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Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2016? ↗

The books people recommended

2017-01-02 · 74 points · 69 comments · 53 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.

  1. 5

    The Three-Body Problem

    Cixin Liu

    5 here · 152 all-time · #11 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 53,978 ratings on Amazon
  2. 4

    How to Win Friends and Influence People

    Dale Carnegie

    4 here · 175 all-time · #8 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 106,505 ratings on Amazon
  3. 3

    Sapiens

    Yuval Noah Harari

    3 here · 197 all-time · #4 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 133,705 ratings on Amazon
  4. 2

    Deep Work

    Cal Newport

    2 here · 72 all-time · #46 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,713 ratings on Amazon
  5. 2

    Seveneves

    Neal Stephenson

    2 here · 58 all-time · #64 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 31,865 ratings on Amazon
  6. 2

    The Righteous Mind

    Jonathan Haidt

    2 here · 57 all-time · #66 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 12,156 ratings on Amazon
  7. 2

    The Name of the Wind

    Patrick Rothfuss

    2 here · 30 all-time · #190 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 89,463 ratings on Amazon
  8. 2

    Mastery

    Robert Greene

    2 here · 22 all-time · #268 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 11,553 ratings on Amazon
  9. 2Grokking Algorithms

    Grokking Algorithms

    Aditya Y. Bhargava

    2 here · 12 all-time · #535 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,557 ratings on Amazon
  10. 2Linear Algebra and its Applications

    Linear Algebra and its Applications

    David C. Lay

    2 here · 4 all-time · #1843 overall

  11. 1

    Atlas Shrugged

    Ayn Rand

    1 here · 173 all-time · #9 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 22,012 ratings on Amazon
  12. 1

    Meditations

    Marcus Aurelius

    1 here · 165 all-time · #10 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 21,552 ratings on Amazon
  13. 1

    Code

    Charles Petzold

    1 here · 147 all-time · #12 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,787 ratings on Amazon
  14. 1

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Douglas Adams

    1 here · 101 all-time · #28 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 30,738 ratings on Amazon
  15. 1

    Siddhartha

    Hermann Hesse

    1 here · 97 all-time · #31 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 18,150 ratings on Amazon
  16. 1

    The Fountainhead

    Ayn Rand

    1 here · 90 all-time · #36 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 12,667 ratings on Amazon
  17. 1

    Zero to One

    Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

    1 here · 89 all-time · #37 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 40,093 ratings on Amazon
  18. 1

    The Hard Thing About Hard Things

    Ben Horowitz

    1 here · 56 all-time · #67 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 15,933 ratings on Amazon
  19. 1

    A Guide to the Good Life

    William B. Irvine

    1 here · 53 all-time · #74 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 6,528 ratings on Amazon
  20. 1

    Daemon

    Daniel Suarez

    1 here · 52 all-time · #78 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 6,091 ratings on Amazon
  21. 1

    Shoe Dog

    Phil Knight

    1 here · 52 all-time · #79 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 63,714 ratings on Amazon
  22. 1

    Catch-22

    Joseph Heller

    1 here · 46 all-time · #96 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 14,669 ratings on Amazon
  23. 1Rework

    Rework

    Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

    1 here · 43 all-time · #106 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 11,954 ratings on Amazon
  24. 1

    Blood Meridian

    Cormac McCarthy

    1 here · 41 all-time · #118 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 21,706 ratings on Amazon
  25. 1

    The Beginning of Infinity

    David Deutsch

    1 here · 38 all-time · #128 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 2,382 ratings on Amazon
  26. 1

    Hackers and Painters

    Paul Graham

    1 here · 36 all-time · #139 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 765 ratings on Amazon
  27. 1

    Elon Musk

    Ashlee Vance

    1 here · 32 all-time · #178 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 27,257 ratings on Amazon
  28. 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
  29. 1

    Freedom

    Daniel Suarez

    1 here · 23 all-time · #260 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 5,152 ratings on Amazon
  30. 1

    The Vital Question

    Nick Lane

    1 here · 21 all-time · #291 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,792 ratings on Amazon
  31. 1

    Feeling Good

    David D. Burns

    1 here · 20 all-time · #315 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 8,950 ratings on Amazon
  32. 1The Innovators

    The Innovators

    Walter Isaacson

    1 here · 18 all-time · #351 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 6,179 ratings on Amazon
  33. 1Remote

    Remote

    Jason Fried

    1 here · 18 all-time · #360 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 3,635 ratings on Amazon
  34. 1Flash Boys

    Flash Boys

    Michael Lewis

    1 here · 17 all-time · #368 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 18,690 ratings on Amazon
  35. 1Inspired

    Inspired

    Marty Cagan

    1 here · 13 all-time · #478 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 6,322 ratings on Amazon
  36. 1The New Jim Crow

    The New Jim Crow

    Michelle Alexander

    1 here · 11 all-time · #564 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 16,634 ratings on Amazon
  37. 1Our Mathematical Universe

    Our Mathematical Universe

    Max Tegmark

    1 here · 10 all-time · #648 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 2,325 ratings on Amazon
  38. 1Tools of Titans

    Tools of Titans

    Tim Ferriss

    1 here · 9 all-time · #724 overall

  39. 1Disrupted

    Disrupted

    Dan Lyons

    1 here · 9 all-time · #774 overall

  40. 1Chasing the Scream

    Chasing the Scream

    Johann Hari

    1 here · 8 all-time · #796 overall

  41. 1Mastering The Complex Sale

    Mastering The Complex Sale

    Jeff Thull

    1 here · 8 all-time · #807 overall

  42. 1Einstein

    Einstein

    Walter Isaacson

    1 here · 8 all-time · #819 overall

  43. 1Master of the Senate

    Master of the Senate

    Robert Caro

    1 here · 8 all-time · #824 overall

  44. 1The Innovator's Solution

    The Innovator's Solution

    Clayton Christensen

    1 here · 8 all-time · #836 overall

  45. 1Pale Blue Dot

    Pale Blue Dot

    Carl Sagan

    1 here · 7 all-time · #918 overall

  46. 1Industrial Society and Its Future

    Industrial Society and Its Future

    Ted Kaczynski

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1067 overall

  47. 1The Lady Tasting Tea

    The Lady Tasting Tea

    Salsburg

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1337 overall

  48. 1The 10x Rule

    The 10x Rule

    Grant Cardone

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1405 overall

  49. 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

  50. 1First, Break All the Rules

    First, Break All the Rules

    Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1705 overall

  51. 1Pirate Diary

    Pirate Diary

    Richard Platt

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2141 overall

  52. 1Atomic Accidents

    Atomic Accidents

    James Mahaffey

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2293 overall

  53. 1And the Weak Suffer What They Must?

    And the Weak Suffer What They Must?

    Yanis Varoufakis

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2294 overall