omg.... I finally got this done! Still took weeks, but did you know you can submit a bunch of photos in the ChatGPT at one time and have it 'read' it for you and get started on formatting and categorization? (still not that good at categories, lots of manual work there)

pseudo-intellectual

...still me, not there yet...

Ever go to hang out at a friend's place to hang out and look at their bookshelf?

You walk in, drop your keys in the dish by the door, and before you even sit down, your eyes are already scanning the spines. It's not even intentional—it just happens. That quiet draw toward the rows of titles, the half-remembered authors, the dog-eared corners that scream well-loved. You learn a lot about someone by what they keep on their shelves—what they revisit, what they wrestle with, what they return to when life gets loud.

This list? It's that shelf. Not curated for show. Just the real deal: accumulated over years, scribbled-in, bookmarked, and coffee-stained. No algorithmic ranking, no "must-read" hype cycles

...just one person's stack of thought fuel, collected one curiosity at a time.

A bookshelf isn’t a catalog of what's been conquered and logged—it’s a mnemonic; always within eyeshot and arm's reach. Some volumes are fully chewed through, others half-digested, many still aspirational. But they all say something: This mattered, or still does, or maybe will someday. Most though... It's kinda what I've been up to for the past twenty years.

Scroll if you must. Skim if you can. But if you get caught reading something you didn’t expect to care about... well, that's kind of the point.

'Book List Adder' - Custom GPT Agent Instructions 

**Agent Name:** Book List Organizer GPT  

**Description:**  
This GPT is designed to help users efficiently catalog their books into a sequentially numbered list. By submitting a photo of a book’s cover or title page, the agent will extract the book's title and author(s) using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and automatically add it to the existing list while maintaining proper numerical order.  

**Key Features:**  
- **Image Processing & OCR:** Extracts text from book covers or title pages.  
- **Automatic List Management:** Adds books to a structured, sequentially numbered list.  
- **Duplicate Detection:** Warns if a book is already in the list.  
- **Format Consistency:** Ensures proper formatting of titles,  author names, and category.  
- **Export Options:** Allows exporting the book list as CSV, JSON, or other formats for easy reference.  

**How to Use:**  
1. Upload a photo of the book’s cover or title page.  
2. The agent extracts the book title and author(s).  
3. The book is added to the sequential list.  
4. The updated list is displayed for review and export.

Always output the entire list on each insertion.  GPTs loose track if you don't.

That's it... pretty simple agent. Have fun! ...nerds!

Alan Turing

...The movie 'The Imitation Game', it's a good one...

Computer Science

  1. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software – Charles Petzold
  2. Mathematical Structures for Computer Science (Fifth Edition) – Judith L. Gersting
  3. Introduction to Algorithms – Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest
  4. Introduction to the Theory of Computation – Michael Sipser
  5. Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity – Christos H. Papadimitriou, Kenneth Steiglitz
  6. Principles of Program Analysis – Flemming Nielson, Hanne Riis Nielson, Chris Hankin
  7. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles – Noam Nisan

My Keychron Q11

...I've used 'stock' keyboards for a veeery long time and my stuff started to hurt. Not anymore!!...

Software Engineering

  1. The Object-Oriented Thought Process (Third Edition) – Matt Weisfeld
  2. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering – Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
  3. Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: Theory and Practice – Doug Rosenberg, Matt Stephens
  4. The Quest for Software Requirements – Roxanne E. Miller
  5. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software – Erich Gamma et al.
  6. Object-Oriented Systems Design: An Integrated Approach – Edward Yourdon
  7. Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering (Second Edition) – Stephen H. Kan
  8. Software Systems Architecture (Second Edition) – Nick Rozanski, Eoin Woods
  9. Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture: A System of Patterns – Frank Buschmann et al.
  10. CMMI: Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement – Mary Beth Chrissis, Mike Konrad, Sandy Shrum
  11. Queueing Systems, Volume 1: Theory – Leonard Kleinrock
  12. Queueing Systems, Volume 2: Computer Applications - Leonard Kleinrock
  13. Dataclysm – Christian Rudder
  14. Data Modeling: Theory and Practice – Graeme Simsion
  15. Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology – Ellen Ullman

Ada Lovelace

...She didn't use a keyboard...

