Ask HN: What good books have you read in 2016? ↗

The books people recommended

2016-05-15 · 38 points · 31 comments · 30 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.

2
Deep Work
Cal Newport
2 here · 72 all-time · #46 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,713 ratings on Amazon
2
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
2 here · 41 all-time · #118 overall
Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 21,706 ratings on Amazon
2
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
2 here · 33 all-time · #161 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,758 ratings on Amazon
2Avogadro Corp. series
Avogadro Corp. series
William Hertling
2 here · 3 all-time · #2564 overall
1
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
1 here · 197 all-time · #4 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 133,705 ratings on Amazon
1
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
1 here · 178 all-time · #6 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 48,679 ratings on Amazon
1
The Wheel of Time
Robert Jordan
1 here · 43 all-time · #109 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 45,874 ratings on Amazon
1
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
1 here · 32 all-time · #178 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 27,257 ratings on Amazon
1
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
1 here · 28 all-time · #199 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 61,227 ratings on Amazon
1
The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu
1 here · 27 all-time · #210 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 34,505 ratings on Amazon
1
The Information
James Gleick
1 here · 24 all-time · #248 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 1,588 ratings on Amazon
1
Getting Real
37 Signals
1 here · 20 all-time · #310 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 281 ratings on Amazon
1
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
1 here · 20 all-time · #311 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 4,127 ratings on Amazon
1
The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee
1 here · 19 all-time · #334 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 9,907 ratings on Amazon
1Superintelligence
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
1 here · 18 all-time · #352 overall
Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 4,884 ratings on Amazon
1Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
1 here · 15 all-time · #442 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 5,772 ratings on Amazon
1The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
1 here · 14 all-time · #451 overall
Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 180,443 ratings on Amazon
1Vagabonding
Vagabonding
Rolf Potts
1 here · 10 all-time · #636 overall
1Disrupted
Disrupted
Dan Lyons
1 here · 9 all-time · #774 overall
1A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
1 here · 8 all-time · #788 overall
1Linchpin
Linchpin
Seth Godin
1 here · 8 all-time · #810 overall
1No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
1 here · 5 all-time · #1245 overall
1This Changes Everything
This Changes Everything
Naomi Klein
1 here · 5 all-time · #1264 overall
1Utopia for Realists
Utopia for Realists
Rutger Bregman
1 here · 5 all-time · #1274 overall
1How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid
1 here · 5 all-time · #1446 overall
1It's Not The Big That Eat The Small, It's The Fast That Eat The Slow
It's Not The Big That Eat The Small, It's The Fast That Eat The Slow
Jason Jennings
1 here · 4 all-time · #1704 overall
1Business @ The Speed Of Thought
Business @ The Speed Of Thought
Bill Gates
1 here · 4 all-time · #1862 overall
1Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
McKenzie Funk
1 here · 3 all-time · #2084 overall
1Pirate Diary
Pirate Diary
Richard Platt
1 here · 3 all-time · #2141 overall
1Spam Nation
Spam Nation
Brian Krebs
1 here · 3 all-time · #2352 overall