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TOP RECENT NON-FICTION
This list is meant as a complement to my list of top recent fiction . These books were all
published after I graduated from college (in 1969). These are my
personal picks. The order is arbitrary.
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Guns,
Germs, and Steel and The
Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
The
Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond
The
Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
How
the Mind Works and The
Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
Genius and Chaos by James Gleick
The
End of History and the Last Man and The
Great Disruption by Francis Fukuyama
The
Search for Superstrings by John Gribbin
What
Remains to Be Discovered: Mapping the Secrets of the Universe,
the Origins of Life, and the Future of the Human Race by John
Maddox
Bureaucracy in America by H. R. Shapiro
Godel,
Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
The
Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
Crossing
the Chasm and Inside
the Tornado by Geoffrey Moore
The
Innovators Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
The
Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918 by Stephen Kern
Flow:
the Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The
Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
An
Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
Nature's Gambit by David Henry Feldman
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
The
Mathematical Experience by Philip Davis and Reuben Hersh
Full House by Stephen Jay Gould
Startup by Jerry Kaplan
The
Song of the Dodo and Natural Acts by David Quammen
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
The
Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky
The
Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
Future Shock and The
Third Wave by Alvin Toffler
Mortal Lessons, Down
from Troy, Imagine
a Woman , and Raising
the Dead by Richard Selzer
The
Size of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker
The
Axe and the Icon by James Billington
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
Pilgrim
at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The
Virtual Community by Howard Rheingold
How
Proust Can Change Your Life and The
Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
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