On: Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?

[nicholast]

Here are a few I enjoyed in 2016 by genre:

Business - Making Things Work by Yaneer Bar-Yam

Investing - Charlie Munger The Complete Investor by Tren Griffin

Essays - Michel de Montaigne Complete Essays ($.99 on Kindle!)

Physics - At Home in the Universe by Stuart Kauffman

Software - An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language

Current Events - Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom

Fiction - The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson

Music - Jerry on Jerry (audiobook is a recorded interview of Garcia!)

Biography - Benjamin Franklin An American Life by Walter Isaacson

Autobiography - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

All of these are highly recomended!

[magnanimous11 → nicholast]

I absolutely agree with your recommendation of "A Confederacy of Dunces", but it is definitely not an Autobiography.

[nicholast → magnanimous11]

Yes perhaps that part was meant as a joke.

[andrewtbham → magnanimous11]

confederacy of dunces is one of the funniest books i have read. should have been made into a movie by now.

[nicholast → andrewtbham]

Yeah it's basically a modern Don Quixote set loose in New Orleans. Very much character driven, lots of fun.