Thread by @jposhaughnessy

1/ I've noticed lots of folks asking for book recommendations recently and remembered I did these a few years back, still recommend all of them and will also list a few more that aren't on these two lists, but first, the two lists (not really only vacation reading...)

2/ Part 1:

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3/ Part 2:

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4/ One of my favorite contemporary authors is @david_mitchell and several of his books are on the 2 lists above. I also enjoyed his most recent offering: "Utopia Avenue: A Novel" and "The Bone Clocks: A Novel" but I would start with "Cloud Atlas."

5/ Another favorite is Mark Helprin, and some of his titles not on the two main lists that I enjoyed were "Paris in the Present Tense: A Novel," "In Sunlight and In Shadow" and "Refiner's Fire"

Also like the entire Hilary Mantel "Wolf Hall" series, and the

6/ most recent is "The Mirror & the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy Book 3)"

I've also been on a Robert Anton Wilson kick and would recommend you start with "Prometheus Rising" and "Quantum Psychology" Followed by his "Cosmic Trigger" series which is a 3-book series.

7/ I've also loved almost everything by Jed McKenna and talk about him often on Twitter. I'd start with his "Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 1)" series and recommend all 3 books in the trilogy.

8/ I'm also enamored with Claude Shannon, someone I think should be as famous as Albert Einstein for his groundbreaking Information Theory.

A good introductory book is "A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age"
by Jimmy Soni and Rob Goodman

9/ Finally, if you're looking for investment books, here's a thread of some of the ones I like and recommend:

https://twitter.com/jposhaughnessy/status/1096576181682487296