Curious to hear what books are on everyone's reading lists for the coming year.
For work, learning, curiosity, pleasure, or otherwise.
Also would love to know why you're interested in the book as well!
Ask HN: What are you looking forward to reading in 2023?
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#2A really good book produced with the help of GPT / ChatGPT ?
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#3Entertainment:
- Blindsight
- Children of Dune
- War and Peace
Curiosity/Knowledge: - Peter Zeihan (author) - Atomic Habits - Turn the Ship Around
Work: - Domain Modeling Made Functional by Scott Wlaschin - Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman
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#4A book store near us has an amazing January sale, so:
Entertainment: Babel - An Arcane History by RF Kuang, Time Out of Joint by Philip K. Dick, and my usual re-read of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Non-fiction: Code (second edition), The Myth of Normal by Gabor & Daniel Mate
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#5The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Kuhn.
All of Lee Kwan Yew’s books.
The Ancient City
Some Spanish literary classics, in Spanish. (I’m at newspaper reading level, not great, and still trying to improve.)
Always with Honor, by Pyotr Wrangel
Lots of great tech books I have on preorder from No Starch Press.
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#6Learning / Curiosity:
Fantastic Fungi, Paul Stamets - Because I watched the Netflix documentary
The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli - Because someone here mentioned it and it peaked my interest
Cloud Hidden, Alan Watts - Because I hord Alan Watts quotes and need to finally read one of his works completely
The Molecule of More, Lieberman & Long - Came across it at a book store and looked interesting
Pleasure
The Go-Giver, Burg & Mann - Been on my list for a while but can't remember why.
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#7For pleasure: getting into the rabbit hole of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series (41 fantastic sci-fi / comedy novels)!
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#8I always have too many books started, but one on my to-do pile is Shoshana Zuboff's, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism." I ordered the paperback, so it's here, glaring at me.
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#9Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's about an AI, which is becoming an important future possibility, and it's newer than what I usually read. I wonder if it's more shallow-entertaining like Her, or more serious like Asimov's robot stories. Or maybe an entirely new take?
Unsong by Scott Alexander. Yes, the famous blogger with original takes on society, politics, and philosophy. Will his solid reasoning and surprising conclusions carry over into a long writing form?
Glasshouse by Charles Stross. No other reason than it's been recommended as a series here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33146896 , and I'm done with the previous entries.
The Kalevala by the Finns. One of the four ancient epics. Even if a bit of a slog, it's a refreshing change from modern reads. https://sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/kvrune15.htm
Type-Driven Development with Idris by Edwin Brady - Idris seems different enough from the mainstream that learning it might prove eye-opening. Or spoil me for coding in normal languages forever. A bit of a gamble, this one.
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#10I'm continuing to read a PhD thesis that happens to spend a lot of time talking about the migration of my great grandmother's family (and ancestors) through western Virginia and eastern Kentucky (and then on to Oklahoma and Arkansas) starting in the late 18th century.
"Who's your people?": Cumulative identity among the Salyersville Indian population of Kentucky's Appalachia and the midwest muckfields, 1677--2000" by Carlson, Richard Allen, Jr., Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2003, 711 pages; AAT 3115947