"windhaven", a very underrated SF novel that most people I recommend it to have loved
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#12The Country School of Tomorrow
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#13A Secular Age by Charles Taylor. So much of contemporary conflicts / culture / etc. have been illuminated to me by understanding this book. It’s super long, however, so you may want to read How Not to Be Secular by James K. A. Smith first, which is a summary of the larger book.
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#14The Art of War - Sun Tzu. One of my favourite books ever. Everyone should read it.
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#15“Behave” by Sapolsky
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#16The Wandering Inn, you will not be able to read anything else while reading this, if you get hooked.
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#17Nabokov ends one of the most captivating fragments of Pale Fire with a sentence "I trust the reader has enjoyed this note."
He totally got me.
It is not the book I would recommend most often, it just came to my mind.
What I would recommend the most are psychological books. 'Mind and Nature' by Gregory Bateson is one of my favorites.
Posts like this one are awesome, always happy to sieve through.
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#18Nabokov ends one of the most captivating fragments of Pale Fire with a sentence "I trust the reader has enjoyed this note." He totally got me. It is not the book I would recommend most often, it just came to my mind. What I would recommend the most are psychological books. 'Mind and Nature' by Gregory Bateson is one of my favorites. Posts like this one are awesome, always happy to sieve through.
Some book suggestions from another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36429792 The last one changed my life completely. ;)
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#19Daemon by Daniel Suarez
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#20War and War by Laszlo Kraznahorkai - an obsessive old Hungarian bureaucrat finds a mysterious text, and travels to New York City to transcribe it onto the internet before he dies. Fascinating story.