Jonathan_Graehl comments on Book Recommendations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: multifoliaterose 10 August 2010 12:37:19AM *  5 points [-]

Non-Fiction

Proofs and Refutations by Imre Lakatos, seconding JoshuaZ's recommendation

Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, and Science and Method by Henri Poincare

The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy by Bryan Magee

Journey through Genius and Euler: The Master of Us All by William Dunham

The Book of Numbers by John H. Conway and Richard Guy

Fiction:

The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano

Never Let Me Go and An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

Contact by Carl Sagan

Niels Lyhne by Jens Peters Jacobsen

Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Songmaster by Orson Scott Card

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 10 August 2010 05:56:49AM 1 point [-]

Seconded "Never Let Me Go" and "Songmaster". I enjoyed "Contact" but the writing was not so great.