我以前真的不太喜歡看非小說類的書，因為我覺得大部分都會讓我無聊到死。 幾個月前，我決定強迫自己多讀一點，這樣我就可以學到更多關於任何事情的知識。 讓我驚訝的是，我真的很喜歡！ 所以，哪一本非小說類的書在娛樂你的同時，也教了你一些東西呢？
到目前為止，我最喜歡的絕對是 Bill Bryson 的《萬物簡史》。 我是在 Reddit 上聽說這本書的，所以謝謝你們！
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9 年前
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
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9 年前
我沒在唬爛，而且別叫我雪莉。
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9 年前
Bill Bryson 還有其他幾本超讚的。我超愛他的《一九二七：美國》和《曬傷國度》
其他推薦的有：
道格拉斯·亞當斯的《最後一見》。
理查·普雷斯頓的《血疫》（有些地方讀起來像恐怖小說，但都是真的，只是可能有點過度戲劇化）
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9 年前
《海瑞塔・拉克斯的永生》作者：麗貝卡・思克魯特。讀起來像小說，但現在我可以來一場關於基因學和生物倫理學的，差點就能稱得上是高深莫測的對話了。差點而已。
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9 年前
這本書對我來說，實際上感覺有點毛骨悚然，因為那些永生不死/重生/增生的細胞，並不是那些健康的正常細胞，而是非常惡毒的癌細胞！這簡直是噩夢/恐怖片的情節，只不過這次是現實...
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9 年前
《死後的世界》作者：Mary Roach
《電的宇宙》作者：David Bodanis
《零：一個危險想法的傳記》作者：Charles Seife
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9 年前
龍蝦的秘密生活 - Trevor Corson。 基本上所有你可能需要知道的關於龍蝦的事情。 這本書寫得很好，而且引人入勝，除了龍蝦他媽的超酷（誰知道？）
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9 年前
這可能有點偏門，但我超愛Clementine Ford的《像女孩一樣戰鬥》——有點像女權主義宣言。
我真的很喜歡這本書的一點是，它對任何人來說都很容易理解：任何性別、任何年齡、任何教育程度。Clem沒有使用複雜的意識形態或大段與現實生活無關的書面文字。她只是向我們展示了在她自己和媒體中發生了什麼，以及它是如何以此方式開啟女權主義的概念的。
它真實而赤裸，有一次讓我哭了。但它也充滿了幽默。當你像Clementine Ford一樣機智幽默時，它肯定會融入你的寫作中。
我目前正在抵抗為我愛的每個女人和男人買一本並強迫他們閱讀它的衝動。我希望全世界都能讀到它。愛人、仇恨者、支持生命者、反同性戀者、右翼和左翼。對每個人來說都有很多東西。
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9 年前
近藤麻理惠 - 怦然心動的人生整理魔法
這本書真的超棒的，它幫我整理了生活，丟掉那些我不再需要的東西。
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9 年前
我來這裡是要提一下「簡史」。我現在要回家了。
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我立刻想到了四本。
腦袋著火：我的瘋狂月：一本很棒的書，詳細描述了一位 24 歲年輕人突然發病並與罕見的自身免疫性疾病作鬥爭以及她的康復過程。如果你對心理學、疾病和這類東西感興趣，應該會很喜歡。
偽裝大師：我在中情局的秘密生活：另一個很棒的讀物；了解他在中情局的生活/職業生涯非常有趣。
在海的心臟：埃塞克斯捕鯨船的悲劇：朋友建議我先讀這本書再看電影，我一點也不後悔。信息量很大，絕對讓你感受到成為捕鯨船的一部分是什麼感覺。
哈萊姆地獄戰士：最後，我強烈推薦這本圖畫小說。它詳細描述了關於在第一次世界大戰中作戰的第 369 步兵團鮮為人知的歷史。
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9 年前
George Pendle 寫的《Strange Angel》。 講述的是火箭科學家、JPL（噴氣推進實驗室）創始人，同時也是神秘學家（他用克勞利啟發的儀式把他在帕薩迪納的富裕鄰居嚇壞了）的 Jack Parsons。 裡面甚至還有一些和 L. Ron Hubbard 的糾葛。 這是一本關於一個聰明又有趣的人，以及一些火箭科學和魔法的非常獨特的書。
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9 年前
Jared Diamond 寫的《第三種猩猩的崛起與衰落》超好看。
Alan Chalmers 寫的《科學是什麼？》也是本好書。
