Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
“Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn’t say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“the increase in very high incomes and very high salaries primarily reflects the advent of “supermanagers,” that is, top executives of large firms who have managed to obtain extremely high, historically unprecedented compensation packages for their labor.”
― Capital in the Twenty-First Century
― Capital in the Twenty-First Century
“Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“During the heat of the space race in the 1960s, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ballpoint pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of approximately $1 million US. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on earth. The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil.”
― Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
― Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier
Leon’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Leon’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
5,203 books
|
158 friends
2,003 books
|
497 friends
1,366 books
|
32 friends
679 books
|
63 friends
6,039 books
|
1,595 friends
216 books
|
24 friends
162 books
|
46 friends
108 books
|
38 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Leon
Lists liked by Leon