Welcome to this week’s issue of the Books And Articles newsletter. Thanks for all of the quality posts. There is no territory specific news to talk about today. As always, please reply to this post with suggestions and opinions on how to make this territory better.

I hope everyone has a good week.

The top post of the week will be forwarded 50% of the zaps earned on this week’s newsletter post. Rankings will be determined using the SN zaprank.

Here are this week’s top posts:

Jack Kerouac is well represented in the territory this week. @carlosfandango posted a review of Lonesome Traveller that made it to one of the Top 5 Posts Of The Week, and StillStackin followed it up with one of his poems. Once again, my reason for including this post as a suggestion is selfish. Jack Kerouac opened my eyes as a teenager to a world far removed from my suburban tract house view of life, as he did for so many of my age. He also helped give me a love of reading for pure pleasure.

I know these are both by Stillstackin, but this post was a hell of a lot of fun, even for a guy who struggled through trigonometry.

This week’s Golden Oldie:

This post is packed with some really good book recommendations. I’m glad I looked at it again, since there are many mentioned here that I haven’t gotten to yet. As @cleaningup12 said, “Fantastic thread @gmd 👏 this is a go to for what to read next, for at least a few years for me, I don't read that much, but when I do, I don't put it down This could be a sticky/posted at top if they are a thing here I'll share this on nostr and see if any plebs not joined up, fancy adding their choices. And lastly if you want a basic easy read to lose yourself in. Girl on a train.”

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