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9 年前
賈雷德·戴蒙德的《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》（我總是把這些名詞的順序搞混）大概是他最出名的作品了。看久了我就會失去興趣，但它們真的超有趣的。 《崩潰》也不錯。
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9 年前
超讚的選擇！我超愛 Bryson 寫的東西，從他那學了一百萬件事。我推薦 Jared Diamond 的《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》，或是 John McPhee 寫的任何東西。喔，還有 Mark Kurlansky 的《鹽》或是他寫的其他書。
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9 年前
Tom Hodgkinson：《如何閒散》、《如何自由》和《閒散父母》。基本上，我們大多數人都把太多時間和精力花在工作上，還花錢買那些根本不會讓我們開心的東西，搞不好我們應該停下腳步，下車休息一下。
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9 年前
Deep: 潛入深海：自由潛水、叛逆科學，以及海洋告訴我們的關於我們自己的事，作者：James Nestor
The Unconquered: 尋找亞馬遜雨林最後的未接觸部落，作者：Scott Wallace
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9 年前
孫子兵法 克勞塞維茨《戰爭論》 宮本武藏《五輪書》
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9 年前
一定要把馬可斯·奧勒留的冥想錄加到那個清單裡。
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9 年前
你想找什麼類型的書？ 我的意思是，Thomas Paine 的《理性時代》是我今年讀過最好的書之一。但我可以想像它會惹惱很多人。它主要偏哲學，而且以一種奇怪的方式反基督教。但不是反對上帝。
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9 年前
艾瑞克·弗洛姆的《爱的艺术》，絕對是我讀過最重要的書，如果我是宇宙之王，我會把它列為必讀。
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9 年前
John Higgs 寫的《The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds》。
這本書本來是要講述樂隊 The KLF 的歷史，他們臭名昭著地（正如書名所說）在 1994 年於朱拉島燒了一百萬英鎊……但實際上，它是一個關於西方世界魔法思維的簡史——它非常引人入勝，完全娛樂，而且讀到最後，Higgs 會讓你相信這件事比 KLF 意識到的還要大得多。
然後他給你一個選擇。就此打住，然後帶著那個更「神奇」的解釋高高興興地走開。或者讀最後一章，在那裡他揭穿了他剛才讓你相信的一切。
我也推薦他的短篇小說《Our Pet Queen》，這是一個非常聰明的方式來審視君主制及其運作方式，同樣，它在讓你從不同角度思考的同時，也讓你樂趣無窮。
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9 年前
Oliver Sacks。神經科學。
我也真的很喜歡《Deep Survival》（深度生存），Laurence Gonzalez 寫的，還有《Tricks of the mind》（心靈詭計），Derren Brown 寫的。
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9 年前
Mary Roach 寫的書。
我也大力推薦 Thomas Harding 的書 - 《漢斯與魯道夫》和《湖畔小屋》，分別是關於納粹獵人和德國歷史的。
David Finkel 的《感謝你的服役》，講述美國退伍軍人從伊拉克和阿富汗回國後的經歷，是我讀過最有力的書之一。
我也喜歡 Samantha Ellis 的《如何成為女主角》，她重讀所有以女性為主角的經典作品，看看她對它們的看法是否隨著年齡的增長而改變。
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9 年前
我超愛 Sam Kean 寫的書。他那三本書，像是《決戰神經外科醫生》、《消失的湯匙》和《小提琴家的拇指》，都圍繞著某一種特定的科學（分別是神經科學、化學和 DNA/基因學）。Kean 寫的東西蠻硬的，但他寫作風格超幽默的。
然後 Siddhartha Muhkerjee 的《眾病之王：癌症傳》也超讚的啦！！
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9 年前
Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer.
