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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

Last Updated Jan 31, 2024

Dune

Dune

Frank Herbert

1984

1984

George Orwell

The Three-Body Problem

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu

Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

High Growth Handbook

High Growth Handbook

Elad Gil

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

The Overstory

The Overstory

Richard Powers

Stories of Your Life and Others

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

Janelle Shane

Stranger in a Strange Land

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

Seveneves

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson

Exhalation

Exhalation

Ted Chiang

Exit West

Exit West

Mohsin Hamid

Dark Matter

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch

Why We're Polarized

Why We're Polarized

Ezra Klein

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward R. Tufte

Americanah

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Name of the Wind

The Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss

Recursion

Recursion

Blake Crouch

Thing Explainer

Thing Explainer

Randall Munroe

The Looming Tower

The Looming Tower

Lawrence Wright

The Dream Machine

The Dream Machine

M. Mitchell Waldrop

Norse Mythology

Norse Mythology

Neil Gaiman

We Are Our Brains

We Are Our Brains

D. F. Swaab

Phantoms in the Brain

Phantoms in the Brain

V.S. Ramachandran & Sandra Blakeslee,

The Paper Mengerie

The Paper Mengerie

Ken Liu

Asymmetry

Asymmetry

Lisa Halliday

The Fifth Season

The Fifth Season

N. K. Jemisin

How We Got to Now

How We Got to Now

Steven Johnson

NW

Zadie Smith

Screenplay

Screenplay

Syd Field

The Wealth of Networks

The Wealth of Networks

Yochai Benkler

Reinventing Comics

Reinventing Comics

Scott McCloud

The City We Became

The City We Became

N.K. Jemisin

The Master Switch

The Master Switch

Tim Wu

Why Not Me?

Why Not Me?

Mindy Kaling

Frankenstein Dreams

Frankenstein Dreams

Michael Sims

Astounding

Astounding

Alec Nevala-Lee

The Obelisk Gate

The Obelisk Gate

N.K. Jemisin

Parable of the Sower

Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler

Good Charts

Good Charts

Scott Berinato

The Stone Sky

The Stone Sky

N.K. Jemisin

Y: The Last Man Book Two

Y: The Last Man Book Two

Brian K. Vaughan

Parable of the Talents

Parable of the Talents

Octavia E. Butler

Girl Gone Viral

Girl Gone Viral

Arvin Ahmadi

Iraq + 100

Iraq + 100

Nassan Blasim

Fabric of the Cosmos

Fabric of the Cosmos

Brian Greene

Ancillary Justice

Ancillary Justice

Ann Leckie

1491

1491

Charles C. Mann

Figuring

Figuring

Maria Popova

But How Do It Know?

But How Do It Know?

J. Clark Scott

The Wandering Earth

The Wandering Earth

Cixin Liu

What We See When We Read

What We See When We Read

Peter Mendelsund

Dollars and Sense

Dollars and Sense

Dan Ariely

How It All Blew Up

How It All Blew Up

Arvin Ahmadi

The Trouble With Poetry

The Trouble With Poetry

Billy Collins

The Dark Forest

The Dark Forest

Cixin Liu

The Wise Man's Fear

The Wise Man's Fear

Patrick Rothfuss

Y: The Last Man Book One

Y: The Last Man Book One

Brian K. Vaughan

The Attention Merchants

The Attention Merchants

Tim Wu

Death's End

Death's End

Cixin Liu

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Dune

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The Three-Body Problem

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