I’ve been doing pretty light reading lately and wanting something a little bit more challenging and thought provoking. Maybe some strong/conflicting points of view, ethics issues, inside the mind, etc. but still something that will keep me interested for longer than a few pages at a time. Would prefer novels I think, but open to non-fiction or autobiographies as well. Thanks!
by DimensionNice2477
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Max Tegmark’s **Life 3.0** is a thought provoking presentation of the spectrum of futures mankind faces due to the ascent of artificial intelligence. It’s speculative non-fiction, information-dense, and somewhat wordy.
Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey. The Open Library page is [here](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL12284524W/Ending_Aging?edition=key%3A/books/OL17932740M).
Steve Berry’s series featuring Cotton Malone…..it’s kind of like the Dan Brown books, but no religion….just history and adventure. Cotton is ex’CIA’ but now an old bookstore owner in Europe.
The Sun Is a Compass: A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds –Caroline Van Hemert
The Big Picture –Sean Carrol
Thinking, Fast and Slow –Danny Kahneman
I Contain Multitudes –Ed Yong
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going –Vaclav Smil
Enlightenment Now –Steve Pinker
The Hacking of the American Mind –Robert Lustig
The End of the World is Just the Beginning –Peter Zeihan
Pale Blue Dot –Carl Sagan
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time –Dava Sobel
The Uninhabitable Earth –David Wallace-Wells
Justice For Animals –Martha Nussbaum
This is Vegan Propaganda –Ed Winters
Psych: The Story of the Human Mind –Paul Bloom
Never Split the Difference –Chris Voss
The nothing mage – its a Series you can find on Kindle Unlimited if you have it. Copied from Amazon: “There’s nothing there.” The words may as well have been a death sentence to young Declan. Without mana, there could be no studying at the sky-piercing Pinnacle Towers, there could be no great monster hunts, and there could be no following in his father’s legendary footsteps.
He’d be a cripple.
But when a terrible accident forces him to flee, Declan learns the true nature of his mana. Just because it doesn’t resonate at any known frequency, doesn’t mean it isn’t magic. Just because he can’t cast the same spells as everyone else doesn’t mean he isn’t a mage. And just because you can’t see something, doesn’t mean it isn’t there.
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This book has a serious dark tinge to it that follows it throughout, the MC isnt the “good guy amazing hero who is just special” but makes serious mistakes and such
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
The Children of Men by P.D. James
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick
The Parasitic Mind by Gad Sadd
Thinking Fast and Slow by Dan Khannaman
Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky