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Ask HN: What are some interesting books you read in 2017? ↗

The books people recommended

2018-01-01 · 91 points · 31 comments · 47 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. 4

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

    4 here · 178 all-time · #6 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 48,679 ratings on Amazon
  2. 3

    Sapiens

    Yuval Noah Harari

    3 here · 197 all-time · #4 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 133,705 ratings on Amazon
  3. 3

    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor Frankl

    3 here · 95 all-time · #32 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 100,360 ratings on Amazon
  4. 3

    Principles

    Ray Dalio

    3 here · 49 all-time · #88 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 19,363 ratings on Amazon
  5. 2

    Siddhartha

    Hermann Hesse

    2 here · 97 all-time · #31 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 18,150 ratings on Amazon
  6. 2

    Zero to One

    Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

    2 here · 89 all-time · #37 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 40,093 ratings on Amazon
  7. 2What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

    What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

    Haruki Murakami

    2 here · 8 all-time · #829 overall

  8. 1

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

    Robert Pirsig

    1 here · 193 all-time · #5 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 13,921 ratings on Amazon
  9. 1

    Antifragile

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    1 here · 100 all-time · #29 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 8,430 ratings on Amazon
  10. 1

    Deep Work

    Cal Newport

    1 here · 72 all-time · #46 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,713 ratings on Amazon
  11. 1

    The Lean Startup

    Eric Ries

    1 here · 56 all-time · #68 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 17,985 ratings on Amazon
  12. 1

    Shoe Dog

    Phil Knight

    1 here · 52 all-time · #79 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 63,714 ratings on Amazon
  13. 1

    Creativity Inc.

    Ed Catmull

    1 here · 43 all-time · #107 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 10,683 ratings on Amazon
  14. 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
  15. 1

    Rich Dad Poor Dad

    Robert Kiyosaki

    1 here · 35 all-time · #148 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 108,495 ratings on Amazon
  16. 1Extreme Ownership

    Extreme Ownership

    Jocko Willink

    1 here · 34 all-time · #158 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 39,461 ratings on Amazon
  17. 1

    The Republic

    Plato

    1 here · 32 all-time · #174 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 1,034 ratings on Amazon
  18. 1

    Mindset

    Carol Dweck

    1 here · 26 all-time · #222 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 23,745 ratings on Amazon
  19. 1

    The Personal MBA

    Josh Kaufman

    1 here · 23 all-time · #264 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 5,404 ratings on Amazon
  20. 1Kafka on the Shore

    Kafka on the Shore

    Haruki Murakami

    1 here · 22 all-time · #270 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 22,113 ratings on Amazon
  21. 1The Obstacle Is the Way

    The Obstacle Is the Way

    Ryan Holiday

    1 here · 17 all-time · #371 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 24,886 ratings on Amazon
  22. 1The Effective Engineer

    The Effective Engineer

    Edmond Lau

    1 here · 17 all-time · #381 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 164 ratings on Amazon
  23. 1Radical Candor

    Radical Candor

    Kim Scott

    1 here · 16 all-time · #392 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 10,178 ratings on Amazon
  24. 1Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

    Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

    Haruki Murakami

    1 here · 15 all-time · #418 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 6,333 ratings on Amazon
  25. 1Turing's Cathedral

    Turing's Cathedral

    George Dyson

    1 here · 13 all-time · #511 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 456 ratings on Amazon
  26. 1What Do You Care What Other People Think?

    What Do You Care What Other People Think?

    Richard Feynman

    1 here · 11 all-time · #575 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,654 ratings on Amazon
  27. 1The Millionaire Next Door

    The Millionaire Next Door

    Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko

    1 here · 11 all-time · #600 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 15,873 ratings on Amazon
  28. 1Who Moved My Cheese

    Who Moved My Cheese

    Spencer Johnson

    1 here · 11 all-time · #608 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 29,959 ratings on Amazon
  29. 1Essentialism

    Essentialism

    Greg McKeown

    1 here · 10 all-time · #620 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 21,193 ratings on Amazon
  30. 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
  31. 1Autobiography of a Yogi

    Autobiography of a Yogi

    Paramahansa Yogananda

    1 here · 10 all-time · #655 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 9,606 ratings on Amazon
  32. 1Hillbilly Elegy

    Hillbilly Elegy

    JD Vance

    1 here · 10 all-time · #658 overall

  33. 1A Man for All Markets

    A Man for All Markets

    Edward O. Thorp

    1 here · 9 all-time · #733 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 2,788 ratings on Amazon
  34. 1Hooked

    Hooked

    Nir Eyal

    1 here · 8 all-time · #812 overall

  35. 1The Daily Stoic

    The Daily Stoic

    Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman

    1 here · 7 all-time · #953 overall

  36. 1The Attention Merchants

    The Attention Merchants

    Tim Wu

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1080 overall

  37. 1Dhammapada

    Dhammapada

    The Buddha

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1153 overall

  38. 1Scale

    Scale

    Geoffrey West

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1160 overall

  39. 1The World Is Flat

    The World Is Flat

    Thomas Friedman

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1239 overall

  40. 1On Tyranny

    On Tyranny

    Timothy Snyder

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1341 overall

  41. 1Total Freedom

    Total Freedom

    Jiddu Krishnamurti

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1689 overall

  42. 1Mating in Captivity

    Mating in Captivity

    Esther Perel

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2026 overall

  43. 1The Now Habit

    The Now Habit

    Neil Fiore

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2128 overall

  44. 1Inner Engineering

    Inner Engineering

    Sadhguru

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2134 overall

  45. 1The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

    The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

    Mark Manson

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2173 overall

  46. 1Pre-Suasion

    Pre-Suasion

    Robert Cialdini

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2311 overall

  47. 1The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

    The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

    Marcus Aurelius

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2554 overall