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marquisreef
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9 年前
James Gleick 寫的《混沌》真的超好看的。
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9 年前
凱迪拉克沙漠
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ashn0d
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9 年前
Randall Munroe 的《What If》
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9 年前
《快思慢想》作者：丹尼爾・康納曼
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9 年前
羅伯特·休斯的《致命的海岸》是一本關於澳洲奇特歷史的精彩著作。
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我有兩本！ Aziz Ansari 的《現代愛情》 (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23453112-modern-romance) ) 和一本叫做《狗狗如何愛我們》(https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17346832-how-dogs-love-us) ) ，作者是 Gregory Berns
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9 年前
Malcolm Gladwell 的任何一本書，都超有趣，讀起來也很過癮。
Barbra Erehnreich 的《Bait and Switch》/《Nickel and Dimed》。她是一位前調查記者，以「臥底」的方式試圖揭露和記錄弱勢群體在現實世界中面臨的挑戰，例如他們如何靠最低工資過活，以及作為一個沒有經驗的工人，在貧困的工資下找工作/保住工作/升職的困難。
Emily V. Gordon 的《Super You》。一本非常直接、清晰的自助書籍，教你如何賦予自己力量，成為最好的自己，有些部分是專門針對女性的，但我認為總體來說，男女都適用。
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《學著鞠躬：一個美國老師在日本學校的故事》作者：Bruce Feiler - 搞笑又發人深省。 了解人們的日常生活，並深入了解日本文化。
《其他太陽的溫暖：美國大遷徙的史詩故事》作者：Isabel Wilkerson - 講述了非裔美國人從美國南方腹地默默遷徙到北方（芝加哥和布魯克林）和西方（加州）的故事，他們離開的原因，以及他們在那裡建立新生活所做的努力。 記錄了幾位從 19 世紀末到 20 世紀中葉遷徙的真實人物。
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9 年前
疫區 - 關於伊波拉和其他病毒的書，以及它如何幾乎感染了美國
世紀的哭泣 - Randy Shilts 寫的這本書讓我學到了比我醫學院六年學到的更多關於 HIV/AIDS 歷史的知識
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9 年前
我最喜歡的肯定是 Deborah Blum 寫的《毒物手冊》。這是一本關於 1920 年代法醫學誕生的書。每一章都講述了一個關於不同毒藥的故事。它通常以一個關於謀殺或因毒藥引起的意外死亡的故事開頭，然後深入探討毒藥對我們有害的原因的化學/生物學，以及如果我們接觸到它會對我們造成什麼影響。
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9 年前
亞當·斯密如何改變你的人生：羅斯·羅伯茨
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9 年前
Crips 幫派老大寫的《怪物》。
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9 年前
村上春樹的《地下》深入探討了日本社會，也終於讓奧姆真理教的受害者發聲。
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好笑吧？嗯… 我會選《恐懼與憎恨在競選之路》。這本書真的讓你學到很多關於政治的過程，不只是 1972 年，甚至是今天也一樣，而且不是你在公民課上會學到的那種東西，而是更多關於美國權力的殘酷現實，以及成為候選人，更不用說總統，需要付出什麼。而且還保留了 Thompson 古怪又棒的風格。
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9 年前
Max Hastings 寫的《世界末日》是我讀過最好的歷史書，而且我讀了很多歷史書。這真是一本研究得非常透徹、結構也很棒的書。
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9 年前
Susan Quilliam 著《如何選擇伴侶》（人生學校系列叢書 5）
超愛這本書裡引用了好多其他超棒的作品！ :)
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Thomas Sowell 寫的《Basic Economics》真是一本好書，它講述了經濟學的原理，不需要深入研究數學細節。這本書改變了我看世界的方式，也讓我認識了其他偉大的經濟學思想家，像是 Milton Friedman。Thomas Sowell 寫的書大多都超棒，包括他自己的自傳。
《The Autobiography of Malcolm X》也是一本很棒的書，講述了他在民權運動中的奮鬥。除了其他關於社會正義的書之外，《People's History of the United States》也是一本寶藏。
《Talent is Overrated》也改變了我對努力工作比天賦更重要的看法（不管那是什麼意思）。我在大學時讀了這本書，這也是我第一次讀到一萬小時定律（Malcolm Gladwell 大概也在同一時間普及了這個概念）。
最後，我想推薦《Excuse Me, Professor》，這也是一本好書，討論了我們社會的各種社會和經濟問題。
我覺得讀非小說類書籍的重點是，它們真的可以挑戰你的思考方式，如果你讀的是一個你通常不同意觀點的作者，尤其如此。希望你們喜歡。
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我覺 Aziz Ansari 寫的《愛情，不用翻譯》超好笑又長知識。
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老實說，我會推薦 Bryon 很多作品，他超棒的。 還有，看看 Mark Forsyth 的作品，尤其是《詞語的故事》、《時間的故事》和《修辭元素》。 他的作品真的很有趣。
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Malcolm Gladwell 寫的任何書。
我特別喜歡他的《眨眼》和《引爆點》。他真的是個超棒的說故事的人，而且今年夏天還出了個 podcast（Revisionist History），超讚的。
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Kerry Patterson 的《關鍵對話》
超有價值，超實用。 改變人生的書。
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我沒找到任何心靈勵志書。它們不是非小說類的嗎？
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我會從我之前發的幾篇貼文裡複製貼上，所以如果你看過這些推薦，先跟你說聲抱歉。
其中一些特別突出的包括 《原子彈的製造》 ，作者是 Richard Rhodes。 這本書實至名歸地贏得了普立茲獎，它完美地融合了敘事歷史、軍事歷史、科學和傳記。 真的超吸引人的。
我也特別喜歡 Anthony Everitt 寫的 西塞羅的傳記。 這本書對這位非常重要的羅馬參議員和羅馬共和國的衰落進行了引人入勝的研究。 我目前正在閱讀 Everitt 寫的 奧古斯都的傳記，可以說是它的續集。
《大博弈》 是一部關於 19 世紀俄國和英國在阿富汗及其周邊地區的同名鬥爭的引人入勝的歷史。 事情越變，就越保持不變... 看到今天犯的錯誤和一百年前犯的錯誤一樣，真是令人驚訝。
我喜歡 Thomas Pakenham 寫的 《瓜分非洲》 。 看看歐洲列強如何在短短幾十年內 literally 瓜分這個大陸，真是令人大開眼界。
《SPQR：古羅馬史》 - 一部關於羅馬的優秀近期歷史。
《瓜分非洲：白人征服黑暗大陸，1876 年至 1912 年》 和 《布爾戰爭》。 我喜歡 Pakenham 寫的關於非洲的書。
《致命的海岸》 應該是所有澳洲人的必讀之物。 這是一部關於這個國家是如何建立的，以及在建立過程中流下的血、汗和淚水的驚人歷史，warts and all。
《公民》 是 Simon Schama 對法國大革命早期階段的精彩修正主義歷史。 內容豐富、學識淵博、發人深省、引人入勝... 這本書應有盡有。
我也對美國內戰特別感興趣。 我認為你不能錯過 Shelby Foote 的巨著三部曲 《內戰》。 三卷，3,000 多頁，每一頁都引人入勝。 通常被認為是 Catton 的 《內戰百年史》 的陪襯（儘管他也寫了一部非常易讀的單卷歷史， 《內戰》 ）。 說到這裡，在單卷歷史中，McPherson 的 《自由的戰鬥吶喊》 經常被高度推薦。 我喜歡它，但覺得它有點 dry。
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我還沒看過這些，但其中一半已經在我的閱讀清單裡了，另一半現在也加進去了。 謝啦！
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我得去讀一些這些書！
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Mary Roach 的任何作品都行，我最喜歡的是**《屍體：解剖檯上的生死》和《吃相》**。
還有 Erik Larson 的任何作品，像是**《白城魔鬼》或《沉船之謎》**。
祝你閱讀愉快！
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謝啦！
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我也推 Mary Roach。除了《Stiff》，我最喜歡《Bonk》（但話說回來，我一直都愛聽黃色笑話）。
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What was the most entertaining nonfiction book that really taught you something?
