Some nonfiction books worth reading. I read a great deal of fiction, but keep those recommendations elsewhere.
Writing lives and practice
- Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
- On Writing, Stephen King
- The Writing Life, Annie Dillard
- Good Prose, Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd
- Gentle Writing Advice, Chuck Wendig
- The Midnight Disease, Alice W. Flaherty
Academic writing
- Stylish Academic Writing, Helen Sword
- Air & Light & Time & Space, Helen Sword
- Writing with Pleasure, Helen Sword
- Learn to Write Badly, Michael Billig
Artificial intelligence
- The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking, Shannon Vallor
- Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, Karen Hao
- Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, Ethan Mollick
Religion and historical belief
- Religion and the Decline of Magic, Keith Thomas
- The Pursuit of the Millennium, Norman Cohn