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Shelves by category
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Fiction
Novels and classics — the long stories.
533 books
📘
Philosophy
First principles — ethics, mind, and meaning.
300 books
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Science
Origins, dreams, motion — thinking made testable.
444 books
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History
Wars, revolutions, and the slow turn of years.
270 books
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Poetry
Verse — short, dense, and meant to be reread.
235 books
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Drama
Plays — Shakespeare, Ibsen, Wilde on the stage.
176 books
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Essays
Walden, Federalist, Mill — argument made personal.
114 books
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Academic
Scholarship — economics, maths, law, mind, and method.
407 books
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Children
The books we read first, that we still re-read.
236 books
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Adventure
Maps, sea-voyages, hidden treasure, escape.
221 books
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Mystery
Detectives, gothic houses, the unaccounted noise.
156 books
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Global Classics
Cervantes, Homer, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy.
89 books
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Hindi
हिंदी साहित्य — Premchand, Prasad, Tulsidas, Kabir and the classics, in Devanagari.
182 books
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Self & Stoic
Quiet, practical wisdom — Stoics + moderns.
21 books
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Sci-Fi
Time-machines, invisible men, Flatland.
178 books
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Memoir
First-person lives, told quietly.
110 books