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Mine were: – Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai (2000) – William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis (1991) – John Ma, Polis (2024) – John Julius Norwich, A History of Venice (1982)
(Apologies if someone has posted something similar recently. I did a quick search and couldn't find anything.)
Highly recommend it. Don't waste your time with Franklin's autobiography.
you don't have to have read the other Hunger Games because it is set about 60 years before the others
Very entertaining sci-fi. I tore through it a a couple of days.
The story of his life was absolute fascinating for me, unfortunately the last part of the book attempts a connection with the development of Alpha Go / reinforcement learning that should have been avoided.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Walter Isaacson) Highly recommend it. Don't waste your time with Franklin's autobiography.
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor Very entertaining sci-fi. I tore through it a a couple of days.