index card
description: card stock cut to a standard size, used for recording or storing small amounts of data
349 results
A Burglar's Guide to the City
by Geoff Manaugh · 17 Mar 2015 · 238pp · 75,994 words
, Guillauté proposed thoroughly and rigorously updating the Parisian address system. This would require a behemoth piece of machinery that operated a bit like an oversize index-card file—or what Chamayou describes as a “huge archiving machine linked to a map in a central room”—and some arithmetical cartography. “Paris was to
Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction
by Lee Gutkind · 1 Jan 2008 · 123pp · 36,533 words
writers, especially beginners, often consider fact collecting and information gathering to be nothing more than the drudgery that must get done: the piles of handwritten index cards stacked on the card table; the color-coded file folders stuffed with assorted facts; the scraps of random details recorded on the pages of journals
Leaving Orbit: Notes From the Last Days of American Spaceflight
by Margaret Lazarus Dean · 18 May 2015 · 338pp · 112,127 words
. Stops. “Mission complete, Houston.” This is the voice of the commander, Chris Ferguson. He speaks carefully, a little self-consciously, like he’s reading off index cards prepared in advance. His language is slightly off here; usually the commander says “Wheel stop,” not “Mission complete.” “After serving the world for over thirty
Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission
by Eileen M. Collins and Jonathan H. Ward · 13 Sep 2021 · 394pp · 107,778 words
rendezvous pitcharound, engineers discovered two gap fillers protruding between tiles on Discovery’s belly. The gap fillers were about the size and thickness of an index card. Somehow, they had worked loose during launch. They stuck out far enough to create airflow disturbances that might cause an issue during reentry. They had
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande · 2 Jan 2009 · 182pp · 56,961 words
memory of any one person, however expert. The test pilots made their list simple, brief, and to the point—short enough to fit on an index card, with step-by-step checks for takeoff, flight, landing, and taxiing. It had the kind of stuff that all pilots know to do. They check
Chickenhawk
by Robert Mason · 28 Mar 2005 · 504pp · 144,415 words
, and other magazines lay strewn in the dirt around his bedroll. He carefully cut each item with a Swiss army scissors, then flipped through alphabetized index cards to find its proper place. “Are you a writer?” I asked. “Monk, a writer?” Stoopy giggled. His belly and fat cheeks shook. I noticed chocolate
The Passenger: Paris
by AA.VV. · 26 Jun 2021 · 199pp · 62,204 words
promotion to Ligue 2, and he shares the honours with his staff. In his office opposite the gym disorder reigns – desks piled high with computers, index cards, copies of the Le Parisien, a set of scales, a washbasin – and on his wall an Eric Cantona quote that is what it is and
Five Billion Years of Solitude: The Search for Life Among the Stars
by Lee Billings · 2 Oct 2013 · 326pp · 97,089 words
, assembling Legos and scribbling in coloring books. Their babysitter packed her things and bid us goodnight. Seager pulled a sheet of poster board and some index cards from a nearby pile of papers. It was a game she had made with her children; “ALIENOPOLY” was handwritten in block letters across the poster
To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
by Phillip Lopate · 12 Feb 2013 · 207pp · 64,598 words
all about you, but about them too, as though they had somehow become your offspring when you weren’t watching. “Print me, Papa,” beseech those index cards, those notepads, those Post-its. The Lyric Essay Ambivalence being the essayist’s nectar, I am happy to find some immediately in taking up the
Unfamiliar Fishes
by Sarah Vowell · 22 Mar 2011 · 208pp · 64,113 words
return to my freshman goose bumps over Candide. I tracked down Denis Diderot’s mission statement for the encyclopedia and wrote it on a purple index card I tacked up next to my desk as a talisman: “All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone’s
Beggars in Spain
by Nancy Kress · 23 Nov 2004
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
by Vauhini Vara · 8 Apr 2025 · 301pp · 105,209 words
The Message
by Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2 Oct 2024 · 143pp · 49,411 words
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
by Sarah Silverman · 19 Apr 2010 · 184pp · 58,557 words
Do You Mind if I Cancel?: (Things That Still Annoy Me)
by Gary Janetti · 21 Oct 2019 · 109pp · 39,462 words
Design Is a Job
by Mike Monteiro · 5 Mar 2012 · 137pp · 44,363 words
Time Travel: A History
by James Gleick · 26 Sep 2016 · 257pp · 80,100 words
Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History
by Peter Houlahan · 10 Jun 2019
Grand: A Memoir
by Sara Schaefer · 10 Aug 2020 · 190pp · 58,981 words
Tunnel 29
by Helena Merriman · 24 Aug 2021 · 333pp · 101,677 words
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference
by Bregman, Rutger · 9 Mar 2025 · 181pp · 72,663 words
The Warhol Economy
by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett · 15 Jan 2020 · 320pp · 90,115 words
Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence
by Paul Feig · 23 Sep 2002
The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms
by Danielle Laporte · 16 Apr 2012 · 203pp · 58,817 words
The Slow Fix: Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better in a World Addicted to Speed
by Carl Honore · 29 Jan 2013 · 266pp · 87,411 words
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
by Mason Currey · 22 Apr 2013 · 264pp · 68,108 words
I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir
by Josh Kilmer-Purcell · 7 Feb 2006
Wavewalker
by Suzanne Heywood · 12 Apr 2023 · 436pp · 124,451 words
Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.)
by Pete Jordan · 1 May 2007 · 372pp · 96,474 words
Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
by David A. Mindell · 12 Oct 2015 · 265pp · 74,807 words
Sleepwalk With Me: And Other Painfully True Stories
by Mike Birbiglia · 11 Oct 2010 · 162pp · 51,978 words
Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping
by Roger Faligot · 30 Jun 2019 · 615pp · 187,426 words
The Unicorn's Secret
by Steven Levy · 6 Oct 2016
Help for Women With ADHD: My Simple Strategies for Conquering Chaos
by Joan Wilder · 18 May 2016 · 37pp · 10,757 words
Geektastic: Stories From the Nerd Herd
by Holly Black and Cecil Castellucci · 1 Aug 2009 · 390pp · 108,811 words
How to Be Champion: My Autobiography
by Sarah Millican · 16 Apr 2018 · 227pp · 81,467 words
Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
by Frederic Laloux and Ken Wilber · 9 Feb 2014 · 436pp · 141,321 words
Apollo
by Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox · 1 Jan 1989 · 619pp · 197,256 words
The Big Book of Backyard Cooking: 250 Favorite Recipes for Enjoying the Great Outdoors
by Betty Rosbottom · 1 Mar 2004 · 412pp · 86,780 words
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
by Zeynep Tufekci · 14 May 2017 · 444pp · 130,646 words
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson · 6 Sep 2010 · 740pp · 227,963 words
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by John M. Barry · 9 Feb 2004 · 667pp · 186,968 words
Running the Dream: One Summer Living, Training, and Racing With a Team of World-Class Runners Half My Age
by Matt Fitzgerald · 4 May 2020 · 242pp · 73,137 words
Fodor's Essential Belgium
by Fodor's Travel Guides · 23 Aug 2022
The Naked Presenter: Delivering Powerful Presentations With or Without Slides
by Garr Reynolds · 29 Jan 2010
Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding
by Jerome Bubrick · 31 Dec 2010 · 159pp · 49,513 words
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
by Leslie T. Chang · 6 Oct 2008 · 419pp · 125,977 words
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids
by Meghan Daum · 29 Mar 2015 · 214pp · 71,585 words
Kiln People
by David Brin · 15 Jan 2002 · 625pp · 167,097 words
Eternity
by Greg Bear · 2 Jan 1988 · 523pp · 129,580 words
Collider
by Paul Halpern · 3 Aug 2009 · 279pp · 75,527 words
Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees
by Ben Mezrich · 26 Sep 2005 · 303pp · 81,981 words
Bacon: A Love Story: A Salty Survey of Everybody's Favorite Meat
by Heather Lauer · 1 May 2009 · 226pp · 52,069 words
A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner
by Chris Atkins · 6 Feb 2020 · 335pp · 98,847 words
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
by Chris Guillebeau · 7 May 2012 · 248pp · 72,174 words
