Ask HN: What books have you read in the first half of 2016? ↗
The books people recommended
2016-07-10 · 39 points · 52 comments · 82 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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- 3Sophie's World
- 3Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
- 3Foundation and Empire
- 3Second Foundation
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- 2The Goal
- 2The Cuckoo's Egg
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- 2Rationality: From AI to Zombies
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- 1Reamde
- 1Rendezvous with Rama
- 1Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
- 1
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- 1Quantum Computing since Democritus
- 1The Checklist Manifesto
- 1Site Reliability Engineering
- 1Consider Phlebas
- 1Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
- 1Essentialism
- 1The Knowledge
- 1The Trial
- 1The Invisible Man
- 1How to Make Friends and Influence People
- 1The Time Machine
- 1Between the World and Me
- 1Endymion
- 1Systemantics
- 1Thing Explainer
- 1The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- 1Symposium
- 1Contagious
- 1The Art of Profitability
- 1The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- 1The Difference Engine
- 1Leaves of Grass
- 1The Hidden Persuaders
- 1The Fear Index
- 1Fates and Furies
- 1Revolution in the Valley
- 1The Inevitable
- 1Alas, Babylon
- 1Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
- 1Corporate Confidential
- 1Machines of Loving Grace
- 1The Collapse of Complex Societies
- 1Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit
- 1I, Claudius
- 1Utopia
- 1The Industries of the Future
- 1On War
- 1Global Brain
- 1Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
- 1The Captive Mind
- 1The Hiding Place
- 1Game Change
- 1Autobiography
- 1Silence of the Lambs
- 1Eat That Frog
- 1Hannibal
- 1Yes Please
- 1The Pentagon's Brain
- 1Better
- 1Fooling Some of the People All of the Time
- 1The Logic of Failure