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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,468,779 ratings
""I'm reading '1984'" George Orwell " . I should have done this a long time ago, but every time I took it, I only managed to read a few pages, and then something distracted me... All this is very close to the time in which we now live. I think this is a very good book" (2008).
“There’s a song of the same name on The Resistance, and I’m singing on behalf of the character. I imagined myself as that strange guy, Winston, from the book 1984, who fell in love with a girl and had violent sex with her." - Matt Bellamy"
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
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4.15 avg rating — 24,224 ratings
"“At that time I was reading Hyperspace. This is one of those books that talks about superstring theory, which combines quantum physics and Einstein’s general theory of relativity and claims to be a comprehensive universal theory, which is a kind of holy grail for physicists. These ideas fascinated me. The book raises the question of why everything in the universe is in such an amazing balance, and what is the source of symmetry." - Matt Bellamy"
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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4.10 avg rating — 102,330 ratings
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Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control
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3.60 avg rating — 622 ratings
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The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind
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4.18 avg rating — 920 ratings
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9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, Fourth Edition
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3.97 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
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4.07 avg rating — 844 ratings
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The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
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3.97 avg rating — 3,419 ratings
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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3.87 avg rating — 39,619 ratings
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Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons & the Great Pyramids
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3.94 avg rating — 1,903 ratings
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The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World
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3.79 avg rating — 1,792 ratings
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Disclosure: Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets in Modern History
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4.40 avg rating — 174 ratings
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The Twelfth Planet
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3.99 avg rating — 5,904 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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3.96 avg rating — 121,905 ratings
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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4.02 avg rating — 567,557 ratings
"“I read the book “World War Z" when we were working on the album. She impressed me and influenced the songs “Survival” and “Isolated System”. - Matt Bellamy"
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Predators: The CIA's Drone War on al Qaeda
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3.48 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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3.95 avg rating — 157,591 ratings
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Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work
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3.68 avg rating — 4,227 ratings
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My Idea of Fun
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3.52 avg rating — 2,522 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.57 avg rating — 616,237 ratings
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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4.15 avg rating — 220,884 ratings
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
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4.16 avg rating — 56,169 ratings
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Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays
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4.18 avg rating — 18,461 ratings
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(Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Revised, Expanded)) By Sacks, Oliver (Author) Paperback on 23-Sep-2008
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3.95 avg rating — 74,476 ratings
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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4.30 avg rating — 234,236 ratings
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Virtual Organisms: The Startling World of Artificial Life
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3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,525,153 ratings
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The New Few, Or, a Very British Oligarchy
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3.48 avg rating — 106 ratings
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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3.94 avg rating — 30,769 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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4.17 avg rating — 589,429 ratings
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Earth Rising: American Environmentalism In The 21St Century
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2.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
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3.58 avg rating — 199,752 ratings
"“Cave” came to me after reading the crappy American book Men from Mars, Women from Venus. (by John Gray). It is that men, when they are in a stressful state or depression, withdraw into themselves, go to the “cave”. - Matt Bellamy"
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Propaganda
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3.74 avg rating — 9,080 ratings
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Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy
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3.98 avg rating — 5,824 ratings
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Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
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4.03 avg rating — 7,325 ratings
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The Stand
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4.35 avg rating — 835,841 ratings
"“Now I’m re-reading the book ‘Confrontation’. Stephen King. I am fond of apocalyptic stories and the idea of survival in such conditions. "(2013) - Matt Bellamy"
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Nikola Tesla
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4.46 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power
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3.80 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
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Animal Farm
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4.02 avg rating — 4,557,610 ratings
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Doctor Sleep: A Novel
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4.13 avg rating — 297,068 ratings
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Misery
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4.23 avg rating — 850,303 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
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4.09 avg rating — 41,780 ratings
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