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#52Murder Mysteries.
Agatha Christie's 'Hercule Poirot Series' books are always good. (Actually most of the Agatha Christie's crime series are good.) Bear in mind that most of those are set in the 1920s-1930s period.
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#53Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30659.Meditations
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#54The Ancient City - Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges If you're interested in what life in ancient Greece / Rome was like. The author does a very good job at not going into too much detail and boring the reader, while still telling you all the important events and changes that took place.
Amazing book, it explains so much about the deep layers of our culture that it can make modern usage of terms seem hollow.
For another epic collection of history tidbits for the following period check out From Dawn to Decadence - Jacques Barzun
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#55Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo had a big impact on me when I read it recently. I wouldn't call it horror, but it's a disturbing and yet compelling read.
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#56There is No Antimemetics Division. You'll love it.
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#57Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo had a big impact on me when I read it recently. I wouldn't call it horror, but it's a disturbing and yet compelling read.
The scenes to Metallica's "One" is from the movie.
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#58Providence, Alan Moore
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#59The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. Recently got around to finally reading it. I know Snow Crash is considered his best sci-fi novel (and it’s amazing, too), but I think I liked this one even better. Snow Crash is funny and weird and action packed, but its light-hearted tone diffuses the tension. The Diamond Age, by contrast, had a lot of hair-raising moments and characters I was really invested in.
I always thought Cryptonomicon would be the go-to stephenson recommendation for nerds, but I guess it reads very dated now.
Can call it historical fiction now.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
just started reading Anathem. Not sure how I feel about it, nor if this was a good book to start reading Neal Stephenson. But time will tell :D
FWIW I picked up & put down Anathem a few different times before it "clicked" for me — the made up words made it hard to get into at first. But now it's one of my favorite Stephenson novels. A less-steep place to start with him might be: - Snowcrash - The Diamond Age - Seveneves
I really like Seveneves, but I do feel like it’s the beginning of a larger piece.