Some books I keep coming back to.
Fiction
- Clifford Simak City
- Ted Chiang Stories of Your Life and Others Exhalation
- Terry Pratchett Small Gods Jingo Going Postal
- Robert Heinlein The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Starship Troopers
- K.J. Parker The Folding Knife Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
- Iain M. Banks The Player of Games
- Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game
- Lois McMaster Bujold The Vor Game
- John Williams Stoner
- Benjamín Labatut The Maniac
Politics & Sociology
- James Burnham The Machiavellians
- Friedrich Hayek The Road to Serfdom
- Dan Wang Breakneck
Classics
- Plutarch Life of Lycurgus
- Tacitus Agricola
- Pliny the Younger Letters
- Richard Saller Pliny’s Roman Economy Patronage in the Early Empire
- Walter Scheidel State Power in Ancient China and Rome
- Taco Terpstra Trading Communities in the Roman World
Science & Math
- Richard Feynman Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!
- Raymond Smullyan This Book Needs No Title
- Hartry Field Science Without Numbers
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