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Favourite books?

hypercolius

Hi, I wanted to start this thread to share what our favourite books are!

Here are mine:

Favourite overall: Life and Death: Twilight reimagined (Meyer). I love romantic novels. Love, theoretically was also excellent as was Love hypothesis :) 

Favourite non-fiction: Assyria: The rise and fall of the world's first empire (Frahm). This caused a massive, obsessive hyperfocus on learning about Assyria when I'm just an astrophysicist!

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  • I tend not to have favourites, but here are some that were worth the effort to read, in no order:

    1. Cadillac Desert, Reisner, was very interesting on water use politics  in the US west and all the dams.
    2. Vietnam, Max Hastings, good summary.
    3. Hyperion trilogy by Dan Simmons
    4. Gulag archipelago, Solzhenitsyn, if you can make it to the end.
    5. Richard Dawkins books on evolutionand genetics.
    6. Behave, Sapolsky was very informative.
    7. Lensman series, E.E. doc Smith, read this when  14 or so.
    8. Alice in Wonderland, Alice through the Looking glass, I liked them as a teen.

    There are loads of others, but I can't think of them. There are many good science fiction ones, I liked nearly all in the Gollancz SF Masterworks series.

    Penguin historical books are normally good too.

    I have a really good WW1 book too, but I can't think of the name.

    I have bookcases full of them.

    I remember reading Magician. 

  • in reply to Stuart333

    Oh I LOVE Penguin history books! I'm actually going to start reading Byzantium by Herrin soon :)

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