This is a place to consolidate book recommendations.
I'm reading The Logic of Failure and enjoying it quite a bit. I wasn't sure whether I'd heard of it here, and I found a post here called Great Books of Failure, an article which hadn't crossed my path before.
There's a recent thread about books for a gifted young teen and a slightly less recent discussion of books on cogsci thread which might or might not be found by someone looking for good books.
So, what books or lists of books do you recommend?
This is poorly worded enough that I'm not actually sure what you're saying. I have a tentative prediction that you were trying to say something like 'Eliezer has said to some acquaintances and public that the first draft etc.; as he did not request them to maintain the privacy of his statements, I am making it further public since I know many people are interested in the progress of his book.'
Hrm. I would have expected the sequences to have made a good 300 or 400 pages after editing and polishing...
What are sub-books?
I think it just means "two books". (A previous round of HPMOR Author's Notes referred to "my nonfiction rationality book which seems to have turned into two books actually", and refers to "the books" for the rest of the paragraph.)