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Welcome to Books & Articles Weekly. It was a good week in the territory. There were many high quality posts, so I have included 2 suggestions along with the top 5. @denlillaapan and @Scoresby did the heavy lifting.

I hope you all have a good week.

Thanks to everyone who contributed.

There is a zap award for the top 5 posts weekly. It will be broken down as follows:

1. 1000 sats
2. 250 sats
3. 250 sats
4. 250 sats
5. 250 sats

I choose the top 5 posts each week based on sats, engagement, and overall quality. The cut off time is 9:00am EST (1300GMT) Saturday morning. I will post the top 5 winners shortly around 9:00am every Saturday morning.

I reserve the right to not award any sats for the week. I also reserve the right to deny sat awards to bare link posts. I recognize that link posts can be valuable, so I will only exercise discretion for low quality links that garner few sats or engagement from stackers.

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Link to last week's post:
Books & Articles Weekly, #129

Top Posts Of The Week

• Lodging for Wayfaring Men Book Club #1: Farber's First Essay by @Scoresby
• All Ownership is Provisional: Can You Own a Forest? What About a Bitcoin? by @denlillaapan
• Why Were Victorian Elites so Effective? (Works in Progress Magazine, Sam Hughes) by @denlillaapan
• The State is Entrepreneurial: It Matches Nature with Entrepreneurs! by @denlillaapan
• [REVIEW] Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson by @Scoresby

Siggy's Suggestions

• BOOK on BOOKS: "The Age of Time," by Scott Dedels by @denlillaapan
• My book arrived. Can't wait to dig into this bad boy by @SimpleStacker

Index

Index Of Selected Posts

Writing Contests

• Writing Contest #1
• Writing Contest #2
• Stacker News Fiction Month

Stackers' Blogs

• Fighting The Daily Grind by @cryotosensei
• Personal Blog, Got My First Job by @CyberCrypto
• writing without book writing day #1, #7, #8, #9, #12 by @deluluwithjuju_
• Hello frens, June's here and so am I 🩷 by @samhainsam
• Parenting Journal 6/6/26 by @cryotosensei
• Community Library in Singapore by @cryotosensei
• "Locker 37" by @cryotosensei
• Baking and listening to music etc by @samhainsam
• What's up, creatures of the night? by @samhainsam
• AI and Innovation Festival in Singapore by @cryotosensei
• Istana Open House by @cryotosensei
• I've been thinking about some stuff, no, it's not clickbait, or is it? by @samhainsam
• I tried my hand at writing last year. I'd like some useful criticism. by @magnolia_mayhem
• Dear citizens of the universe and beyond by @samhainsam
• I miss when life moved more slowly by @bief57
• A few books I've read this winter by @samhainsam
• A few books I read and other stuff by @samhainsam
• Books and movies from the past few weeks by @samhainsam

My Bitcoin Journey

Inspired by Writing Contest #1, this is where stacker's bitcoin origin stories will be posted for easy reference.

• Grayruby's Bitcoin story by @grayruby
• I Put ¼ Of A Bitcoin In A Landfill by @brandonsbytes
• From Selling Newspapers To Finding Bitcoin by @Coinsreporter
• My bitcoin journey by @Carreson
• "Who are you?" - How do I want to answer? by @IamSINGLE
• "My journey with Bitcoin: the experience of an ordinary Cuban" by @BTCLNAT
• @realBitcoinDog Bitcoin Story - No, social media had nothing to do with it xD by @realBitcoinDog

Book Clubs

• Stoic Book Club:Meditations by @Se7enZ
• Jordan Peterson SN Bookclub -- We Who Wrestle With God by @denlillaapan
• Broken Money_ book club: index and reflection by @elvismercury
• Praxeology of Privacy Book Club Part I, II, III, IV, V, VI by @Scoresby
• Meditations Book Club: Book 1 by @Undisciplined
• A Lodging for Wayfaring Men Book Club - Start your engines! by @Scoresby

Books

• The Universal Good Deal by @cleophas
• Who Brought The Steak Tartare?, Chapter 1 by @cleophas
• The Final Product by @cleophas
• The Penal Preserve, Chapter 1 by @cleophas
• Happy The Hippo, an absolutely wonderful children's book written by @cryotosensei for his son.
• The Rogue Scholar by @jbschirtzinger
• Submersible by @johnbnevin
• And Then She Disappears - Block 1 by @ginkgo

Book Reviews

Book Reviews Archive, Vol. 1 - all reviews prior to April 2026
SN Book Reviews: Categorized (Redux) - AI-categorized archive of ~166 earlier reviews, by @SimpleStacker

