Anyone got any good book recommendations from the past 12 months?
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Broken money I’m about halfway through but it extremely well written
Bitcoin financial or otherwise?
Have you read Yeonmi Park? Not directly bitcoin, human rights. Incredible. Both her first and second book: must read.
George Gilder’s “Life After Capitalism” if you haven’t read it yet.
Listening to this now…
This is my list of recommendations of the past year of reading:
Walden and on the duty of civil disobedience - Thoreau
Early Austrian economics - Israel Kirzner
The blocksize war - Jonathan Bier
Check your financial privilege - A Gladstein
The theory of money and credit - L von Mises
Keynes Hayek - Nicholas Wapshott
The Infinite Game - Simon Sinek
Bitcoin is Venice - A Farrington & S Meyers
A history of money and banking in the usa - MN Rothbard
The Revolution - Ron Paul
The history of money - Jack Weatherford
Democracy: the god that failed - HH Hoppe
Economics in one lesson - Henry Hazlitt
The 7th property - Eric Yakes
The black swan - NN Taleb
Superforecasting - Tetlock & Gardner
The sovereign individual - Davidson & Rees-Mogg
The bullish case for bitcoin - Vijay Boyapati
Principles for dealing with the changing world order - Ray Dalio
Layered money - Nik Bhatia
Economics for real people - Gene Callahan
Rules for radicals - SD Alinsky
When money dies - Adam Fergusson
The price of tomorrow - Jeff Booth
The bitcoin standard - Saifedean Ammous
The fiat standard - Saifedean Ammous
21 lessons - der Gigi
Storm of Steel - Ernst JĂĽnger
If This Is a Man - Primo Levi
Broken Money
If you’re into exciting assassin/geo-political thrillers for pure escapism, I highly recommend the Gray Man series by Mark Greaney
The Brothers John Foster and Allen Dulles
The Rise of Carry - Lee, Lee, Colidiron
Published in 2020, not a Bitcoin book but puts words to much of what you and Lynn talk about.
Favorite non bitcoin book of the year.
Complexity: the emerging science at the edge of order and chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop
Bitcoin is Venice
by Allen Farrington, Sacha Meyers, Alex Gladstein
just did this one again since he passed recently Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy. It is as powerful as I remembered.... holds up well
I’ve been reading Sapiens and enjoying that. Don’t agree with Yuval about globalism but it’s an excellent book
A Guide to the Good Life -
The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
By William B. Irvine
"How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes" by Peter and Andrew Schiff is my recommendation if you are looking for something to read to kids.
The book has some fun looking illustrations and it is easy to follow as it introduces some basic economic principles to young growing minds.
Published in 2010 so almost the first book on bitcoin. 
The Fourth Turning - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fourth-Turning-text-First-Strauss/dp/B004MZSR4A/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1693838478&sr=8-2
Layered Money - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Layered-Money-Dollars-Bitcoin-Currencies/dp/1736110519/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1693838536&sr=8-1
All the best books that have been read and recommended by bitcoiners you know and some you don't
Invisible rainbow
The Time Machine, HG Wells, written in 1895.
The denial of death - Ernest Becker
Books are the faithful companions of the wise. In their pages, we find the accumulated wisdom of ages past. Approach them with an open mind, for therein lie the keys to virtue, knowledge, and the path to a well-examined life.
1000 brains a new theory of intelligence
I do, but you probably read them or know of them, Broken $, Jimmy Song’s new one , 4th turning is here, a book I think anyone over 50 should read, Life Force by Tony Robbins, may save your life. I met you at BBB and don’t think you are close to 50 yet, but I bet someone is in your family or friends you have. This is a must read, I’ll guarantee it, if you think not I’ll reimburse you for it.
not books but these posts from #bitcoin core devs gave me a bunch to noodle on:
1. Zeitgeist (Anthony Towns)
https://www.erisian.com.au/wordpress/2023/02/26/zeitgeist
2. Putting the B in BTC (Anthony Towns)
https://www.erisian.com.au/wordpress/2023/06/21/putting-the-b-in-btc
3. Thoughts on Scaling and Consensus Changes (James O'Beirne)
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/thoughts-on-scaling-and-consensus-changes-2023/32/1
i likes “Outlive”
i also dug “an immense world”
"The God Equation" Michio Kaku
Gladstein: "Check your Financial Privilege", as well as "Hidden Repression".
