Ask HN: Books with a high signal to noise ratio?
The best book I've read in the last 5 years is David Simon's, "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets"...if you've watched The Wire, half of its material is derived from this real life account of being embedded in Baltimore's homicide unit: <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Homicide.html?id=N8LS0b0_bvUC&hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books/about/Homicide.html?id=N8LS0b...</a><p>All of Atul Gawande's books, notably:<p>The Checklist Manifesto [1]: <a href="http://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto/" rel="nofollow">http://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto/</a><p>Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance: <a href="http://atulgawande.com/book/better/" rel="nofollow">http://atulgawande.com/book/better/</a><p>[1] You can read the essay that this book is based on in the New Yorker: <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist" rel="nofollow">http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist</a>