I've never really been a fan of nonfiction books because I figured most would bore me to death. A few months ago I decided to force myself to read more so I could learn more about anything and everything. To my surprise I have really enjoyed it! So what nonfiction book taught you something while entertaining you at the same time?
My favorite so far has definitely been A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. I heard about this book here on Reddit so thank you!
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
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I'm not joking, and don't call me Shirley.
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Bill Bryson has a few other really good ones. I loved his One Summer: America 1927 and In a Sunburned Country
Some other ones are:
Douglas Adams's Last Chance to See.
Richard Preston's The Hot Zone (Reads like a horror novel at parts, but it's all true if probably overdramatized at parts)
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Reads like fiction but now I can have an almost intellectual conversation about genetics and bioethics. Almost.
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It actually felt quite a creepy book in some underlying sense for me, because those immortal ever living/reborning/multiplicating cells aren't those healthy normals, but only really vicious cancerous ones! That's something straight out of nightmare/horror, except it is reality this time...
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Stiff by Mary Roach
Electric Universe by David Bodanis
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
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The Secret Life of Lobsters - Trevor Corson. Literally everything you could ever possibly need to know about lobsters. The book is well-written and captivating, aside from the fact that lobsters are neat as fuck (who knew?)
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This might be a bit left of centre, but I LOVED Fight Like a Girl by Clementine Ford - something of a feminist manifesto.
One thing I really love about this book is that this is accessible for anyone: any gender, any age, any education level. Clem doesn't use complex ideologies or large swathes of book text that doesn't have any bearing on real life. She simply shows us what has and is happening in her life and in the media and its in this way she opens up the concept of feminism.
It's real and raw and brought me to tears at one point. But it's also done with a lot of humour. When you're as witty and comical as Clementine Ford it's bound to find its way into your writing.
I am currently resisting the urge to buy a copy for every woman and man I love and forcing them to read it. I wish the whole world would read it. The lovers, the haters, the pro-lifers, the anti-gay-righters the right wing and the left. There's so much for everyone.
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Marie Kondo - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying This book is really inspiring and it helped me to declutter my life and get rid of things I don't need anymore.
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I came here to mention 'A Short History.' I'll go home now.
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There are four, which come to mind immediately.
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness: a great book detailing a 24 year old's sudden on-set and struggle with a rare autoimmune disease and her recovery. Should really enjoy it if you're into psychology, illness, and that kind of stuff.
The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA: another awesome read; fascinating to learn about his life/career in the CIA.
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex: Friend suggested I actually read the book before watching the movie, and I do not regret it. Very informative and definitely gives you a feel for what being a part of a whaleship was really like.
The Harlem Hellfighters: Lastly, I'd highly recommend this graphic novel. It details the little known history about the 369th infantry regiment that fought in WWI.
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Strange Angel by George Pendle. It's about rocket scientist, JPL founder, and occultist (who thoroughly freaked out his ritzy Pasadena neighbors with Crowley inspired rituals) Jack Parsons. There's even some run-ins with L. Ron Hubbard. Very unique book about a smart and interesting guy along with some rocket science and magic(k).
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"The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee" by Jared Diamond was fascinating.
"What is this thing called science?" By Alan Chalmers is a also a great read.
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Jared Diamond's Germs, Guns and Steel (i always mix up the order of those nouns) is probably his most well known. I find myself losing interest after a while but they are incredibly interesting. Collapse is good too.
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Great choice! I love all of Bryson's stuff and have learned a million things from them. I would recommend Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel or anything by John McPhee. Oh, and Salt by Mark Kurlansky or any of his other books.
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Tom Hodgkinson: How to be Idle, How to be Free and The Idle Parent. Basically, most of us are putting far too much time and effort into working and spending money on things that won't make us happy anyway, and perhaps we ought to stop the world and get off.
