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Embers, an ongoing 600k word Avatar: The Last Airbender fanfiction. (Do fanfictions fall under 'fiction books' or 'other'?) It's actually in many regards the single closest thing to Methods of Rationality I've found - less humor, true, but it's a reinterpretation of a children's story with more intelligence in, more focus on exploring the full consequences of ideas. The author's notes include reasonably extensive citations from her historical research. On several occasions characters have said things which amounted to 'You know, what if my hypothesis were wrong - wouldn't the world make a lot more sense that way?'
You don't need to have seen the show to know what's going on, but it'll help, and the show is worth a quick watch if you've got time on your hands anyway. Don't skip this work just because you don't have time for the show right now, though.
If you strongly enjoyed Methods, I expect (weakly) that you will strongly enjoy this.
it says it follows another fic called "Theft absolute," is reading of that necessary?
Not at all; I didn't. It is, however, 751 words total. It will also almost certainly not make sense without the context of the show.
It seems to just be a short description of where the fic AU diverges from canon. It's worth reading if you're going to read the rest; it's very brief.