Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift? ↗
The books people recommended
2016-08-07 · 360 points · 514 comments · 282 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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- 6The Four Agreements
- 6Allen Carr's Easy Way To Stop Smoking
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- 4The Cuckoo's Egg
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- 4A People's History of the United States
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- 4Speaker for the Dead
- 4The Source
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- 3Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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- 3Harry Potter
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- 3The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- 3Rendezvous with Rama
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- 3Good Omens
- 3Who Moved My Cheese
- 3Exploding the Phone
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- 2The Brothers Karamazov
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- 2The Code Book
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- 2Time Enough for Love
- 21Q84
- 2The Last Lecture
- 2The Millionaire Next Door
- 2Red Mars
- 2Homage to Catalonia
- 2Fermat's Last Theorem
- 2Cloud Atlas
- 2Thing Explainer
- 2A Wrinkle in Time
- 2I Will Teach You To Be Rich
- 2Nine Princes in Amber
- 2The Sense of Style
- 2Battlefield Earth
- 2Coyote
- 2The Swiss Family Robinson
The Swiss Family Robinson
2 here · 3 all-time · #2558 overall
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- 1Rework
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- 1The 4-Hour Workweek
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- 1The Power of Now
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- 1Poor Charlie's Almanack
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- 1Calculus Made Easy
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- 1Old Man's War
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- 1Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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- 1Algorithms to Live By
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- 1The Kingkiller Chronicle
- 1Shantaram
- 1Mindstorms
- 1When Breath Becomes Air
- 1Lila
- 1The Wisdom of Insecurity
- 1Ficciones
- 1Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- 1The Denial of Death
- 1The Prophet
- 1Amusing Ourselves to Death
- 1Heart of Darkness
- 1Book of Proof
- 1The Way Things Work
- 1Secrets of Consulting
- 1What Do You Care What Other People Think?
- 1Anything You Want
- 1Altered Carbon
- 1Replay
- 1The Peripheral
- 1The Unix Programming Environment
- 1Vagabonding
- 1The Origin of Species
- 1The Shadow of the Wind
- 1Against the Gods
- 1The Knowledge
- 1The Go Programming Language
- 1The Extended Phenotype
- 1Faust
- 1Learn Python the Hard Way
- 1The Belgariad
- 1Self-Reliance
- 1The Passionate Programmer
- 1Boyd
- 1The Fifth Discipline
- 1Watership Down
- 1Lean Customer Development
- 1Chasing the Scream
- 1The Bridge
- 1Gates of Fire
- 1The Emperor's New Mind
- 1I, Robot
- 1Just for Fun
- 1Unbroken
- 1Maus
- 1Choose Yourself
- 1Grammatical Man
- 1The Magic of Thinking Big
- 1Status Anxiety
- 1Apology
- 1Robinson Crusoe
- 1The Art of Loving
- 1Tuesdays with Morrie
- 1Predictable Revenue
- 1The Defining Decade
- 1Gödel's Proof
- 1West with the Night
- 1The Score Takes Care of Itself
- 1Perdido Street Station
- 1The Organized Mind
- 1The Story of B
- 1Badass: Making Users Awesome
- 1The Elements of Typographic Style
- 1An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
1 here · 5 all-time · #1252 overall
- 1Beowulf
- 1Normal Accidents
- 1Leaves of Grass
- 1At Home
- 1Down and Out in Paris and London
- 1Maverick
- 1The Lady Tasting Tea
- 1The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
- 1Why the West Rules for Now
- 1The Double Helix
- 1Business Model Generation
- 1Smarter Faster Better
- 1Reasons and Persons
- 1The Third Policeman
- 1The Graveyard Book
- 1The Mathematical Experience
- 110% Happier
- 1The Bone Clocks
- 1The Witcher
- 1Corporate Confidential
- 1Bridge of Birds
- 1Zero Bugs and Program Faster
- 1Sources of Power
- 1Connections
- 1Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity
- 1The Collapse of Complex Societies
- 1Manifold: Time
- 1Green Mars
- 1Catch Me If You Can
- 1The Age of Reason
- 1Robots
- 1When Nietzsche Wept
- 1Don't Shoot the Dog
- 1The Number Devil
- 1Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes
1 here · 3 all-time · #2027 overall
- 1The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
- 1Dead Souls
- 1Night Watch
- 1How the World Works
- 1Global Brain
- 1The Periodic Table
- 1The Princess Bride
- 1The Day the Universe Changed
- 1Complications
- 1Epic of Gilgamesh
Epic of Gilgamesh
1 here · 3 all-time · #2182 overall
- 1Meltdown
- 1The GNU Manifesto
- 1Limits to Growth
Limits to Growth
Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, William W. Behrens III
1 here · 3 all-time · #2203 overall
- 1Unix Power Tools
- 1One Piece
- 1Our Band Could Be Your Life
- 1Kallocain
- 1Blue Mars
- 1Life Ascending
- 1The Space Trilogy
- 1Persepolis
- 1The Interpretation of Cultures
- 1The (Mis)behavior of Markets
- 1The Gambler
- 1Mission Earth
- 1The Fault in Our Stars
- 1The Body Electric
- 1Sex at Dawn
- 1I Ching
I Ching
1 here · 3 all-time · #2349 overall
- 1Eats, Shoots & Leaves
- 1The Rickover Effect