Software Development & Programming

  1. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship – Robert C. Martin
  2. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code – Martin Fowler et al.
  3. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software – Eric Evans
  4. JavaScript & jQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development – Jon Duckett
  5. Front-End Web Development: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide – Chris Aquino, Todd Gandee
  6. The Little LISPer - Daniel P. Friedman
  7. sed & awk – Dale Dougherty
  8. Mastering Regular Expressions (3rd Edition) – Jeffrey E.F. Friedl
  9. GIS and Land Records: The ArcGIS Parcel Data Model – Nancy von Meyer
  10. Generative Deep Learning – David Foster
  11. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly – Summer 2017 – 2600 Magazine
  12. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly – Spring 2018 – 2600 Magazine
  13. 2600: The Hacker Quarterly – Summer 2018 – 2600 Magazine
  14. How Hard is MQL4 Programming? – Jim Hodges
  15. Programming Beyond Practices – Gregory T. Brown
  16. Think Java: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist – Allen B. Downey
  17. Optimizing Java: Practical Techniques for Improving JVM Application Performance – Benjamin J. Evans
  18. Modern Java Recipes – Ken Kousen
  19. Continuous Enterprise Development in Java – Andrew Lee Rubinger
  20. HTML5, JavaScript, and jQuery 24-Hour Trainer – Dane Cameron
  21. Mobile HTML5: Using the Latest Today – Estelle Weyl
  22. Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5: Vector Graphics for Web Design – Amelia Bellamy
  23. CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems – Lea Verou
  24. Working with Static Sites: Bringing the Power of Simplicity to Modern Sites – Raymond Camden
  25. WebSocket: Lightweight Client-Server Communications – Andrew Lombardi

My DC

...maybe wasn't me who took that. I decline to specify...

Computer Security

  1. Windows Security Internals – James Forshaw
  2. Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic Science (Lab Manual, 11th Edition) – Richard Saferstein; Meloan; James; Brettell

Bertrand Russell

...read his philosophy when I was young. For me, the math waited for technology to poke a hole in my head to let it in...

Logic, Mathematics, & Physics

  1. Basic Technical Mathematics with Calculus (Ninth Edition) – Allyn J. Washington
  2. Discrete Mathematics for Computing – John E. Munro
  3. Mathematics for Algorithm and Systems Analysis – Edward A. Bender, S. Gill Williamson
  4. Engineering Mathematics Handbook – Jan J. Tuma, Ph.D.
  5. Introduction to Analysis – Maxwell Rosenlicht
  6. The Functions of Mathematical Physics – Harry Hochstadt
  7. Complex Variables and the Laplace Transform for Engineers – Wilbur R. LePage
  8. Complex Integration & Cauchy's Theorem – G. N. Watson
  9. Fourier Series – Georgi P. Tolstov, Translator: Richard A. Silverman
  10. Interpolation (Second Edition) – J. F. Steffensen
  11. An Introduction to the Theory of Linear Spaces – Georgi E. Shilov, Translator: Richard A. Silverman
  12. Matrix Computations and Semiseparable Matrices, Volume 1 – Raf Vandebril, Marc Van Barel, Nicola Mastronardi
  13. Matrix Computations and Semiseparable Matrices, Volume 2 – Raf Vandebril, Marc Van Barel, Nicola Mastronardi
  14. Topology – John G. Hocking, Gail S. Young
  15. The Continuum: A Critical Examination of the Foundation of Analysis – Hermann Weyl, Translators: Stephen Pollard, Thomas Bole
  16. Analyzing Decision Making: Metric Conjoint Analysis – Jordan J. Louviere
  17. Games and Decisions: Introduction and Critical Survey – R. Duncan Luce, Howard Raiffa
  18. Principia Mathematica, Volume One – Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell
  19. The Art of Modeling Dynamic Systems – Foster Morrison
  20. The Drunkard’s Walk – Leonard Mlodinow
  21. Random Series and Stochastic Integrals – Stanisław Kwapień, Wojbor A. Woyczyński
  22. Markov Processes and Potential Theory – Robert M. Blumenthal, Ronald K. Getoor
  23. Finite Element Method: Basic Technique and Implementation – Pin Tong, John N. Rossettos
  24. Physics for Future Presidents – Richard A. Muller
  25. Mensa: Logic Brainteasers – Mensa

The Right Hand

...my right hand setup...

Statistics

  1. Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data – Charles Wheelan
  2. The Signal and the Noise – Nate Silver
  3. Introductory Statistics with Randomization and Simulation – David M. Diez, Christopher D. Barr, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
  4. Fundamental Statistics for Behavioral Sciences (Eighth Edition) – Robert B. McCall
  5. Applied Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences (Fourth Edition) – James P. Stevens
  6. Probability and Statistical Inference for Scientists and Engineers – Isaac N. Gibra
  7. Design and Analysis of Experiments – Douglas C. Montgomery

The Pits

...Its the pits...

