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Ask HN: What did you read recently? Preferably long form, non-tech

by atulatul on 9/1/24, 3:01 PM with 2 comments

• by steven_noble on 9/2/24, 3:00 AM

  "Radio Birdman: Retaliate First", by Murray Engleheart. First full history of the pioneering Australian proto-punk outfit.

• by toomuchtodo on 9/1/24, 4:36 PM

  (in no particular order)

  https://www.lynalden.com/broken-money/ (Broken Money by Lyn Alden; ISBN13: 9798988666318)

  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36204894-chernobyl (Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy; ISBN13: 9781541617094)

  https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kim-stanley-robinso... (The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson; ISBN13: 9780316300162)

  https://www.nealstephenson.com/termination-shock.html (Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson; ISBN13: 9780063028050)

  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545397/empty-planet... (Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson; ISBN13: 9781984823229)

  https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691247625/ec... (Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality by Angus Deaton; ISBN13: 9780691247625)

  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/313644/faster-highe... (Faster, Higher, Stronger: The New Science of Creating Superathletes, and How You Can Train Like Them by Mark McClusky; ISBN13: 9780147516473)

  https://www.ianyoungwrites.com/the-automaton (The Automaton by Ian Young; ISBN13: 9798986671000)

  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250120854/thebondking (The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All by Mary Childs; ISBN13: 9781250120854)

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Map (The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World by Steven Berlin Johnson; ISBN13 9781594489259)

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_in_the_Game_(book) (Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries by Nassim Nicholas Taleb; ISBN13: 9780425284629)

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_Leader_for_a_Day (Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh; ISBN13: 9781594201509)

  https://www.riverroadbooks.net/book/9780306812835 (Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down by J. E. Gordon; ISBN13: 9780306812835)