Per a recommendation post I already earlier today, I just finished Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Hawking. If you're a little nerdy, it's a good read. I'm now onto Deer hunting with Jesus by Bageant.

Under the Sea Wind, by Rachel Carson.

Grant by Chernow. Really good. He was a much better general than people know.

I finished "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari and am now reading the sequel, as it were, called "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow"

Harari has an unorthodox take on human history, beginning far back into prehistory. Rather than the standard history textbook's beginning at the start of the written record, with a quick gloss over the prehistoric, he devotes four chapters to what he calls the "Cognitive Revolution".

Homo Deus continues the story by speculating what path human history will take in both the near and distant future. He renames the Holocene Epoch as the Anthropocene Epoch, due to the impact Homo sapiens has had on the global ecology over the last 70,000 years.

Both books are highly recommended if you enjoy history and speculation on our future presented in a more irreverent style than found in standard academic books.

I read A Confederacy of Dunces a few years ago and enjoyed it. A very different tale, indeed. I'm presently reading Never Coming Back by Alison McGhee.

I am reading A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar, the biography of the mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. upon which the move was based.

I’m currently reading The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. I’m also listening to Island if the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore. His books are hilarious and certainly help me keep my sanity with all the jack wagons on the road.

A confederacy of dunces is magnificent!! As a followup, if you've not read Tom Robins' Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, you'll find a completely different story with the same loving charms. Matter of (opinion) fact, you'll probably really dig any Robbins, and most likely all of Vonnegut, if you love CODunces.

I'm in the middle of "Fear" by Bob Woodward right now, and if I get bored with it I switch to a couple of atheist books. Listening to Michael Shermer at the moment with "Why We Believe What We Believe."

I'm finishing up "Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs" by Johann Hari.