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            <p>Check out my favorite books, organized into categories I thought were the most relevant.</p>
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                <li><a href="#important" title="Important">Important</a></li>
                <li><a href="#great" title="Great">Great</a></li>
                <li><a href="#scifi-favorites" title="Sci-Fi Favorites">Sci-Fi Favorites</a></li>
                <li><a href="#scifi-canon" title="Sci-Fi Canon">Sci-Fi Canon</a></li>
                <li><a href="#scifi-subgenres" title="Sci-Fi Subgenres">Sci-Fi Subgenres</a>
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                        <li><a href="#cyberpunk" title="Cyberpunk">Cyberpunk</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#feminist-scifi" title="Feminist Sci-Fi">Feminist Sci-Fi</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#military-scifi" title="Military Sci-Fi">Military Sci-Fi</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#space-opera-epic" title="Space Opera and Space Epic">Space Opera and Space Epic</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#first-contact" title="First Contact">First Contact</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#post-scarcity" title="Post-Scarcity">Post-Scarcity</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#scifi-short-stories" title="Sci-Fi Short Stories">Sci-Fi Short Stories</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#scifi-historical-fiction" title="Sci-Fi Historical Fiction">Sci-Fi Historical Fiction</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#scifi-big-three" title="Sci-Fi Big Three">Sci-Fi "Big Three" Authors</a></li>
                        <li><a href="near-future-realistic-scifi" title="Near Future and Realistic Sci-Fi">Near Future and Realistic Sci-Fi</a></li>

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                <li><a href="#science-nonficton" title="Science Nonfiction">Science Nonfiction</a></li>
                <li><a href="#lit-rpg" title="Lit RPG">Lit RPG (Literary role playing game)</a></li>
                <li><a href="#technothriller" title="Technothriller">Technothriller</a></li>
                <li><a href="#dystopian" title="Dystopian">Dystopian</a></li>
                <li><a href="#post-apocalyptic" title="Post Apocalyptic">Post Apocalyptic</a></li>
                <li><a href="#medical" title="Medical">Medical</a></li>
                <li><a href="#autobiographical" title="Autobiographical">Autobiographical</a></li>
                <li><a href="#fantasy" title="Fantasy">Fantasy</a></li>
                <li><a href="#philosophical" title="Philosophical">Philosophical</a></li>
                <li><a href="#miscellaneous" title="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a>
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                        <li><a href="#essays" title="Essays">Essays</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#horror" title="Horror">Horror</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#survival" title="Survival">Survival</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#short-story" title="Short Story">Short Story</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#memoir" title="Memoir">Memoir</a></li>
                        <li><a href="#childrens" title="Children's">Children's</a></li>
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            <h2 id="important">Important</h2>
            <ul>
                <li>When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi</li>
                <li>Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe</li>
                <li>Night by Elie Wiesel</li>
                <li>Here Is New York by E. B. White</li>
                <li>Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton</li>
                <li>Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison</li>
            </ul>
            <h2 id="great">Great</h2>
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                <li>Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl</li>
                <li>Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut</li>
                <li>The Prophet by Khalil Gibran</li>
                <li>Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad</li>
                <li>All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr</li>
                <li>Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West</li>
                <li>Hiroshima by John Hersey</li>
                <li>The House of God by Samuel Shem</li>
                <li>Babel by R.F. Kuang</li>
            </ul>
            <h2 id="scifi-favorites">Sci-Fi Favorites</h2>
            <ul>
                <li>Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos Series #1) by Dan Simmons</li>
                <li>The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos Series #2) by Dan Simmons</li>
