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Currently reading The Fatal Shore, by Robert Hughes, about the history of Australia during its convict colony era. Outstanding so far, one of the best history books I've read in quite a while. I'm only 1/4 of the way through, so I will probably still be reading it in 2018. :D
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I have probably 150 unread non-fiction books between the bookshelf by my bed and the bookcase downstairs in the library. I expect I will tackle a good 30 to 40 of them in 2018.
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99% of my reading is non-fiction. The one I am really looking forward to is "Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter" by Scott Adams. I have recently finished Adams's earlier book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big." It was excellent. I was alerted to Adams's books by a Bogleheads thread.

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A couple books I've got in mind... Ron Chernow's new book on General Grant; and John Feinstein's book on last year's Ryder Cup golf matches. Looking forward to both very much.
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I read a nonfiction book every week or two. I'm currently reading Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design by Robert Martin (Uncle Bob for those in the software world). I just finished The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen, and Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes by Belsky and Gilovich (thanks to livesoft for the recommendation on the last one).
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of an All American Town by Brian Alexander.

Tells the story of Anchor Hocking & the workers in Lancaster, PA.
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Almost all my reading since retirement has been fiction. My best friend bought me the new biography of Leonardo DaVinci by Isaacson. I am not an artsy guy but found this book to be unbelievably great although a much slower read than fiction that I tend to knock off at 2 books per week. I still have about 40 paperbacks of fiction left and after finishing those will get a kindle and be done with paper. And I will switch to mostly non fiction as I really learned a lot from it and like learning new things.
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lthenderson wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2017 3:57 pm I have probably 150 unread non-fiction books between the bookshelf by my bed and the bookcase downstairs in the library. I expect I will tackle a good 30 to 40 of them in 2018.
Good for you! That's a good reading habit. Do you do audio-books? Do you take notes? I'm aiming for about that too. I am going to use this method.

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Good Listener wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2017 5:03 pm Almost all my reading since retirement has been fiction. My best friend bought me the new biography of Leonardo DaVinci by Isaacson. I am not an artsy guy but found this book to be unbelievably great although a much slower read than fiction that I tend to knock off at 2 books per week. I still have about 40 paperbacks of fiction left and after finishing those will get a kindle and be done with paper. And I will switch to mostly non fiction as I really learned a lot from it and like learning new things.
I have the Audiobook. I found it slow too.
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VictoriaF wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2017 4:26 pm 99% of my reading is non-fiction. The one I am really looking forward to is "Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter" by Scott Adams. I have recently finished Adams's earlier book "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big." It was excellent. I was alerted to Adams's books by a Bogleheads thread.

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cheese_breath wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2017 7:20 pm The Bible.
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I usually read and listen to at least 100 books per year, but at least 90% are fiction. (I say usually, because I'm mixing French novels in now, and I read them at about 1/5 the speed of English.)

The last non-fiction book I read was "Without You, There Is No Us," the story of a Korean-American journalist's undercover work as a missionary-teacher at a school in North Korea. It painted a compelling, but necessarily limited picture of life for the "privileged" in North Korea.

I don't know what my next non-fiction book will be. I have another North Korea book in the queue. I have "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind." I have "Misbehaving" by Richard Thaler. I'm partway through the excellent "Scalia Speaks," collected speeches and essays of Antonin Scalia. (As a collection of essays, I will be reading it in fits and starts when I need something to fill a discrete period of time.) I have a book on Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of Dunkirk.

It could also easily be something I discover tomorrow and decide to read immediately. :beer
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Good Listener wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2017 5:03 pm Almost all my reading since retirement has been fiction. My best friend bought me the new biography of Leonardo DaVinci by Isaacson. I am not an artsy guy but found this book to be unbelievably great although a much slower read than fiction that I tend to knock off at 2 books per week. I still have about 40 paperbacks of fiction left and after finishing those will get a kindle and be done with paper. And I will switch to mostly non fiction as I really learned a lot from it and like learning new things.
I've read Isaacson's books about Einstein and Franklin; both were excellent. I intentionally skipped his book about Steve Jobs but was wondering about this one. Thank you for the comments,

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I am all about the books I still want to finish in 2017. We still have 4 days.

