Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect? ↗
The books people recommended
2018-05-11 · 513 points · 374 comments · 176 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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- 4The Power of Now
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- 4The Wisdom of Insecurity
- 4The Myth of Sisyphus
- 4The Border Trilogy
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- 3The Book of Mormon
- 3Aubrey-Maturin series
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- 2Walden
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- 2The Old Man and the Sea
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- 2This is Water
- 2The Denial of Death
- 2The Prophet
- 2Enchiridion
- 2Skin in the Game
- 2Vagabonding
- 2The Moral Animal
- 2Free Will
- 2Wherever You Go, There You Are
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- 1Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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- 1The Goal
- 1The Brothers Karamazov
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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
- 1Harry Potter
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- 1The Quran
The Quran
1 here · 27 all-time · #216 overall
- 1The Inner Game of Tennis
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- 1Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- 1A Pattern Language
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- 1The Mind Illuminated
- 1When Breath Becomes Air
- 1Grit
- 1The Stranger
- 1Narcissus and Goldmund
- 1The Magic Mountain
- 1Frankenstein
- 1The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- 1Amusing Ourselves to Death
- 1Seeking Wisdom
- 1The Metamorphosis
- 1On the Road
- 1The Confessions
- 1The Blind Watchmaker
- 1The Blank Slate
- 1Drive
- 1The Tao of Pooh
- 1Born a Crime
- 1Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes
1 here · 12 all-time · #532 overall
- 1The Road to Character
- 1Essays
- 1The First and Last Freedom
- 1Night
- 1Fear
- 1Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
- 1The Art of Thinking Clearly
- 1Self-Reliance
- 1The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- 1The Anatomy of Peace
- 1Freedom from the Known
- 1How the Mind Works
- 1My Struggle
- 1Mother Night
- 1A Mathematician's Apology
- 1The Conquest of Happiness
- 1The Lord of the Flies
- 1The Man Who Was Thursday
- 1The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
- 1Shop Class as Soulcraft
- 1The New Testament
- 1The Fall
- 1The Surrender Experiment
- 1Non-Violent Communication
- 1The Consolation of Philosophy
- 1Why Buddhism Is True
- 1The Kingdom of God is Within You
- 1Tuesdays with Morrie
- 1The Obesity Code
- 1Maps of Meaning
- 1The Way of the Superior Man
- 1A Conflict of Visions
- 1Martin Eden
- 1The Pyramid Principle
- 1Consilience
- 1Galápagos
- 1Escape from Freedom
- 1The Sane Society
- 1Awareness
- 1Hidden Order
- 1Total Recall
- 1Be Obsessed or Be Average
- 1How to Get What You Want
- 1A Brief History of Everything
- 1The Fire Next Time
- 1Total Freedom
- 1Pragmatics of Human Communication
Pragmatics of Human Communication
Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, Donald D. Jackson
1 here · 4 all-time · #1775 overall
- 1The Paradox of Choice
The Paradox of Choice
1 here · 4 all-time · #1877 overall
- 1Leadership Step by Step
- 1God Is Not Great
- 1On Becoming a Person
- 1The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
- 1Hamlet
- 1The Hiding Place
- 1Introduction to Probability Theory
- 1Hit Refresh
- 1If This Is a Man
- 1Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
- 1Elantris
- 1Mason & Dixon
- 1Unconditional Parenting
- 1The Power of One