Ship It!: A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects
by Jared R. Richardson and William A. Gwaltney · 15 Mar 2005 · 203pp · 14,242 words
The Startup Wife
by Tahmima Anam · 2 Jun 2021 · 297pp · 83,528 words
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert · 1 Jan 2000
Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything
by Peter Morville · 14 May 2014 · 165pp · 50,798 words
Know Thyself
by Stephen M Fleming · 27 Apr 2021
The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
by Sonia Shah
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State
by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin · 5 Sep 2011 · 328pp · 100,381 words
How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey Into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
by Richard Cohen · 16 May 2016
Polaroids From the Dead
by Douglas Coupland · 1 Jan 1996
The Good, the Bad and the History
by Jodi Taylor · 21 Jun 2023 · 506pp · 132,373 words
Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality
by Scott Belsky · 31 Mar 2010 · 223pp · 63,484 words
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke and Don Roberts · 9 Mar 2012
The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier
by Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan · 26 Jul 2011
Building Microservices
by Sam Newman · 25 Dec 2014 · 540pp · 103,101 words
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges · 31 Aug 2002 · 218pp · 61,301 words
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls · 15 Mar 2005 · 304pp · 99,699 words
And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft
by Mike Sacks · 8 Jul 2009 · 588pp · 193,087 words
Hatching Twitter
by Nick Bilton · 5 Nov 2013 · 304pp · 93,494 words
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - From America's Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness
by Frank Brady · 1 Feb 2011 · 469pp · 145,094 words
You'll Grow Out of It
by Jessi Klein · 11 Jul 2016 · 219pp · 73,623 words
Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations With Today's Top Comedy Writers
by Mike Sacks · 23 Jun 2014
A Crack in the Edge of the World
by Simon Winchester · 9 Oct 2006 · 482pp · 147,281 words
The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
by Aaron Swartz and Lawrence Lessig · 5 Jan 2016 · 377pp · 110,427 words
Land of Big Numbers: Stories
by Te-Ping Chen · 2 Feb 2021
Look Homeward, Angel
by Thomas Wolfe · 9 Oct 2006 · 747pp · 218,317 words
Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack
by Steve Twomey · 1 Nov 2016 · 419pp · 118,414 words
Happy-Go-Lucky
by David Sedaris · 30 May 2022 · 206pp · 64,212 words
Farewell
by Sergei Kostin and Eric Raynaud · 14 Apr 2011 · 485pp · 148,662 words
The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey
by Gillian Tindall · 14 Sep 2016 · 322pp · 100,632 words
Bill Marriott: Success Is Never Final--His Life and the Decisions That Built a Hotel Empire
by Dale van Atta · 14 Aug 2019 · 520pp · 164,834 words
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
by David Sedaris · 22 Apr 2013
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by Jonathan Haidt · 13 Mar 2012 · 539pp · 139,378 words
The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
by Robin Sharma · 4 Dec 2018 · 325pp · 97,162 words
12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers
by Doug Stanton · 16 Apr 2009 · 530pp · 151,616 words
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2011
by Steve Coll · 23 Feb 2004 · 956pp · 288,981 words
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain · 24 Jan 2012 · 377pp · 115,122 words
The Icon Thief
by Alec Nevala-Lee · 1 Mar 2012 · 342pp · 104,315 words
Dirty Work
by Gabriel Weston · 5 Jun 2013 · 151pp · 54,074 words
Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity
by Currid · 9 Nov 2010 · 332pp · 91,780 words
The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism
by John U. Bacon · 7 Nov 2017 · 476pp · 129,209 words
Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake · 7 Nov 2017 · 346pp · 89,180 words
Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
by Mark Goulston M. D. and Keith Ferrazzi · 31 Aug 2009
The Einstein of Money: The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham
by Joe Carlen · 14 Apr 2012 · 398pp · 111,333 words
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
