Any good book recommendations, preferably non business related?

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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

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Mistborn

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If looking for sci-fi, Brave New World and 1984 are good ones

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The Martian, seven eves, the buried giant

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On the sci-fi side I’d suggest anything by Neal Stephenson.

On the fantasy side Brandon Sanderson’s works are fantastic (Mistborn, Elantris, WarBreaker or the Stormlight Archive).

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Shogun

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Read them a few times before. For further context: I just finished re-reading Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and Crime and Punishment. Now I’m looking to find some new books

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Wool trilogy

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I’ll give out a couple of random recommendations from different genres I like:

Red storm rising, Tom Clancy (his best book IMHO, because he sucks at character development as a writer, and that book isn’t focused on character development... just military strategy)

Atomic Awakening, James Mahaffey. Very approachable book about the history of nuclear physics and the application of nuclear energy. Mahaffey is a brilliant writer who can break down technical concepts into a format that a 3rd grader could understand, and find entertaining.

Team of rivals, Doris kerns Goodwin. Abraham Lincoln’s more recent biography. A little dry at times, but VERY well documented. Does a great job showing how Lincoln cobbled together a team of people who all hated him at first.

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Rereading Dune right now

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+1 Neal Stephenson. Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon are particularly good.

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Storm in a Teacup

Any particular genre?

Open to anything really. Past interests have been sci-fi, philosophy, biographies, history

The Dinner by Herman Koch

Also Seveneves, and the Retreat of Western Liberalism, The Nightengale, The 6th Extinction

Red rising

A few recent ones from my audible list:

Eat and Run - Scott Jurek
Twelve Rules for Life - Jordan B Peterson
Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinker

A little life by Hanya Yangrihana

Emma in the night

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