I'm reading this right now (in my 30's) and LOVING it! It's a hefty read, but the story--though I've heard the story before, seen movies, etc.--is so great it's fantastic.
I'm 31, so I'm about the same age .. I've heard of the book before, but didn't know much about it, and haven't read it until this year. It truly blew me away, almost from first page. It will be one of the very few books that I re-read.
There's a great collection of essays in The Philosohy of Law (edited by Richard Dworkin), which gives a characterization of legal philosophy/thought in Western Analytic tradition, and Post-Scarcity Anarchism (Murray Bookchin), a sort of historical analysis on how the post-structuralists' thought played subnarrative to the orthogonal political philosophy of that tradition.
The Silo Saga, by Hugh Howey. Originally self-published and released as short Kindle "Singles", the first section of the series is collected in "Wool". The Omnibus collects the first five singles, and is $6 on Amazon[1]... but if you want to test it out, the first single he released is still available for free in the Kindle store. It ranks among the best zero dollars I spent all year.
Behind that, I really enjoyed "White Noise" by Don Delillo, though I did have some problems with characterization (basically, all the characters were the author), and Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
I make note of the books I read in 1-2 sittings because I can't put them down. This year these were:
Five Billion Years of Solitude - Lee Billings
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
Grand Ambition: An Extraordinary Yacht, the People Who Built It, and the Millionaire Who Can't Really Afford It - G. Bruce Knecht
A book I actually finished? I'd say One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com by Richard Brandt. It's not the whole story though. Bezos is portrayed in a favorable light throughout.
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Behind that, I really enjoyed "White Noise" by Don Delillo, though I did have some problems with characterization (basically, all the characters were the author), and Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
http://www.amazon.com/Wool-Part-One-Hugh-Howey-ebook/dp/B005...
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Wool-Omnibus-Silo-Saga-ebook/dp/B0071X...
Abundance by Peter H. Diamandis
2. Halting State by Charlie Stross
3. Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
4. The Particle At The End Of The Universe by Sean Carrol
5. Churchil Bomb by Graham Farmello
6. The Science Of Memory by Charles Fernyhough
7. The Anatomy of Violence: The biological roots of crime by Adrian Raine
8. The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and our gamble over Earth’s future by Paul Sabin
9. Experiencing Art: In the brain of the beholder by Arthur Shimamura
10. The Spark: A Mother’s Story of Nurturing Genius by Kristine Barnett
1984 by George Orwell
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2. Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
3. The January Dancer/Up Jim River/In The Lion's Mouth/On The Razor's Edge - Michael Flynn
4. Ghost Spin - Chris Moriarity
Lean Analytics - Alistair Croll and Ben Yoskovitz
Serve to win - Novak Djokovic
Honorable mention: Sell More Software - Patrick Mckenzie
I've been on a Hemingway kick ever since.
Robert Bellah - Religion in Human Evolution
Frank Kogan - Real Punks Don't Wear Black
Jerry McGill - Dear Marcus
Mark Kurlansky - The Big Oyster