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by kizz246 3471 days ago
Most Highly Recommended:

Cosmos - !!!

The Measure of Reality - How quantification has completely changed the face of society. Very interesting stuff. This has probably been my favourite read this year.

Nightfall - Interesting ideas of the role of religion in society and mass hysteria

Speaker for the Dead - Really fascinating book. I love sci-fi where there is an alien species that humans have trouble understanding for whatever reason

Books I unrecommend:

Heretics of Dune - Ugh. Tedious. I actually couldn't finish it. Didn't start Chapterhouse either.

Information Doesn't Want to be Free - Pretty basic. How many footnotes do you really need before you just include them in the text?

Was on maternity leave this year so there are quite a few. Those marked * are also recommended.

Guns Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond *

The Vital Question - Nick Lane *

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath *

Convergent Series - Larry Niven *

Cosmos - Carl Sagan *

World of Ptaavs - Larry Niven

The Integral Trees - Larry Niven

The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins

The Girl with Seven Names - Hyeongseo Lee *

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values - Robert M Pirsig *

The Thrilling Adventures Of Lovelace And Babbage (Comic) - Sydney Padua

The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 - Roger Zelazny

The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250 - 1600 - Alfred W. Crosby *

Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clark *

The Time Dweller - Michael Moorcock

Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card *

Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card *

Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible - Tim Gunn *

The Gods Themselves - Isaac Asimon *

The Hugo Winners vol. 3 - Various

Between Planets - Robert A. Heinlen

The Martian - Andy Weir *

Perelandra - C S Lewis

Heretics of Dune - Frank Herbert (Unfinished, couldn't do it.)

Nightfall - Isaac Asimov *

Foundation's Edge - Isaac Asimov *

Foundation and Earth - Isaac Asimov *

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlen *

Information Doesn't Want to be Free - Corey Doctorow

Currently Reading

Engines of Creation: The Coming Era Of Nanotechnology - K. Eric Drexler *

Planets for Sale - A.E. van Vogt

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

1 comments

If you haven't read it yet, 'Left hand of Darkness' from Ursula le Guin is very good.