by Kevlin Henney · 5 Feb 2010 · 292pp · 62,575 words
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 2014 · 477pp · 106,069 words
How Doctors Think
by Jerome Groopman · 15 Jan 2007 · 292pp · 94,324 words
Every Patient Tells a Story
by Lisa Sanders · 15 Jan 2009 · 314pp · 101,034 words
The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today
by Linda Yueh · 15 Mar 2018 · 374pp · 113,126 words
The Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism
by Temple Grandin and Sean Barron · 30 Sep 2012 · 347pp · 123,884 words
Never Panic Early: An Apollo 13 Astronaut's Journey
by Fred Haise and Bill Moore · 4 Apr 2022 · 263pp · 72,899 words
Digging Up Mother: A Love Story
by Doug Stanhope · 9 May 2016 · 323pp · 111,561 words
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot · 2 Feb 2010 · 370pp · 114,741 words
You Are Not So Smart
by David McRaney · 20 Sep 2011 · 270pp · 83,506 words
The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership
by Richard Branson · 8 Sep 2014 · 315pp · 99,065 words
No Such Thing as Society
by Andy McSmith · 19 Nov 2010 · 613pp · 151,140 words
Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin: From Money That We Understand to Money That Understands Us (Perspectives)
by David Birch · 14 Jun 2017 · 275pp · 84,980 words
Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything―Even Things That Seem Impossible Today
by Jane McGonigal · 22 Mar 2022 · 420pp · 135,569 words
You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
by David McRaney · 29 Jul 2013 · 280pp · 90,531 words
Loving Someone With Asperger's Syndrome: Understanding and Connecting With Your Partner
by Cindy Ariel · 1 Mar 2012 · 180pp · 57,694 words
What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems
by Linda Yueh · 4 Jun 2018 · 453pp · 117,893 words
Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias
by Kevin Cook · 30 Jan 2023 · 277pp · 86,352 words
Marriage and Lasting Relationships With Asperger's Syndrome: Successful Strategies for Couples or Counselors
by Eva A. Mendes · 1 Sep 2015 · 291pp · 75,110 words
Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris · 4 Jun 2001 · 221pp · 67,514 words
Network Security Through Data Analysis: Building Situational Awareness
by Michael S Collins · 23 Feb 2014 · 446pp · 102,421 words
To Pixar and Beyond
by Lawrence Levy
NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman · 2 Sep 2008 · 358pp · 95,115 words
Shoe Dog
by Phil Knight · 25 Apr 2016 · 399pp · 122,688 words
Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)
by David Sedaris · 29 May 2017 · 496pp · 137,645 words
The Last Best Cure: My Quest to Awaken the Healing Parts of My Brain and Get Back My Body, My Joy, a Nd My Life
by Donna Jackson Nakazawa · 21 Feb 2013
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by Mindy Kaling · 1 Nov 2011
The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
by Henry Schlesinger · 16 Mar 2010 · 336pp · 92,056 words
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
by Christopher Hitchens · 14 Jun 2007 · 740pp · 236,681 words
Uncharted: How to Map the Future
by Margaret Heffernan · 20 Feb 2020 · 335pp · 97,468 words
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
by Jason Schreier · 4 Sep 2017 · 297pp · 90,806 words
My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
by Ottessa Moshfegh · 9 Jul 2018 · 217pp · 69,892 words
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman
by Richard P. Feynman and Jeffrey Robbins · 1 Jan 1999 · 261pp · 86,261 words
The Pragmatic Programmer
by Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas · 19 Oct 1999 · 509pp · 92,141 words
Hard Landing
by Thomas Petzinger and Thomas Petzinger Jr. · 1 Jan 1995 · 726pp · 210,048 words
Spooked: The Trump Dossier, Black Cube, and the Rise of Private Spies
by Barry Meier · 17 May 2021 · 319pp · 89,192 words
The Trade of Queens
by Charles Stross · 16 Mar 2010 · 348pp · 98,757 words
The autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X; Alex Haley · 15 Aug 1999 · 508pp · 192,524 words
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
by Susan Orlean · 1 Jan 1998
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
by Michael J. Collins · 1 Feb 2005 · 328pp · 93,937 words
The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen · 5 Jan 2015 · 361pp · 81,068 words
