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Ask HN: What book that you read in 2015 significantly affected how you think? ↗

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2015-12-19 · 51 points · 35 comments · 38 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.

  1. 2

    Shogun

    James Clavell

    2 here · 26 all-time · #223 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 27,634 ratings on Amazon
  2. 2

    Waking Up

    Sam Harris

    2 here · 19 all-time · #337 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 9,211 ratings on Amazon
  3. 1

    Sapiens

    Yuval Noah Harari

    1 here · 197 all-time · #4 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 133,705 ratings on Amazon
  4. 1

    Atlas Shrugged

    Ayn Rand

    1 here · 173 all-time · #9 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 22,012 ratings on Amazon
  5. 1Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

    Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

    Eliezer Yudkowsky

    1 here · 101 all-time · #27 overall

    Buy on Amazon
  6. 1

    Zero to One

    Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

    1 here · 89 all-time · #37 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 40,093 ratings on Amazon
  7. 1The Goal

    The Goal

    Eliyahu M. Goldratt

    1 here · 70 all-time · #49 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 4,661 ratings on Amazon
  8. 1

    The Hard Thing About Hard Things

    Ben Horowitz

    1 here · 56 all-time · #67 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 15,933 ratings on Amazon
  9. 1

    Moby Dick

    Herman Melville

    1 here · 51 all-time · #82 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 16,756 ratings on Amazon
  10. 1

    Principles

    Ray Dalio

    1 here · 49 all-time · #88 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 19,363 ratings on Amazon
  11. 1Rework

    Rework

    Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

    1 here · 43 all-time · #106 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 11,954 ratings on Amazon
  12. 1

    The 48 Laws of Power

    Robert Greene

    1 here · 36 all-time · #136 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 90,218 ratings on Amazon
  13. 1

    On Intelligence

    Jeff Hawkins

    1 here · 36 all-time · #138 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 893 ratings on Amazon
  14. 1

    Business Adventures

    John Brooks

    1 here · 35 all-time · #151 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 5,565 ratings on Amazon
  15. 1

    The War of Art

    Steven Pressfield

    1 here · 33 all-time · #163 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 31,336 ratings on Amazon
  16. 1

    Manufacturing Consent

    Edward S. Herman

    1 here · 30 all-time · #193 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 3,047 ratings on Amazon
  17. 1Poor Charlie's Almanack

    Poor Charlie's Almanack

    Charlie Munger

    1 here · 25 all-time · #230 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,930 ratings on Amazon
  18. 1

    Getting Real

    37 Signals

    1 here · 20 all-time · #310 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 281 ratings on Amazon
  19. 1Snowball

    Snowball

    Alice Schroeder

    1 here · 18 all-time · #346 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 5,023 ratings on Amazon
  20. 1The God Delusion

    The God Delusion

    Richard Dawkins

    1 here · 18 all-time · #354 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 14,138 ratings on Amazon
  21. 1The Master Algorithm

    The Master Algorithm

    Pedro Domingos

    1 here · 15 all-time · #432 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 1,752 ratings on Amazon
  22. 1Amusing Ourselves to Death

    Amusing Ourselves to Death

    Neil Postman

    1 here · 14 all-time · #450 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 4,314 ratings on Amazon
  23. 1Superforecasting

    Superforecasting

    Philip Tetlock

    1 here · 13 all-time · #488 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 4,641 ratings on Amazon
  24. 1The Road to Character

    The Road to Character

    David Brooks

    1 here · 12 all-time · #539 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 6,604 ratings on Amazon
  25. 1The Water Knife

    The Water Knife

    Paolo Bacigalupi

    1 here · 9 all-time · #729 overall

  26. 1Trust Me, I'm Lying

    Trust Me, I'm Lying

    Ryan Holiday

    1 here · 9 all-time · #739 overall

  27. 1The Millionaire Fastlane

    The Millionaire Fastlane

    MJ DeMarco

    1 here · 8 all-time · #794 overall

  28. 1Free Will

    Free Will

    Sam Harris

    1 here · 8 all-time · #837 overall

  29. 1Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    Ludwig Wittgenstein

    1 here · 7 all-time · #933 overall

  30. 1Predictable Revenue

    Predictable Revenue

    Aaron Ross

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1094 overall

  31. 1The Human Use of Human Beings

    The Human Use of Human Beings

    Norbert Wiener

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1276 overall

  32. 1The Outsiders

    The Outsiders

    William Thorndike

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1285 overall

  33. 1Neurosis and Human Growth

    Neurosis and Human Growth

    Karen Horney

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1692 overall

  34. 1Birth of Tragedy

    Birth of Tragedy

    Friedrich Nietzsche

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1832 overall

  35. 1The Art of Asking

    The Art of Asking

    Amanda Palmer

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1842 overall

  36. 1Bad Samaritans

    Bad Samaritans

    Ha-Joon Chang

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1869 overall

  37. 1The Moral Landscape

    The Moral Landscape

    Sam Harris

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2189 overall

  38. 1Atomic Accidents

    Atomic Accidents

    James Mahaffey

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2293 overall