Ask HN: Books you read in 2016? ↗
The books people recommended
2016-12-22 · 414 points · 321 comments · 439 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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- 8Chaos Monkeys
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- 7Disrupted
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- 5Grit
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- 4The Inner Game of Tennis
- 4When Breath Becomes Air
- 4The Circle
- 4Finding Flow
- 4Cosmere
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- 3Kafka on the Shore
- 3Norwegian Wood
- 3Dark Matter
- 3Superforecasting
- 3The Richest Man in Babylon
- 3The Shadow of the Wind
- 3Contagious
- 3Sprint
- 3Neverwhere
- 3Smarter Faster Better
- 3Secondhand Time
- 3Originals
- 3Hatching Twitter
- 3Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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- 2Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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- 2Rework
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- 2Crossing the Chasm
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- 2Superintelligence
- 2The Signal and the Noise
- 2American Gods
- 2Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- 2The Art of Learning
- 2Delivering Happiness
- 2Off to Be the Wizard
- 2Being Mortal
- 2Grokking Algorithms
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- 2Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets
- 2His Master's Voice
- 2Stumbling on Happiness
- 2Anything You Want
- 2Homage to Catalonia
- 2Hillbilly Elegy
- 2Tools of Titans
- 2A Wild Sheep Chase
- 2Lean Customer Development
- 2Oryx and Crake
- 2Weapons of Math Destruction
- 2Learned Optimism
- 2Leviathan Wakes
- 2Red Plenty
- 2The Goldfinch
- 2After Dark
- 2The Defining Decade
- 2The City and the Stars
- 2Cibola Burn
- 2One Summer: America, 1927
- 2The Willpower Instinct
- 2Running Lean
- 2The One Thing
- 2Foundation's Edge
- 2Alibaba
- 2Tribes
- 2The Industries of the Future
- 2The Second Machine Age
- 2In a Sunburned Country
- 2Modern Romance
- 2Discovering Statistics Using R
- 2Rosemary's Baby
- 2The Girl on the Train
- 2IQ84
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- 1Permutation City
- 1The Brothers Karamazov
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- 1Working Effectively with Legacy Code
- 1Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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- 1Walden
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- 1The Power of Now
- 1Extreme Ownership
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- 1Harry Potter
- 1Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
1 here · 29 all-time · #195 overall
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- 1The Code Book
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- 1The Quran
The Quran
1 here · 27 all-time · #216 overall
- 1Reamde
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- 1The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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- 1Rendezvous with Rama
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- 1The Old Man and the Sea
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- 1Starship Troopers
- 1The Box
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- 1Algorithms to Live By
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- 1Shantaram
- 1Snowball
- 1The Innovators
- 1The God Delusion
- 1Speaker for the Dead
- 1Peak
- 1Remote
- 1Born to Run
- 1The Obstacle Is the Way
- 1The Four Agreements
- 1Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
- 1The Stranger
- 1A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
- 1Annihilation
- 1This is Water
- 1The Master Algorithm
- 1Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- 1Pride and Prejudice
- 1The Effective Executive
- 1Getting to Yes
- 1Enchiridion
- 1Breakfast of Champions
- 1The Martian Chronicles
- 1The Remains of the Day
- 1Pattern Recognition
- 1Turing's Cathedral
- 1Becoming Steve Jobs
- 1Cannery Row
- 1Born a Crime
- 1The Road to Character
- 121st Century C
- 1A Mind for Numbers
- 1Shadow Divers
- 1Prisoners of Geography
- 1The Millionaire Next Door
- 1Essentialism
- 1The Devil in the White City
- 1Red Mars
- 1Vagabonding
- 1All Quiet on the Western Front
- 1Mindfulness in Plain English
- 1Money: The Unauthorised Biography
- 1Spark
- 1Pitch Anything
- 1The Everything Store
- 1The Gene: An Intimate History
- 1The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 1The Elegant Universe
- 1Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- 1Beyond Good and Evil
- 1The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- 1Trust Me, I'm Lying
- 1Dealers of Lightning
- 1The Man in the High Castle
- 1Things Fall Apart
- 1Jurassic Park
- 1How Will You Measure Your Life
- 1Make: Electronics
- 1Chasing the Scream
- 1Between the World and Me
- 1The New New Thing
- 1Mastering The Complex Sale
- 1Hooked
- 1What If?
- 1The Sun Also Rises
- 1The Gods Themselves
- 1Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- 1Open
- 1The Rational Optimist
- 1What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- 1The Art of Worldly Wisdom
- 1The Dip
- 1Apollo
- 1Too Big to Fail
- 1Pillars of the Earth
- 1The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- 1Foundation and Empire
- 1The Conquest of Happiness
- 1Spin
- 1Pale Blue Dot
- 1The Doors of Perception
- 1Shop Class as Soulcraft
- 1Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- 1The Swerve
- 1Incognito
- 1Unbroken
- 1The Invention of Nature
- 1Art & Fear
- 1The Charisma Myth
- 1Barbarian Days
- 1Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
David Foster Wallace
1 here · 7 all-time · #966 overall
- 1The Magic of Thinking Big
- 1The Futurological Congress
- 1Star Wars
- 1Fluent Python
- 1Chronicles of Narnia
- 1Jude the Obscure
- 1Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami
1 here · 7 all-time · #1029 overall
- 1Fermat's Enigma
- 1All the Light We Cannot See
- 1Give and Take
- 1Language in Thought and Action
- 1For Whom the Bell Tolls
- 1I Am Not a Serial Killer
- 1I Will Teach You To Be Rich
- 1Zen Mind Beginners Mind
- 1Command and Control
- 1Empires of Light
- 1Effective Python
- 1Tribal Leadership
- 1Armada
- 1Clojure for the Brave and True
- 111/22/63
- 1Psycho-Cybernetics
- 1Beowulf
- 1Embassytown
- 1The Joy of X
- 1The Algebraist
- 1The Slight Edge
- 1Behind the Cloud
- 1This Changes Everything
- 1The Computational Beauty of Nature
- 1Zorba the Greek
- 1Do No Harm
- 1Dracula
- 1The Kite Runner
- 1The Wind in the Willows
- 1The Launch Pad
- 1Ways of Seeing
- 1At Home
- 1As a Man Thinketh
- 1The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
- 1In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
Merril R. Chapman
1 here · 5 all-time · #1348 overall
- 1A Little History of the World
- 1The Andromeda Strain
- 1Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- 1Idea Man
- 1Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
- 1Scrum
- 1How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
- 1Freedom(tm)
- 1Boomerang
- 1Snowcrash
- 1Tribe
- 1Skunkworks
- 1Applied Cryptography
- 1Flask Web Development
- 1Long Walk to Freedom
- 1Rho Agenda
- 1Farmer in the Sky
- 1The Dharma Bums
- 110% Happier
- 1Alas, Babylon
- 1Rosie Effect
- 1Making Things Happen
- 1Programming in the 1990s
- 1On Numbers & Games
- 1Think Complexity
- 1Devotion of Suspect X
- 1Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
- 1Americanah
- 1A Moveable Feast
- 1Machines of Loving Grace
- 1Search Inside Yourself
- 1The Sixth Extinction
- 1Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit
- 1What Got You Here Won't Get You There
- 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
- 1The World Beyond Your Head
- 1Redwall
- 1How Music Works
- 1Journey to the Center of the Earth
- 1Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- 1Born Standing Up
- 1The Book of Numbers
- 1Noble House
- 1Defying Hitler
- 1Second Foundation
- 1String Theory
- 1South of the Border, West of the Sun
- 1The Hacker Crackdown
- 1One Second After
- 1Napoleon: A Life
- 1Winter is Coming
- 1Programming in Lua
- 1The Mandibles
- 1The Tao
- 1Competing Against Luck
- 1Vanished Kingdoms
- 1Steelheart
- 1Death in Venice
- 1Silence of the Lambs
- 1The Greatest Salesman in the World
The Greatest Salesman in the World
1 here · 3 all-time · #2167 overall
- 1Love's Executioner
- 1Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Neil deGrasse Tyson
1 here · 3 all-time · #2169 overall
- 1Phantoms in the Brain
- 1The Second Coming of Steve Jobs
- 1Data and Goliath
- 1Life Ascending
- 1Understanding ECMAScript 6
- 1Big Data
- 1Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- 1Dictionary of the Khazars
- 1Elantris
- 1Psychopath Code
- 1The Mezzanine
- 1Reinventing Organizations
- 1Radical Acceptance
- 1Spell or High Water
- 1An Unwelcome Quest
- 1The Buried Giant
- 1CSS Secrets
- 1Simpsons and their mathematical secrets
- 1Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
- 1The Great Transformation
- 1The Engines of Creation
- 1A Study in Scarlet
- 1How to Speak How to listen
- 1Computation Structures
- 1Mistakes Were Made, but Not by Me
- 1Walt Disney
- 1Third Wave
- 1Blueprint for Armageddon
- 1Dead Wake
- 1Grinding it Out
- 1Manna
- 1Heretics of Dune
- 1The Uplift Trilogy