Bitcoin, Economics & Society

• [REVIEW] The Gold Standard by Saifedean Ammous: My Three Takeways by @BlokchainB
• [REVIEW] Poor Economics: My Three Takeaways by @BlokchainB
• Book Review: The Habsburg Way by @jimmysong
• Book Review: Leaving a Legacy by Johann Kurtz by @jimmysong
• [Book Review] The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by @SimpleStacker
• Book Review: Four Thousand Weeks, by Oliver Burkeman by @denlillaapan
• [Book Review] Six Faces of Globalization, by Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp by @hasherstacker
• Book Review (Partial)... The Big Print, by Lawrence Lepard by @denlillaapan
• BOOK'S BOOKS Bookmarked: The Philosophy of Bitcoin, by Álvaro D. María by @denlillaapan
• BOOK On BOOKS: Bitcoin One Million, The Final Chapter of Fiat (Krueger & Sigman) by @denlillaapan
• Book Review: Tamers of Entropy by Juraj Bednar by @TotallyHumanWriter
• BOOK on BOOKS: "Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC," by Roger Ver by @denlillaapan
• Book Review: Proof Of Work by Paco De La India by @hasherstacker
• A Return to Taleb, the Ultimate Asymmetrical Thinker: Skin in the Game (2018) by @denlillaapan
• BOOK on BOOKS: "Gradually, Then Suddenly" by Parker Lewis by @denlillaapan
• BOOK on BOOKS: Skin in the Game, by Nassim Taleb by @denlillaapan
• BOOK on BOOKS: "Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin" by Lawrence White by @denlillaapan
• Review - "What You Need To Know About Bitcoins" (First Bitcoin Book?) by @siggy47
• Neptune's Brood: The First Bitcoin Novel by @siggy47
• BOOK on BOOKS: "Principles of Bitcoin" (2025) by Vijay Selvam by @denlillaapan
• BOOK on BOOKS: "A Progressive's Case for Bitcoin," by Jason Maier by @denlillaapan
• Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond by Chris Burniske & Jack Tatar by @Kayzone
• Book Review of "Abundance Through Scarcity" by Ioni Appelberg (BTCHEL2026, JB) by @denlillaapan
• BOOK on BOOKS: "The Bushido of Bitcoin," by Alexandar Svetski by @denlillaapan
• BOOK on BOOKS: "Bitcoin: Separation of Money and State," by Josef Tětek by @denlillaapan
• Book Review: Broken Money and the Way Out (PART 1: MONEY, PART 2: BITCOIN, PART 3: IN PRACTICE) (the Invity Team) by @denlillaapan

Science Fiction & Fantasy

• Darth Plagueis by James Luceno: A Review by @ihatevake
• The Private Eye by Brian K Vaughn: A Review by @ihatevake
• [REVIEW] We Can Remember It for You Wholesale - Philip K Dick by @Scoresby
• [REVIEW] Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams by @Scoresby
• [REVIEW] Count Zero by William Gibson by @Scoresby
• REVIEW: The Electric Church by Jeff Somers by @Scoresby
• What is the Wheel of Time tv series? by @Undisciplined
• [REVIEW] Ready Player One by Ernest Cline by @Scoresby
• [REVIEW] Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison by @Scoresby
• Review: Red City by Marie Lu by @deluluwithjuju_
• Review: To Dream In Darkness by Ann Liang by @deluluwithjuju_
• [Book Review] Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir by @SimpleStacker
• [REVIEW] Accelerando by Charles Stross by @Scoresby
• Review: Mortal Things by Marie Lu by @deluluwithjuju_
• [REVIEW] Blindsight by Peter Watts by @k00b
• Mr. Jordan, why? by @samhainsam
• [REVIEW] The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi by @Scoresby
• [REVIEW] Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson by @Scoresby

Literary & Popular Fiction

• Galveston - Nic Pizzolatto by @nkmg1c
• Book Review: The Stolguard Incident, by Lyn Alden by @denlillaapan
• John Williams - Stoner 📖 and Nothing but the Night 📗 by @plebpoet
• The Everlasting Mistake by Victor Oguejiofor by @Kayzone
• Echoes of Hard Times by Felicia Onyewadume by @Kayzone
• I'm a Hallmarked Girl!? by @samhainsam

