Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier? ↗
The books people recommended
2017-06-03 · 631 points · 270 comments · 198 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 Quran
The Quran
6 here · 27 all-time · #216 overall
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- 5The Master Switch
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- 4The 4-Hour Workweek
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
3 here · 25 all-time · #236 overall
- 3The Phantom Tollbooth
- 3SmartCuts
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- 2Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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- 2The Power of Now
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- 2A People's History of the United States
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- 2The Art of Learning
- 2What Do You Care What Other People Think?
- 2The Richest Man in Babylon
- 2Models
- 2A Wild Sheep Chase
- 2Start With Why
- 2Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- 2Mini Habits
- 2How to See Color and Paint It
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- 1The Goal
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- 1Rework
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- 1Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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- 1Extreme Ownership
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- 1Harry Potter
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- 1Rationality: From AI to Zombies
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- 1Crossing the Chasm
- 1Starship Troopers
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- 1On Writing
- 1The Innovators
- 1Superintelligence
- 1Moonwalking with Einstein
- 1Peak
- 1Time Enough for Love
- 1Evicted
- 1The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- 1The Denial of Death
- 1Amusing Ourselves to Death
- 1The Effective Executive
- 1The Idiot
- 1On the Road
- 1How to Prove It
- 1Metamagical Themas
- 1Cannery Row
- 1The Mind's I
- 1Titan
- 1Starting Strength
- 1A Mind for Numbers
- 1The Art of the Start
- 1Out of the Crisis
- 1The True Believer
- 1How Not to Die
- 1Spark
- 1Pitch Anything
- 1The Everything Store
- 1Metaphors We Live By
- 1Make It Stick
- 1The Design of Design
- 1The Challenger Sale
- 1Jurassic Park
- 1The Happiness Hypothesis
- 1Chasing the Scream
- 1Mastering The Complex Sale
- 1Silk Roads
- 1Hooked
- 1The Gods Themselves
- 1In the Plex
- 1QED
- 1Losing My Virginity
- 1On Liberty
- 1The Conquest of Happiness
- 1Das Kapital
- 1Demian
- 1Shop Class as Soulcraft
- 1Learned Optimism
- 1Unbroken
- 1iWoz
- 1After Dark
- 1The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- 1Sprint
- 1Embassytown
- 1The Slight Edge
- 1The Way of Zen
- 1To Have or to Be
- 1How Google Works
- 1Market Wizards
- 1As a Man Thinketh
- 1The Gift of Fear
- 1The One Thing
- 1The Inevitable
- 1The Nature of Order
- 1Scrum
- 1How to Win at the Sport of Business
- 1Smarter Faster Better
- 1How to Get What You Want
- 1From Bacteria to Bach and Back
- 1Anatomy of the State
- 1More Money Than God
- 1The Revolt of the Masses
- 1Collected Fictions
- 1India After Gandhi
- 1Dreams from My Father
- 1India: A History
- 1Hatching Twitter
- 1The Compound Effect
- 1The Discipline of Market Leaders
- 1Think Like a Freak
- 1The Lost World
- 1The Human Zoo
- 1Hedge Fund Market Wizards
- 1New Market Wizards
- 1Psychopath Code
- 1Radical Acceptance
- 1Learning How to Learn
- 1The Art of Money Getting
- 1Call of the Wild