The Earth is Enough (recommended if you like trout fishing)
Clean Code (recommended if you want to invigorate your desire to write better code, there was a lot to both agree and disagree with though for me anyway)
Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D (recommend if you want to study the details of an early 3d game engine, or details about the 386 that made it so hard to do games with)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (this is the first manga series I've read, because I was obsessed by the anime for a while and wanted more, so would only recommend if you like the anime)
Land of Lisp (only recommended if you want a fun sort of scheme-ish style approach to seeing some of the features of common lisp in a simple mostly text based games setting)
The Age of Em (recommend if you want a careful and detailed analysis of what a possible future looks like should humans get mind uploading technology)
A Critique of Democracy (recommended if you want to have a chance of winning bar arguments, not the best for deeper thinking)
The End of Eternity (fun sci-fi from Asimov)
The Three-Body Problem (book 1 of (I found out after starting (again)) 3 -- good enough that I'll read the next two, but not good enough that I had to go out and get the second book immediately like other series I've read)
Beyond Happiness (meh, wouldn't recommend)
Ninefox Gambit (book 1 of (I found out after starting) 3 -- if you like "armchair playing war" sci-fi you'll probably like this more than me, but I'll get and finish the next two books at some point)
More detailed short thoughts + older reads if desired: https://gist.github.com/Jach/1610886 Maybe I'll wrap up one of the several in-progress ones before the month is out, too.
I found the 2nd & 3rd books of The Three Body Problem series to be much, much better than the 1st. IMO the 1st is just a bit of pretext for the real story of the series.
The Earth is Enough (recommended if you like trout fishing)
Clean Code (recommended if you want to invigorate your desire to write better code, there was a lot to both agree and disagree with though for me anyway)
Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D (recommend if you want to study the details of an early 3d game engine, or details about the 386 that made it so hard to do games with)
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (this is the first manga series I've read, because I was obsessed by the anime for a while and wanted more, so would only recommend if you like the anime)
Land of Lisp (only recommended if you want a fun sort of scheme-ish style approach to seeing some of the features of common lisp in a simple mostly text based games setting)
The Age of Em (recommend if you want a careful and detailed analysis of what a possible future looks like should humans get mind uploading technology)
A Critique of Democracy (recommended if you want to have a chance of winning bar arguments, not the best for deeper thinking)
The End of Eternity (fun sci-fi from Asimov)
The Three-Body Problem (book 1 of (I found out after starting (again)) 3 -- good enough that I'll read the next two, but not good enough that I had to go out and get the second book immediately like other series I've read)
Beyond Happiness (meh, wouldn't recommend)
Ninefox Gambit (book 1 of (I found out after starting) 3 -- if you like "armchair playing war" sci-fi you'll probably like this more than me, but I'll get and finish the next two books at some point)
More detailed short thoughts + older reads if desired: https://gist.github.com/Jach/1610886 Maybe I'll wrap up one of the several in-progress ones before the month is out, too.