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My daughter just had her first novels (a young adult trilogy) published a few weeks ago. Even though it is not really my genre I read it and enjoyed it. Of course I am biased.... Dysfunctional Series: Books 1-3 (Origins, Dark Imagination, A Mighty Long Fall) By McKenzie Rae https://www.amazon.com/Dysfunctional-Books-Origins-Imaginati...
My daughter just had her first novels (a young adult trilogy) published a few weeks ago. Even though it is not really my genre I read it and enjoyed it. Of course I am biased.... Dysfunctional Series: Books 1-3 (Origins, Dark Imagination, A Mighty Long Fall) By McKenzie Rae https://www.amazon.com/Dysfunctional-Books-Origins-Imaginati...
Congrats to her!
Kenzi started writing fiction pretty seriously at about 14 years of age. So while 24 seems young to be a published author she has put in a decade of sustained effort honing her craft. She has completed something like 8 full length novels plus several others in various stages.
She seems to have found her daily writing pace and can write 2 or maybe 3 novels a year while working a full-time job.
She got her degree in Technical and Scientific Communication and works as a software and hardware tester along with doing some documentation for a health sensor company.
In the spring of 2018 her day job moves away, and she doesn't intend to move with it... so she will be looking for a new day job unless commercial success is surprisingly fast on the novelist front.
2. Traction
3. Unshakable
4. Shoe Dog (This has been my favorite book thus far of 2017, I did not think it would of left such a lasting impression on me about life and success and business)
5. Start with Why
6. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*uck
The Dome Trilogy[2] was also pretty good, as are the Rho Agenda series[3][4][5].
And if you prefer horror to sci-fi, the I Am Not a Serial Killer series[6] was very good overall, although I thought it lost some steam in the last two books.
And finally, The Rosie Project[7] was so completely charming I ended up reading it straight through in one night.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/6426890.M_D_Cooper
[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25501349-unexpected-rain
[3] https://www.goodreads.com/series/61746-the-rho-agenda
[4] https://www.goodreads.com/series/142618-the-rho-agenda-incep...
[5] https://www.goodreads.com/series/175066-rho-agenda-assimilat...
[6] https://www.goodreads.com/series/49883-john-cleaver
[7] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18015965-the-rosie-proje...
* The Unconsoled (Kazuo Ishiguro) * Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro) * Influx (Daniel Suarex) * Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Murakami) * Apex (Ramez Naam) * One Second After (William R. Forstchen) * Anna Karanina (Leo Tolstoy) * Neuromancer (William Gibson) * A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway) * Crux (Ramez Naam) * A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway) * Hardboiled Wonderland and The End of the World (Haruki Murakami)
Seconding Murakami. The Remains Of The Day is the best book I read this year. It talks through a lot of ideas I see get mentioned on HN.
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It's still openly debated, but the generally accepted Best Order to read the Dune Novels is as follows: Dune, followed by a 1-5 year pause, followed by Dune. Repeat until death. You may, if you wish, throw in the first hundred pages of a different Dune novel every ten years or so, just to remind you of the correct sequence.
Oh man, I feel like Dune Messiah (dune 2) is such a fantastic compliment to the original. It is about half the length and has such a different tone that makes the original even better.
Here is my list: https://kirubakaran.com/bookshelf/ My 2017 favorites: scifi: https://kirubakaran.com/bookshelf/columbus-day/ nonfic: https://kirubakaran.com/bookshelf/data-science-from-scratch/ fiction: https://kirubakaran.com/bookshelf/everyone-burns/
I'm going to give Columbus Day a try.
What software do you use for your bookshelf? It does a good job.
I've been tracking my reading habits via Goodreads for a few years too, although I just post a summary at the end of the year.
1. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem - I've been on a giant math books kick. I really enjoyed Simon Singh's other book, The Code Book, so this one is awesome. 2. The Code Book - If you're really into the history of cryptography, this book is for you. 3. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Not a really a revelatory book by any sorts. But a fun read. 4. The Handmaid's…
Any other math books recommendations?
The full list: https://gitlab.com/rlease/Books My list lines up with a lot of books that people have recommended here, so I'll try to add a few favorites that haven't been mentioned so far. Fiction: 1. Ubik - I read a bunch of Philip K. Dick this year, but this was my favorite. It's delightfully mind bending and left me thinking about it long after the book was done. 2. All the Pretty Horses - Beautifully written. Mc…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27410889-reinventing-del...