Ask HN: Books you read in 2015? ↗
The books people recommended
2015-12-23 · 171 points · 164 comments · 293 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.
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- 5Endurance
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- 4Impro
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- 3Permutation City
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- 3The Inner Game of Tennis
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- 3Models
- 3Armada
- 3The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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- 2Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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- 2Old Man's War
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- 2Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- 2The Last Question
- 2Worm
- 2The Guns of August
- 2The Tao of Pooh
- 2Becoming Steve Jobs
- 2Autobiography of a Yogi
- 2Aubrey-Maturin series
- 2The Wright Brothers
- 2Station Eleven
- 2What If?
- 2Untethered Soul
- 2The Magic of Thinking Big
- 2The Surrender Experiment
- 2Finding Flow
- 2Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- 2Scrum
- 2How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
- 2Leave It to Psmith
- 2High Fidelity
- 2The Sense of an Ending
- 2The Traitor Baru Cormorant
- 2Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
- 2Dead Wake
- 2Linear and Geometric Algebra
- 2The Code of the Woosters
- 2The Pearl
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- 1The Art of War
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- 1The 4-Hour Workweek
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- 1Coders at Work
- 1The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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- 1Revelation Space
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- 1The Old Man and the Sea
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- 1Kafka on the Shore
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- 1The Box
- 1Quantum Computing since Democritus
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- 1On Writing
- 1The Innovators
- 1Superintelligence
- 1Remote
- 1Understanding Power
- 1The Checklist Manifesto
- 1Made to Stick
- 1Start Small, Stay Small
- 1Excession
- 1Practical Common Lisp
- 1Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- 1A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
- 1Frankenstein
- 1The Handmaid's Tale
- 1Longitude
- 1The Blank Slate
- 1Superforecasting
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- 1Drive
- 1The Mote in God's Eye
- 1Delivering Happiness
- 1Glasshouse
- 1Logicomix
- 1Being Mortal
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- 1The Magicians
- 1A Wizard of Earthsea
- 1The Richest Man in Babylon
- 1The Timeless Way of Building
- 1The Jungle
- 1The Devil in the White City
- 1The Linux Programming Interface
- 1The Knowledge
- 1Simulacra and Simulation
- 1How to Lie with Statistics
- 1The Trial
- 1Daring Greatly
- 1The Elegant Universe
- 1The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- 1A Wild Sheep Chase
- 1The Man in the High Castle
- 1The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- 1Chasing the Scream
- 1Sandman
- 1The Aeneid
- 1Be Here Now
- 1Hooked
- 1The Sun Also Rises
- 1Einstein
- 1Functional Programming in Scala
- 1Probability
- 1Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- 1Apollo
- 1Thing Explainer
- 1Never Eat Alone
- 1Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- 1A Farewell to Arms
- 1The Dog Stars
- 1The Sleepwalkers
- 1The Swerve
- 1Status Anxiety
- 1Mini Habits
- 1Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
- 1Red Plenty
- 1The Shallows
- 1Tokyo Vice
- 1The Tipping Point
- 1Tuesdays with Morrie
- 1Predictable Revenue
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- 1Democracy: The God That Failed
- 1Star Diaries
- 1Mahabharata
- 1House of Suns
- 1Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
John D. Clark
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- 1Behind the Cloud
- 1This Changes Everything
- 1Warbreaker
- 1Madame Bovary
- 1The Wizard of Oz
- 1Do No Harm
- 1Dracula
- 1Ways of Seeing
- 1One Summer: America, 1927
- 1The Andromeda Strain
- 1100 Years of Solitude
- 1The Best Interface Is No Interface
- 1How to Win at the Sport of Business
- 1The Ultimate Sales Machine
- 1The Graveyard Book
- 1Clockwork Rocket
- 1The Years of Rice and Salt
- 1Alas, Babylon
- 1On Numbers & Games
- 1Post Office
- 1The Long Earth
- 1Devotion of Suspect X
- 1Lost Fleet
- 1Science, Strategy and War
Science, Strategy and War
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- 1The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
- 1Jack Reacher
- 1What Technology Wants
- 1Lives
- 1Golden Son
- 1Gang Leader for a Day
- 1Words of Radiance
- 1What Got You Here Won't Get You There
- 1The Power of Full Engagement
- 1The Non-Designer's Design Book
- 1The World Beyond Your Head
- 1Ruby Under a Microscope
- 1Steal Like An Artist
- 1No Place to Hide
- 1The Emperor's Handbook
- 1Bed of Procrustes
- 1The Worst Journey in the World
- 1The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics
The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics
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- 1Imperium
- 1The Singapore Story
- 1Essentials of Programming Languages
Essentials of Programming Languages
Daniel Friedman and Mitchell Wand
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- 1Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- 1Steelheart
- 1Think Like a Freak
- 1Fuzzy Nation
- 1A Night In Lonesome October
- 1Mastering Bitcoin
- 1Big Data
- 1Persepolis
- 1Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- 1The Rhesus Chart
- 1Yes Please
- 1Spell or High Water
- 1An Unwelcome Quest
- 1The Fifth Head of Cerberus
- 1Crux
- 1Ancillary Mercy
- 1Metamorphoses
- 1The Jazz Piano Book
- 1American Nations
- 1Existence
- 1The Girl on the Train
- 1The Sales Acceleration Formula
- 1Peregrine
- 1The Swiss Family Robinson
The Swiss Family Robinson
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- 1In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick
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- 1The Last Viking
- 1Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix