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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Dune by Frank Herbert

Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin

Wobblies and Zapatistas by Staughton Lynd

Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

One Piece, Volume 1 by Eiichiro Oda

The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot

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The Internet Con:...

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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

by Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)

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A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

by China Miéville (Goodreads Author)

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Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area (Spectre)

by Richard A. Walker

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2026 Reading Challenge

Alex Layton has read 13 of 15 books.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

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Biography, Book Club, Comics, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, Spirituality, and Thriller

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