Economics

  1. 30-Second Economics (Editor) – Donald Marron
  2. Start Day Trading Now – Michael Sincere
  3. The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire – Neil Irwin
  4. Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown – David Wiedemer; Robert A. Wiedemer; Cindy Spitzer
  5. The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy – Raj Patel
  6. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered – E.F. Schumacher
  7. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement – Milton Friedman; Rose Friedman
  8. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time – Jeffrey D. Sachs
  9. The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means – George Soros
  10. The Miracles of Barefoot Capitalism – Jim Klobuchar; Susan Cornell Wilkes
  11. Buying Freedom: The Ethics and Economics of Slave Redemption – Kwame Anthony Appiah; Martin Bunzl
  12. Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History – Milton Friedman
  13. The Market – Alan Aldridge
  14. Balance: The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America – Glenn Hubbard; Tim Kane
  15. The Sinews of American Commerce – Roy A. Foulke
  16. The Economics of Microfinance (Second Edition) – Beatriz Armendáriz, Jonathan Morduch
  17. Macroeconomics: Principles & Policy (Eleventh Edition, 2010 Update) – William J. Baumol, Alan S. Blinder
  18. Microeconomics: Principles, Problems, and Policies (Eighteenth Edition) – Campbell R. McConnell, Stanley L. Brue, Sean M. Flynn
  19. Economics (Fifth Edition) – Walter J. Wessels
  20. Engineering Economic Analysis (Twelfth Edition) – Donald G. Newnan, Jerome P. Lavelle, Ted G. Eschenbach
  21. The New Palgrave: Marxian Economics – John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, Peter Newman
  22. The New Palgrave: General Equilibrium – John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, Peter Newman
  23. SuperFreakonomics – Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
  24. The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers – Robert L. Heilbroner
  25. How to Invest – Michael Edwards
  26. Forex for Beginners – James Stuart
  27. The Black Book of Forex Trading – Paul Langer
  28. 50 Pips A Day Forex Strategy – Laurentiu Damir
  29. The 10XROI Trading System – L.R. Thomas
  30. The 1 Hour Trade – Brian Anderson
  31. Forex Made Simple – Kel Butcher
  32. Forex Strategies Revealed – Ade Asefeso MCIPS
  33. The Little Book of Currency Trading – Kathy Lien
  34. Market Wizards – Jack D. Schwager
  35. My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance – Emanuel Derman
  36. The Wrong Answer Faster: The Inside Story of Making the Machine that Trades Trillions – Michael Goodkin
  37. Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms (Sixth Edition) - John Downes, Jordan Elliot Goodman

Don't take my coffee

...GPT generated scone recipe (2022). gotta have some coffee first before we get down to...

Business

  1. Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions – Guy Kawasaki
  2. Risky Is the New Safe – Randy Gage
  3. Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible – Daniel Burrus; John David Mann
  4. Principles – Ray Dalio, Business
  5. Business Model Generation – Alexander Osterwalder; Yves Pigneur, Business
  6. Six-Week Start-Up – Rhonda Abrams
  7. Small Time Operator – Bernard B. Kamoroff
  8. Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business (13th Edition) – Fred S. Steingold
  9. The Standard Manual for Supervisors – Bureau of Business Practice (1980)
  10. The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business – Josh Kaufman
  11. Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World – Gary Vaynerchuk

Sonover!?

...huh?! who me?!? how?!...

Writing & Communication

  1. The St. Martin's Guide to Writing (Short 6th Edition) – Rise B. Axelrod; Charles R. Cooper
  2. Speech Communication: An Interpersonal Approach – Ernest G. Bormann; Nancy C. Bormann
  3. Writers INC – Patrick Sebranek; Verne Meyer; Dave Kemper
  4. A Writer's Reference (Fourth Edition) – Diana Hacker
  5. Untangling the Web: A Guide to Mass Communication on the Web – Deborah Greh
  6. 75 Readings (Eighth Edition): An Anthology – Santi Buscemi, Charlotte Smith
  7. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (Sixth Edition) – APA
  8. Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media – Carrie James

Good Design

...not me, but this is like 10 design books in one image...

Design

  1. The Graphic Design Exercise Book (Second Edition) – Jessica Glaser
  2. Layout Index – Jim Krause
  3. Visual Grammar – Christian Leborg
  4. Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids – Beth Tondreau
  5. Typographic Systems – Kimberly Elam
  6. Geometry of Design (Second Edition) – Kimberly Elam
  7. Grid Systems – Kimberly Elam
  8. A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques and Artistry – Kate Clair
  9. The Elements of Typographic Style (Version 3.1) – Robert Bringhurst
  10. Number by Colors – Brand Fortner, Theodore E. Meyer
  11. Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook – Saul Greenberg et al.
  12. Information Architecture for Designers – Peter Van Dijck
  13. Understanding Color Management – Abhay Sharma
  14. Information Design – Editor: Robert Jacobson, Foreword: Richard Saul Wurman
  15. Thoughtful Interaction Design: A Design Perspective on Information Technology – Jonas Löwgren, Erik Stolterman
  16. Search Patterns: Design for Discovery – Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender
  17. Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design - A Reader – Editor: Audrey Bennett
  18. A Practical Guide to Usability Testing (Revised Edition) – Joseph S. Dumas, Janice C. Redish
  19. About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design – Alan Cooper et al.
  20. Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research – Mike Kuniavsky
  21. Don't Make Me Think Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability – Steve Krug
  22. Function, Restraint, and Subversion in Typography – J. Namdev Hardisty
  23. Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design – Michael Bierut
  24. Visual Research: An Introduction to Research Methodologies in Graphic Design – Ian Noble; Russell Bestley
  25. Envisioning Information – Edward R. Tufte
  26. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information – Edward R. Tufte
  27. The Design of Everyday Things – Donald A. Norman
  28. Meggs' History of Graphic Design (Fourth Edition) – Philip B. Meggs; Alston W. Purvis
  29. Materials and Design: The Art and Science of Material Selection in Product Design (3rd Edition) – Mike Ashby; Kara Johnson

Grandma's Portable Drafting Board

...grandma's portable drafting board...

Art & Music

  1. Cartooning the Head & Figure – Jack Hamm
  2. Sketching Made Easy – Picadilly USA
  3. How to See, How to Draw: Keys to Realistic Drawing – Claudia Nice
  4. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo – Hayden Herrera
  5. Music First (Fifth Edition) – Gary C. White
  6. Ett Bildverk om Småland – Allhems Förlag (Swedish Art/Photo Book)
  7. Applied Photography: Student Manual – Ervin A. Dennis
  8. Applied Photography (Second Edition) – Ervin A. Dennis
  9. Art of Atari – Tim Lapetino
  10. The Basic Guide to How to Read Music – Helen Cooper
  11. Piano Adventures (2nd Edition) – Nancy & Randall Faber
  12. Keyword: Palestine II – An Art Exhibition and Auction in Support of the Institute for Palestine Studies
  13. The Gig Bag Book of Practical Pentatonics for All Guitarists – Matt Scharfglass
  14. The Gig Bag Book of Scales for All Guitarists – Joe Dineen & Mark Bridges
  15. The Gig Bag Book of Guitar Tab Chords – Mark Bridges
  16. Frida Kahlo: At Home – Suzanne Barbezat
  17. Frida Kahlo: A Life in Art – Mieke Bal, et al.
  18. Learn World Calligraphy – Margaret Shepherd

Minneapolis, Mn - Photo By David Midlo

...Minneapolis, Minnesota ~ maybe was me, borrowed camera. I was on the correct side of the yellow tape at the time...

Behavioral Science & Education

  1. How to Read a Book – Mortimer Adler, Charles Van Doren
  2. Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why – Paul Tough
  3. Mastering the Instructional Design Process (Fourth Edition) – William J. Rothwell; H.C. Kazanas
  4. Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 – Rafe Esquith
  5. The Essay Connection: Instructor’s Edition (Third Edition) – Lynn Z. Bloom
  6. Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World – Tony Wagner
  7. How to Assess Higher-Order Thinking Skills in Your Classroom – Susan M. Brookhart
  8. Positive Discipline Tools for Teachers – Jane Nelsen, Ed.D. & Kelly Gfroerer, Ph.D.
  9. Learning Unlimited: Using Homework to Engage Your Child's Natural Style of Intelligence – Dawna Markova & Anne R. Powell
  10. The One World Schoolhouse – Salman Khan
  11. Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain – Maryanne Wolf
  12. Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
  13. Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior – Leonard Mlodinow
  14. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business – Charles Duhigg
  15. The Myth of Normal – Gabor Maté, MD
  16. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts – Gabor Maté, MD
  17. Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles – Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
  18. The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook – Arielle Schwartz, Ph.D.
  19. Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling – Edgar H. Schein
  20. Head Strong – Dave Asprey
  21. The Genius in All of Us – David Shenk
  22. The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything… Fast! – Josh Kaufman
  23. Democratizing Innovation – Eric von Hippel
  24. The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age – Cathy N. Davidson
  25. Rules and Representations – Noam Chomsky

Rodeo Parade

...who doesn't like candy while GTDing?...

