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Old Culture War Thread: Your good books list

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The Three Body Problem trilogy. The Infinite and the Divine: cool 40K book.

The Wildbow classics: Worm, Pact and Twig. All with somewhat slow starts but well-written and gripping.

Reverend Insanity, very long, somewhat edgy xianxia. Really logical, thoughtful plot and worldbuilding. Definitely meets the definition of rational fiction. It does some literary stuff with internal fables that was pretty cool, adds some philosophical weight to it.

Rather like Mearsheimer's publications, Tragedy of Great Power Politics, The Israel Lobby & The Great Delusion. Fairly approachable and highly persuasive international relations, though I already agreed with his ideas before I started reading him.

I second the Three Body Problem Trilogy, best piece of science fiction to exist currently.

If you enjoyed Reverend Insanity, I think you might enjoy 40 Milleniums of Cultivation. Similar sort of guile and cunning-driven plot, but with a more altruistic main character concerned about the wellbeing and freedom of human beings - a definition he eventually expands to things that share human values, not just human DNA and bodies.

I'll give it a look, it's just that I heard it's one of those ones that only get good a few hundred chapters in.