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I see a lot of top-n lists of fiction books, which is all fine and dandy, but I haven't really seen one for non-fiction. There are a lot of good books out there and I know I'm missing a bunch, so I thought we could pool the titles together and make a list of must-haves.
Oh, and let's not get into a fiction/non-fiction debate about religious texts. Let's just leave them off and say that most of them are probably worth reading.
Here's mine:
-What is Mathematics - A truly ground-up survey of mathematics, praised by Albert Einstein and covering everything from counting to topology.
-A World Undone - A great book about World War I, something which I feel is under-represented in history lessons and documentaries
-The Federalist Papers - Classic American discussion of government
-The Words We Live By - An excellent line-by-line discussion of the US Constitution
-The First Directorate - An autobiography of Oleg Kalugin, a KGB Chief during the Cold War
-Nature's Building Blocks - I'm going to be good here and only include one hard science book. It covers each element of the periodic table, its history, chemistry, and uses
-The Rommel Papers - If you can handle the... dryness and length, it's an excellent insight into one of the greatest military minds in recorded history
Oh, and let's not get into a fiction/non-fiction debate about religious texts. Let's just leave them off and say that most of them are probably worth reading.
Here's mine:
-What is Mathematics - A truly ground-up survey of mathematics, praised by Albert Einstein and covering everything from counting to topology.
-A World Undone - A great book about World War I, something which I feel is under-represented in history lessons and documentaries
-The Federalist Papers - Classic American discussion of government
-The Words We Live By - An excellent line-by-line discussion of the US Constitution
-The First Directorate - An autobiography of Oleg Kalugin, a KGB Chief during the Cold War
-Nature's Building Blocks - I'm going to be good here and only include one hard science book. It covers each element of the periodic table, its history, chemistry, and uses
-The Rommel Papers - If you can handle the... dryness and length, it's an excellent insight into one of the greatest military minds in recorded history