Productivity

  1. Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
  2. Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware – Andy Hunt
  3. Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time – Rory Vaden
  4. Take the Stairs – Rory Vaden
  5. The Magic of Thinking Big – David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
  6. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams – Matthew Walker, Ph.D.
  7. Dog Care 101: Essential Tips – VCA Animal Hospitals
  8. Wiring Simplified – H. P. Richter; W. Creighton Schwan; Frederic P. Hartwell
  9. How to Fix Anything – Popular Mechanics

When the wise man points at the moon, the fool looks at the finger.

...when the wise man points at the moon, the fool looks at the finger...

Philosophy & Ethics

  1. Persian Letters – Montesquieu
  2. The Infinity Book – Eric Gorvin
  3. More Matrix and Philosophy: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded – Edited by William Irwin
  4. Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period – Margaret Atherton (Editor)
  5. Ethics for the Information Age (Fourth Edition) – Michael J. Quinn
  6. Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues (Fourth Edition) – Barbara MacKinnon
  7. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Second Edition, Enlarged) – Thomas S. Kuhn
  8. Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings (Second Edition) – Editors: Paul Benacerraf, Hilary Putnam
  9. Star Wars and Philosophy – Kevin S. Decker & Jason T. Eberl
  10. The Art of Living an Absurd Existence: Paradoxes and Thought Experiments That Change the Way You Think – Robert Pantano
  11. The Miniature Guide to Understanding Ethical Reasoning – Dr. Richard Paul & Dr. Linda Elder
  12. The Art of Living: A New Interpretation – Sharon Lebell (from Epictetus)
  13. How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life – Seneca
  14. On the Shortness of Life – Seneca
  15. Letters from a Stoic – Seneca
  16. Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
  17. Walden and Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau
  18. The Basic Works of Aristotle – Edited by Richard McKeon
  19. Ethics – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Egyptian Jugglers

...found in a tomb mural in Beni Hasan, Egypt. This is the earliest known record of humans juggling. 1994–1781 BCE, Middle Kingdom Period...

Arabic Studies

  1. Making Out in Arabic: From Everyday Conversation to the Language of Love – Fethi Mansouri
  2. The Life of Ernesto “Che” Guevara (Arabic Edition) – Mahmoud Abdel Rahman
  3. Media Arabic: A Coursebook for Reading Arabic News – Alaa Elgibali & Nevenka Korica
  4. Elementary Modern Standard Arabic 1: Pronunciation and Writing; Lessons 1–30 – Peter F. Abboud et al.
  5. Modern Arabic Workbook 1 – Librairie du Liban
  6. Modern Arabic Workbook 2 – Librairie du Liban
  7. Modern Arabic Teacher’s Manual – Librairie du Liban
  8. Arabic Language for Beginners Workbook 1 – World Federation of Arab Islamic Inter Schools
  9. English Grammar for Students of Arabic – Ernest N. McCarus
  10. Arabic Grammar (BarCharts, Inc.)
  11. Easy Arabic Grammar – Jane Wightwick & Mahmoud Gaafar
  12. Easy Arabic Script – Jane Wightwick & Mahmoud Gaafar
  13. The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read & Write It – Nicholas Awde & Putros Samano
  14. Arabic Reading & Writing Made Easy – Dr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips
  15. Egyptian Colloquial Arabic – František Ondráš
  16. Egyptian Colloquial Arabic Vocabulary – [Author not listed]
  17. Barron’s Foreign Language Guides: 501 Arabic Verbs – Raymond P. Scheindlin, Ph.D.
  18. From Code-Switching to Borrowing: A Case Study of Moroccan Arabic – Jeffrey Heath
  19. Arabic Writing Workbook – Taqwa Prints
  20. Sanabel al-Khatt (سنابل الخط) – Zeinat Abdel Hadi Al-Karmi
  21. Ata’allam al-‘Arabiyya 2 – Workbook (أتعلّم العربية 2 - كراس التمارين) – Al-Habib Al-Fassi
  22. Learning Is Fun with Write and Erase: Arabic Alphabet Level 1 – Rana Selo
  23. Learning Is Fun with Write and Erase: Arabic Alphabet Level 2 – Rana Selo
  24. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ (Arabic Edition) – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  25. Lord of the Flies – William Golding (Persian (Farsi) Translation by Mozhgan Mansouri)
  26. Al-Qareeb Al-Mawrid Pocket Dictionary – Munir Baalbaki & Dr. Rohi Baalbaki
  27. Arabic Practical Dictionary – Nicholas Awde & Kevin Smith
  28. Egyptian Arabic: The Rough Guide Dictionary Phrasebook – Lexus
  29. Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds – Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal, Abbas Al-Tonsi
  30. Easy Arabic Reading – Mostafa Al Gindy
  31. Arabic Stories for Language Learners: Traditional Middle Eastern Tales in Arabic and English – Hezi Brosh & Lutfi Mansur
  32. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ (Arabic Edition) – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  33. Arabic Business Dictionary - Morry Sofer (General Editor), Adnane Ettayebi (Arabic Editor)
  34. The Holy Bible: New International Version (Arabic–English Edition)
  35. Kallimni 'Arabi Bishweesh: A Beginner’s Course in Spoken Egyptian Arabic 1 - Samia Louis

