The best book you’ve read in 2022?

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What’s the best book you’ve read in 2022?

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Recommended by Jackson Clinton
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope wit
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
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Richard Hughes-Jones 11mos

Not because I agreed with it all, but The Beginning of Infinity was 👌

Recommended by Alex
"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."<br /><br />Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas
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Alex 11mos

Guns, Germs, and Steel. When people say they like the book Sapiens, I recommend them this, because I honestly think it’s better.

Recommended by chad
A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world. Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically pecu
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chad 11mos

I have heard GGS referenced quite a few times recently I will have to read it. Have you read this?

Recommended by Zigurd Mednieks
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our r
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Zigurd Mednieks 11mos

The Dawn of Everything. The Cold Start Problem is in second place. Unusually awesomely good for a business book. It won't feel like work to read it.

Recommended by Stewart Butterfield
Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our underst
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Recommended by Zigurd Mednieks
A venture capitalist draws on expertise developed at the premier venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, and as an executive at Uber to address how tech’s most successful products have solved the dreaded "cold start problem”—by leveraging networks effects to launch and scale towards billions of u
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Zigurd Mednieks 11mos

Unusually awesomely good for a business book. It won't feel like work to read it.

It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan? In this groundbreaking book, Dr. David Sinclair, leading world authority on genetics and longevity, reveals a bold new theory
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Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or famine-stricken the source. The modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels our cars to the metals that power our smartphones. We rarely stop to consider where they come from. But
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Recommended by Nadia Odunayo
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone i
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Nadia Odunayo 11mos

The best nonfiction book

Recommended by Nadia Odunayo
Wizardwood, a sentient wood. The most precious commodity in the world. Like many other legendary wares, it comes only from the Rain River Wilds. But how can one trade with the Rain Wilders, when only a liveship fashioned from wizardwood can negotiate the perilous waters of the Rain River? Rare and
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Nadia Odunayo 11mos

The best fiction book I've read so far this year is 'Ship of Magic' by Robin Hobb (if this sounds up your alley, check out the Farseer Trilogy first) and the best nonfiction book is 'Say Nothing' by Patrick Radden Keefe.

Recommended by Will Fang
Money Men book. Read 12 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. 'The financial investigation of the decade... Money Men instantly enters ...
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