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Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves by James Nestor
The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes by Scott Wallace
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Art of War by Sun Tzu On War by Clausewitz Book of Five Rings by Musashi
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Gotta add the meditations of Marcus Aurelius to that list.
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Any genre you are looking for? I mean, Thomas Paine's Age of Reason is one of the best i have read this year. But i could see it upsetting many people. It is mostly philosophical and quite anti-christian in an odd way. Not anti-god, though.
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The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm, absolutely the most important book I've ever read and I would make it required reading if I were the king of the universe.
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The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs.
It's meant to be a history of the band The KLF who notoriously (as the title says) burnt a million pounds on the Island of Jura in 1994... but really it's a potted history of magical thinking in the Western world- it's fascinating, totally entertaining and by the end of the book Higgs has you convinced that this was something way bigger than even the KLF realised.
And then he gives you an option. Stop reading there and then and go away happy with that more 'magical' explanation. Or read the final chapter where he debunks everything he's just convinced you of.
I'd also recommend his shorter book "Our Pet Queen" which is a very smart way of looking at monarchies and how they work, again it's relentlessly entertaining while making you think in different angles.
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Oliver Sacks. Neuroscience.
I also really liked Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzalez, and Tricks of the mind, Derren Brown.
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Books by Mary Roach.
I also highly recommend Thomas Harding's books - Hanns and Rudolf, and The House By The Lake, about Nazi hunters and German history, respectively.
Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel, about American vets and their experiences coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, is one of the most powerful books I've ever read.
I also liked How To Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis, who rereads all the classics with female main characters to see if her perceptions of them have changed as she's gotten older.
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I really enjoy books by Sam Kean. His three books, "The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons," "The Disappearing Spoon," and the "Violinist's Thumb" all center around one specific type of science (neuroscience, chemistry, and DNA/genetics, respectively). Kean tackles some pretty heavy duty stuff, but he also has an extremely humorous writing style. And "Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Muhkerjee is also fabulous as well!!
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Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer.
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James Gleick's Chaos was thoroughly entertaining.
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Cadillac Desert
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Randall Munroe's What If
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thinking fast and slow by Daniel kahneman
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The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes is a great account of the bizarre history of Australia.
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I have two! Aziz Ansari's [Modern Romance] (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23453112-modern-romance) and a book called [How Dogs Love Us] (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17346832-how-dogs-love-us) by Gregory Berns
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Any of Malcolm Gladwell's books, super interesting and fun to read.
Bait and Switch/Nickel and Dimed by Barbra Erehnreich. She's a former investigative journalist going "undercover" to try to expose and document real world challenges of the disadvantaged, as to how they are getting by living on minimum wage and the difficulties of getting/keeping/advancing a job as an inexperienced worker on poverty wages.
Super You by Emily V. Gordon. Very direct and clear self help book on empowering yourself to be the best version of you, some bits directed to women specifically, but I think over all would be appropriate for men and women.
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Learning to Bow : An American Teacher in a Japanese School by Bruce Feiler - Funny and insightful. Learn about the people as they are day to day and gain insight into the Japanese culture.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson - About the silent migration of African Americans from the Deep South to the north (Chicago and Brooklyn) and the west (California), the reasons why they left, and their efforts to get there and establish a new life in a new place. Chronicles several real people who migrated from the late 19th century through the mid-twentieth century.
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The Hot Zone - Book about ebola and other viruses and how it almost infected USA
And the band played on - This book by Randy Shilts taught me more about HIV/AIDS history than 6 years of my medicine school
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My favorite has to be The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum. It's a book about the birth of forensic medicine during the 1920s. Each chapter is a story about a different poison. It usually starts out with a story about a murder or an accidental death caused by the poison, and then it goes more into the chemistry/biology of why the poison is harmful to us and what it does to us if we come in contact with it.
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How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: Russ Roberts
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Monster by the leader of the Crips.
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Underground by Haruki Murakami A fascinating insight into Japanese society, and finally gave the victims of Aum Shinrikyo a voice.