I am 4/5 through Michio Kaku's " The Future of The Mind". I love the public library for it's audio books and I can listen to while stuck in traffic, but I would not spend my own money on it.

I am one quarter of the way in "Words and Rules" by Steven Pinker. X mas gift and so far **** out of *****. This is a book from the nineties. If you have never read Steven Pinker, read " The better angels of our nature: why violence has declined" and you might be happier and will sleep better (I did).

I am on page 11 of "Scale" by Geoffrey West and it is a winner. Five stars. I hope it is as mind blowing as "Sapien" by Hariri. It helps I can read it in poor lighting, because the font is twice as big as "Words and Rules".
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I've started to re-read The Misbehavior of Markets, by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson. Does it count if I don't wait until 2018? It's sensational. I'd forgotten just how good it is. Every investor should read it, every investor.
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I'm starting a book I got for Christmas from my niece. By chance, it just happened to be on my Amazon wish list and I'm sure my wife didn't tip Jessie off . :wink:

The book is Economics for the Common Good by the great french economist Jean Tirole.

The man who revolutionized the economic subfield of industrial organization, now that he has his Nobel prize in tow, has turned his attention away from directing economic specialists and toward the general informed public. A little dry in its English translation, but nonetheless attempting to show the best path between unfettered capitalism and market regulations.

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Jean Tirole at Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Tirole

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I'm looking forward to Larry Swedroe's new book! Can't remember its name though....
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cheese_breath wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2017 7:20 pm The Bible.
You might try "Letter To A Christian Nation" by Sam Harris ... you might think of it as an intelligent commentary on your own particular non-fictional choice. :D
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cheese_breath wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2017 7:20 pm The Bible.
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I don't tend to plan reading far in advance, but the next non-fiction book on my list is Telescope in the Ice, which is about building an instrument in Antarctica to detect neutrinos.
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I've read Angela Duckworth's "Grit", "What Doesn't Kill Us" by Scott Carney, and "Drop Dead Healthy" by AJ Jacobs. Up until this point in 2017, I had actually written more books (2) than I had read. My thirst for the written word is significantly blunted when I am reading several hundred pages of scientific research and writing thousands of words a week myself. 2018, who knows, I'll likely consider that around the same time next year.
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stoptothink wrote: Thu Dec 28, 2017 9:35 am I've read Angela Duckworth's "Grit", "What Doesn't Kill Us" by Scott Carney, and "Drop Dead Healthy" by AJ Jacobs. Up until this point in 2017, I had actually written more books (2) than I had read. My thirst for the written word is significantly blunted when I am reading several hundred pages of scientific research and writing thousands of words a week myself. 2018, who knows, I'll likely consider that around the same time next year.
Interesting ... Writing a book is hard work. I wrote/ published something of a long white paper, 40 pages. It had lots of charts and tables so it wasn't 40 pages of words. Respect! Good luck!
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I have 58 non-read non-fiction books in paper format and 23 non-fiction on my kindle (I track these all on Goodreads so know all the titles and totals).
Nearly 100% of my reading is non-fiction these days - not sure how many of these I will tackle in 2018 (or where I will start).
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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Simler and Hanson.

See here: https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Brain-H ... +the+brain

One review summed the book up nicely: “Charles Darwin, Dan Kahneman, and Malcolm Gladwell walk into a a bar. . . It's no joke! Reading The Elephant in the Brain is like eavesdropping on a fascinating conversation among a group of well-read and clever iconoclasts as they speculate on why we vote against our economic interests, spend too much on health care, give to the wrong charities and pray to gods we aren't sure really exist."

