Ask HN: What books have made the biggest impact on your mental models? ↗
The books people recommended
2017-09-02 · 692 points · 247 comments · 209 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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- 4Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
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- 3Poor Charlie's Almanack
- 3Foucault's Pendulum
- 3Snowball
- 3The Emperor's New Mind
- 3The Story of Philosophy
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- 2Walden
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- 2A Pattern Language
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- 2I Am That
- 2Mindstorms
- 2The 4 Hour Work Week
- 2Critique of Pure Reason
- 2The Road to Serfdom
- 2Heart of Darkness
- 2Superforecasting
- 2The Worldly Philosophers
- 2Propaganda
- 2The Millionaire Next Door
- 2The First and Last Freedom
- 2Our Mathematical Universe
- 2The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 2A New Kind of Science
- 2How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
- 2Grammatical Man
- 2Dhalgren
- 2Brain Rules
- 2The Naked Ape
- 2Philosophy In The Flesh
- 2Emotional Design
- 2Deschooling Society
- 2Object Thinking
- 2Bad Samaritans
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- 1Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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- 1The Elements of Computing Systems
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- 1The Art of War
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- 1Bhagavad Gita
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- 1The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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- 1The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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- 1Effective Java
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- 1Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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- 1Statistical Rethinking
- 1On Writing
- 1The Checklist Manifesto
- 1The Signal and the Noise
- 1Impro
- 1The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 1A Thousand Plateaus
- 1Seeking Wisdom
- 1Small Gods
- 1Capitalism and Freedom
- 1Enchiridion
- 1The Fabric of the Cosmos
- 1The Mind's I
- 1Philosophical Investigations
- 1Starting Strength
- 1The Origin of Wealth
- 1Open Society and Its Enemies
- 1The Singularity Is Near
- 1The Wright Brothers
- 1Money: The Unauthorised Biography
- 1Blue Ocean Strategy
- 1Pitch Anything
- 1Understanding Comics
- 1Beyond Good and Evil
- 1Jurassic Park
- 1Open
- 1Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
- 1The Innovator's Solution
- 1Free Will
- 1The Art of Worldly Wisdom
- 1The Ascent of Money
- 1Le Ton Beau de Marot
- 1The Disappearance of the Universe
- 1Incognito
- 1Lies My Teacher Told Me
- 1Good Calories, Bad Calories
- 1Apology
- 1Consciousness Explained
- 1Desert Solitaire
- 1Programming Erlang
- 1Understanding Media
- 1The Attention Merchants
- 1Ego Is the Enemy
- 1Mein Kampf
- 1Science and Sanity
- 1The Lessons of History
- 1Brain Rules for Baby
- 1Gravitation
- 1The Art of Profitability
- 1The Slight Edge
- 1The Human Use of Human Beings
- 1The Outsiders
- 1The Analects
- 1Neuropath
- 1Ways of Seeing
- 1As a Man Thinketh
- 1The Man Without Qualities
- 1Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- 1The 10x Rule
- 1Schild's Ladder
- 1Animal Liberation
- 1Dao De Jing
- 1Eloquent Ruby
- 1Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
- 1The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- 1Steal Like An Artist
- 1Silence
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- 1The Tao of Physics
- 1Awaken the Giant Within
- 1How to Cook Everything
- 1The Day the Universe Changed
- 1Either/Or
- 1Why Materialism Is Baloney
- 1Start with No
- 1Cybernetics
- 1Web of Life
- 1You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
- 1The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
Warren Buffett
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- 1Oblomov
- 1How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big
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