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Complicity by Iain Banks The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt Visual Explanations by Edward R. Tufte Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers Peopleware by Tom DeMarco London Fields by Martin Amis Money by Martin Amis Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans Watching the English by Kate Fox Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald Test-Driven Development by Kent Beck
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The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
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If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul.
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Adult Fiction, Biography, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Literary Fiction, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Politics, Psychology, Science, Self help, Travel, Technology, and Finance


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