Ask HN: What are the best books you've read that few others have?
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.<p>It&#x27;s hard to describe. Rather, the story is easy to describe: it concerns the travel of a man from a future age. Nothing is what it seems.<p>There was a moment when I realized &quot;Oh shit. This is real.&quot; The book may be fiction but almost nothing about it is fake. The Big Questions, in History, in Philosophy, in Politics, in Theology, in Technological Progress, in interpreting reality, it&#x27;s all there.<p>Most non-fiction work of fiction I&#x27;ve ever read, and the best one, above Tolkien, above the Bible, it towers above all texts I have read.<p>It will take multiple reads to understand what it is saying, different parts will appeal to you each time.<p>In terms of the people you know: imagine that Stewart Brand, Peter Thiel and Christopher Nolan somehow had a lovechild - it would be The Book of the New Sun.