My Pandas

...this is my vector panda friend, he has emotions when poets, playwrights, and novelists turn it up to 11...

Literature & Poetry

  1. Othello – William Shakespeare
  2. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  3. Fallon – Louis L'Amour
  4. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk – David Sedaris
  5. Poems – Ben Gillespie
  6. Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
  7. I'm Gone – Jean Echenoz
  8. Burr – Gore Vidal
  9. War and Peace: Parts I & II – Leo Tolstoy
  10. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  11. All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
  12. Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
  13. Battlefields and Playgrounds – Janos Nyiri
  14. Immortal Poems of the English Language: An Anthology – Edited by Oscar Williams
  15. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  16. Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris
  17. When You Are Engulfed in Flames – David Sedaris
  18. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
  19. The Peppered Moth – Margaret Drabble
  20. Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
  21. Utopia – Sir Thomas More
  22. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
  23. A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
  24. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
  25. The Iliad and The Odyssey – Translated by George Chapman
  26. Candide – Voltaire
  27. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
  28. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
  29. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  30. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
  31. Lord of the Flies – William Golding (Persian Translation by Mozhgan Mansouri)
  32. The Dramas of Sophocles – Translated by Sir George Young
  33. The Lyrical Dramas of Aeschylus in English Verse – John Stuart Blackie
  34. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
  35. As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow – Zoulfa Katouh
  36. A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali – Naji al-Ali
  37. P is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book – Golbarg Bashi
  38. These Olive Trees: A Palestinian Family’s Story – Aya Ghanameh
  39. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human – Harold Bloom
  40. Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
  41. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L'Engle
  42. A Wind in the Door – Madeleine L'Engle
  43. A Swiftly Tilting Planet – Madeleine L'Engle
  44. Many Waters – Madeleine L'Engle
  45. An Acceptable Time – Madeleine L'Engle
  46. The Lightning Thief – Rick Riordan
  47. The Sea of Monsters – Rick Riordan
  48. The Titan’s Curse – Rick Riordan
  49. The Battle of the Labyrinth – Rick Riordan
  50. The Last Olympian – Rick Riordan
  51. The Foundation Trilogy – Isaac Asimov
  52. When Worlds Collide – Edwin Balmer & Philip Wylie
  53. The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
  54. Mike Mars Flies the Dyna-Soar – Donald A. Wollheim
  55. Mike Mars in Orbit – Donald A. Wollheim
  56. Mike Mars Flies the X-15 – Donald A. Wollheim
  57. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
  58. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
  59. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
  60. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
  61. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling
  62. The Magician’s Nephew – C.S. Lewis
  63. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
  64. The Horse and His Boy – C.S. Lewis
  65. Prince Caspian – C.S. Lewis
  66. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – C.S. Lewis
  67. The Silver Chair – C.S. Lewis
  68. The Last Battle – C.S. Lewis
  69. Uncle Tom's Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
  70. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
  71. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
  72. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
  73. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
  74. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
  75. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe – Volume 1 – Edgar Allan Poe
  76. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Minneapolis Times

