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Ask HN: Thought-Provoking Books

17 points Agraillo | 1 comments | 13 Dec 25 13:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source

I read many non-fiction books, but recently noticed that only a few qualify as truly heavy, thought-provoking reads, that you literally can't finish in a manageable time because you keep telling yourself, "Wait a minute," then stop to Google something, run an experiment, or just think deeply. My current example (still unfinished) is "Moonwalking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer. It's mind-blowing - the entire memory universe around us that I never properly explored before.
1. oifjoijoifj ◴[14 Dec 25 10:44 UTC] No.46262158[source]▶
The spiritual works from major figures in the major religions, anything which discusses experience in negative terms making no positive statements, so things on emptiness/shunyata, non-duality, dependent co-arising, apophatic theology, unknowing, etc