Some non-fiction books I enjoyed this year were James Gleick’s The Information (a sprawling book about information theory, communication, and much else), Wealth and Power by Orville Schell & John Delury (about the intellectual history of modern China), Fawn M. Brodie’s No Man Knows My History (about Joseph Smith and the early days of the LDS Church, or Mormonism), and David Stove’s The Plato Cult (polemics against Popper, Nozick, idealism, and more). Some of these are obviously rather narrow, and you probably would not enjoy them if you are not at all interested in the subject matters.
Some non-fiction books I enjoyed this year were James Gleick’s The Information (a sprawling book about information theory, communication, and much else), Wealth and Power by Orville Schell & John Delury (about the intellectual history of modern China), Fawn M. Brodie’s No Man Knows My History (about Joseph Smith and the early days of the LDS Church, or Mormonism), and David Stove’s The Plato Cult (polemics against Popper, Nozick, idealism, and more). Some of these are obviously rather narrow, and you probably would not enjoy them if you are not at all interested in the subject matters.
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