It takes a lot to motivate me to drop $20.00 for a Kindle edition. But this one looks too good to wait for.
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This is my current bedtime reading "Finance for Normal People: How Investors and Markets Behave" and I will be into the new year before I finish it. I think it will go back on the pile to reread again later this year. I will be looking for new tax analysis/strategy in a few months when some of the dust settles on the complicated bits of the new laws. I'm working my way through the Monks of New Skete back library of books about dogs. All supplemented with whatever shows up on the public library new book shelf this year or somehow catches my fancy between now and then.
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Really looking forward to Steven Pinker's new book in Feb, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress https://stevenpinker.com/publications/e ... d-progress
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I just started Ron Chernow's "Alexander Hamilton" this week and will likely be working on it for a while.

I have biographies on Napoleon, John Quincy Adams, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman waiting for me, but not sure if they will all be read in 2018. I tend to space my "heavy" reading out with some faster-paced fiction as a palette cleanser.
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cinghiale wrote: Thu Dec 28, 2017 9:49 am The Elephant in the Mind: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Simler and Hanson.

See here: https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Brain-H ... +the+brain

One review summed the book up nicely: “Charles Darwin, Dan Kahneman, and Malcolm Gladwell walk into a a bar. . . It's no joke! Reading The Elephant in the Brain is like eavesdropping on a fascinating conversation among a group of well-read and clever iconoclasts as they speculate on why we vote against our economic interests, spend too much on health care, give to the wrong charities and pray to gods we aren't sure really exist."

It takes a lot to motivate me to drop $20.00 for a Kindle edition. But this one looks too good to wait for.
You have motivated me to drop $20+ on the hardcover edition. I have not read this book (obviously!), but I would replace Charles Darwin with Siddhartha Mukherjee, the author of an excellent book "The Gene: An Intimate Story." Siddhartha, Danny and Malcolm can literally walk into a bar together, if they choose to do so.

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Here's my non-fiction book club's list for 2018:

The River of Consciousness - Oliver Sacks
The General vs the President:MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War - H.W. Brands
The Hidden Life of Trees -Peter Wohlleben
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution - Jennifer Doudna
Leonardo da Vinci - Walter Isaacson
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann
Born a Crime: Stories for a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah

Delightfully eclectic!
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Lynette wrote: Thu Dec 28, 2017 9:57 am
rkhusky wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2017 9:45 pm
cheese_breath wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2017 7:20 pm The Bible.
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I try reading it in Spanish or Latin (Kindle). I'm restarting Spanish lessons at my community college in January. I know many of the passages in English so it is easier to understand. Eons ago I was a Latin teacher so I find it interesting to see the Latin version.
That's neat.
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grandmacassie wrote: Thu Dec 28, 2017 11:49 am Here's my non-fiction book club's list for 2018:

The River of Consciousness - Oliver Sacks
The General vs the President:MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War - H.W. Brands
The Hidden Life of Trees -Peter Wohlleben
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution - Jennifer Doudna
Leonardo da Vinci - Walter Isaacson
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann
Born a Crime: Stories for a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah

Delightfully eclectic!
If bookclubs are ranked by the quality of books they select, yours is at the top. You are very fortunate to be in this club.

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VictoriaF wrote,
You have motivated me to drop $20+ on the hardcover edition.
Please note that the correct title of the book is The Elephant in the Brain. (I’ll go back and edit the mistake.) And, per the cost, the news gets worse. As of today, the hardcover edition is $32.51. The Kindle is $23.65. I’ve never spent $23+ for a Kindle offering. But, no matter, in for a dime...

I’m already curious whether the Elephant in the title refers to the central metaphor Jonathan Haidt uses to describe the divided mind (and the contention that it is the rider’s job to serve the elephant, not the other way around) in The Righteous Mind.
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cinghiale wrote: Thu Dec 28, 2017 12:18 pm VictoriaF wrote,
You have motivated me to drop $20+ on the hardcover edition.
Please note that the correct title of the book is The Elephant in the Brain. (I’ll go back and edit the mistake.) And, per the cost, the news gets worse. As of today, the hardcover edition is $32.51. The Kindle is $23.65. I’ve never spent $23+ for a Kindle offering. But, no matter, in for a dime...
I clicked on you link, cinghiale, and it took me directly to the Amazon page for this book. Right now, the Amazon discount for the hardcover is only 7%. But usually, when the book is out and its sales ramp up, Amazon offers better discounts.

