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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
The Lessons of History
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Reality is Not What it Seems
Thinking Physics: Understandable Practical Reality
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Ever the Wayward Sky by Oliver PhippsI Rode with Morgan by Jonathan JacksonDivided Waters by Ivan MusicantNaval Shipbuilders of the World by Robert Winklareth"Old Hoodoo" The Battleship Texas by Mark D. Cowan
A 19th Century Nautical Miscellenia
45 books — 11 voters
The Hunt for Red October by Tom ClancyRed Storm Rising by Tom ClancyDas Boot by Lothar-Günther BuchheimMigrant Crisis by John   SteelVoyage of the Devilfish by Michael DiMercurio
Best Submarine Thrillers
137 books — 108 voters

Horatio Hornblower 1 - 11 by C.S. ForesterThe East Indiaman by Ellis K. MeachamH.M.S. Ulysses by Alistair MacLeanHis Majesty's Dragon by Naomi NovikThe Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
Great Naval fiction (historical)
39 books — 13 voters
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by James D. Hornfischer1812 by George C. DaughanTin Can Sailor by C. Raymond CalhounRed Star Over the Pacific by James HolmesSix Frigates by Ian W. Toll
The Official US Navy Reading List
59 books — 5 voters

German Raider Atlantis by Wolfgang FrankThe Last Raider by Douglas ReemanThe Sea Raiders by Edward Keble ChattertonThe Last-Gentleman-Of-War by R.K. LochnerWolf by Richard Guilliatt
Raiders!
69 books — 6 voters

The Royal Navy had not built its magnificent reputation over the centuries by avoiding battle.
Arthur Nicholson, Hostages To Fortune: Winston Churchill And The Loss Of The Prince Of Wales And Repulse

Rudyard Kipling
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - ...more
Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous

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