Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020? ↗
The books people recommended
2019-12-16 · 421 points · 320 comments · 285 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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- 6Permanent Record
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- 5Enchiridion
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- 4The Annotated Turing
- 4The Name of the Rose
- 4Digital Minimalism
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- 3Walden
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- 3The Body
- 3Domain Modeling Made Functional
- 3Paradise Lost
- 3Educated
- 3Clean Architecture
- 3The Brain That Changes Itself
- 3The Language Instinct
- 3On the Genealogy of Morality
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- 2The Brothers Karamazov
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- 2The Elements of Computing Systems
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- 2The Culture
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- 2I Am That
- 2Use of Weapons
- 2Ender's Shadow
- 2The Book of Why
- 2The Wisdom of Insecurity
- 2The Nicomachean Ethics
- 2The Confessions
- 2This Is How You Lose the Time War
- 2Skin in the Game
- 2Book of Proof
- 2Managing Humans
- 2Death's End
- 2Simulacra and Simulation
- 2Faust
- 2The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- 2The Aeneid
- 2The Rational Optimist
- 2Going Clear
- 2The Divine Comedy
- 2Who Owns The Future
- 2How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes
- 2Birth of Tragedy
- 2The Gunslinger
- 2Oblomov
- 2Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
- 2The Wizard and the Prophet
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Design Patterns
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
1 here · 80 all-time · #42 overall
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- 1The Art of War
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- 1Working Effectively with Legacy Code
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- 1Endurance
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- 1The Power of Now
- 1Extreme Ownership
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- 1The Dream Machine
- 1The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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- 1Harry Potter
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- 1Harvard Classics
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- 1Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
Randal E. Bryant; David R. O'Hallaron
1 here · 26 all-time · #220 overall
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- 1A People's History of the United States
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman
1 here · 25 all-time · #240 overall
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- 1Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
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- 1Starship Troopers
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- 1TCP/IP Illustrated
- 1The Kingkiller Chronicle
- 1Dark Tower Series
- 1Speaker for the Dead
- 1Invisible Cities
- 1Impro
- 1The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- 1Behave
- 1Radical Candor
- 1Excession
- 1Grit
- 1Head First Design Patterns
Head First Design Patterns
Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra
1 here · 16 all-time · #399 overall
- 1Economics
- 1Real Analysis
- 1Trading and Exchanges
- 1Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
- 1Visual Complex Analysis
- 1The Denial of Death
- 1Introduction to Linear Algebra
- 1The Effective Executive
- 1Hacking
- 1Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
- 1Consider Phlebas
- 1Inspired
- 1C Programming: A Modern Approach
- 1Unix: A History and a Memoir
- 1Watchmen
- 1The Three Musketeers
- 1Middlemarch
- 1The Overstory
- 1The E-Myth
- 1Blue Ocean Strategy
- 1The Trial
- 1The Fabric of Reality
- 1The Unicorn Project
- 1Between the World and Me
- 1Start With Why
- 1Freedom from the Known
- 1History of the Peloponnesian War
- 1Dubliners
- 1Gates of Fire
- 1Master and Commander
- 1The Gift
- 1Introduction to Electrodynamics
- 1The Rust Programming Language
- 1Demian
- 1Management: A Political Activity
- 1Barbarian Days
- 1Geometry and the Imagination
- 1White Noise
- 1The Surrender Experiment
- 1The City of God
- 1Being and Time
- 1Mathematics and Its History
- 1How to Invent Everything
- 1Why Buddhism Is True
- 1The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- 1A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
- 1Big Bang
- 1The Obesity Code
- 1Bad Science
- 1The Score Takes Care of Itself
- 1Clean Coder
- 1Developer Hegemony
Developer Hegemony
1 here · 6 all-time · #1197 overall
- 1When Genius Failed
- 1Beowulf
- 1Utopia for Realists
- 1The Way of Zen
- 1The Human Use of Human Beings
- 1How Asia Works
- 1Do No Harm
- 1The Art and Craft of Problem Solving
- 1Dark Pools
- 1Database Internals
- 1Revolution in the Valley
- 1The Canterbury Tales
- 1And Then There Were None
- 1Loonshots
- 1The Man Who Solved The Market
- 1Eccentric Orbits
- 1The Fish That Ate the Whale
- 1The Bitcoin Standard
- 1Lifespan
- 1Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
- 1The Collapse of Complex Societies
- 1The Mating Mind
- 1The Precipice
- 1The Star Fraction
- 1Empire of the Summer Moon
- 1Billion Dollar Whale
- 1Data & Reality
- 1These Truths
- 1Inversions
- 1The Design of Web APIs
- 1Elements of Clojure
- 1The Singapore Story
- 1The Stone Canal
- 1Competing Against Luck
- 1The War on Normal People
- 1How Democracies Die
- 1Web of Life
- 1A Primate's Memoir
- 1Complications
- 1Inner Engineering
- 1The Enigma of Reason
- 1Human Universals
- 1Life Ascending
- 1A House for Mr Biswas
- 1Super Thinking
- 1Blitzscaling
- 1Battle Cry of Freedom
- 1I Ching
I Ching
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- 1Red Famine
- 1My Name is Red
- 1Div Grad Curl and All That
- 1Better
- 1Fooling Some of the People All of the Time
- 1Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
- 1Surfing Uncertainty
- 1Call Sign Chaos
- 1My Family and Other Animals
- 1Albert Einstein
- 1Dynamic Hedging