General Non-Fiction

• [Review] - Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders by @billytheked
• Book recommendation - King Leopold's Ghost by @Signal312
• Book Review - Blood Of The Bourgeoise, by Michael R. Sullivan by @siggy47
• My first review: The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati by @LiterarySummary
• Submission: A Novel by Michel Houellebecq by @LiterarySummary
• The Anxious Generation by @LiterarySummary
• [Review] Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1998) by @hermione
• Klara and the Sun | Book Review by @SimpleStacker
• Book Review: A World Appears, by Michael Pollan by @denlillaapan
• Book Review - The Age of Time by Scott Dedels by @TotallyHumanWriter
• "Leaders Eat Last" by @cryotosensei
• John Michael Greer - The Long Descent by @nkmg1c
• [Book Review] The Book Of Enoch by @hasherstacker
• Daylight Robbery by Dominic Frisby by @hasherstacker
• "First, Break all the Rules" by @cryotosensei
• Book Review: "Junglekeeper," by Paul Rosolie (Part 1: Passion and Life Journey, Part 2: The Economics of Forests) by @denlillaapan
• Book Review: Ivan Illich Tools for Conviviality by @Dash_1971
• Book Review: Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey by David Cayley by @Dash_1971
• Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl 1946) by @Kayzone
• "Lucky the Dog and other tales from the farm" by @cryotosensei
• BOOK on BOOKS: "I Am Not Your Bruh," by George Mekhail by @denlillaapan
• The Storyteller by Benjamin by @LjubaRadman
• [Book Review] Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by @SimpleStacker
• The Benin Massacre - Alan Maxwell Boisragon (1897) by @Kayzone
• Currency Trading for Dummies - Kathleen Brooks & Brian Dolan (2011) by @Kayzone
• Rags to Riches: The African Way by M.N. Onyeachor by @Kayzone
• The Innovators by Walter Isaacson (2014) by @Kayzone
• You Are God's Battle Axe - Benson A. Idahosa (1991) by @Kayzone
• Flash Boys - Michael Lewis by @flat24
• Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe, 2018 (A True Story) by @Kayzone
• A quick look at Alain de Botton's "The Art of Travel" by @Kayzone
• Lightning Beneath the Sea by James M. Tabor by @Kayzone
• “Notes on a Nervous Planet” by @cryotosensei

Children's Books (by @cryotosensei)

• "Messi's Magic"
• "The Great Pollination Investigation"
• "Animals"
• "Animal Problem-Solving"
• "Classroom Critters Mammals Get Schooled"
• My son's first book review
• Pan Dorobo (Bread Thief)
• "Auggie and Me"
• "Shigoto e no Michi"
• "Is a Camel a Mammal? All about Mammals"
• "Malice"
• "Yours sincerely, Giraffe"
• "Dracula and Daughters"
• "What dwells in the deep?"
• "My life cycle"
• "The Marriage Test"
• Timothy and the Phubbers
• "I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki"
• "Rumble in the Jungle"
• "Let's discover our farms, Singapore"
• "Days at the Morisaki Bookstore"
• "Tales from the Cafe"
• "Before the coffee gets cold"
• "Mindset" (Dr. Carol S. Dweck)
• "Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong bookshop"

Bitcoin Academic Articles & Reviews

• Bitcoin Pricing, Adoption, and Usage: Theory and Evidence | Article Review by @SimpleStacker
• Minneapolis Fed Bitcoin Paper | Article Review by @SimpleStacker
• Bitcoin: What Does Mainstream Economics Have to Say? | Article Review by @SimpleStacker
• Competition and trust in the private provision of money | Article Review by @SimpleStacker

Movie & Television Reviews

• Sound of Freedom | Movie Review by @SimpleStacker
• Movie Review | "How to make millions before Grandma dies" by @cryotosensei
• Movie Review | "Culinary Class Wars" by @cryotosensei
• El Encargado | Argentinian TV series | very good comedy by @DarthCoin
• The IT crowd | hillarious super funny comedy TV series by @DarthCoin
• Two TV series about the "Schrodinger's cat" theory by @DarthCoin
• From | Que sera, sera... | new season 3 TV series by @DarthCoin
• Bingeworthy: Slow Horses by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
• SHARKS, SHARKS, SHARKS by @samhainsam

