I’d like to mention two books that stood out for me in 2014: Nonfiction: The First 20 Minutes . Gretchen Reynolds is a New York Times columnist who distills health and exercise research down to practical, readable advice.
If you’ve read Scott Adams’ financial advice and my financial tips in case you win a startup lottery, then you might be interested in a few more pointers to good resources.
Hey everybody, I’m looking for some fun books (mostly fiction) to read this summer. What would you recommend? One book I recently enjoyed was The Martian , a novel about an astronaut stranded on Mars who needs to figure out how to survive and get home with minimal supplies.
It’s summertime, so I’m looking for a bunch of fun books to read. I just ordered two books by John Scalzi ( Fuzzy Nation and The God Engines ), two books by Dean Karnazes because I’m training to run a marathon ( Run!: 26.2 Stories of Blisters and Bliss and Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner ), plus Zero Day: A Novel by Mark Russinovich.
Steven Levy just wrote a new book about Google called In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives .