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Ask HN: Books Recommendations?

I just wanted to know what you guys have enjoyed recently, or really any book you'd recommend to the HN crowd. I've currently got:

- Metamagical Themas (Hofstadter)

- The Complete Books of Charles Fort (Fort)

- Heavenly Mathematics (van Brummelen)

- Plane and Spherical Trigonometry (Kells, Kern and Bland)

- Spherical Trigonometry with Naval and Military Applications (Kells, Kern, Bland)

- Moby Dick (Melville)

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- Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic (Ilan Pappé)

Normally I'd be recommending some kind of Sci-Fi or Fantasy series, but based on your reading list, here's a couple of books from the boring science genre that I actually finished, so they have to be at least somewhat worthwhile:

- Scale (Geoffrey West) - When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows… (Steven Pinker)

Yorro Yorro: Everything Standing Up Alive - David Mowaljarlai

Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections - John P. Snyder

Fallout: Hedley Marston and the atomic bomb tests in Australia - Roger Cross

A Fortunate Life - A.B. Facey

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stephenson. Sometimes it is good to go back to the classics. The copy which I read was illustrated by N.C. Wyeth which made it especially fun to read.

All Systems Red - Martha Wells

Old Man's War - John Scalzi

If a shameless plug is allowed here, I'd like to add my hard tech thriller:

Uptime - Sampo Kaleva

beginning of infinity by david deutch

try this: untethered soul

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Night by Elie Wiesel

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris

Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

Lying by Sam Harris

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Cosmos by Carl Sagan.

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

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Atlas Shrugged

concept of mind by ryle

on minds by rosenbloom

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