Essays

• An Empty Jar of Asparagus by @bitcoingraffiti
• Prose piece | Running by @carlosfandango
• Prose piece | The storm by @carlosfandango
• Nihilism Wants Empire:Camus On Nietzsche by @jurraca
• Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction by @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears
• The 1984 Index by @softglitter2d
• Solving Bitcoin's Biggest Problem through Human-to-Human Communication by @TotallyHumanWriter
• Satoshi Nakamoto did not create Bitcoin. He discovered it. by @hasherstacker
• More Than 100 Bitcoin Books Worth Reading by @hasherstacker
• A Call for Peace: Nostr and Bitcoin Need Builders, Not Battlefields by @hasherstacker
• [HM] - The Man Who Turned Everything into Bitcoin and Disappeared by @guerratotal
• Death by Bureaucracy by @mo
• The Digital Cave: From Plato's shadows to the smartphone screen by @Taft
• [HM] Zapversary by @hasherstacker
• Farewell Tour: The Last World Cup for Messi, Ronaldo, and Neymar? by @Artikelarts
• So You Wanna Work In Bitcoin... by @TotallyHumanWriter
• [HM] - The Hacker Who Left Bitcoin to Go to War by @guerratotal
• Dog Island and the Magic Dog Treat Oven (A walking tale) by @grayruby
• Which is more rational: Life or Literature? by @LjubaRadman
• I explain Bitcoin to hookers and dealers. This is that story. [PROLOGUE] by @RobertMust
• On the Translation of Homer (The Illiad and The Odyssey) by @billytheked
• Everyone's talking about the Odyssey. Why? by @LjubaRadman
• The False Promise of Commercial Hardware Wallets by @hasherstacker
• Will Artificial Intelligence replace the human writer? by @the_optimist
• Continuity of Control (#1 H. G. Wells - Conspiracy in Broad Daylight, #5 Aldous Huxley - The Science of Servitude) by @mo
• The Story of an Emigrant by @DP0604
• A conversation with a nocoiner about voluntary servitude by @satoshiplanet
• satwize Collector's Guides & Collectibles: Book Collecting For Bitcoiners, Part 1, Collectible Book #1: The Sovereign Individual, Collector's Guide: The Mandibles, Collector's Guide: The Bitcoin Standard
• physical media that i will FOREVER own: by @deluluwithjuju_
• The Natural Dividend reading series (Who Owns the Sun? And Other Qs, All Ownership is Provisional: Can You Own a Forest? What About a Bitcoin?, The State is Entrepreneurial: It Matches Nature with Entrepreneurs!) by @denlillaapan
• Guilty until proven innocent by @KudzaiK
• They rejected Bitcoin on principle. They trusted PayPal. Now they're gone. by @satoshiplanet
• When the answers are not enough... by @Taft
• Help doesn't ask where you're from by @KudzaiK
• Why I Think the Justin Shocknet Accusation Is a Distraction by @hasherstacker
• The banality of evil: a fatal misunderstanding? by @LjubaRadman
• Bibliothèque intérieure by @Taft
• The pride of being a reader by @LjubaRadman
• The Nobel Prize in Literature by @Taft

Poetry

• Avoidant Attachment 101: A Beginner's Course by @bitcoingraffiti
• Realized Loss by @bitcoingraffiti
• Saint Nicholas by @bitcoingraffiti
• The Secondary Land by @bitcoingraffiti
• The Tourism Consumerist Apex by @bitcoingraffiti
• Amsterdam by @bitcoingraffiti
• The Great Dali by @bitcoingraffiti
• I want to start a church by @bitcoingraffiti
• I am the Rat Man - Exterminate where i can by @bitcoingraffiti
• Which person is truly healthy & which one is poisoning me? by @bitcoingraffiti
• How to Grieve - The 5 Step Plan by @bitcoingraffiti
• [PM] I am a man smoking outside shops 🚬 by @bitcoingraffiti
• [PM] Why my waitress' gone awry by @bitcoingraffiti
• Reflections on the recent holiday by @plebpoet
• internet feelings by @ek
• Sorelle by @Myshkin
• Autunno by @Myshkin
• Poetry:unresolved between a thai lad and I by @cryotosensei
• plebpoet's original poem + discussion by @plebpoet
• a new kind of poem (that you can see 👀 and hear 🦻) by @plebpoet
• I am not man enough by @Nuttall
• If A Day Comes... by @Tef
• Let's pretend we loved each other by @Nadia
• That's MINE! Poetry. by @Malach17
• Silly rhymes written by a guy (maybe) fallen in love by @0268a5c238
• When ♾️🗓️ and How Many 🔢 by @DP0604

Short Stories

• Bitcoin Original: Forked Lessons, 2029 by @GreaterthanFiction
• Ghost Blocks: The Fight Against Bitcoin's Stamp Tax (2091) by @GreaterthanFiction
• Stacker News Fiction Month by @Scoresby
• [FICTION] Cherry Orchards by @TotallyHumanWriter
• Citizen Zero (2028): When Britain's Digital ID Failed, Bitcoin Saved Identity by @GreaterthanFiction
• The Cost of Certainty by @GreaterthanFiction
• The Rite of Keys by @GreaterthanFiction
• Proof of Love (2031)- When all is lost much can be found by @GreaterthanFiction
• Taste of Freedom by @GreaterthanFiction
• Of Sovereign Men by @TheFictionFactory
• Golden Silence by @TheFictionFactory
• The Great Delete by @TheFictionFactory
• Bob's Brunch With Bitcoin Buddha by @siggy47
• Short story | The motel by @carlosfandango
• The poet and the reader || short story by @02879c7d869
• 'little fictions' presents: Cowboys Don't Belong by @plebpoet
• Short Story: "Quarter" by Eduardo Prospero by @eduardopro
• Neo's Adventure In The Digital Realm: Discovering The Treasure Of Bitcoin by @VEINTIUNO

Comics

• Apriori Flower 01:16 - Are We Better? - Dhamma Comic by @Nuttall
• Two Comics, One Cartoon by @samhainsam