My house is full of (paper) books and I read all the time.
If you like my blog, you might like the following books.
Education and Learning
- Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined by Scott Barry Kaufman
- The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley
Making bread
Self-help
Sex
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Religion
- Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland
Science
- Reinventing Discovery by Michael Nielsen
- The scientific method by Armstrong and Green
- Sex, Science and Profits: How people evolved to make money by Terence Kealey
Technology and economics
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves and How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley
- Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
- The Myth of the Entrepreneurial State by McCloskey and Mingardi
Programming
- The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks
- Hacker’s Delight by Henry S. Warren
Environment
- Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger
- False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet by Bjorn Lomborg
- Unsettled by Koonin
Work
- Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
- The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing by John Perry
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
Society
- Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World by Mark Frauenfelder
- Life Inc. and Program or Be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
- The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murray
- Intellectual and Society by Thomas Sowell
Scifi
- Theft of Fire by Devon Eriksen
- Blindsight by Peter Watts
- House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
- Glasshouse, Saturn’s Children and The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
- Pandora’s Star and the rest of the Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton
- Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling
- Rainbows End and Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge
- Theft of Fire by Devon Eriksen
Health and longevity
- Cracking the Aging Code by Josh Mitteldorf
- The Telomerase Revolution by Michael Fossel
- The Abolition of Aging by David Wood
- Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey
- Biologically Modified Justice by Colin Farrelly
- Doctoring Data: How to sort out medical advice from medical nonsense by Malcolm Kendrick
- The Clot Thickens: The enduring mystery of heart disease by Malcolm Kendrick
Vaccines
- Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and The Forgotten History by Suzanne Humphries
- Vaccines, Amen: The Religion of Vaccines by Aaron Siri
Covid
- My Choice: The Ethical Case Against COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates by Julie Ponesse
- Our Last Innocent Moment by Julie Ponesse
- Hold The Line: My story from the heart of the Freedom Convoy by Tamara Lich
Daniel Lemire, "Book recommendations," in Daniel Lemire's blog, April 12, 2012, https://lemire.me/blog/book-recommendations/.
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May I recommend that you include “The Every Computer Performance Book” in your list of books. This is a buzz-word free, occasionally funny, book on how to solve and avoid performance problems. I wrote it to give back the knowledge, insights, tips, and tricks I was given over the last 25 years of my computing career. I am also in the process of transferring large parts of the book to my blog rwwescott.wordpress.com
I hope you will find it worthy and help readers find it through your blog. To review my qualifications go here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bobwescott
Thank you,
Bob
You might be interested in my book: LEARNING, SCHOOLING AND THE BRAIN: NEW RESEARCH VS. OLD ASSUMPTIONS. It’s available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_fb_0_13?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=alden+blodget&sprefix=alden+blodget%2Cundefined%2C1664
Unskilled is truly outstanding and most thorough books regarding the matter of knowledge that I have ever perused. Kaufman packs a mind boggling measure of data – bunches of studies and look into and authentic viewpoint – into the pages and has an endowment of bringing it practical and weaving the data together in a manner that gives significance and sense.