I started reading regularly a few years ago. I mostly read fiction, a lot of classics and modern favorites. Stuff like Vonnegut, king, PKD, Orwell, Lovecraft, Wells, McCarthy, etc.
Anyways, I have a few friends who tend to prefer non fiction, but I struggle with choosing a book. I tend to have an assumption that I’d prefer non fiction information in a more raw format (maybe reading a wiki page or watching a video) I just don’t know how to choose a book. Let’s say for example if I wanted to read a book on AI, how would I go about choosing which one to actually read? (I don’t want an AI book, that’s just an example)
Examples of non fiction I’ve started to read or finished include: Sapiens , Tools of Titans, surely you’re joking Mr Feynman, the immortality key, some Jordan Peterson book my friend got me, atomic habits, moonwalking with Einstein.
I tend to discredit ‘self help’ books, those aren’t as interesting, I think they reword each other and that’s the kind of thing I feel like is better on one page as point form tips and tricks.
I’m interesting in space, science, engineering, intellectuals, math, exploration. Does anyone have a good recommendation, or better yet, a way to go about choosing and commiting to a book?
by dr-hades6
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Yeah moonwalking with Einstein was a good book. I’ve read most of what you’ve mentioned too. But I’m not a non fiction person.
You can read the immortal life of henritta lacks if you don’t know about her.
Bad science by Ben Goldacre is a great book! A lot of learn from it. This book is very funny and clever.
Read a book about water theory by Michio Kaku, I can’t recall the name. I read it with my professor during my college days for fun. It was a lot of fun. We used to discuss about how water crystals change based on our emotions or the environment they’re in and how they affect our bodies when we consume them.
There’s another book called “Factfulness: Ten things were wrong about the world” which is basically an extended tedtalk.
I almost re-recommended *Moonwalking with Einstein* having forgetting the title but remembering the concept. So, having read many similar books I strongly recommend:
* *Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst* by Robert Saposlky
The book has you first read primers (appendices) on endocrinology, neuoscience and genetics (akin but better than wiki entries) as a foundation and then synthesizes the information further in the text.