Ask HN: Books Recommendations?
I just wanted to know what you guys have enjoyed recently, or really any book you'd recommend to the HN crowd. I've currently got:
- Metamagical Themas (Hofstadter)
- The Complete Books of Charles Fort (Fort)
- Heavenly Mathematics (van Brummelen)
- Plane and Spherical Trigonometry (Kells, Kern and Bland)
- Spherical Trigonometry with Naval and Military Applications (Kells, Kern, Bland)
- Moby Dick (Melville)
- Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic (Ilan Pappé)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stephenson. Sometimes it is good to go back to the classics. The copy which I read was illustrated by N.C. Wyeth which made it especially fun to read.
Normally I'd be recommending some kind of Sci-Fi or Fantasy series, but based on your reading list, here's a couple of books from the boring science genre that I actually finished, so they have to be at least somewhat worthwhile:
- Scale (Geoffrey West) - When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows… (Steven Pinker)
Yorro Yorro: Everything Standing Up Alive - David Mowaljarlai
Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections - John P. Snyder
Fallout: Hedley Marston and the atomic bomb tests in Australia - Roger Cross
A Fortunate Life - A.B. Facey
All Systems Red - Martha Wells
Old Man's War - John Scalzi
If a shameless plug is allowed here, I'd like to add my hard tech thriller:
Uptime - Sampo Kaleva
beginning of infinity by david deutch
concept of mind by ryle
on minds by rosenbloom
try this: untethered soul
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Night by Elie Wiesel
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
Lying by Sam Harris
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Cosmos by Carl Sagan.
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
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