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    Liberal Arts self-guided starter pack, recommended by David H

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    1

    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    by Bill Bryson

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    The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's
    by Charles Mann

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    The Awakening
    by Charles Freeman

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    Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
    by Clive James

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    Middlemarch (Wordsworth Classics)
    by George Eliot

Liberal Arts self-guided starter pack

by David H

     

    Best Teen LGBT Books, recommended by James Holland

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    1

    Nothing Ever Happens Here
    by Sarah Hagger-Holt

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    2

    Alex in Wonderland
    by Simon James Green

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    3

    Just Like Everyone Else
    by Sarah Hagger-Holt

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    4

    Loveless
    by Alice Oseman

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    5

    Melissa (previously published as GEORGE)
    by Alex Gino

Best Teen LGBT Books

by James Holland

     

    Five Books for growing into a strong and kind woman., recommended by Lucy Brooks

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    1

    Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
    by Elena; Cavallo, Francesca Favilli

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    Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World
    by Kate Pankhurst

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    Penguin Readers Level 3: Wonder (Penguin Readers (graded readers))
    by R J Palacio

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    Little Women (Puffin Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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    5

    I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
    by Malala Yousafzai & Patricia McCormick

Five Books for growing into a strong and kind woman.

by Lucy Brooks

     

    Best Books on John Stuart Mill’s Political Philosophy, recommended by Piers Turner

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    John Stuart Mill (British History in Perspective, 131)
    by William Stafford

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    Happiness, Justice, and Freedom: The Moral and Political Philosophy of John Stuart Mill
    by Fred R. Berger

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    John Stuart Mill, Socialist
    by Helen McCabe

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    Liberty Abroad: J. S. Mill on International Relations (Ideas in Context, Series Number 106)
    by Georgios Varouxakis

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    5

    A Moralist In and Out of Parliament: John Stuart Mill at Westminster, 1865-1868
    by Bruce L. Kinzer, Ann P. Robson & John Robson

Best Books on John Stuart Mill’s Political Philosophy

by Piers Turner

     

    Five Essential Dark Academia Novels, recommended by Her_Royal_Orangeness

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    If We Were Villains
    by M. L. Rio

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    I Have Some Questions for You
    by Rebecca Makkai

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    The Starless Sea
    by Erin Morgenstern

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    Real Life
    by Brandon Taylor

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    Ninth House
    by Leigh Bardugo

Five Essential Dark Academia Novels

by Her_Royal_Orangeness

     

    The best Jorge Luis Borges books, recommended by Galaad

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    Collected Fictions
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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    Borges: Selected Non-Fictions
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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    Evaristo Carriego: A Book About Old-time Buenos Aires
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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    4

    Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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    5

    This Craft of Verse (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
    by Jorge Luis Borges

The best Jorge Luis Borges books

by Galaad

     

    Literary Cats, recommended by Scott Pack

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    1

    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

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    2

    Wyrd Sisters
    by Terry Pratchett

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    3

    The Way of Muri
    by Ilya Boyashov

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    4

    The Glass Cell
    by Patricia Highsmith

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    5

    Literary Cats
    by Judith Robinson & Scott Pack

Literary Cats

by Scott Pack

     

    Best Neolithic Era Books, recommended by Kristal James

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    The Final Days of Doggerland: A Neolithic Story of Survival in Northern Europe
    by Mike Meier

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    2

    The Caves of Perigord: A Novel
    by Martin Walker

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    3

    Stone Mirror: A Novel of the Neolithic
    by Rob Swigart

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    4

    Pillar of the Sky: A Novel of Stonehenge
    by Cecelia Holland

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    5

    Silver Skin
    by Joan Lennon

Best Neolithic Era Books

by Kristal James

     

    Five Books for a Creative Life, recommended by Tuscia Flat

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    1

    The Miracle of the Artist's Date: 52 Ideas for Activities that will Nourish Your Creative Soul:
    by Julia Cameron

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    2

    Bloom: On Becoming An Artist Later in Life
    by Janice Mason Steeves, Jen Mason & Andrew Mason

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    3

    The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci
    by Linda Lappin

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    4

    Laurence King The Marina Abramović Method
    by Marina Abramovic

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    5

    Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree: Getting to know trees through the language of scent
    by David George Haskell

Five Books for a Creative Life

by Tuscia Flat

     

    Five Books featuring female detectives, recommended by Dominique Gracia

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    1

    Dorcas Dene, Detective: The Complete Adventures (Black Heath Classic Crime)
    by George Robert Sims

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    2

    Blackstone Fell (Rachel Savernake)
    by Martin Edwards

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    3

    Scorched Grace: A Sister Holiday Mystery (Sister Holiday Mysteries, 1)
    by Margot Douaihy

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    4

    Pale Horse
    by Agatha Christie

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    5

    Revelations of a Lady Detective
    by William Stephens Hayward

Five Books featuring female detectives

by Dominique Gracia

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