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1. slyallDec 2019
   The ones I rated highest out of those I read this year (which is what I think the question means).

   * Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester

   * Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder-A Journey into the Wild World of Nuclear Science by James Magaffey

   * Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

   * Vulcan 607 by Rowland White

   * Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

   * Best. Movie. Year. Ever: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen by Brian Raftery

   * A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives by David Hepworth

   * 1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink by Taylor Downing

   * The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes and Why by Amanda Ripley

   * In Your Defence: Stories of Life and Law by Sarah Langford

   * Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss

   * Working Actor: Breaking in, Making a Living, and Making a Life in the Fabulous Trenches of Show Business by David Dean Bottrell

   * Becoming by Michelle Obama

   * Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker

   * Rush Hour by Iain Gatel

   * Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World by Alice Roberts

   * The Next American City: The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros by Mick Cornett

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2. rayalezJul 2018
   Here are the best books I've read over the last few months:

   - Lost and Founder - the founder of Moz shares his advice and experience from building a 40M/year company. I found the things he says about building a startup extremely insightful and practically useful. Reading it feels like having a dinner with a friend who shares with you the things he has learned in a very honest, down to earth way. Highly recommend it.

   - Rationality from AI to Zombies - probably the most influential book I've read in my life, profoundly changed the way I think. It's a collection of LessWrong essays on science and rationality. (recently they've released an an audio version by the way).

   - "A Short History of Nearly Everything" and "Our Mathematical Universe" - two general popular science books I'm enjoying a lot. Haven't finished reading them yet, but so far they're brilliant(and very easy to understand, authors do an amazing job explaining complicated things in a simple, accessible way).

   - Hacking Growth - an AMAZING book on "growth hacking". It provides a framework for marketing a startup, gives a ton of practical advice and specific tactics. It breaks down step by step how startups and big tech companies grow their products. Most of the books I've read on the subject were bullshit, but this one is absolutely fantastic, can't recommend it enough.

   Other great books I should mention: This Idea is Brilliant, Actionable Gamification, The Design of Everyday Things, The Master Algorithm (great overview of machine learning techniqes), Springfield Confidential (fun behind the scenes from one of the writers on Simpsons), Homo Deus(from the author of Sapiens).

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