Ask HN: Books you read in 2018? ↗
The books people recommended
2018-12-12 · 578 points · 347 comments · 431 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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- 8The Magicians
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- 6Leonardo da Vinci
- 6Artemis
- 6Blood Sweat and Pixels
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- 5Broken Earth
- 521 Lessons for the 21st Century
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- 4Extreme Ownership
- 4Revelation Space
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- 4Are Your Lights On?
- 4The Master Algorithm
- 4Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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- 3Reamde
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- 3Remembrance of Earth's Past
- 3Flash Boys
- 3The Handmaid's Tale
- 3Born a Crime
- 3Prisoners of Geography
- 3A Man for All Markets
- 3Endymion
- 3Snowcrash
- 3And Then There Were None
- 3Binti
- 3Alibaba
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- 2Rendezvous with Rama
- 2The Old Man and the Sea
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- 2We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
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- 2Hyperion Cantos
- 2Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- 2Radical Candor
- 2Annihilation
- 2Frankenstein
- 2A Scanner Darkly
- 2The Courage to Be Disliked
- 2The Effective Executive
- 2Dark Matter
- 2Getting to Yes
- 2Off to Be the Wizard
- 2Cannery Row
- 2Logicomix
- 2Skin in the Game
- 2Being Mortal
- 2Accelerate
- 2The Fifth Season
- 2The Outsider
- 2Educated
- 2Hooked
- 2What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- 2Weapons of Math Destruction
- 2Foundation and Empire
- 2How to Invent Everything
- 2Brain Rules
- 2Creative Selection
- 2The Fear Index
- 2One Minute Manager
- 2The Art of Racing in the Rain
- 2Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- 2It doesn't have to be crazy at work
It doesn't have to be crazy at work
David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried
2 here · 4 all-time · #1849 overall
- 2Unconditional Parenting
- 2The Feast of the Goat
- 2An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
- 2The Coming of the Third Reich
- 2Origin
- 2Digital Apollo
- 2Dreamland
- 2The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
- 2Letters to a Young Mathematician
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- 1The Goal
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- 1The Art of War
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- 1A Philosophy of Software Design
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- 1Endurance
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- 1The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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- 1Crossing the Chasm
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- 1Effective Java
- 1Old Man's War
- 1The Box
- 1Ancillary Justice
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- 1Algorithms to Live By
- 1Shantaram
- 1Mindstorms
- 1Superintelligence
- 1In Search of Lost Time
- 1Remote
- 1Invisible Cities
- 1The Obstacle Is the Way
- 1The Art of Unix Programming
- 1Excession
- 1Grit
- 1The Book of Why
- 1American Gods
- 1Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- 1The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- 1Difficult Conversations
- 1Pride and Prejudice
- 1The Prophet
- 1The Lathe of Heaven
- 1Good Omens
- 1Site Reliability Engineering
- 1The Metamorphosis
- 1Heart of Darkness
- 1The Blank Slate
- 1Superforecasting
- 1The Remains of the Day
- 1Drive
- 1Delivering Happiness
- 1The Undoing Project
- 1Chaos Monkeys
- 1Glasshouse
- 1Lonesome Dove
- 1The Quantum Thief
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- 1Treasure Island
- 1A Mind for Numbers
- 1Death's End
- 1A Wizard of Earthsea
- 1The City & the City
- 1Open Society and Its Enemies
- 1The Richest Man in Babylon
- 1The Last Lecture
- 1All Systems Red
- 1Land of Lisp
- 1Replay
- 1Night
- 1Good to Great
- 1Homage to Catalonia
- 1The Elephant in the Brain
- 1Fear
- 1How Not to Die
- 1The Art of Thinking Clearly
- 1Money: The Unauthorised Biography
- 1Station Eleven
- 1The Gene: An Intimate History
- 1Built to Sell
- 1Thinking in Bets
- 1Trust Me, I'm Lying
- 1Three Men in a Boat
- 1The Challenger Sale
- 1Cracking the Coding Interview
- 1Why Information Grows
- 1Jurassic Park
- 1The Happiness Hypothesis
- 1Continuous Delivery
- 1Lean Customer Development
- 1Chasing the Scream
- 1Between the World and Me
- 1Start With Why
- 1The New New Thing
- 1The Road Less Traveled
- 1What If?
