books recommended by Cleo Abram

Cleo Abram is a video journalist currently making Huge If True. She was previously a producer on Vox’s Netflix show Explained, and a host and producer on Vox’s YouTube Originals show Glad You Asked.

Cleo Abram is a video journalist currently making Huge If True. She was previously a producer on Vox’s Netflix show Explained, and a host and producer on Vox’s YouTube Originals show Glad You Asked.

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books recommended by Cleo Abram

Dune

Dune

Frank Herbert

1984

1984

George Orwell

The Three-Body Problem

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu

High Growth Handbook

High Growth Handbook

Elad Gil

Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

Moonwalking with Einstein

Moonwalking with Einstein

Joshua Foer

Never Split the Difference

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

Stories of Your Life and Others

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

The Overstory

The Overstory

Richard Powers

Exhalation

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Seveneves

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson

Stranger in a Strange Land

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

Janelle Shane

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward R. Tufte

Why We're Polarized

Why We're Polarized

Ezra Klein

Dark Matter

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch

Exit West

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

The Looming Tower

The Looming Tower

Lawrence Wright

Thing Explainer

Thing Explainer

Randall Munroe

Recursion

Recursion

Blake Crouch

The Name of the Wind

The Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss

Americanah

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Why Not Me?

Why Not Me?

Mindy Kaling

The Master Switch

The Master Switch

Tim Wu

The City We Became

The City We Became

N.K. Jemisin

Reinventing Comics

Reinventing Comics

Scott McCloud

The Wealth of Networks

The Wealth of Networks

Yochai Benkler

Screenplay

Screenplay

Syd Field

NW

Zadie Smith

How We Got to Now

How We Got to Now

Steven Johnson

The Fifth Season

The Fifth Season

N. K. Jemisin

Asymmetry

Asymmetry

Lisa Halliday

The Paper Mengerie

The Paper Mengerie

Ken Liu

Phantoms in the Brain

Phantoms in the Brain

V.S. Ramachandran & Sandra Blakeslee,

We Are Our Brains

We Are Our Brains

D. F. Swaab

Norse Mythology

Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman

The Dream Machine

The Dream Machine

M. Mitchell Waldrop

Death's End

Death's End

Cixin Liu

The Attention Merchants

The Attention Merchants

Tim Wu

Y: The Last Man Book One

Y: The Last Man Book One

Brian K. Vaughan

The Wise Man's Fear

The Wise Man's Fear

Patrick Rothfuss

The Dark Forest

The Dark Forest

Cixin Liu

The Trouble With Poetry

The Trouble With Poetry

Billy Collins

How It All Blew Up

How It All Blew Up

Arvin Ahmadi

Dollars and Sense

Dollars and Sense

Dan Ariely

What We See When We Read

What We See When We Read

Peter Mendelsund

The Wandering Earth

The Wandering Earth

Cixin Liu

But How Do It Know?

But How Do It Know?

J. Clark Scott

Figuring

Figuring

Maria Popova

1491

1491

Charles C. Mann

Ancillary Justice

Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie

Fabric of the Cosmos

Fabric of the Cosmos

Brian Greene

Iraq + 100

Iraq + 100

Nassan Blasim

Girl Gone Viral

Girl Gone Viral

Arvin Ahmadi

Parable of the Talents

Parable of the Talents

Octavia E. Butler

Y: The Last Man Book Two

Y: The Last Man Book Two

Brian K. Vaughan

The Stone Sky

The Stone Sky

N.K. Jemisin

Good Charts

Good Charts

Scott Berinato

Parable of the Sower

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

The Obelisk Gate

The Obelisk Gate

N.K. Jemisin

Astounding

Astounding

Alec Nevala-Lee

Frankenstein Dreams

Frankenstein Dreams

Michael Sims

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Dune

1984

The Three-Body Problem

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