Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?

A good pairing is Atlas Shrugged and The Illuminatus! Trilogy.

Best tech book has been "Designing Data-Intensive Applications".

"The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder.

Three more thumbs up for Blind Sight. Gripping story but also puts forward some interesting questions on nature of consciousness and reality

I really like Blindsight for how some of the questions it sets may apply to how we might face artificial general intelligence.

Blindsight and Echopraxia by Peter Watts [1] I enjoyed the ideas in these books.

This was a great book (especially audible).

Also recommended from Neal Stephenson: The Diamond Age.

Similar theme, not great literature but still a good, quick read for people who work in tech: The Phoenix Project

I really enjoyed that book

Just finished my third reading of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. It really ruined most other history books for me by setting the bar so high.

I also think Blood Meridian is one the greatest books of all time.

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn The titular Ishmael is a gorilla who learns to communicate with humans (telepathically) and seeks to teach humanity how to see the underlying cultural narratives that we are captive to

The Expanse series is great