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: https://books.google.com/books/about/Homicide.html?id=N8LS0b...All of Atul Gawande's books, notably:The Checklist Manifesto [1]: http://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto/Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance: http://atulgawande.com/book/better/[1] You can read the essay that this book is based on in the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/12/10/the-checklist