I noticed book threads mostly revolve around the usual suspects. Just like most other book lists outside of HN.<p>The idea behind this question is "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."<p>(... which ironically comes from an author that everyone reads)<p>Let's see if we can compile some interesting list of good/useful books and novels that are hardly found in the mainstream/popular lists and expand our bookshelves as well as horizons.<p>Please add couple of sentences about the book too.
"The worship of Augustus Caesar : derived from a study of coins, monuments, calendars, aeras, and astronomical and astrological cycles, the whole establishing a new chronology and survey of history and religion" by Alexander del Mar, 1900<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/worshipofaugustu00delmuoft/page/n5/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/worshipofaugustu00delmuoft/page/...</a>
P.G. Wodehouse is known for comedy books about butlers who are obviously of a much higher class than their 'masters', but he also wrote a semi-serious novel covering eugenics: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_of_Bill" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_of_Bill</a>