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Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2022?

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Vonnegut's _Player_Piano_. In particular, I keep thinking back to this 1950s view of a computer driven society, based on 1950s computers. "He was convicted by the court computer, and we even replaced all the vacuum tubes to make sure it was an accurate verdict". Mind boggling to think about how many transistors would be involved in modern day society and what replacement of them would involve (time, cost, landfill).

I also really enjoyed _Project_Hail_Mary_.

Thanks for boosting this book parent. I didn't read it in 2022, but it's my favorite Vonnegut book.

(Slaughterhouse Five is overrated, most folks just saw the movie and the same folks who listed it on their profiles back during the G20 used to yell at me for listing "Post Office" because apparently Bukowski is problematic -- like, Jesus lady I know, that's why I didn't list Women or Factotum... then they'd cry me a (usually figurative) river when I'd shoot back why do you claim to stan Emma Goldman if you won't date someone who owns a firearm since it's not propaganda of the deed if you get your ass tackled like Squeaky Fromm, and why don't you list literally any Nabokov novel than "Lolita" as your favorite piece of Russian literature?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849267

Thank you! I missed this.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

I read Atomic habits by James Clear which set me off on a rather interesting personal journey. Didn’t think i would enjoy the book but i found it rather interesting.

Either “The Sorcerer of Pyongyang” by Marcel Theroux or “We Don’t Know Ourselves” by Fintan O’Toole.

> “The Sorcerer of Pyongyang” by Marcel Theroux

check out nothing to envy

Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin

The 2% Way by Myron Rolle

Fiction: American Gods by Neil Gaiman Non-Fiction: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

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