The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet
by Justin Peters · 11 Feb 2013 · 397pp · 102,910 words
House of God
by Samuel Shem · 1 Jan 1978 · 436pp · 131,430 words
Babel-17
by Samuel R. Delany · 6 Jan 2014 · 231pp · 61,172 words
Kissinger: A Biography
by Walter Isaacson · 26 Sep 2005 · 1,330pp · 372,940 words
Stasiland: Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall
by Anna Funder · 19 Sep 2011
Why Buddhism is True
by Robert Wright
Time Travelers Never Die
by Jack McDevitt · 10 Sep 2009 · 460pp · 108,654 words
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
by Liaquat Ahamed · 22 Jan 2009 · 708pp · 196,859 words
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by Steve Silberman · 24 Aug 2015 · 786pp · 195,810 words
The Lights in the Tunnel
by Martin Ford · 28 May 2011 · 261pp · 10,785 words
Commodore: A Company on the Edge
by Brian Bagnall · 13 Sep 2005 · 781pp · 226,928 words
Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
by Robert M. Pirsig · 1 Jan 1991 · 497pp · 146,551 words
How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)
by Benjamin Peters · 2 Jun 2016 · 518pp · 107,836 words
Fatherland
by Robert Harris · 5 Jun 1993 · 381pp · 102,966 words
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Peter Petre · 30 Sep 2012 · 900pp · 241,741 words
Solitary
by Albert Woodfox · 12 Mar 2019 · 484pp · 155,401 words
Together
by Vivek H. Murthy, M.D. · 5 Mar 2020 · 405pp · 112,470 words
Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Searching for an American Utopia
by Adrian Shirk · 15 Mar 2022 · 358pp · 118,810 words
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
by Cal Newport · 5 Mar 2024 · 233pp · 65,893 words
The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990
by Jonathan Mahler · 11 Aug 2025 · 559pp · 164,804 words
There's Got to Be a Better Way
by Nelson P. Repenning and Donald C. Kieffer · 26 Aug 2025 · 258pp · 85,605 words
Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools
by Steven Brill · 15 Aug 2011 · 559pp · 161,035 words
Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
by Michael Shnayerson · 20 May 2019 · 552pp · 163,292 words
Hey Nostradamus!
by Douglas Coupland · 1 Jan 2003 · 232pp · 66,229 words
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin · 18 Dec 2007 · 1,041pp · 317,136 words
Bit Rot
by Douglas Coupland · 4 Oct 2016
Waiting for Superman: How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools
by Participant Media and Karl Weber · 14 Jun 2010 · 257pp · 68,143 words
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen · 31 Dec 2002 · 300pp · 79,315 words
Generation A
by Douglas Coupland · 2 Jan 2009 · 312pp · 78,053 words
Thinking in Numbers
by Daniel Tammet · 15 Aug 2012 · 212pp · 68,754 words
Chief Engineer
by Erica Wagner · 513pp · 154,427 words
A Man on the Moon
by Andrew Chaikin · 1 Jan 1994 · 816pp · 242,405 words
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton · 19 Sep 2016 · 1,048pp · 187,324 words
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
by Shane Snow · 8 Sep 2014 · 278pp · 70,416 words
The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals
by Michael Pollan · 15 Dec 2006 · 467pp · 503 words
The New Division of Labor: How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market
by Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane · 11 Apr 2004 · 187pp · 55,801 words
Small Space Organizing: A Room by Room Guide to Maximizing Your Space
by Kathryn Bechen · 1 Jan 2012
Checkpoint Charlie
by Iain MacGregor · 5 Nov 2019 · 401pp · 119,043 words
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert · 11 Feb 2014 · 308pp · 94,447 words
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
by Gregory Zuckerman · 5 Nov 2019 · 407pp · 104,622 words
Fortune's Bazaar: the Making of Hong Kong: The Making of Hong Kong
by Vaudine England · 16 May 2023 · 308pp · 122,100 words
We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy
by Caseen Gaines · 22 Jun 2015 · 277pp · 89,004 words
Discardia: More Life, Less Stuff
by Dinah Sanders · 7 Oct 2011 · 267pp · 78,857 words
Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World
by Nicholas Schou · 16 Mar 2010 · 259pp · 87,875 words
The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future
by Levi Tillemann · 20 Jan 2015 · 431pp · 107,868 words
