Katabasis by RF Kuang - magicians from Oxford go to hell on purpose

And, meatier

The language of the night, essays by Ursula Le Guin

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.

Playing Off the Rail: A Pool Hustler's Journey by David McCumber (1996) - hustling in the golden era of pool in the usa

These two feel especially relevant:

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered - E.F. Schumacher

Tools for Conviviality - Ivan Illich

and

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - John Koenig

Non-fiction: 21st Century Monetary Policy

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https://archive.org/details/taxationthepeopl033026mbp

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