Matthew Balshaw

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Matthew Balshaw

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Matthew’s to-reread shelf

Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

1984 by George Orwell

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

The Power of Positive Dog Training by Pat Miller

Kill It with Fire by Marianne Bellotti

The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe

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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