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To answer the OP: A lot of depressing books about war and history. But I don't want to make you weep with sordid tales of how cruel humanity can be, so I read some lighter books as well. For people who like to read about smart animals, I can recommend Mind of the Raven by ornithologist Bernd Heinrich. It's a nice book about his raven-research. Fun fact: Ravens are actually smarter than dolphins. Also to help people differentiate between crows and ravens: Ravens are the loving huge monstrous ones, crows the scrawny small ones. And for those interested in more technical stuff, Soviet Robots in the Solar System by Wesley T. Huntress, Jr. and Mikhail Ya. Marov is loving great: It describes in great detail the Soviet expeditions to Moon, Mars and Venus. Lots of photos, diagrams, tables and much more! Then there is the book Cobol Programming I'm reading right now. It's a small, thin book by Brophy and 39 years old. I'm reading it because of all the neat descriptions of how ancient computers worked. The very idea of giving your program to some office just to come back a few days later to collect your error messages sounds just so awkward and old-fashioned. The book is a jewel for people who want to know about how things were done back in the 70s. 
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