Matthew Balshaw

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Matthew Balshaw

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Matthew’s to-reread shelf

Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

1984 by George Orwell

Thinking In Systems by Donella H. Meadows

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Kill It with Fire by Marianne Bellotti

Designing the Mind by Ryan A. Bush

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned by Kenneth O. Stanley

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The Archetypes an...

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The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)

by C.G. Jung

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Drachenreiter (Drachenreiter, #1)

by Cornelia Funke (Goodreads Author)

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2026 Reading Challenge

Matthew Balshaw has read 5 of 30 books.

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