The Water Knife

Second The Water Knife.

* Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo. Powerful anti-war story. * Vagabonding, by Rolf Potts. Shaped my views on hard work and travel. * 1984, by George Orwell. Brilliant and terrifying. * The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle. Overcoming mental pain through consciousness. * Planetwalker, by John Francis. Inspired me to walk and put myself into things more. * Pure enjoyment: Snow Crash (Neal Stephenson), Ready Player One (Ernest Cline), Watchmen (Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons), Red Rising trilogy (Pierce Brown). Honorable mention: The Water Knife (Paolo Bacigalupi).

Try The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. A great book about time dilation and Vietnam. The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi. A book about water rights in the south west that I can think of.

Some of the books that made me think and look at things differently (from 2015 readings only): - In the Light of What We Know - The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - Bathing the Lion - The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help - The Tears of Dark Water - God Is Dead - A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life - The Water Knife

Return of a King (William Dalrymple 2013) - A book about the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 19th century. To paraphrase Mark Twain: History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes Being Mortal (Atul Gawande, 2014) - Powerful book about old age and confronting the mortality of our loved ones The Dark Forest (Cixin Liu, 2014) - Wonderful science fiction from China The Peripheral (William Gibson, 2015) - Bleak, near future science fiction. The Water Knife (Paolo Bacigalupi, 2015) - More bleak, near future science fiction.