I am particularly interested in reading Robin Hanson whom Tyler Cowen has characterized as the most unconventional thinker.

Thank you again for the recommendation and Happy New Year!

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I plan to finish Freedom from Fear (The War Years) by David M. Kennedy and then start Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson.

I find reading very slow now because I tend to fall asleep.
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Exciting lists.

I find non fiction so much more satisfying than fiction. I understand it is strictly a matter of preference.
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VictoriaF wrote,
I am particularly interested in reading Robin Hanson whom Tyler Cowen has characterized as the most unconventional thinker.
Cowen would have some insight there as Hanson is his colleague at George Mason University.

Having just downloaded and begun perusing the book, I can report that there’s no connection with Haidt’s elephant and rider metaphor in The Righteous Mind. Rather, the title is a take on “the elephant in the room,” an issue that people are reluctant to acknowledge and address. Here, it refers to a cognitive instead of a social taboo; “an important but unacknowledged feature of how our minds work.”
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Reading 'American Eclipse" by David Baron given to me by my daughter for Christmas. Recounting the times and total solar eclipse of 1878 in the American west and to commemorate the American eclipse of 2017.
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Yesterday I finished The Bettencourt Affair (Tom Sancton) about financial hanky-panky in France involving the "richest woman in the world" that also touched the administration of Nicolas Sarkozy. The dollar (actually euro) figures in this story are beyond comprehension. (This book had been on my library wish list for several months when, coincidentally, Liliane Bettencourt died while I was in France in September.)

This AM I downloaded Hidden Figures.

I generally read non-fiction.
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timmy wrote: Thu Dec 28, 2017 9:40 am
stoptothink wrote: Thu Dec 28, 2017 9:35 am I've read Angela Duckworth's "Grit", "What Doesn't Kill Us" by Scott Carney, and "Drop Dead Healthy" by AJ Jacobs. Up until this point in 2017, I had actually written more books (2) than I had read. My thirst for the written word is significantly blunted when I am reading several hundred pages of scientific research and writing thousands of words a week myself. 2018, who knows, I'll likely consider that around the same time next year.
Interesting ... Writing a book is hard work. I wrote/ published something of a long white paper, 40 pages. It had lots of charts and tables so it wasn't 40 pages of words. Respect! Good luck!
To be fair, I co-authored both books and one is probably characterized as a book-let (~85 pages) and the other (~300 pages) was a collaboration between my employer's scientific research group (6 of us total). I have written several hundred pages of white papers and 150+ articles/blogs for various web and print mediums this year. This week has been the first this year where I literally did not publish anything, but I did read 3 books (the first 3 on my own leisure time). I'm actually trying to get a little away from so much writing in my career.
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VictoriaF wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2017 7:42 pm
Good Listener wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2017 5:03 pm Almost all my reading since retirement has been fiction. My best friend bought me the new biography of Leonardo DaVinci by Isaacson. I am not an artsy guy but found this book to be unbelievably great although a much slower read than fiction that I tend to knock off at 2 books per week. I still have about 40 paperbacks of fiction left and after finishing those will get a kindle and be done with paper. And I will switch to mostly non fiction as I really learned a lot from it and like learning new things.
I've read Isaacson's books about Einstein and Franklin; both were excellent. I intentionally skipped his book about Steve Jobs but was wondering about this one. Thank you for the comments,

Victoria
Your welcome. And I too am planning on the books about Einstein and Franklin and had no real interest in the one on Jobs. I simply cannot compare his "genius" if one chooses too apply that word with somebody like Einstein.
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Re: What non fiction book will you be reading in 2018?

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pezblanco wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2017 9:25 pm
cheese_breath wrote: Wed Dec 27, 2017 7:20 pm The Bible.
You might try "Letter To A Christian Nation" by Sam Harris ... you might think of it as an intelligent commentary on your own particular non-fictional choice. :D
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