                <li>Prey by Michael Crichton</li>
                <li>Blindsight by Peter Watts</li>
            </ul>
            <h2 id="scifi-canon">Sci-Fi Canon</h2>
            <ul>
                <li>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams</li>
                <li>Dune by Frank Herbet<sup>🚀🌠</sup></li>
                <li>The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells</li>
                <li>Foundation by Isaac Asimov</li>
                <li>The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury</li>
                <li>Neuromancer by William Gibson<sup>🚀🌠</sup></li>
            </ul>
            <h2 id="scifi-subgenres">Sci-Fi Subgenres</h2>
            <h3 id="cyberpunk">Cyberpunk</h3>
            <ul>
                <li>Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs #1) by Richard Morgan</li>
                <li>Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs #2) by Richard Morgan</li>
                <li>Woken Furies (Takeshi Kovacs #3) by Richard Morgan</li>
                <li>Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson</li>
                <li>Network Effect (Murderbot #6) by Martha Wells</li>
                <li>Starfish (Rifters #1) by Peter Watts</li>
                <li>Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman</li>
            </ul>
            <h3 id="feminist-scifi">Feminist Sci-Fi</h3>
            <ul>
                <li>The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin<sup>🚀🌠</sup></li>
            </ul>
            <h3 id="military-scifi">Military Sci-Fi</h3>
            <ul>
                <li>The Forever War (The Forever War #1) by Joe Haldeman<sup>🚀🌠</sup></li>
                <li>Forever Free (The Forever War #2) by Joe Haldeman</li>
            </ul>
            <h3 id="space-opera-epic">Space Opera and Space Epic</h3>
            <ul>
                <li>Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos Series #1) by Dan Simmons</li>
                <li>The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos Series #2) by Dan Simmons</li>
                <li>A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge<sup>🚀🌠</sup></li>
                <li>Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie<sup>🚀🌠</sup></li>
                <li>Startide Uplift by David Brin<sup>🚀🌠</sup></li>
                <li>We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse #1) by Dennis Taylor</li>
                <li>For We Are Many (Bobiverse #2) by Dennis Taylor</li>
                <li>All These Worlds (Bobiverse #3) by Dennis Taylor</li>
                <li>Heaven's River (Bobiverse #4) by Dennis Taylor</li>
                <li>Not Till We Are Lost (Bobiverse #5) by Dennis Taylor</li>
                <li>The Three Body Problem (Rememberance of Earth's Past #1) by Cixin Liu</li>
                <li>The Dark Forest (Rememberance of Earth's Past #2) by Cixin Liu</li>
                <li>Death's End (Rememberance of Earth's Past #3) by Cixin Liu</li>
            </ul>
            <h3 id="first-contact">First Contact</h3>
            <ul>
                <li>Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky</li>
                <li>Ringworld by Larry Niven<sup>🚀🌠</sup></li>
                <li>Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke<sup>🚀🌠</sup></li>
                <li>Roadkill by Dennis E. Taylor</li>
            </ul>
            <h3 id="post-scarcity">Post Scarcity</h3>
            <ul>
                <li>Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow</li>
            </ul>
            <h3 id="scifi-short-stories">Sci-Fi Short Stories</h3>
            <ul>
                <li>Exhalation by Ted Chiang</li>
                <li>Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang</li>
                <li>Invisible Planets by Ken Liu</li>
                <li>All Systems Red (Murderbot #1) (Novella) by Martha Wells</li>
                <li>Artificial Condition (Murderbot #2) (Novella) by Martha Wells</li>
                <li>Rogue Protocol (Murderbot #3) (Novella) by Martha Wells</li>
                <li>Exit Strategy (Murderbot #4) (Novella) by Martha Wells</li>
                <li>Fugitive Telemtry (Murderbot #5) (Novella) by Martha Wells</li>
                <li>System Collapse (Murderbot #6) (Novella) by Martha Wells</li>
                <li>The Freeze-Frame Revolution (Novella) by Peter Watts</li>
            </ul>
            <h3 id="scifi-historical-fiction">Sci-Fi Historical Fiction</h3>
            <ul>
                <li>The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal<sup>🚀🌠</sup></li>
            </ul>
            <h3 id="scifi-big-three">Sci-Fi "Big Three" Authors</h3>
            <ul>
                <li>I, Robot (Robot Series #0) by Isaac Asimov</li>
                <li>The Caves of Steel (Robot Series #1) by Isaac Asimov</li>
                <li>The Naked Sun (Robot Series #2) by Isaac Asimov</li>
                <li>The Robots of Dawn (Robot Series #3) by Isaac Asimov</li>
