Ask HN: What are you reading?

[classicsnoot]

That's right, its the Sixth Edition of the HN Bookclub. Don't you dare upvote or post.

5: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9543693

4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9443897

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394397

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342886

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8918181

[0xCMP]

The Intelligent Investor[1] is my current focus after reading How I Lost a Million Dollars[2] both on Kindle.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-Collins-Business-... [2] http://www.amazon.com/What-Learned-Losing-Million-Dollars-eb...

[benjaminmikiten]

Sprinting through Cibola Burn http://www.amazon.com/Cibola-Burn-Expanse-James-Corey/dp/031... before Nemesis Games gets here http://www.amazon.com/Nemesis-Games-Expanse-James-Corey/dp/0...

Also working my way through SICP to see if it makes be a better front end dev. Results pending.

[ChristianGeek]

The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250061350/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_HI9Avb0...

And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307338622/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_BK9Avb1...

[paulornothing]

For Fun: The Girl on the Train - Just finished it, kept me interested not bad. http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Train-Paula-Hawkins/dp/1594633665...

For learning: Automate the Boring Stuff http://www.amazon.com/Automate-Boring-Stuff-Python-Programmi...

[MaysonL]

Jo Walton's What Makes This Book So Great along with about half a dozen of the books it mentions (it's a collection of blog posts on books she's rereading) which I hadn't previously read. All of the previously unread ones I've now finally read are good, a couple great, ditto the ones previously read. One was enough of a downer that I didn't finish it (Random Acts of Senseless Violence).

Definitely recommended if you enjoy science fiction and/or fantasy.

[mindcrime]

Nominally, I'm "reading" 23 books that are in my Goodreads "currently reading" shelf. But of the ones that I'm really working on and will finish fairly soon:

1. Secret Societies - John Lawrence Reynolds

2. Black Wings of Cthulhu 3 - S.T. John (ed)

3. Unleash The Warrior Within - Richard Machowicz

4. Data Crush - Christopher Surdak

5. Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

6. The Glass Cage: Automation and Us - Nicholas Carr

7. Future Shock - Alvin Toffler

8. The Balanced Scorecard - Robert S. Kaplan

[Stoo]

Accelerando by Charles Stross (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando). I'm mostly enjoying his look into humanity's near and not so near future and his views on business, economics and technology. It's interesting and I like his writing style but sometimes it doesn't feel like much is going on story-wise.

[JSeymourATL]

The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant... http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78162.The_Greatest_Minds_...

Durant has a remarkably well thought out list of book recommendations on what makes an educated person-- I thought I was well read; afraid I've barely scratched the list.

[therealdrag0]

I'm taking a trip to UK in the fall, so I'm doing related reading until then. Currently: "A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603" by Simon Schama [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/155314.A_History_of_Brit...]

[monroepe]

The Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie. Book 3 of the First Law trilogy.

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Argument-Kings-First-Three-ebook/...

[SQL2219]

http://www.amazon.com/How-Children-Succeed-Curiosity-Charact...

[kachhalimbu]

Technical: Build your own AngularJS http://teropa.info/build-your-own-angular

Non-technical: Traction http://tractionbook.com/

[pmtarantino]

http://www.amazon.com/Gentle-Madness-Bibliophiles-Bibliomane...

A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books

[fuddle]

Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson - http://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Life-Universe-Walter-Isaacson...

[rdc12]

Fiction: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (loved the movie as a kid, but never got round to reading the book), will follow up with the Lost World.

Non-Fiction: Chaos by James Gleick.

Semester break reading, Real World Ocaml and Modern Compilers in ML (assuming they arrive in time)

[rickhanlonii]

From Mathematics to Generic Programming (2015)

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Generic-Programming-Alexan...

[motxilo]

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Primer-Meadows-Donell...

[ice303]

Leviathan Wakes http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8855321-leviathan-wakes

[mattkrea]

http://www.amazon.com/The-Third-Chimpanzee-Evolution-Future/...

[faizmokhtar]

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

[blabla_blublu]

[1] Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely (almost through with this one - highly recommend it) [2] Quantum Enigma by Bruce Rosenblum, et.al

[burger_moon → blabla_blublu]

I started with the first one but got busy and forgot about it. This will be a good reminder to finish it.

[burger_moon]

Currently reading: Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Usually don't read fiction, but this is good.

[freedevbootcamp]

For pleasure: Backbone.js Blueprints by Andrew Burgess

For work: Stealing The Network, The complete series collectors edition

[rendambathu]

I wanted to read something about logical thinking and cognition. So just started with Godel Escher Bach.

[classicsnoot → rendambathu]

Buckle up, my friend. You are in for a trip and like LSD, there is no guarantee of good or bad. I personally love it.

[Enzolangellotti]

To Mock a Mocking Bird by Raymond M. Smullyan. I'm having fun while my brain gets stretched.

[kelukelugames]

I feel like we should do this once a month at most instead of every two to three weeks.

[classicsnoot → kelukelugames]

I have been doing it every time i finish a book or two, but once a month works too.

[fmax30]

The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking.

Should finish it by tonight.

After that, it is time for 1984 - George Orwell.

[amarraja → fmax30]

I'd love to completely wipe 1984 from my head, just for the pleasure of reading it again! You will not look at the world in the same way once finished.

[classicsnoot → amarraja]

How do you feel about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World? A juxtaposition between BNW and 1984 is very interesting in terms of what actually happened vs. what the authors portrayed.

[Jacqued → classicsnoot]

BNW has always seemed much more alien to me than 1984. When I first read it as a teenager it seemed incomprehensible and somewhat insane.

Now as I get older and get to better understand (still very modestly!) people in general and the structures of power, it seems like a much better informed take on our society

[amarraja → classicsnoot]

Added to my reading list, will report back :)

[dredwerker → amarraja]

You have to read the island http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_%28Huxley_novel%29

The utopian version.

[classicsnoot → dredwerker]

I think Island is my favorite Huxley book.

[ggordan]

The Violent Land - Would certainly recommend it for a non-technical read.