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The Devil in the White City

By Erik Larson ,

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Winn VanBrimer

From Winn's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

By Winn VanBrimer

Unknown Author Why Winn loves this book

Dual non fiction stories that were both extremely interesting and a page turner

The Devil in the White City

By Erik Larson ,

Why should I read it?

28 authors picked The Devil in the White City as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

The Chicago World Fair was the greatest fair in American history. This is the story of the men and women whose lives it irrevocably changed and of two men in particular- an architect and a serial killer. The architect is Daniel Burnham, a man of great integrity and depth. It was his vision of the fair that attracted the best minds and talents of the day. The killer is Henry H. Holmes. Intelligent as well as handsome and charming, Holmes opened a boarding house which he advertised as 'The World's Fair Hotel' Here in the neighbourhood where he was once…

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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

The Wide Wide Sea

By Hampton Sides ,

Book cover of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Peter Solomon Author Of 12 Years to AI Singularity

From my list on modern evolution: from humanoids to super species to sentient artificial intelligence.

By Peter Solomon Author

Why am I passionate about this?

I am a scientist, educator, successful entrepreneur, and author. I believe that human civilization is threatened by the wonderful and dangerous technologies that we created in the last two centuries: fossil fuels, nuclear weapons, gene editing, AI, and social media. As a creator of technologies, I feel responsible that more hasn’t been done to properly control them. My current mission is to sound an alarm about the potential tyranny of technology through my novels, 100 Years to Extinction and the sequel, 12 Years to AI Singularity, on my website and on social media. While the recommended books on my list are nonfiction, my fictional story presents the science and technology accurately as nonfiction would.

Peter's book list on modern evolution: from humanoids to super species to sentient artificial intelligence

Book cover of The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Book cover of The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race Book cover of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Book cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI Book cover of The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

Peter Solomon Why Peter loves this book

This is a wonderful book that I found difficult to put down.

It is about a different technology that made profound changes in civilization: our ability to navigate and explore the world. That new technology allowed European civilization to threaten the civilizations of indigenous people on other continents. Will it be similar to AI threatening the civilization of humans?

I was particularly struck by the wars going on between people of the same culture, but living on neighboring islands. Their lack of cooperative existence put their cultures at risk. Will human civilization have the same lack of cooperation in dealing with artificial intelligence?

The Wide Wide Sea

By Hampton Sides ,

Why should I read it?

11 authors picked The Wide Wide Sea as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.

“Hampton Sides, an acclaimed master of the nonfiction narrative, has taken on Cook’s story and retells it for the 21st century.”—Los Angeles Times

On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest…

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