I'm also in the middle of "Broken Money" by Lyn Alden which is so far a masterpiece.
The Habsburg Way by Eduard Habsburg
Preston, try this! Nice Bitcoin tale to finish. 
Anyone know nic carters handle?
Good book = Servant Leadership
Broken Money by Lyn Alden, The Forth Turning is Here by Neil Howe.
+1 for Whitney Webb - One Nation Under Blackmail Vol 1-2
The prize - Daniel yergin. The quest for oil across the globe over the past ~150 years is an interesting story. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/169354
Material World by Ed Conway
More money than god, Mallaby.
Just finished all Ayn Rand’s 3 novels. All were excellent but “Atlas Shrugged” was the best
“The Future is Faster than you think” was excellent.
And something a bit different, “The Biology of Belief”
Broken Money by Lyn Alden
What eventually got round to Atlas Shrugged and it was as good as I hoped. Could
have done with some editing down but honestly I was staggered at times. Written in 1957
Moby - Porcelain is amazing. Biography of the city of NY as much as anything. Few aspects a bit frustrating. A bit preachy. But all in all a solid read. Would recommend.
The Rise of Carry
Mandibles is a fun fiction read that any Bitcoiner can appreciate.
Stealth War: How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept - Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race - Nicole Perlroth
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order - Kai-Fu Lee
In Plain Sight by Ross Coulthart. Deep dive into UFOs/UAPs and what the government does or doesn't know.
Tracers in the Dark
Broken Money...LOL!
If you mean a book I read in the past 12 months, I recommend the double-novel, *If This is a Man* and *The Truce* by Primo Levi, published in a single volume by Abacus. You can also get *If This is a Man* by itself under the name of *Survival in Auschwitz* by a different publisher. The first book is about Levi's time in Auschwitz, and the second is about his two year journey back home to Italy.
I read these with some friends, and when I heard what we were going to be reading, I did not want to read about Auschwitz. However, Levi is an amazing writer, and there is a lot of beauty in his stories of the people he encountered.
Most people on Nostr are aware the growing corruption in the power structures of our world. Levi shows how people survived under Nazi cruelty in the first book, and the disorganized confusion of the Soviet liberators in the second book. Who knows what we may encounter as things deteriorate in our current situation, but it is helpful to see someone make it under much worse circumstances than what we are now enduring.
Levi was a Jewish Italian chemist, and although he was not religious, he does seem to have some sense of God's existence and provision, and he does have a good moral sense. Sadly, although Levi returned to a successful career as a chemist in Turin and added a successful writing career after retirement, he killed himself in his old age, so that left me and my friends wondering what continued to haunt him.
I know that the Christian knowledge of the love of God and the hope of eternal glory has sustained many believers in the sufferings of this life, so I pray that I will hold onto that if I have to suffer such hardships.
Blood Music by Greg Bear
Currently reading How to Heal Your Metabolism by Kate Deering. It is a great intro into the Ray Peat nutritional framework aka prioritizing energy/metabolism. Great stuff
Digital Gold by Nathanoel Popper
Bullshit Jobs - David Graeber
When We Cease to Understand the World - BenjamĂn Labatut
Indistractable - Nir Eyal
Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS, by Celia Farber
"Lightbringer", by Pierce Brown. This is book 6 in the Red Rising series, but not the final book yet.
Preston, take a look at "Bitcoin, Christianity, and History".
The author makes the case that fractal patterns can be observed in history through the rise and fall of empires and that the fall of each empire since Christ has removed a major power from governments that they have used to oppress their people. He believes that Bitcoin is removing the financial and banking power from the American empire and that the rising empire will be centered around El Salvador and Central America.
Here's one of my favorite excerpts so far.
Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk by Billy Walters
The color of law
Thinking in systems
I contain multitudes