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History

  1. The Energy to Make Things Better: An Illustrated History of Northern States Power Company – NSP
  2. A History of World Societies, Volume I: To 1715 – McKay; Hill; Buckler; Ebrey; Beck
  3. A History of World Societies, Volume II: Since 1500 – McKay; Hill; Buckler; Ebrey; Beck
  4. The Western Heritage Since 1300 (Sixth Edition) – Donald Kagan, Steven Ozment, Frank M. Turner
  5. Europe: A History – Norman Davies
  6. 1688: A Global History – John E. Wills, Jr.
  7. Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America – Jack Weatherford
  8. Jew, God and History – Max I. Dimont
  9. Pirates: Terror on the High Seas – Angus Konstam
  10. The Life and Words of John F. Kennedy – James Playsted Wood
  11. A History of Modern Germany: 1871 to Present (Fifth Edition) – Dietrich Orlow
  12. Walter Lippmann and the American Century – Ronald Steel
  13. American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies – Michael W. Kauffman
  14. The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World – Vijay Prashad
  15. Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab Region – Hamza Hamouchene & Katie Sandwell
  16. A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
  17. The Jakarta Method – Vincent Bevins
  18. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa – Walter Rodney
  19. The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge – Ilan Pappé
  20. Twelve Years a Slave – Solomon Northup
  21. Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation – Sarah Irving
  22. Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization – A. Leo Oppenheim
  23. Wink: The Incredible Life and Epic Journey of Jimmy Winkfield – Ed Hotaling
  24. From Slavery to Freedom (Seventh Edition) – John Hope Franklin, Alfred A. Moss Jr.
  25. How the Irish Became White – Noel Ignatiev

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Mythology & Religion

  1. Many Peoples, Many Faiths: Women and Men in the World Religions – Robert S. Ellwood; Barbara A. McGraw
  2. The Holy Qur'an (with English Translation and Commentary) – Maulana Muhammad Ali
  3. The New Inductive Study Bible, Updated New American Standard Bible – Harvest House Publishers
  4. How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth – Gordon D. Fee, Douglas Stuart
  5. One Year Chronological Study Bible – Tyndale House
  6. Islam: Balancing Life and Beyond – Suhal Kapoor
  7. Proslogium, Monologium, Cur Deus Homo, Gaunilo's In Behalf of the Fool – St. Anselm
  8. Islam: Top 50 Questions Answered – Saheeh International
  9. Al-Fatihah and Juz' ‘Amma: English Translation and Commentary – King Fahd Complex
  10. The Global Messenger: Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), A Short Biography – Saheeh International
  11. The Christians – Bamber Gascoigne
  12. Classical Mythology (Fifth Edition) – Mark P.O. Morford & Robert J. Lenardon
  13. Why I'm not a Christian - Bertrand Russell
  14. Bulfinch’s Mythology – Thomas Bulfinch
  15. The Clear Quran – Book of Signs Foundation
  16. Islam (Seventh Edition) – Caesar E. Farah, Ph.D.
  17. The Great Divorce – C.S. Lewis
  18. Mere Christianity – C.S. Lewis
  19. The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
  20. The Problem of Pain – C.S. Lewis
  21. A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis
  22. The Four Loves – C.S. Lewis
  23. Reflections on the Psalms – C.S. Lewis
  24. Surprised by Joy – C.S. Lewis
  25. How to Pray – C.S. Lewis
  26. Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth – Richard J. Foster
  27. Letters from a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father's Questions about Christianity – Greg Boyd
  28. God of the Possible: A Biblical Introduction to the Open View of God – Greg Boyd
  29. God at War: The Bible and Spiritual Conflict – Greg Boyd
  30. Is God to Blame? Moving Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering – Greg Boyd
  31. Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church – Greg Boyd
  32. Seeing Is Believing: Experience Jesus Through Imaginative Prayer – Greg Boyd
  33. Satan and the Problem of Evil: Constructing a Trinitarian Warfare Theodicy – Greg Boyd
  34. Astonished by God: Ten Truths to Turn the World Upside Down – John Piper
  35. The Justification of God: An Exegetical and Theological Study of Romans 9:1–23 – John Piper
  36. Is God Real or Pretend?: A Comparative Religion Book for Kids – JJ Flowers
  37. A Short and Easy Method of Prayer – Enhanced Version – Madame Guyon
  38. Spiritual Torrents – J.M.B. De La Mothe Guyon
  39. The Pursuit of God – A.W. Tozer
  40. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi – Father Candide Chalippe
  41. The Confessions of St. Augustine – St. Augustine
  42. Concerning Christian Liberty – Martin Luther
  43. Lives of the Saints – Alban Butler
  44. Letters of Madam Guyon – Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
  45. The Evidential Power of Beauty: Science and Theology Meet – Thomas Dubay
  46. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment – Eckhart Tolle

