Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis
4.5 on Amazon
2 HN comments
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story - 1965-2000
Lee Kuan Yew
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa (1942-1943): The Liberation Trilogy, Volume 1
Rick Atkinson, George Guidall, et al.
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Why We're Polarized
Ezra Klein
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments
The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child: Volume 1: Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor, Revised Edition
Susan Wise Bauer
4.7 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives
Dana Canedy, Darcy Eveleigh, et al.
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition
Anne Frank , Otto M. Frank, et al.
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy, 2)
Rick Atkinson
4.7 on Amazon
2 HN comments
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
Adam Makos and Larry Alexander
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments
Farewell to Manzanar
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
4.6 on Amazon
1 HN comments
The Hill: A Memoir of War in Helmand Province
Aaron Kirk
? on Amazon
1 HN comments
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Charles King
4.6 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Fast Food Nation (The Dark Side of the All-American Meal)
Eric Schlosser
4.5 on Amazon
1 HN comments
U.S. Army Improvised Munitions Handbook
Army
4.6 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Vol. 1) (Pacific War Trilogy): War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942
Ian W. Toll
4.8 on Amazon
1 HN comments
mogrimonSep 30, 2013
lui8906onDec 8, 2014
Currently reading Javascript and Jquery by Jon Duckett and find his visual style and clear, concise writing perfectly fits how I learn. Could not recommend it enough to any other programming learners.
I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi is a very simple, straightforward book on personal finance. He advocates having your money automatically distributed into fixed costs, investments and spending money rather than getting bogged down in budgets.
An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson is the first in a trilogy that chronicles America's entrance into World War II in North Africa, all the way to the downfall of the Third Reich. His style is both minutely researched and totally readable. He nails the violence and horror at the front, as well as the incredible scale and logistics of the whole enterprise. I'm now on the second in the trilogy, The Day of Battle.
Last year Thinking Fast and Slow and Antifragile were my highlights - they compliment each other well and both changed my outlook on how the world is organised and how I perceive it.
Thanks to all the other posters, I've added lots of the suggested books to my kindle.