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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
Have a book/author you think I'd enjoy? Let me know here! And no, there's no such thing as too many recommendations.
So give me authors, or titles or series and maybe even let me know why you think I or everyone should read them! Please feel free to also include reading orders or any other things you think I should know.
Genres I read most often include fantasy, urban fantasy, some science-fiction, romance, mystery, as well as Teen/YA books!
So give me authors, or titles or series and maybe even let me know why you think I or everyone should read them! Please feel free to also include reading orders or any other things you think I should know.
Genres I read most often include fantasy, urban fantasy, some science-fiction, romance, mystery, as well as Teen/YA books!
NONFICTION
TITLE(S): Coming of Age in the Milky Way
ABOUT: My favorite cosmology/physical sciences popularization. It covers the development of our understanding of the universe from a deeply humane and humanistic perspective.
AUTHOR: Siddhartha Mukherjee
TITLE(S): The Emperor of All Maladies
ABOUT: The layperson's book about cancer. It's history, science, medicine, philosophy, and ethics all at once.
AUTHOR: Charles C. Mann
TITLE(S): 1491
ABOUT: Compiles the information we have about pre-Columbian cultures. Since few of them had writing, much of it is archaeological problem-solving. This book will entirely rearrange your understanding of the world.
AUTHOR: Charles MacKay
TITLE(S): Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
ABOUT: The many-splendored history of how people can't be trusted in groups.
AUTHOR: Bill Bryson
TITLE(S): Basically anything, but A Short History of Nearly Everything is his best, IMO.
ABOUT: What it says on the tin, plus excellent writing.
AUTHOR: Oliver Sacks
TITLE(S): Again, basically anything, but The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a good place to start.
ABOUT: Sacks is a neurologist who consults on very strange or rare cases, and writes about all the ways the brain can go fascinatingly wrong.
AUTHOR: Tom Standage
TITLE(S): A History of the World in 6 Glasses
ABOUT: Booze. Also caffeine.
AUTHOR: Bill Streever
TITLE(S): Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
ABOUT: Pretty much I'm just horrifyingly fascinated by the idea of dying terribly in a blizzard.
AUTHOR: Bill Hayes
TITLE(S): Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood
ABOUT: Probably not for the needle-averse.
AUTHOR: John Kelly
TITLE(S): The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
ABOUT: Both human stories and medical science.