            </ul>
            <h3 id="near-future-realistic-scifi">Near Future and Realistic Sci-Fi</h3>
            <ul>
                <li>The Martian by Andy Weir</li>
                <li>Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir</li>
                <li>Artemis by Andy Weir</li>
            </ul>
            <h2 id="science-nonfiction">Science Nonfiction</h2>
            <ul>
                <li>The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkings</li>
                <li>A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking</li>
                <li>Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything by Zach and Kelly Weinersmith</li>
                <li>We Are All Stardust by Stefan Klein</li>
                <li>Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari</li>
            </ul>
            <h2 id="lit-rpg">Lit RPG (Literary role playing game)</h2>
            <ul>
                <li>Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl #1) by Matt Dinniman</li>
                <li>Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl #2) by Matt Dinniman</li>
                <li>The Dungeon Arachist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl #3) by Matt Dinniman</li>
                <li>The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl #4) by Matt Dinniman</li>
                <li>The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl #5) by Matt Dinniman</li>
                <li>This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl #5) by Matt Dinniman</li>
            </ul>
            <h2 id="technothriller">Technothriller</h2>
            <ul>
                <li>Prey by Michael Crichton</li>
                <li>The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton</li>
                <li>Timeline by Michael Crichton</li>
                <li>Micro by Michael Crichton</li>
                <li>Congo by Michael Crichton</li>
                <li>Sphere by Michael Cricthon</li>
                <li>Timeline by Michael Crichton</li>
            </ul>
            <h2 id="dystopian">Dystopian</h2>
            <ul>
                <li>Brave New World by Aldoux Huxley</li>
                <li>1984 by George Orwell</li>
                <li>Animal Farm by George Orwell</li>
                <li>The Giver by Lois Lowry</li>
                <li>We by Yevgeny Zamyatin</li>
                <li>Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury</li>
                <li>A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess</li>
                <li>The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick</li>
            </ul>
            <h2 id="post-apocalyptic">Post Apocalyptic</h2>
            <ul>
                <li>The Postman by David Brin</li>
                <li>One Second After by William Forstchen</li>
                <li>The Mayflower Project by Katherine Applegate</li>
            </ul>
            <h2 id="medical">Medical</h2>
            <ul>
                <li>The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee</li>
            </ul>
            <h2 id="autobiographical">Autobiographical</h2>
            <ul>
                <li>No Shortcuts to the Top by Ed Viesturs</li>
                <li>The Will to Climb by Ed Viesturs</li>
            </ul>
            <h2 id="fantasy">Fantasy</h2>
            <ul>
                <li>The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss</li>
                <li>The Poppy War (The Poppy Wars #1) by R.F. Kuang</li>
                <li>How to Become The Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler</li>
                <li>Orconomics (The Dark Profit Saga #1) by J. Zachary Pike</li>
                <li>Son of a Liche (The Dark Profit Saga #2) by J. Zachary Pike</li>
            </ul>
            <h2 id="philosophical">Philosophical</h2>
            <ul>
                <li>The Stranger by Albert Camus</li>
            </ul>
            <h2 id="miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h2>
            <h3 id="essays">Essays</h3>
            <ul>
                <li>Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris</li>
            </ul>
            <h3 id="horror">Horror</h3>
            <ul>
                <li>The Outsider by Stephen King</li>
            </ul>
            <h3 id="survival">Survival</h3>
            <ul>
                <li>Hatchet by Gary Paulsen</li>
            </ul>
            <h3 id="short-story">Short Story</h3>
            <ul>
                <li>The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick</li>
            </ul>
            <h3 id="memoir">Memoir</h3>
            <ul>
                <li>Just Kids by Patti Smith</li>
            </ul>
            <h3 id="childrens">Children's</h3>
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                <li>The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster</li>
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