Ask HN: Books Recommendations?
Posted by washelterskelte 3 days ago
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)
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Comment by nodra 2 days ago
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Comment by dlcarrier 3 days ago
- Scale (Geoffrey West) - When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows… (Steven Pinker)
Comment by defrost 3 days ago
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
Comment by brokegrammer 2 days ago
Old Man's War - John Scalzi
Comment by fiberfault 1 day ago
Uptime - Sampo Kaleva
Comment by enorfin 3 days ago
Comment by __patchbit__ 3 days ago
on minds by rosenbloom
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Comment by chistev 3 days ago
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
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Comment by hehimself 2 days ago