombies. The story follows a young woman named Sarah as she...

sci-fidystopian
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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

by Neil deGrasse Tyson

★★★★ · 2017

science
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Bag of Bones

by Stephen King

★★★★★ · 1998

horror
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The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

★★★★★ · 1939

I was on this noir / mystery kick which probably began with James Ellroy when I went back to the archetype. Raymond Chandler is one of my favorite authors. His...

mystery
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The Black Dahlia

by James Ellroy

★★★★★ · 1987

mystery
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Bluebird, bluebird

by Attica Locke

★★★★★ · 2017

Bluebird, Bluebird is the first in a series of three. I enjoyed each immensley.

mystery
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BRAIDING SWEETGRASS

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

★★★★★ · 2013

philosophy
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Career of Evil

by J. K. Rowling

★★★★★ · 2015

mysterythriller
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Children of the Mind

by Orson Scott Card

★★★★ · 1996

sci-fi
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Creativity, Inc

by Ed Catmull

★★★★★ · 2014

biography
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The Cuckoo's Calling

by J. K. Rowling

★★★★★ · 2013

mystery
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Cujo

by Stephen King

★★★★★ · 1981

horror
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The Dark Tower (Gunslinger / Drawing of the Three / Waste Lands / Wizard and Glass)

by Stephen King

★★★★★ · 2003

fantasy
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Death by Black Hole

by Neil deGrasse Tyson

★★★★ · 2018

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Desperation

by Stephen King

★★★★★ · 1996

horror
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Doctor Sleep

by Stephen King

★★★★ · 2013

horror
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The Drawing of the Three

by Stephen King

★★★★★ · 1987

fantasy
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Duma Key

by Stephen King

★★★★ · 2008

horror
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Einstein

by Walter Isaacson

★★★★★ · 2007

"the most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this...

biography
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Enchanters

by James Ellroy

★★★★★ · 2023

mysterynoir
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End of Watch

by Stephen King

★★★★★ · 2000

mystery
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Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

★★★★ · 1985

sci-fi
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The Fabric of the Cosmos

by Brian Greene

★★★★★ · 2004

science
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Finders Keepers

by Stephen King

★★★★★ · 2014

mystery
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A Fine Balance

by Rohinton Mistry

★★★★★ · 1995

non-fiction
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The Gunslinger

by Stephen King

★★★★★ · 1976

My favorite book.

fantasy
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The Hallmarked Man

by Robert Galbraith

★★★★★ · 2025

mystery
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The high window

by Raymond Chandler

★★★★★ · 1942

"From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away" As with...

mysterynoir
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Ink Black Heart

by J. K. Rowling

★★★★★ · 2022

I LOVED The Ink Black Heart! Rowling took the mob mentality and anonymity afforded everyone online and made a mystery that kept me hooked throughout. Of course, she still has...

mystery
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It

by Stephen King

★★★★★ · 1986

Like Pet Sematary, It taps into fears we all have shared since childhood : the dark spaces, the nebulus borderland between what is real and what is imagined... It's coming...

horror
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Kitchen Confidential

by Anthony Bourdain

★★★★★ · 2000

I was camping in the backyard with my kids when I woke to the news of Bourdain's death. It was only a few months since my dad died, and I...

non-fiction
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Night Shift

by Stephen King

★★★★★ · 1960

This was my first Stephen King experience. I remember buying this book at a garage sale. It traveled with me to school for days as I peeled through it again...

horror
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On Writing

by Stephen King

★★★★★ · 1999

Part memoir, part howto guide for writers. On Writing is a short, wonderful read. The first half or so is very much about his journey to becoming a fulltime author....

how-to
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Pet Sematary

by Stephen King

★★★★★ · 1983

Of Stephen King's horror novels, this one is probably my favorite. I first read Pet Sematary before I was a dad, and it's eerie environment, the sematary seemingly out of...

horror
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Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

★★★★★ · 2008

SciFi + Fantasy / Adventure + Romance + Coming of Age with 80s Nostalgia and Technology Geekery! LOVED Ready Player One! I haven't watched the movie; sometime, I'll get to...

sci-fidystopian
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Rebecca

by Daphne du Maurier

★★★★★ · 1938

Rebecca is a classic gothic horror. I will confess, what actually got me to read it was it being an inspiration for Captain Janeway's holodeck escapism in "Star Trek :...

horror
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The Shining

by Stephen King

★★★★★ · 1977

There's a reason this is oftconsidered King's best horror. No cinematic adaptation holds a candle to the book.

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Leonardo da Vinci

by Walter Isaacson

★★★★★ · 2017

Spoiler : he dies in the end. That was what I told my friend, Nicole, after I finished the book, I think that was Thanksgiving two falls past. I cried...

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