What if<\/a> by Randall Munroe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I received numerous requests for book recommendations in the last few weeks. The rise in the mercury clearly correlates with an increase in reading under umbrellas on the beach. Here … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"acf":[],"contentUpdated":"Summer Book Recommendations. Categories - Books. Date-Posted - 2018-08-22T17:45:30 . I received numerous requests for book recommendations in the last few weeks. The rise in the mercury clearly correlates with an increase in reading under umbrellas on the beach.\n Here are a few books I really enjoyed over the last few years. Note that my tastes are far ranging and eclectic and cover everything from sci-fi soap operas to behavioral economics.\n Beach Reads and Page Turners\n A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle\n Bill the Vampire by Rick Gualtieri\n Circling the Sun by Paula McLain\n Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn\n Infinity Born by Douglas E. Richards\n Last Days of Night by Graham Moore\n Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell\n Old Man\u2019s War by John Scalzi\n Ready Player One by Ernest Cline\n Star Force (Book Series) by BV Larson\n The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel by Garth Stein\n The Martian by Andy Weir\n The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes\n We are Legion (We are Bob) by Dennis Taylor\n Non-Fiction\n A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson\n Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow\n Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan\n Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance\n How to live: a life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell\n Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer\n Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens\n Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg\n Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell\n Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari\n Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson\n SuperFreakonomics by Levitt & Dubner\n Surely you\u2019re joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman and Ralph Leighton\n The Big Short by Michael Lewis\n The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb\n The Greatest Trade Ever by Gregory Zuckerman\n The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson\n The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor–and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car! by Tim Hartford\n The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely\n What if by Randall Munroe\n ","Category":["Books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/100.25.144.216\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/100.25.144.216\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/100.25.144.216\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/100.25.144.216\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/100.25.144.216\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9432"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"http:\/\/100.25.144.216\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11177,"href":"http:\/\/100.25.144.216\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9432\/revisions\/11177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/100.25.144.216\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/100.25.144.216\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/100.25.144.216\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/100.25.144.216\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}