BABEL

100 read, 58 rated, 1991..2026

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AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models★★★★★
Chip Huyen · 2025
002
Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture★★★★★
Vivian Sobchack · 2004
003
Catch-22★★★★★
Joseph Heller · 2012
004
For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today★★★★★
Jedediah Purdy · 2000
005
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies★★★★★
Jared Diamond · 1999
006
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism★★★★★
Benedict Anderson · 1991
007
Jacques Rancière: Key Concepts★★★★★
Jean-Philippe Deranty · 2018
008
Light in August★★★★★
William Faulkner · 2015
009
Looking at Pictures★★★★★
Robert Walser · 2024
010
NeuroLogic Thinking: 9 Scientific Principles That Explain How We Think★★★★★
Eliezer Sternberg · 2018
011
On History★★★★★
Eric J. Hobsbawm · 2015
012
Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy (Diaeresis)★★★★★
Todd McGowan · 2017
013
Principles of Economics★★★★★
N. Gregory Mankiw · 2017
014
Pursued Economy: Understanding and Overcoming the Challenging New Realities for Advanced Economies★★★★★
Richard C. Koo · 2022
015
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches★★★★★
Audre Lorde · 2007
016
Stoner★★★★★
John Williams · 2016
017
Tears of Eros★★★★★
Georges Bataille · 2020
018
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology★★★★★
Neil Postman · 2019
019
The Brain from Inside Out★★★★★
György Buzsáki · 2019
020
The Brain: The Story of You★★★★★
Eric R. Kandel · 2021
021
The Help★★★★★
Kathryn Stockett · 2009
022
The Hotel New Hampshire★★★★★
John Irving · 2021
023
The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut★★★★★
Nigel Barley · 2026
024
The Long Goodbye★★★★★
Raymond Chandler · 2018
025
The Magic Mountain★★★★★
Thomas Mann · 2020
026
The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory★★★★★
Patricia Pisters · 2022
027
The Selfish Gene★★★★★
Richard Dawkins · 2016
028
The Sound and the Fury★★★★★
William Faulkner · 2019
029
The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective★★★★★
Stijn Vanheule · 2011
030
All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity★★★★☆
Marshall Berman · 2013
031
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder★★★★☆
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 2011
032
Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History★★★★☆
Jurgen Brauer · 2008
033
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts★★★★☆
Stanislas Dehaene · 2018
034
Empire of Cotton: A Global History★★★★☆
Sven Beckert · 2014
035
Essays on Art and Science★★★★☆
Eric R. Kandel · 2024
036
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid★★★★☆
Douglas R. Hofstadter · 1997
037
Le Cinéma De La Cruauté: Eric Von Stroheim, Carl Th. Dreyer, Preston Sturges, Luis Bunuel, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa★★★★☆
André Bazin · 1992
038
Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture★★★★☆
Slavoj Žižek · 1991
039
Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain★★★★☆
Mark F. Bear · 2006
040
Pedro Páramo★★★★☆
Juan Rulfo · 2011
041
Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek Across the Pacific★★★★☆
Christine R. Yano · 2013
042
Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises★★★★☆
Ray Dalio · 2025
043
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity★★★★☆
Carlo Rovelli · 2017
044
Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personalities and the Sciences of Memory★★★★☆
Ian Hacking · 2025
045
Solaris★★★★☆
Stanisław Lem · 2021
046
Technoféodalisme: Critique de l'économie numérique★★★★☆
Cédric Durand · 2020
047
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present★★★★☆
Eric R. Kandel · 2012
048
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves★★★★☆
Eric R. Kandel · 2018
049
The Door of the World: A History of the Senses★★★★☆
Ashley Ward · 2024
050
The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets (Addison-Wesley Series in Economics)★★★★☆
Frederic S. Mishkin · 2006
051
The Extended Phenotype★★★★☆
Richard Dawkins · 2024
052
Unstoppable Us, Volume 1★★★★☆
尤瓦尔-赫拉利 · 2025
053
We Have Never Been Modern★★★★☆
Bruno Latour · 2022
054
What I Learned About Investing from Darwin★★★★☆
Pulak Prasad · 2023
055
Film and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters★★★☆☆
Lisa Downing, Libby Saxton · 2019
056
Introductory Psychology★★★☆☆
Paul Bloom · 2026
057
Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes★★★☆☆
Morgan Housel · 2023
058
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much★★★☆☆
Sendhil Mullainathan · 2013
059
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke · 2019
060
A Fourth Hand
John Irving · 2019
061
A Widow for One Year
John Irving · 2017
062
Bodyscape: Art, Modernity and the Ideal Figure
Nicholas Mirzoeff · 1995
063
Crash
J.G. Ballard · 2001
064
decision-making, uncertainty, and the brain: neural Economics
(MEI )GE LAI MU QI HE JING TONG DENG YI · 1991
065
Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications
Chip Huyen · 2022
066
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick · 2017
067
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover · 2019
068
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz · 2018
069
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes · 2015
070
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt · 2007
071
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Jenny Lawson · 2018
072
Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts 2e
Charles J. Stivale · 2011
073
Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion (Chinese Edition)
Robert B. Cialdini · 2021
074
It
Stephen King · 2017
075
Last Night in Twisted River
John Irving · 2021
076
Misery
Stephen King · 2013
077
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Jill Bolte Taylor · 2024
078
neurons in Economics: Evidence and Challenges
(MEI )LA QIE QI NI (Rust-ichini A. ) (MEI )GE LIN QIE ER (Glimcher P. ) ZHE JIANG DA XUE KUA X... · 1991
079
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Reed Hastings · 2020
080
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Daniel Kahneman · 2021
081
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck · 2019
082
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 2017
083
Pet Sematary
Stephen King · 2014
084
Pop Music and Capitalism
Takahiro Mouri · 2022
085
Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks
Peter Gay · 2002
086
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
Cédric Durand · 2024
087
The Bear
John Irving · 2021
088
The Cider House Rules
John Irving · 2018
089
The Final Countdown: Europe, Refugees and the Left
Boris Buden · 2017
090
The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power (1653-2004)
John Steele Gordon · 2005
091
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 2018
092
The Innocent and the Sentimental Novelist
Orhan Pamuk · 2012
093
The PlayStation Dreamworld (Theory Redux)
Alfie Bown · 2017
094
The power of terror: On the the lowly (France ideological Culture Series)(Chinese Edition)
ZHU LI YA KE LI SI DI WA · 2000
095
The Pygmalion Effect: From Ovid to Hitchcock (Louise Smith Bross Lecture Series)
Victor Ieronim Stoichiță · 2008
096
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Robert Iger, Joel Lovell · 2020
097
The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Martin Amis · 2024
098
The World According to Garp
John Irving · 2018
099
Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
Avinash K. Dixit · 2000
100
We Are All Cannibals: And Other Essays
Claude Lévi-Strauss · 2016