Ask HN: What are some good books you have recently read?
I usually rely on HN for book recommendations. Anything new books that people have read that they feel are worth reading?
Not new (I read 2.5 years ago), but great books:
Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs by Michael Belfiore https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6825113-the-department-o...
Rocketeers by Michael Belfiore https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1090296.Rocketeers
Other good books in similar genre
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales : Oliver Sacks http://www.amazon.com/An-Anthropologist-Mars-Seven-Paradoxic...
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science: Norman Doidge - http://www.amazon.com/The-Brain-That-Changes-Itself/dp/14915...
Received this book as a gift from an elderly relative and felt obliged to give it a cursory read. Quickly became engrossed. Thoroughly researched with tons of anecdotes make MacArthur come alive.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Idea-Factory-American-Innovation/d...
Permutation City - Greg Egan
Revival - Stephen King
Glasshouse - Charles Stross
The City - Dean Koontz
Non-fiction:
Predictable Revenue - Aaron Ross
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World - Steven Johnson
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - Jon Gertner
How Doctors Think - Jerome Groopman
Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up To Biotech's Brave New Beasts - Emily Anthes
Zero to One - Peter Thiel