# I'm a Bookaholic! Feed me more knowledge! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookaholic-feed-me-more-knowledge/718406 "2015-04-24T00:54:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookaholic-feed-me-more-knowledge/718406/21 "2015-04-24T14:21:24Z")
_Prisoner’s Dilemma_ by William Poundstone is another good work on mathematics, in this case game theory. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookaholic-feed-me-more-knowledge/718406/22 "2015-04-24T15:15:29Z")
I see you have a couple of Mary Roach’s books. You could complete the set with Spook, Stiff and Bonk. I also like Sam Kean’s books: The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements The Violinist’s Thumb: and Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code and The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: the History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookaholic-feed-me-more-knowledge/718406/23 "2015-04-24T16:23:28Z")
**What If?** by Randall Munro. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookaholic-feed-me-more-knowledge/718406/24 "2015-04-24T16:33:58Z")
_The Signal and the Noise_ by Nate Silver ---
**Author:** ![cjackson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a3d4f5/32.png) [@cjackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjackson)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookaholic-feed-me-more-knowledge/718406/25 "2015-04-24T16:43:19Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > **What If?** by Randall Munro. I’ve read that one too. I wonder what else I’m forgetting. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookaholic-feed-me-more-knowledge/718406/26 "2015-04-24T16:45:04Z")
_At Home_, Bill Bryson (it’s history, not science - but there’s history of technology in there and if you like Bryson, you’ll probably enjoy it) _The Little Ice Age_, Brian Fagan _Why Choose This Book_, Read Montigue _How to Defeat Your Own Clone_ Jyle Kurpinski and Terry D. Johnson I’ll second _What If_, _The Signal and The Noise_, and \*The Disappearing Spoon \*well - all good reads. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookaholic-feed-me-more-knowledge/718406/27 "2015-04-24T17:16:11Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > _Prisoner’s Dilemma_ by William Poundstone is another good work on mathematics, in this case game theory. Poundstone’s trilogy of “Secrets” books are irresistible **Big Secrets Bigger Secrets Biggest Secrets** In them he reveals (or plausibly ferrets out) such things as the Secret Recipe for Coca Cola, the Herbs and Spices in Kentucky Fried Chicken, the recipe for Oysters Rockefeller, what’s in Joy Perfume, Chartreuse liqueur, and Mrs. Field’s cookies, how many magic tricks are performed, how cards are marked, how three-card Monte works, the secrets of backward masking, and many other bits of trivia. ---
**Author:** ![cjackson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a3d4f5/32.png) [@cjackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjackson)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookaholic-feed-me-more-knowledge/718406/28 "2015-04-25T00:48:57Z")
I’m planning on reading TRESPASSING ON EINSTEIN’S LAWN next, and then perhaps ONLY THE LONGEST THREADS after that. ---
**Author:** ![Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cabin_fever_1/32/2908_2.png) [@Cabin\_Fever\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabin_Fever_1)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2015, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookaholic-feed-me-more-knowledge/718406/29 "2015-04-25T04:42:53Z")
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond Just finished this. Enlightening, well researched evidently. Gave me a new understanding and perspective on humanity and how we evolved as a people. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2015, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookaholic-feed-me-more-knowledge/718406/30 "2015-04-26T16:15:25Z")
Bodanis, David. _The Secret House: The Extraordinary Science of an Ordinary Day_ [probably a bit dated by now]. Bodanis, David. _E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation_. Bodanis, David.\* Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched On the Modern World\*. All pop science in the best sense of the term. Like Professor Frink, he’ll make you laugh, make you think. Also John McLeish, _Number_, particularly on how how world view was reflected in early number systems [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookaholic-feed-me-more-knowledge/718406.md?page=1)