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60 Solid Reads to Keep You Sharp

These are "the books that will make you smarter," or as the title states; keep you sharp. If you go through these 60 books it would surely be to your benefit.
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Brief History of Time
Brief History of Time
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Cosmos
Cosmos
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene
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Physics of the Impossible
Physics of the Impossible
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Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation (Bill Nye)
Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation (Bill Nye)
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The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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The Blank Slate
The Blank Slate
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Antifragile (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
Antifragile (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
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The Information (James Gleich)
The Information (James Gleich)
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The Innovators (Walter Isaacson)
The Innovators (Walter Isaacson)
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A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States
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Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)
Just Mercy (Bryan Stevenson)
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Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
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The New Jim Crow
The New Jim Crow
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King Leopold's Ghost
King Leopold's Ghost
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukhe
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukhe
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Sapiens, a Short Story of Mankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
Sapiens, a Short Story of Mankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
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Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
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Disappearing Spoon
Disappearing Spoon
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythi
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everythi
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Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)
Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)
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Capital in the 21st Century (Thomas Piketty)
Capital in the 21st Century (Thomas Piketty)
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don'
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don'
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Age of Ambition (Evan Osnos)
Age of Ambition (Evan Osnos)
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Abundance
Abundance
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ELON MUSK (Ashlee Vance)
ELON MUSK (Ashlee Vance)
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Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
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Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
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Native Son (Richard Wright)
Native Son (Richard Wright)
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Middle Passage (Charles Johnson)
Middle Passage (Charles Johnson)
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The Known World (Edward P. Jones)
The Known World (Edward P. Jones)
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Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
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The Sellout (Paul Beatty)
The Sellout (Paul Beatty)
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The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
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Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
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Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984 (George Orwell)
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