They say you can tell a lot about a person by taking a look at their bookshelf. Traditionally, this meant standing in their living room with a tilted head, but with nowadays ebooks our reading history can easily become more hidden. Our virtual bookshelves lie inside our personal devices and aren’t that easy for others to glance on. But it doesn’t have to be that way, as we can also choose to make them public.
Below is something that I used to generate automatically from my Kindle profile. It was last updated July 17th, 2017, and Amazon has since discontinued Kindle profiles. A more up-to-date view to the same information can be found from my Goodreads profile.
Data science
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by Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Gareth James, Robert Tibshirani
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by Harlan Harris, Sean Murphy, Marck Vaisman
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by Max Kuhn, Kjell Johnson
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by John K. Kruschke
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by Hadley Wickham
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by William M. Bolstad, James M. Curran
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by Morris Kline
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by Timothy Gowers
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by Richard McElreath
Science, technology, history, economy, politics
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by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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by Jeremy Rifkin
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by John C. Bogle
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by David Bainbridge
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by William H. McNeill, John Robert McNeill
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by J. Craig Venter
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by Glenn Greenwald
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by Tim Jackson
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by Lee M. Silver
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by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
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by Jared Diamond
Biographies
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by Rick Tetzeli, Brent Schlender
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by Theo Fleury
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by Walter Isaacson
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by Bernd Bruckler, Risto Pakarinen
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by Bob Woodward
Communication, psychology, work
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by Michael Lopp
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by Patrick Rhone
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by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon
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by Dan Provost, Tom Gerhardt
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by Viktor E. Frankl
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by Marshall B. Rosenberg
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by Susan Cain
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by Al Pittampalli
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by Daniel Kahneman
Urbanism
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by David Levinson, Kevin Krizek
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by Enrico Moretti
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by Edward Glaeser
Sailing, exploration, mountaineering, survival
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by Steven Callahan
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by Piers Paul Read
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by Beryl Bainbridge
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by Stuart Woods
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by Lin Pardey, Larry Pardey
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by Tom Cunliffe
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by Alfred Lansing
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by John Rousmaniere
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by Alison Muir Bennett
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by Hal Roth
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by Jon Krakauer
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by John Franklin
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by Nick Ward, Sinead O’Brien
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by John Edward Huth
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by Renee Petrillo
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by Joshua Slocum
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by Robert Falcon Scott
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by Larry Pardey, Lin Pardey
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by David Barrie
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by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
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by Don Casey
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by David Roberts
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by Alison Noice
Exercise and wellbeing
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by Susan Adams, Esther Gokhale
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by Kelly Starrett
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by Paul Wade
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by Paul Wade
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by Kelly Starrett
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by Paul Wade
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by Al Kavadlo
Other
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by George Orwell
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by Michael Ondaatje
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by J. D. Salinger
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by John Grisham
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by Neal Stephenson
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by Dan Brown
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by Björn Kurtén
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by John Lloyd, Douglas Adams
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by Douglas Adams
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by William Golding
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by Douglas Adams, John Lloyd
![](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/411pakPjvdL._SS110_.jpg)
by Ernest Hemingway
![](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51lAc1ImbQL._SS110_.jpg)
by Jack Kerouac
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by S. E. Hinton
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by Charles Bukowski
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by Sofi Oksanen
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by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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by Karel Capek
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by Michael Dorris