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)

7 points | by washelterskelte 1 day ago

10 comments

  • brokegrammer 7 hours ago
    All Systems Red - Martha Wells

    Old Man's War - John Scalzi

  • dlcarrier 1 day ago
    Normally 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)

  • nodra 22 hours ago
    - Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic (Ilan Pappé)
  • defrost 1 day ago
    Yorro 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

  • enorfin 1 day ago
    beginning of infinity by david deutch
  • __patchbit__ 1 day ago
    concept of mind by ryle

    on minds by rosenbloom

  • theycallmeritik 1 day ago
    try this: untethered soul
  • hehimself 15 hours ago
    Atlas Shrugged
  • chistev 1 day ago
    Animal 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

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