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Ask HN: Which non-fiction books changed your life?

• steerpike 11y ago
  Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius - some of the greatest words penned on living a simple, elegant life. I'm more of an Epicurus fan now, but this book made me a Stoic for quite a long time. QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, by Richard Feynman - for someone who never got science, this book was a beautiful revelation of just how extra-ordinary our natural world is. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, by Barbara Tuchman. Probably the best history book I've ever read. There's a reason the woman won two Pulitzer's - such a fantastic writer.
• sbierwagen 11y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Mind_Works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Mind_Works
• pseingatl 11y ago
  Game at 50, by W. Nanner Flint. A book about dating after divorce.
• villmann 11y ago
  The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (Evolution) The Red Queen - Matt Ridley (Sex and evolution) Sperm Wars - Robin Baker (Sex as the driving force in society) The books, if red in that order, provide a total picture of evolution in our society and the driving forces.