Non fiction: The Dawn of Everything.

Fiction: just finished The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott; about to read The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (for the 2nd or 3rd time)

I'm on book 3 of Romlyn Domingue's "Keeper of Tales" trilogy. One unusual touch I liked is that each book is written in a different person - book 1 is a second person autobiography written as the protagonist talking to her past self, book 2 is third person with a different protagonist, and then book 3 is a continuation of book 2 but with the voice switched to first person.

An Immense World. It’s not as jaw-dropping as I’d expected (yes, I know rattlesnakes can “see” heat), but it’s also not an easy/fun read either. So I’ll probably land at around 3/5 rating.

Currently reading "Beyond Tube-and-Wing: The X-48 Blended Wing-Body and NASA's Quest to Reshape Future Transport Aircraft".

Its a pretty good history of the X-48 program.

Edit: also reading the "The Anduril Thesis" in parallel.

Just finished:

- Selected Stories - Anton Chekhov

- Death in Venice - Thomas Mann

- The Burnout Society - Byung-Chul Han

Currently I am reading an Austrian economics classic - Economics in one lesson by Henry Hazlitt

I've mostly been reading short SF stories recently, most of them from Dangerous Visions.

Here's a few of the ones I've read and enjoyed:

“The Jigsaw Man” by Larry Niven

“The Night That All Time Broke Out” by Brian W. Aldiss

“A Toy for Juliette” by Robert Bloch (although I was surprisingly not a fan of Harlan's continuation)

“The Man Who Went to the Moon — Twice” by Howard Rodman

“Flies” by Robert Silverberg

On the recommendation of a friend, the spiral wars series (https://spiral-wars-shepherd.fandom.com/wiki/Spiral_history).

It started slow (booting) but I'm enjoying the books (currently on #3), the universe-building and the length (10 books) of it.

Tau Zero, by Poul Anderson. Love it so far——does anyone know how scientifically accurate it might be?

I am reading The dream of enlightenment by Anthony Gottlieb.

My goal is to read the history of ideas from Renaissance period till 2000s. Started with The Florentines by Paul Strathern. Then read The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick. Now at the enlightenment era. It has been eye opening to read about the life and times of some of the great minds like Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Locke and more.

Taxation The Peoples Business by Mellon, Andrew W.

https://archive.org/details/taxationthepeopl033026mbp

It's from 1924 and US centric, old new ideas in there.