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We are in desperate need of a new Non-Fiction Thread, and I believe this is it. Non-fiction is the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama). But I don't have to tell you guys that, we are all smart adults here. Lets get to the good stuff, this thread is for discussing and recommending Non-Fiction books. This is a broad category so all are welcome. Some of my personal favorite non-fiction authors/books are: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (really anything by him) Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Michael Lewis (again anything by him) The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - Erik Larson (again anything by him) Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - Jon Krakauer (duh) There are numerous others: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves Seriously, I can't name all of them. Please feel free to recommend some, post what you like, seriously, ANYTHING Non-Fiction! Anything you wanted added to the OP please let me know.
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Aug 20, 2020 18:52
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Oliver Sacks is another amazing non-fiction writer. just absolutely incredible. https://www.oliversacks.com/ Migraine Awakenings A Leg to Stand On The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf An Anthropologist on Mars The Island of the Colorblind Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain The Mind's Eye Hallucinations On the Move: A Life (2015) (second autobiography) Gratitude (2015) (published posthumously) The River of Consciousness Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales (2019)
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Aug 20, 2020 23:23
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A really good read that came out this year: Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener - Exposing the seamy underbelly of Silicon Valley, this memoir recounts Anna Wiener’s experience as an ambitious Millennial who abandoned a publishing career in New York City to pursue a lucrative life in San Francisco during the peak of the tech boom. Based on her time working at three startups over the course of four years, Uncanny Valley offers a warts-and-all look at Wiener’s life in the Bay Area, surrounded by egotistical tech bros backed by millions of dollars in funding. The book also explains how once Wiener witnessed the sinister side of tech, she began to view her own skills in a different light, allowing her to abandon her high-paying job and find more meaningful work.
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Aug 27, 2020 20:14
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