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Ask HN: Can we make a list of obscure/unknown non-fiction books?
I'm tired of seeing the same recommendations everywhere. What book can you recommend that you think no one else will know about that you enjoyed? Any topic is welcome!
I'll start:
Thinking Fast and Slow - hahaha joking, I got you there ehhh!!!
what about hmm:
Critical Path by Buckminster Fuller ?
- pwinkeler 3y agoBy definition such a list is impossible
- sargstuff 3y agoGive dirth of publications, don't think there's enough time for even all of the Noone's[0] to review even a fraction of what's available. In today's day & age more difficult for unpublished prints and/or pre-electronic distribution pre-prints to "be unknown" / "be obscure". Claude Shannon references to unpublished works : https://findingaids.loc.gov/exist_collections/ead3pdf/mss/2003/ms003071.pdf https://findingaids.loc.gov/exist_collections/ead3pdf/mss/20... [0] : Noone coat of arms : https://coadb.com/surnames/noone-arms.html https://coadb.com/surnames/noone-arms.html
- sys_prog 3y agoKybalion, Reality transurfing, The illusion of money, The minimalist entrepreneur, Power vs Force, Psycho cybernetics, No self no problem
- mezod 3y agothanks for actually responding to the question!
- wannabebarista 3y ago"Lost Continents" by L. Sprague de Camp (1954). Looks at Atlantis and other lost continents as rhetorical devices in ancient history and philosophy, 20th century pseudoscience/pseudohistory, and science fiction
- ilaksh 3y agoThis would actually just be a list of less well known but still popular books. Probably 90+% of books published are "obscure" in the sense that they didn't become best sellers and won't be recognized by the average person or likely mentioned in a list like you requested. Most books just don't become popular enough to be well known. Which I think is a tough benchmark.
- Desafinado 3y agoAnything by Merwin Crawford Young, early Zen Buddhist texts, Anthony Giddens, Peter Berger, the Tao te Ching, Max Weber, Norbert Elias, Nisargadatta Maharaj