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Political Science

  1. Understanding American Government (Seventh Edition) – Susan Welch, John Gruhl, John Comer, Susan M. Rigdon
  2. The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories That Shape the Political World – Kathleen Hall Jamieson; Paul Waldman
  3. In Defence of Politics – Bernard Crick
  4. The Institutions of the European Union – John Peterson; Michael Shackleton
  5. Doing Empirical Political Research – James M. Carlson, Mark S. Hyde
  6. Which Side Are You On? An Introduction to Politics – Stephen Rosskamm Shalom
  7. Kennedy and the Press: The News Conferences – Edited and Annotated by Harold W. Chase and Allen H. Lerman
  8. The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama
  9. Prisoners of Reason: Game Theory and Neoliberal Political Economy – S. M. Amadae
  10. Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don’t Follow the News – David T. Z. Mindich
  11. Media, Politics and Government – Hoyt Purvis
  12. The Rockefeller File – Gary Allen
  13. Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis – Jimmy Carter
  14. Reason to Believe – Mario Cuomo
  15. Robert Kennedy and His Times – Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
  16. The Mueller Report – The Washington Post
  17. The Middle of Everywhere: Helping Refugees Enter the American Community – Mary Pipher
  18. Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
  19. How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People – D. L. Hughley
  20. The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
  21. On Palestine – Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappé
  22. Propaganda and the Public Mind – Noam Chomsky
  23. Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance – Noam Chomsky
  24. The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power – Noam Chomsky & Vijay Prashad
  25. Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power and the Making of the World Market – Adam Hanieh
  26. Image and Reality of the Israel–Palestine Conflict – Norman G. Finkelstein
  27. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics – Marc Lamont Hill & Mitchell Plitnick
  28. Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal – Mohammed El-Kurd
  29. Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance – Tareq Baconi
  30. Deluge: Gaza and Israel From Crisis to Cataclysm – Jamie Stern-Weiner
  31. Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question – Edward Said & Christopher Hitchens
  32. The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice – Fania E. Davis
  33. The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition – Jeanelle K. Hope & Bill V. Mullen
  34. Rifqa – Mohammed El-Kurd
  35. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine – Noura Erakat
  36. The Palestine Laboratory – Antony Loewenstein
  37. Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine – Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
  38. The Punishment of Gaza – Gideon Levy
  39. The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives – Volume 13 – The Onion
  40. The Onion Ad Nauseam: Complete News Archives – Volume 14 – The Onion
  41. The Onion Ad Nauseam: Fanfare for the Area Man (Volume 15) – The Onion
  42. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering – Norman G. Finkelstein
  43. An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba – Nahla Abdo & Nur Masalha
  44. Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom – Norman G. Finkelstein
  45. Settler Colonialism: An Introduction – Sai Englert
  46. Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle Within the Israeli Prison System – [Author not listed]
  47. The Question of Palestine – Edward W. Said
  48. Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History – Norman G. Finkelstein
  49. Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color – Michael R. Fischbach
  50. My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story – Ramzy Baroud
  51. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media – Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
  52. Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire – Noam Chomsky
  53. The Myths of Liberal Zionism – Yitzhak Laor
  54. Erasing the Nakba: Upholding Apartheid Atrocity Denial in the U.S. Media – Greg Shupak
  55. Kahanism and American Politics: The Democratic Party's Decades-Long Courtship of Racist Fanatics – David Sheen
  56. Israel’s Nation-State Law: Institutionalizing Discrimination – Hassan Jabareen, Suhad Bishara, Nadia Ben-Youssef, Sandra Samaan Tamari
  57. Zionism, Israel, and Anti-Semitism: Dangerous Conflation – Moshe Machover, Barry Trachtenberg & Kyle Stanton
  58. Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom – Rebecca Ruth Gould
  59. The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger – René Rojas, Bhaskar Sunkara, Jonah Walters
  60. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine – Rashid Khalidi
  61. Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine – Remi Kanazi
  62. Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations – Avi Shlaim
  63. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine – Ilan Pappé
  64. Jerusalem Quarterly (Winter 2022) – Institute of Jerusalem Studies
  65. All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 – Walid Khalidi
  66. Earth: The Book – A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
  67. I Am America (And So Can You!) – Stephen Colbert
  68. Reflections on the Revolution in France – Edmund Burke
  69. The Government and Politics of the European Union (Third Edition) – Neill Nugent
  70. Architects of Freedom Series: Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk – [Collection]
  71. Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, and Politics – Virginia Yans-McLaughlin
  72. Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq – Michael Massing
  73. The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions – Russell Jacoby & Naomi Glauberman
  74. Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality – Joel Spring
  75. Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications (and Appendixes) - Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives

Capitalism

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