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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)
- __patchbit__ 1mo agoconcept of mind by ryle on minds by rosenbloom
- theycallmeritik 1mo agotry this: untethered soul
- enorfin 1mo agobeginning of infinity by david deutch
- chistev 1mo agoAnimal 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 https://www.rxjourney.net/list-of-books-i-finished-reading-in-2025 https://www.rxjourney.net/list-of-books-i-finished-reading-i... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_General_Nonfiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_General_Non...
- defrost 1mo agoYorro 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
- dlcarrier 29d agoNormally 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)
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- nodra 29d ago- Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic (Ilan Pappé)
- hehimself 29d agoAtlas Shrugged
- brokegrammer 29d agoAll Systems Red - Martha Wells Old Man's War - John Scalzi
- fiberfault 28d agoIf a shameless plug is allowed here, I'd like to add my hard tech thriller: Uptime - Sampo Kaleva
- NishanStepak 28d agoTreasure 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.