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Ask HN: What's one book you've recently read and enjoyed?
My New Year's resolution is to read one book every week this year. I'm currently wrapping up
The Man In The High Castle and just finished Ponzi's Scheme (I loved it, thanks
icehawk219 for the recommendation).
I'm looking to fill up my reading queue. What's one book you've recently read and enjoyed?
- ggreer 11y agoLast month I read The Tsar of Love and Techno[1] by Anthony Marra. The writing, story, and characters are all fascinating. If you want to take a break from sci-fi, give it a read. 1. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995336-the-tsar-of-love-and-techno http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995336-the-tsar-of-love...
- fis 11y agoGodforsaken Sea - Lundy
- B_Howe 11y agoEnder's Game (The Ender Quintet) by Orson Scott Card
- dllthomas 11y agoLeft Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- trungtrontria 11y agoThe Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
- jlewallen 11y agoI just finished Trapped Under the Sea by Neil Swidey Definitely feel confident in saying I enjoyed rather than loved the book.
- searine 11y agoOh boy, you fucked up now. Here are the books I read this past year that I felt were "Good", starting from the most recent : To Kill A Mocking Bird (Insanely good) True Grit (Insanely good) The Little Friend (Good) Priceless (Very good, about art theft) The Secret History (Insanely good) Ready Player One (Good, nerdy) Shadow Divers (Very good, history nerd book) Diary of Anne Frank (Very good) Unbroken (Very good, way better than the movie) With The Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa (Very good) Seveneves (good, but I'm a Stephenson fanboy) The Martian (Very good, but just watch the movie). I read a bunch of other stuff, but that's what I found really "good" this past year.
- osullivj 11y agoBeen a big Stephenson fan since Cryptonomicon. Enjoyed the Baroque Trilogy, Anathem & Reamde, but non of them are as good as Cryptonomicon. It's a bit like be an Umberto Eco fan - nothing since Name of the Rose has been quite as good. Or Wes Anderson for that matter; there's been good stuff, but nothing's touched the heights of Royal Tenenbaums.
- monroepe 11y agoThe First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie
- vincentbarr 11y agoThe Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
- newdaynewuser 11y agoSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari Very interesting though later chapters become less of history and more of philosophy.
- tabeth 11y agoNate Silver's The Signal and the Noise [1] is excellent. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Many-Predictions-Fail--but/dp/0143125087/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1451951860&sr=8-1&keywords=the+signal+and+the+noise http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Many-Predictions-Fail--bu...
- pedrodelfino 11y agoElon Musk's biography by Ashlee Vance and "How to win at the sport of Business", by Mark Cuban. I really enjoyed both of them.
- kleer001 11y agoSay This Not That: Carl Alasko
- osullivj 11y agoCurrently reading Carl Sagan's Contact. Loved the 1997 film with Jodie Foster as Ellie Arroway. The book is a real treat.
- andersthue 11y agoRising Strong by Brene Brown It teaches you how to get back up after failure, how to be in the arena, doing the work and not backing down when the critics tries to shame you. Her research on shame in her earlier books and especially on the subject of "doing the best you can" in this book has helped me a lot.
- altrop 11y agoFlash Boys - Michael Lewis