Ask HN: What books are you reading

"The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World" http://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Menlo-Park-Thomas-Invented/dp/1.... Highly recommend

Just started Light by M. John Harrison

The Takeshi Kovacs novels, by Richard Morgan, are next on my list.

I'm currently reading Meatball Sundae by Seth Godin. It talks about how, just like the industrial revolution did away with the local blacksmith, the new marketing revolution is going to do away with the need to interrupt people through Tv/Radio/Advertising etc.

He also says that as the way to market a business has and is changing, this also means the way companies organise themselves and run has to fundamentally change too. Its a very interesting read.

The second book i am reading is called "Too nice for your own good" by Duke Robinson. It's for people who are either passive/aggressive or not very assertive. I have yet to make a judgment on this one, but it seems ok so far.

Apologies if you were looking for some interesting reading in terms of fiction. I havent read fiction in years.

I'm somewhere in Un Lun Dun by China Mieville right now. I cannot recommend his imaginative writing enough. (Un Lun Dun is a children's book in the same way the Potters are children's books).

Currently reading The Power of Full Engagement (after hearing about it on HN). It's not bad, and has already encouraged me to look at my eating & working habits.

Atlas Shrugged.

1984

I just bought the latest Fred Vargas, I highly recommend this author.

Dot.Con by John Cassidy - How America Lost its Mind and Money In the Internet Era. Highly recommend.

The Biology of Transcendence

not sure if that counts as technical or not ;)

On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins.

http://www.onintelligence.org/

I keep a list of books I've read and highly recommend here [1]. Almost all of them include the first chapter free (via kindle for web).

[1] http://www.alonswartz.org/books/

I just finished reading the Hunger Games trilogy. In less than a week. It was really good.

Just now I'm reading something I wanted to read for a long time: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The next will be Through the Looking Glass, same author. Amongst the last few books I read, I recommend Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, Marlen Haushofer - The Wall (although this will be too kafkaesque for some), Fahrenheit 451. I do love Jules Verne as well.

Atlas Shrugged should be known to anyone around here, I guess.. Relating to Atlas Shrugged: Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Both books were very influential to me when I was younger.

I've just started reading "Vagabonding" by R. Potts. http://www.vagabonding.net/ So far quite nice.

I've just started listening again to the unabridged Audible version of Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle - I couldn't get into the book form but the audio book version is great.

Last few Kindle books I've read were:

See No Evil by Bob Baer, the experiences of a CIA case officer in the Middle East (which influenced the movie Syriana).

Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, about the Big Swinging Dicks of Wall Street.

Decline and Fall by Chris Mullin, the diaries of one of the more decent members of the former Labour Government here in the UK.

For The Love of Physics - Walter Lewin.

Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

I'm currently reading Gödel, Escher, Bach an eternal golden braid. I definitely recommend it.

The Religion War - Scott Adams

Really great read though recommend reading God's Debris first for better understanding of the characters

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson and Linchpin by Seth Godin.

I had started Linchpin first but I’m now focusing on finishing The Primal Blueprint instead. If you like to question Conventional Wisdom and want to take a second look at how modern society has wrongly dictated what we eat, how we work out, etc. then give it a read.