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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson A River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri A Fine Balance by Sudha Bhuchar Death's End by Liu Cixin
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
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“Kerckhoffs’ Principle: The security of a cryptosystem must not depend on keeping secret the crypto-algorithm. The security depends only on keeping secret the key.”
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Biography, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Science, Science fiction, and Young-adult


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