I want to read books to increase my knowledge. I am interested in learning stuff. So anytime you think will help me learn something new is welcome. I want to the that person in the Novel that has theoretical knowledge of everything, “I have read a book” person.
If it’s advanced ready please suggest the basic too from where to start. Thank you
by the-_-seeker
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_Cosmos_ by Carl Sagan will teach you a little of everything. Science, history, the history *of* science… but basically, *why* science is important.
Michael Pollan’s books on food — _Cooked_, _In Defense of Food_, and _The Omnivore’s Dilemma_ — can teach you a lot about food, about nutrition, and about the nonsense that a lot of us have absorbed from advertising and half-baked science.
But you know what? I believe that every book can teach you something: a new word, a bit of wisdom, or maybe just that some people shouldn’t write books. George Carlin’s _When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?_ will make you *think* about his jokes. The Brother Cadfael murder mysteries by Eillis Peters will sneakily teach you bits of herbalism, biology, and Medieval English history. And so on.
If you want to apply close reading.
The Cantos by Ezra Pound
The Society of Spectacle by Guy Debord
Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard
Homework for Grown-ups: Everything You Learnt at School…and Promptly Forgot by E. Foley and B. Coates. It’s a little bit of knowledge about everything really.
Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey. The Open Library page is [here](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12284524W/Ending_Aging?edition=key%3A/books/OL17932740M).
Anything by Mark Kurlansky