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Ask HN: What books do you re-read every decade?
- mtmail 3y agoRelated from two weeks ago "Ask HN: What books do you want to read over again?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783425 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783425 I'm surprised people list fiction. For me it would be non-fiction to relearn. So far I only reread one book on the theory of game theory (not in english so I won't post it here).
- kristianp 3y agoI'm surprised at the concept of re-reading non-fiction, but it sounds like a good idea.
- ohjeez 3y agoMy candidates are largely fiction, such as _To Say Nothing of the Dog_ (Connie Willis) and _Door Into Summer_ (Heinlein). But I do re-read Jerry Weinberg's _Secrets of Consulting_ every so often.
- PaulHoule 3y agoGalactic Patrol
- kristianp 3y agoThese are books I re-read every few years, I would say more often than every decade though: Iain M. Banks S.F. novels: Excession, Consider Phlebas, The Algebraist, Use of Weapons, Look to Windward, Surface Detail, Matter. I don't re-read Inversions or Feersum Endjinn as I find them harder to get into (and they aren't Culture novels anyway). Neal Asher: Cowl, Gridlinked and Brass Man Michel Swanwick: Vacuum Flowers Bruce Sterling: Involution ocean George R.R. Martin: Tuf Voyaging, Nightflyers Samuel Delaney: Nova. Nightflyers and Nova are back to back in a single volume as Del SF Binary Star #5. William Gibson: Neuromancer Robert Reed: Sister Alice I'm currently re-reading (for the first time) Micaiah Johnson - The Space Between Worlds. She has an upcoming book this year: Those Beyond the Wall, which seems to be a prequel.