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| word count | title | author |
|---|---|---|
| 555541 | Lord of the Rings | Tolkien |
| 1391946 | In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged | Marcel Proust |
| 1104345 | Harry Potter_ The Complete Collection | J.K. Rowling |
| 444748 | It | Stephen King |
| 138929 | A Tale of Two Cities | |
| 29564 | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | |
| 196660 | Red and Black | Stendhal |
| 215838 | Moby-Dick | |
| 130414 | Pride and Prejudice | |
| 268092 | Ulysses | |
| 352814 | Anna Karenina | Tolstoy |
| 566332 | War and Peace | |
| 353883 | Brothers Karamazov | |
| 206546 | Crime and Punishment | |
| 29000 | Romeo and Juliet | |
| 113967 | Thus Spake Zarathustra | |
| 160440 | Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson |
| 408162 | Cryptonomicon | Neal Stephenson |
| 326777 | Anathem | Neal Stephenson |
| 16306 | Ein Landarzt_ Kleine Erzahlungen | Franz Kafka |
| 7158 | Das Urteil | Franz Kafka |
| 19314 | Die Verwandlung | Franz Kafka |
| 21258 | Metamorphosis (EN trans.) | Kafka |
| 16017 | Proměna (CZ trans.) | Kafka |
| 107218 | Zámek (CZ trans.) | Kafka |
| 77069 | Der Prozess | Kafka |
| 77522 | Proces (CZ trans.) | Kafka |
| 25186 | Sun & Steel | Yukio Mishima |
| 66843 | Ubik | Philip K. Dick |
| 92568 | Žert | Milan Kundera |
| 70479 | The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch | Philip K. Dick |
| 103603 | 1984 | George Orwell |
| 30068 | Animal Farm | George Orwell |
| 69691 | Kloktat dehet | Jachym Topol |
| 12250 | Flowers for Algernon (novella) | Daniel Keyes |
| 86215 | Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes |
| 34530 | Zápisky mladého lékaře (CZ trans.) | Michail Bulgakov |
| 105940 | Mistr a Markétka (CZ trans.) | Michail Bulgakov |
| 119087 | The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu |
| 187696 | The Dark Forest | Cixin Liu |
| 224080 | Death’s End | Cixin Liu |
| 530863 | {Complete} The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu |
| 117008 | The Dispossessed | le Guin |
| 464028 | The Count of Monte Cristo | |
| 39648 | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum |
| 120913 | The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| 6014 | I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream | Harlan Ellison |
| 116507 | Zbabelci | Josef Skvorecky |
| 38055 | Marketa Lazarova | Vladislav Vancura |
| 53251 | Fight Club | Chuck Palahniuk |
| 18424 | Rozmarne leto | Vladislav Vancura |
| 56408 | Tremendous Trifles | G. K. Chesterton |
| 58598 | The Man Who Was Thursday_ A Nightmare | G. K. Chesterton |
| 195773 | The Mote in God’s Eye | Larry Niven |
| 544859 | Infinite Jest | Wallace, David Foster |
| 53133 | City of the Chasch | Jack Vance |
| 111208 | Lolita | Nabokov |
| 118301 | Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války | Jaroslav Hašek |
| 141762 | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | Robert M. Pirsig |
| 146497 | Lila. An Inquiry Into Morals | Robert M. Pirsig |
| 67185 | Radostna veda | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| 22472 | Soumrak model cili Kterak se filosofuje kladivem | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| 28653 | Gotzen-Dammerung | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| 381592 | A History of Western Phil | Bertrand Russell |
| 116200 | Memories of my life | Francis Galton |
| 172800 | Berlin Diary | William L. Shirer |
| 241443 | Bismarck: A Life | Jonathan Steinberg |
| 17063 | TRANSAKCNI ANALUZA | Vladimir Smekal |
| 7101 | Why-Most-Unit-Testing-is-Waste | James O Coplien |
| 91173 | Clean Architecture | Robert C. Martin |
| 45674 | System Design Interview | Alex Xu |
| 115298 | Software Architecture_ The Hard Parts | Neal Ford |
| 109733 | Fundamentals of Software Architecture | Neal Ford |
| 93274 | What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory | Ulrich Drepper |
| 145524 | Transcend | Scott Barry Kaufman |
| 30848 | mostly-adequate-guide | Professor Frisby |
| 55653 | Using Your Brain –for a CHANGE | Richard Wayne Bandler |
| 77983 | Programming Clojure, Third Edition | Alex Miller |
| 95405 | Fast This Way | Dave Asprey |
| 58546 | Bronze Age Mindset | Bronze Age Pervert |
| 47035 | Povídky z jedné kapsy | Karel Čapek |
| 59378 | Numbers Don’t Lie | Vaclav Smil |
| 153916 | Grand Transitions | Vaclav Smil |
| 152878 | Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture | Martin Fowler |
| 71794 | CFAR Participant handbook | CFAR |
| 20461 | You Don’t Know JS_ Up & Going | Kyle Simpson |
| 92232 | An Introduction to General Systems Thinking | Gerald M. Weinberg |
| 59477 | McNamara’s Folly_ The Use of Low-IQ Troops in the Vietnam War | Hamilton Gregory |
| 64519 | Designing Your Life | Bill Burnett |
| 467246 | Decline of the West | Oswald Spengler |
| 116681 | Software Design for Flexibility | Chris Hanson |
| 52192 | Games People Play_ The Psychology of Human Relationships | Berne, Eric |
| 337294 | The Food Lab_ Better Home Cooking Through Science | J. Kenji Lopez-Alt |
| 74122 | Architecture Patterns with Python | Bob Gregory |
| 49101 | Clojure Web Development Essentials | Ryan Baldwin |
| 61222 | An Elegant Puzzle_ Systems of Engineering Management | Will Larson |
| 33387 | Domain-Driven Design Distilled | Vernon, Vaughn |
| 190290 | Implementing Domain-Driven Design | Vernon, Vaughn |
| 336912 | The Food Lab Better Home Cooking Through Science | |
| 57283 | Accelerate | Forsgren PhD |
| 175326 | Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, Second Edition | McWilliams, Nancy; |
| 111115 | Computation Finite & Infinite Machines | Marvin Minsky |
| 67815 | Four Thousand Weeks_ Time Management for Mortals | Oliver Burkeman |
| 75607 | How to Solve It | G. Polya |
| 117234 | Software Architecture_ The Hard Parts | Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, Zhamak Dehghani |
| 69773 | Practical Microservices | Ethan Garofolo |
| 8449 | On bullshit | |
| 119469 | The Art of Doing Science and Engineering | Richard W. Hamming |
| 41761 | Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind | Shunryu Suzuki |
| 114414 | Ustava | Platon |
| 175419 | Fenomenologie ducha | Georg Friedrich Hegel |
| 79798 | The Social Construction of Reality | Peter L.Berger; Thomas Luckmann |
| 226611 | Designing Data-Intensive Applications | Kleppmann, Martin |
| 118904 | Working Effectively with Legacy Code | Michael C. Feathers |
| 42886 | Zero to One_ Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future | Peter Thiel |
| 156875 | Principles | Ray Dalio |
| 32013 | Society of the Spectacle | Guy Debord |
| 94471 | The Manager’s Path | Camille Fournier |
| 103195 | Streaming Systems | Tyler Akidau, Slava Chernyak |
| 75257 | Constructing the User Interface with Statecharts | Ian Horrocks |
| 60970 | An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | David Hume |
| 156786 | Handbook of Brief Cognitive Behaviour Therapy | Frank W. Bond |
| 91549 | How to Be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi |
| 182371 | Revolt Against the Modern World | Julius Evola |
| 82591 | Getting Things Done | David Allen |
| 70575 | Digital Minimalism | Cal Newport |
| 71806 | Deep Work | Cal Newport |
| 24362 | Moc bezmocnych | Havel, Vaclav |
| 1665 | Taxicab Geometry as a Vehicle for the Journey Toward Enlightenment | Neil Greenspan |
| 81897 | Monolith to Microservices | Sam Newman |
| 200271 | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs | Harold Abelson; Gerald Jay Sussman; Julie Sussman |
| 261053 | Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition | Arnold Robbins |
| 139489 | Domain-Driven Design_ Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software | Eric Evans |
