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Complex Variables and Applications by Ruel V. Churchill, James Ward Brown

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5.0

Beowulf by Anonymous

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adventurous funny hopeful reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" by Judith Butler

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3.25

The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time by Peter Fenves

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4.75

Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual by Jacob Aagaard, Jim Marfia, Artur Yusupov, Valery Murakhveri, Mark Dvoretsky

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challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

The most Russian book of all time.
Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

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challenging informative slow-paced

5.0

This book excels in the way you might expect of Capablanca - gentle and thorough. I could have easily mistaken Jose for a tenured professor at some doctoral research university. If chess didn't work out, he could easily have a career in pedagogy. 
Secrets of Grandmaster Play by John Nunn, Peter Griffiths

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challenging informative slow-paced

4.5

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer

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challenging informative slow-paced

4.75

Fischer is like the father I never had. Great!
The Pontryagin Duality of Compact O-Dimensional Semilattices and Its Applications by A. Stralka, K. H. Hofmann, M. Mislove

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4.25

Superstring Theory: Volume 1, Introduction by Michael B. Green, John H. Schwarz

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5.0