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Slashdot Asks: What Books Are You Reading This Month?

Posted by msmash on from the book-club dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Hey fellow Slashdot readers, what are some books you're reading right now, and intend to pick up later this month? Also if you would be so kind, what are some good new-ish novels (fiction / non-fiction) you recommend? Thanks!

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  1. The Expanse Novels by PMuse · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Leviathan Wakes
    Caliban's War
    Abaddon's Gate
    Cibola Burn
    Nemesis Games

    All in the last month. Can't put them down.

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    "We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals." --The American President (20.1.2009)
  2. Classics by WDot · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm trying to read some classic Western literature to see what thought processes led to current Western culture. Currently I'm reading the Tragedies of Aeschylus (Agamemnon specifically). Encyclopedia Brittanica put together a list of the books they thought were most influential throughout Western history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . My goal is to work my way through all of them, eventually. There's a good variety: literature, philosophy, history, theology, math, and science.

    1. Re:Classics by El+Cubano · · Score: 3, Informative

      I'm trying to read some classic Western literature to see what thought processes led to current Western culture.

      You would probably find The Geography of Thought interesting.

  3. The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution by Kevoco · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Due to my concerns that the American middle class is being decimated...

    Currently reading:
    The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic
    Review

    Previously read (related):
    Why Nations Fail
    Review

    Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It
    Review

  4. The God Delusion by shortscruffydave · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just finished "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins. I know Dawkins himself isn't everybody's cup of tea, but the book is excellent....I should have read it ages ago - it's really helped me come to terms with my atheism,

  5. Honest answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The internet has screwed up my text-based attention span so much, I'm not sure I could even finish a normal length book anymore.

  6. "A Beginner's Guide to Losing Your Mind" by bazorg · · Score: 3, Informative

    A Beginner's Guide to Losing Your Mind: Survival techniques for staying sane

    By Emily Reynolds, formerly a writer at Wired magazine in the UK.

    Not an easy read at times, but has +5 insightful bits on how to deal with mental illness, ours or our friends'.

  7. Some books you might like by houghi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Do they need to have pictures or not? If anything, the question sounds like you want to do some profiling on people as what I like has nothing to do with what you like.

    Go to a bookstore and browse there. Even better if it is a second hand bookstore. You will find things that are not the standard answers that you will see every time and you will be surprised by how good they might be.

    Because what you are asking as what your favorite food is and the answer will be pizza. That while you will see a LOT more when you just walk around and go into restaurants and order what you like at that moment.

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    Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.