The Startup Way: Making Entrepreneurship a Fundamental Discipline of Every Enterprise
by Eric Ries · 15 Mar 2017 · 406pp · 105,602 words
Writing Effective Use Cases
by Alistair Cockburn · 30 Sep 2000
This Is Only a Test: How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War
by David F. Krugler · 2 Jan 2006 · 423pp · 115,336 words
Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life
by David Allen · 30 Dec 2008
The Connected Company
by Dave Gray and Thomas Vander Wal · 2 Dec 2014 · 372pp · 89,876 words
The Sum of All Fears
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1989
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS
by Abraham Verghese · 1 Jan 1994 · 519pp · 169,973 words
In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation
by William J. Cook · 1 Jan 2011 · 245pp · 12,162 words
First Time Ever: A Memoir
by Peggy Seeger · 2 Oct 2017
Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution
by Beth Gardiner · 18 Apr 2019 · 353pp · 106,704 words
Politics on the Edge: The Instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller From the Host of Hit Podcast the Rest Is Politics
by Rory Stewart · 13 Sep 2023 · 534pp · 157,700 words
Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
by Amy B. Zegart · 6 Nov 2021
The Crux
by Richard Rumelt · 27 Apr 2022 · 363pp · 109,834 words
Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process
by Kenneth S. Rubin · 19 Jul 2012 · 584pp · 149,387 words
Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco · 15 Dec 1990 · 948pp · 214,109 words
Beautiful Visualization
by Julie Steele · 20 Apr 2010
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman · 17 Jul 2017 · 415pp · 114,840 words
User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development
by Mike Cohn · 1 Mar 2004 · 270pp · 75,626 words
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
by Nicole Perlroth · 9 Feb 2021 · 651pp · 186,130 words
Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future
by John Brockman · 18 Jan 2011 · 379pp · 109,612 words
GCHQ
by Richard Aldrich · 10 Jun 2010 · 826pp · 231,966 words
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom
by Simon Winchester · 1 Jan 2008 · 385pp · 105,627 words
Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy
by Eric O'Neill · 1 Mar 2019 · 299pp · 88,375 words
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
by Kevin Poulsen · 22 Feb 2011 · 264pp · 79,589 words
Testing Extreme Programming
by Lisa Crispin and Tip House · 15 Apr 2003 · 448pp · 84,462 words
Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
by Michael Benson · 2 Apr 2018 · 614pp · 174,633 words
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by Bill Browder · 3 Feb 2015 · 460pp · 130,053 words
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
by Matthew B. Crawford · 29 Mar 2015 · 351pp · 100,791 words
The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
by Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro · 11 Sep 2017 · 850pp · 224,533 words
Principles of Web API Design: Delivering Value with APIs and Microservices
by James Higginbotham · 20 Dec 2021 · 283pp · 78,705 words
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
by Andy Greenberg · 15 Nov 2022 · 494pp · 121,217 words
Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)
by Rachel Slade · 9 Jan 2024 · 392pp · 106,044 words
In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence
by George Zarkadakis · 7 Mar 2016 · 405pp · 117,219 words
Among Schoolchildren
by Tracy Kidder · 14 Jun 1989 · 327pp · 102,361 words
Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive ScrabblePlayers
by Stefan Fatsis · 27 Jul 2001 · 385pp · 25,673 words
Wiseguy: The 25th Anniversary Edition
by Nicholas Pileggi · 290pp · 94,859 words
Agile Project Management With Kanban
by Eric Brechner · 25 Feb 2015
Buffett
by Roger Lowenstein · 24 Jul 2013 · 612pp · 179,328 words
Bleeding Edge: A Novel
by Thomas Pynchon · 16 Sep 2013 · 532pp · 141,574 words
Joel on Software
by Joel Spolsky · 1 Aug 2004 · 370pp · 105,085 words
The Blue Cascade: A Memoir of Life After War
by Mike Scotti · 14 May 2012 · 287pp · 92,118 words
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
by Charles Duhigg · 1 Jan 2011 · 455pp · 116,578 words
Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
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