A quick check will see that I am enjoying non-fiction in my latter years
Influenced by Frances Bacon’s “Knowledge is power”
1. “Enlightenment Now” by Steven Pinker. The case for reason, science, humanism and progress. I agree with Bill Gates that this is a remarkable book.
2. “The Emperor of all Maladies” by Siddhartha Mukherjee: A biography of cancer
It was the winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, in general nonfiction. He also wrote The Gene- An Intimate History. They are both great reads.
3. “Sapiens” by Yuval Noah Harari A brief history of mankind.
4. “Monash & Chavel” by Roland Perry. How Australia’s two greatest World War I generals changed the course of world history.
5. “Crimes Against Humanity” By Geoffrey Robertson. The struggle for global justice.
A must read for all humans.
6. Future Shock by Alvin Toffler (1970) Megatrends by John Naisbitt (1982) and its successor Asian Megatrends (1995) Remarkably clever future predictions.
7. “The New, New Thing” By Michael Lewis. How some men you never heard of just changed your life.
8. “The Happiness Hypothesis” By Johnathon Haidt. Why the meaning of life is closer than you think.
9. “The Order of Time” by Carlo Rovelli. Your entry pass to the fundamental nature of time.
10. “The Inn of Tranquility” By John Galsworthy (1912). Pleasant bedtime reading.
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