- 1American Kingpin
- 1The Sun Also Rises
- 1Einstein
- 1Open
- 1Gates of Fire
- 1Free Will
- 1Startup
- 1Power
- 1How Not to Be Wrong
- 1Paypal Wars
- 1Emotional Intelligence
- 1The Simple Path to Wealth
- 1Spin
- 1Just for Fun
- 1Leviathan Wakes
- 1The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
- 1Unbroken
- 1The Invention of Nature
- 1Art & Fear
- 1Maus
- 1Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
- 1The Phantom Tollbooth
- 1Star Wars
- 1The Goldfinch
- 1The Eye of the World
- 1Team of Rivals
- 1Chasm City
- 1Fermat's Enigma
- 1The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 1Give and Take
- 1Wolf Hall
- 1Built to Last
- 1Tuesdays with Morrie
- 1The Obesity Code
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- 1A Prayer for Owen Meany
- 1The Defining Decade
- 1The Lessons of History
- 1The Organized Mind
- 1Of Mice and Men
- 1Star Diaries
- 1Collapse
- 1Clean Coder
- 1The Brain That Changes Itself
- 1High Growth Handbook
- 1Developer Hegemony
Developer Hegemony
1 here · 6 all-time · #1197 overall
- 1Armada
- 1Where Good Ideas Come From
- 1Killer of Men
- 1Convenience Store Woman
- 1My Antonia
- 1The Wind in the Willows
- 1Stuff Matters
- 1The Launch Pad
- 1Elements of Information Theory
- 1Dark Pools
- 1On Tyranny
- 1Life 3.0
- 1Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
- 1The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
- 1The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- 1Ninefox Gambit
- 1100 Years of Solitude
- 1Journey to the End of the Night
- 1Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
- 1The Awakening
- 1Red Notice
- 1Circadian Code
- 1Distress
- 1The End of Eternity
- 1Alexander Hamilton
- 1Time Reborn
- 1It's Not Luck
- 1Chocky
- 1Critical Chain
- 1Can't Hurt Me
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- 1The Sparrow
- 1Corporate Confidential
- 1Jack Reacher
- 1The Fire Next Time
- 1The Color of Law
- 1Words of Radiance
- 1Civilization and Its Discontents
- 1The Sorrows of Young Werther
- 1The $100 Startup
The $100 Startup
1 here · 4 all-time · #1734 overall
- 1Practical Foundations for Programming Languages
- 1The Laws of Human Nature
- 1Bernie Gunther series
- 1Imperial Radch
- 1Advanced Calculus
- 1Crashed
- 1Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
- 1Hollow City
- 1Dreams from My Father
- 1Dare to Lead
- 1Originals
- 1The Accounting Game
- 1How Emotions are Made
- 1Suttree
- 1Conspiracy
- 1Such Small Hands
- 1Trick
- 1Roughing It
- 1Tiny Beautiful Things
- 1Consider the Lobster
- 1Imperium
- 1Secret History
- 1The World of Mathematics
- 1Murder on the Orient Express
- 1You Can't Win
- 1Programming in Standard ML
- 1The Girl with All the Gifts
- 1The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- 1Thinking About Mathematics
- 1Lying For Money
- 1The Color of Magic
- 1Dichotomy of Leadership
- 1The Enigma of Reason
- 1American War
- 1Matrix Computations
- 1Love's Executioner
- 1Killing Commendatore
- 1White Fang
- 1Exact Thinking in Demented Times
- 1Hit Refresh
- 1Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D
- 1Lenin
- 1Rise and Kill First
- 1Blitzscaling
- 1A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
Orlando Figes
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- 1Learning How to Learn
- 1Pre-Suasion
- 1Wages of Destruction
- 1Yes Please
- 1Spell or High Water
- 1An Unwelcome Quest
- 1Crux
- 1Ancillary Mercy
- 1Building Microservices
- 1The Happiness Advantage
- 1The Pentagon's Brain
- 1To Pixar and Beyond
- 1My Name is Red
- 1Ethics of Ambiguity
- 1How to Speak How to listen
- 1Society Of The Spectacle
- 1His Dark Materials
- 1Category theory for programmers
- 1Tesla: Man Out of Time
- 1Rosemary's Baby
- 1Congo
- 1The Hardware Hacker
- 1Less
- 1Debugging Teams