Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? ↗
The books people recommended
2018-07-12 · 746 points · 391 comments · 233 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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- 3The Cuckoo's Egg
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- 3Rendezvous with Rama
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- 3The Book of Why
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- 2The Brothers Karamazov
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- 2Revelation Space
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- 2Evicted
- 2Notes from Underground
- 2The Master Algorithm
- 2Glasshouse
- 2The New Jim Crow
- 2The Origin of Species
- 2Our Mathematical Universe
- 2Understanding Comics
- 2Daring Greatly
- 2Dealers of Lightning
- 2Chasing the Scream
- 2Kitchen Confidential
- 2Capitalist Realism
- 2Why the West Rules for Now
- 2Black Like Me
- 2Hacking Growth
- 2Hollow City
- 2Congo
- 2Matterhorn
- 2Rationality From AI to Zombies
- 2The Shock Doctrine
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- 1Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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Design Patterns
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
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- 1Permutation City
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- 1Rework
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- 1Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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- 1The Culture
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- 1The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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- 1Bobiverse
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- 1Starship Troopers
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- 1We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
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- 1A Pattern Language
- 1The Idea Factory
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- 1The Mind Illuminated
- 1Peak
- 1The Checklist Manifesto
- 1Behave
- 1When Breath Becomes Air
- 1Lila
- 1Radical Candor
- 1Economics
- 1Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
- 1The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 1Ficciones
- 1The Lathe of Heaven
- 1The Lies of Locke Lamora
- 1Heart of Darkness
- 1On the Road
- 1The Blank Slate
- 1The Remains of the Day
- 1The Undoing Project
- 1Born a Crime
- 1Death's End
- 1The Origin of Wealth
- 1A Wizard of Earthsea
- 1Artemis
- 1Red Mars
- 1The True Believer
- 1Commonwealth Saga
- 1Mindfulness in Plain English
- 1Faust
- 1Aubrey-Maturin series
- 1Fall of Hyperion
- 1The Histories
- 1Pitch Anything
- 1The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 1Metaphors We Live By
- 1Tools of Titans
- 1Things Fall Apart
- 1The Anatomy of Peace
- 1Silk Roads
- 1History of the Peloponnesian War
- 1The Magus
- 1The Rust Programming Language
- 1The Conquest of Happiness
- 1The Sleepwalkers
- 1The Daily Stoic
- 1Countdown to Zero Day
- 1Red Plenty
- 1After Dark
- 1The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- 1Wolf Hall
- 1Surfaces and Essences
- 1The Laundry Files
- 1A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
- 1Ego Is the Enemy
- 1The Obesity Code
- 1Gödel's Proof
- 1West with the Night
- 1Science and Sanity
- 1Scale
- 1High Growth Handbook
- 1Wind, Sand and Stars
- 1The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- 1The Power of Vulnerability
- 1Labyrinths
- 1Kill Decision
- 1The Library of Babel
- 1One Summer: America, 1927
- 1Disgrace
- 1The Nature of Order
- 1The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- 1The Bitcoin Standard
- 1Lost in Math
- 1Demons
- 1Mythos
- 1Technics and Civilization
- 1A Brief History of Everything
- 1Americanah
- 1What Technology Wants
- 1Salt Fat Acid Heat
- 1The Earthsea Series
- 1Collected Fictions
- 1The Color of Law
- 1The Drunkard's Walk
- 1Hardboiled Wonderland and The End of the World
- 1Bring Up the Bodies
- 1Steps to an Ecology of Mind
- 1The Hero's Journey
- 1South
- 1Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- 1Ideas
- 1A Mind at Play
- 1Cadillac Desert
- 1In a Sunburned Country
- 1Void Trilogy
- 1The Double
- 1You Can't Win
- 1Pachinko
- 1The Garden of Forking Paths
- 1Introduction to Cybernetics
- 1The Education of Millionaires
- 1The Quest
- 1Matter
- 1Lost Connections
- 1Radical Markets
- 1Soldier of a Great War
- 1Let My People Go Surfing
- 1Hydrogen Sonata
- 1Southern Reach Trilogy
- 1Bhagvad Gita
- 1Lost and Founder
- 1The World According to Garp
- 1And the Weak Suffer What They Must?
- 1The Golden Bough
- 1The Power of Myth
- 1Story of Your Life and Others
- 1Dreamland
- 1Python Machine Learning
- 1Vorkosigan series