I realize this isn't really the intent of the question, but I read "The Count of Monte Cristo" this year for the first time and it's now my favorite book. It's a classic that I just had never bothered with and the story sucked me in. The redemption, revenge, scheming, secrecy. It was phenomenal.
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#22Napoleon by Andrew Roberts. It's one of those rare works of history that is both highly informative and a real pleasure to read.
It helps that Napoleon lived one of the most extraordinary lives in human history.
Key takeaway, in the saucy words of the great man himself: "Fortune is a woman. The more she does for me, the more I will require of her."
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#23I realize this isn't really the intent of the question, but I read "The Count of Monte Cristo" this year for the first time and it's now my favorite book. It's a classic that I just had never bothered with and the story sucked me in. The redemption, revenge, scheming, secrecy. It was phenomenal.
I reread this book over and over. What a captivating masterpiece.
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#24Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel.
Might be worthwhile to read this after Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel. While not a formal trilogy, there are a lot of connections and quite honestly they are each totally amazing.
Last Night in Montreal, by the same author, is also great, and totally different from the above three.
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#25Three Body Problem trilogy. Most unique sci-fi I have ever read.
In the same vein of "interesting sci-fi thought experiments", I keep coming back to Hurley's The Stars are Legion as an amazing (and disturbing) exploration of what a society that used biology the way we use electronics could look like.
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#26Best is hard! But "Owls of the Eastern Ice," about fieldwork in Siberia studying owls, is definitely up there.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/22/owls-of-the-ea...
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#27"The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee. If anyone can recommended some other "beginner" books for learning genetics I would really appreciate it.
The gene machine (centres around nobel prize winning discovery of ribosome structure)
Time love memory: influence of genes on time keeping, mating, neurobiology.
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#28Build by Tony Fadell (iPod, Nest).
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#29Reading it right now, but I already think it's the test thing: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals I was (and still am) obsessed with productivity. But I more and more my tasks had felt like something I needed to get done, to afterwards finally be able to relax and profit from them. But this time never came and I just got busier. The book does a great job at explaining how much of our daily grind is base…
This book was definitely one of my highlights. The number of times I exclaimed “I’m really not the only one that feels that?!” Was too many to measure. It really forces you to confront time in a way that I haven’t stopped thinking about since.
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#30The end of the world is just the beginning by Peter Zeihan. It is an amazing walkthrough of the modern global economy and how it is changing based on changing demographics and politics. Highly recommended.