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Facts, figures and fun achievements throughout the 2013 edition are impressive and well worth the buy

Den of Geek

100%
Patterson's prose sometimes has the overly breathless air of an airport thriller. But it is underpinned by an invaluable piece of timely journalism that should be read by regulators and anyone with a cent in the stock market.

LA Times

100%
In Tubes, journalist Andrew Blum goes on a journey inside the Internet's physical infrastructure to uncover the buildings and compounds where our data is stored and transmitted.

NPR

98%
But a book about politics is only about politics. Silver's aiming for something bigger here: He wants to change how we think about predictions in every aspect of our lives.

LA Times

92%
For an insight into what actually was going on, who was masterminding the attacks and how the "hive" actually worked, Olson's book is a truly terrific read.

Guardian

92%
Little Brother is being marketed as a young-adult novel, but it's an entertaining, smart all-ages read . . . The tight thriller storyline and ripped-from-the-headlines immediacy are nigh-irresistible.

AV Club

88%
If you are really serious about creating wealth for yourself then Think and Grow Rich is mandatory reading.

Blog Critics

88%
If you somehow haven’t read To Kill a Mockingbird, go to the library...or bookstore immediately. If you haven’t read To Kill a Mockingbird recently, it is worth reading the novel again.

Blog Critics

87%
Vaynerchuk’s book is inspiring and contains good suggestions, but don’t demand too much of the writing.

Blog Critics

87%
The three way chats, in which they are joined by other animals, about web spinning, themselves, other humans—are as often informative as amusing, and the whole tenor of appealing wit and pathos will make fine entertainment for reading aloud, too.

Kirkus

85%
Beyond being a “good story,” this book gives its readers a rare chance to be involved in extending the real-life story of hope and to understand the power of the human spirit to overcome great adversity and singly make a difference in the world—to build windmills of our own.

NY Journal of Books

84%
The author introduces many individuals whose inventions and capacities contributed profoundly. An absorbing new approach to a well-worked field.

Kirkus

84%
What Christian learns along the way is that if machines win the imitation game as often as they do, it’s not because they’re getting better at acting human; it’s because we’re getting worse.

NY Times

84%
Exploring the intimate relationships among blackness, womanhood, and 20th-century American technological development, Shetterly crafts a narrative that is crucial to understanding subsequent movements for civil rights.

Publishers Weekly

83%
Far from being awash in sentiment, the dying man retains a firm grasp on reality. An emotionally rich book and a deeply affecting memorial to a wise mentor, who was 79 when hedied in 1995.

Publishers Weekly

82%
If I'm ever stranded on our imaginary desert isle I hope I have a trunkful of books. But if I can only take one I think Pride and Prejudice just might be it.

All About Romance

82%
This book lets you make your own opinion on each character and it's not all black and white with baddies and goodies as each of them has multiple flaws which make them all the more interesting.

Guardian

81%
Replete with lots of nifty, whimsical footnotes, this clever, speculative book challenges our beliefs with jocularity and perspicacity.

Kirkus

81%
Far different from the movie, the ending is very clever, and keeps you guessing right up until the end.

Gather Books

80%
At a time when consumers are increasingly wary of online tracking, Rudder makes a powerful argument in Dataclysm that the ability to tell so much about us from the trails we leave is as potentially useful as it is pernicious, and as educational as it may be unsettling.

Financial Times

80%

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