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2024

📖 Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Martin Kleppmann

📖 Tribes, Seth Godin

📖 How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers, Sönke Ahrens

📖 The Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan

📖 Death’s End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past – book 3), Liu Cixin

The Limits to Growth, Meadows, Donella H. & Meadows, Dennis L. & Randers, Jørgen & Behrens, William W. III

El Alquimista, Paulo Coelho

📖 Just Enough Software Architecture: a risk-driven approach, George Fairbanks

The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past – book 2), Liu Cixin
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La Invención de Morel, Adolfo Bioy Cesares
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Be the Calm or Be the Storm: Leadership Lessons from a Woman at the Helm, Captain Sandy Yawn, Samantha Marshall

📖 Atomic Habits, James Clear

Dune, Frank Herbert (2)

The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past – book 1), Liu Cixin
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The No Asshole Rule, Robert I. Sutton
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O Imbecil Coletivo, Olavo de Carvalho

Não Somos Racistas: Uma reação aos que querem nos transformar numa nação bicolor, Ali Kamel

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan Peterson (2)

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
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The Mom Test: How to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everyone else is lying to you, Rob Fitzpatrick

God is not Great: how religion poisons everything, Christopher Hitchens

2023

The Last Question, Isaac Asimov (2)
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On Writing, Stephen King

The Shining, Stephen King

Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide, Bill McGuire

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell (2)

Made to Stick, Chip Heath & Dan Heath

Mastery, Robert Greene

A Bíblia Sagrada (The Holy Bible)

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
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Mar Sem Fim, Amyr Klink
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Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari (2)
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Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual, Jocko Willink
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A Metamorfose, Franz Kafka
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Predictive Revenue, Aaron Ross
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O Alquimista, Paulo Coelho (3)
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Women, Charles Bukowski (2)
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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, Scott Adams
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1984, George Orwell (in English)
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Foundation, Isaac Asimov
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Sandworms of Dune, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (Dune book 8)
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Hunters of Dune, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson (Dune book 7)
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Chapterhouse Dune, Frank Herbert (Dune book 6)
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Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
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The 1-Page Marketing Plan, Allan Dib
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Pebbles of Perception, Laurence Endersen (2)
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2022

Heretics of Dune, Frank Herbert (Dune book 5)
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God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert (Dune book 4)
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Children of Dune, Frank Herbert (Dune book 3)
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Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert (Dune book 2)
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Dune, Frank Herbert
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Crime e Castigo, Fiódor Dostoiévski
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Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
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The Last Question, Isaac Asimov
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Nightfall, Isaac Asimov
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Amores ao Tempo, Manuel Bandeira
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Pebbles of Perception, Laurence Endersen
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The Sandman, Gaiman – Keith – Dringenberg (comics editions aligned with the Netflix series)
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Hamlet, William Shakespeare (in Portuguese)
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The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss
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Permanent Record, Edward Snowden
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Chariots of the Gods, Erich Von Däniken
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Disinformation, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa
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Can’t Hurt Me, David Goggins
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Code Complete, Steve McConnell
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Modern Data Protection, W. Curtis Preston
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Backup & Recovery, W. Curtis Preston
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