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Entertaining eh? Hmmm, I'll have to go with Fear and Loathing on The Campaign Trail. Really teaches you a lot about the political process, not just in 1972, but even today, and not the kind of stuff you'd necessarily learn in a civics class, but more of the harsh realities of power in America and what it takes to become a candidate, let alone a president. All while keeping with Thompson's eccentric and awesome style.
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"Armageddon" by Max Hastings is by far the best history I've ever read, and I've read a lot of history. Just an astoundingly well-researched and well-structured book.
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9 年前
How To Choose A Partner, by Susan Quilliam (The School of Life Book 5)
I loved how there were so many other terrific works referenced in this gem of a book! :)
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"Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell is a great book that talks about the principles of economics without needing to go into the details of math. The book changed the way I view the world and further introduced me to other great economic thinkers such as Milton Friedman. Most books written by Thomas Sowell is just great, including his own autobiography.
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" is a fantastic book that talks about his struggle in the civil rights movement. Along with other books about social justice, "People's History of the United States" is also a gem.
"Talent is Overrated" also changed my mind about the importance of hard work over the raw talent (whatever that means). I read this book while in college, and this book is the first time that I read about 10,000 hour rule (which was also popularized by Malcolm Gladwell at around the same time).
I'll end with "Excuse Me, Professor," which another great book that discusses the various social and economics issues of our society.
I think the point about reading nonfiction is that they can really challenge the way you think, which is especially true if you read a writer from the perspective that you do not typically agree with. Hope you guys like them.
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I thought Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari was hilarious and informative.
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mittens1295
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9 年前
I would suggest a lot of Bryon's work tbh, he's great. Also, take a look at Mark Forsyth, especially The Etymologicon, The Horologicon, and The Elements of Eloquence. His work is really entertaining
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9 年前
Any of Malcolm Gladwell's books.
I particularly liked Blink and The Tipping Point. He's a really great storyteller and also released a podcast this summer (Revisionist History) which was super good.
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9 年前
"Crucial Conversations" by Kerry Patterson
Invaluable and useful. A life changer.
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9 年前
I did not find any self-help books. Aren't they non-fiction?
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I'm going to copy and paste from a couple of earlier posts of mine, so apologies if you've seen some of these recommendations before.
Some stand outs include The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. A well deserved winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is a wonderful mix of narrative history, military history, science and biography. Utterly gripping.
I'm also particularly fond of Anthony Everitt's biography of Cicero. A fascinating study of this hugely important Roman Senator and the fall of the Roman Republic. I'm currently enjoying Everitt's biography of Augustus, which could be considered a sort of sequel.
The Great Game is a gripping history of the eponymous struggle between Russia and Britain in and around Afghanistan in the 19th century. The more things change, the more they stay the same... Amazing to see the same mistakes being made today as were made a hundred years ago.
I loved The Scramble for Africa by Thomas Pakenham. Quite eye-opening to see how the European powers literally carved up the continent in less than a couple of decades.
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome - An excellent recent history of Rome.
The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 and The Boer War. I love Pakenham's books on Africa.
The Fatal Shore should be compulsory reading for all Australians. An amazing history, warts and all, of how this nation was founded and the blood, sweat and tears shed whilst doing it.
Citizens is Simon Schama's wonderful revisionist history of the early stages of the French Revolution. Weighty, erudite, provocative, engaging... this has it all.
I'm also particularly interested in the American Civil War. I don't think you can go past Shelby Foote's magisterial trilogy The Civil War. Three volumes, 3,000+ pages and every one a page turner. Often considered a foil to Catton's Centennial History of the Civil War (though he also wrote a very readable single volume history, The Civil War ). Speaking of which, of single volume histories, McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom is often highly recommended. I liked it, but found it a little dry.
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I haven't read any of these yet but half were already on my reading list and the other half are on it now. Thanks!
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9 年前
I need to read some of these!
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9 年前
Anything by Mary Roach, my favorites are Stiff and Gulp.
Also anything by Erik Larson, Devil in the White City or Dead Wake.
Enjoy!
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Thanks!
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9 年前
Seconding Mary Roach. Aside from Stiff, Bonk is my favorite (but then again have always been partial to dick jokes).
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