Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? ↗
The books people recommended
2019-12-28 · 873 points · 417 comments · 290 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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- 6Bhagavad Gita
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- 4The 4-Hour Workweek
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- 3Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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- 3Solaris
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- 3Born to Run
- 3Digital Minimalism
- 3High Growth Handbook
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- 2The Brothers Karamazov
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- 2The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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- 2Revelation Space
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- 2Superintelligence
- 2Peak
- 2Range
- 2Narcissus and Goldmund
- 2Getting to Yes
- 2Turing's Cathedral
- 2Prometheus Rising
- 2Bullshit Jobs
- 2Anything You Want
- 2Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
- 2The Principles of Product Development Flow
- 2The Last Ringbearer
- 2Incerto
- 2Never Let Me Go
- 2Brain Rules for Baby
- 2The Organized Mind
- 2In Cold Blood
- 2Musashi
- 2Jobs
- 2The Laws of Human Nature
- 2Dare to Lead
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- 1The Culture
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- 1Walden
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- 1The Power of Now
- 1Extreme Ownership
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- 1Poor Charlie's Almanack
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
1 here · 25 all-time · #236 overall
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- 1Rationality: From AI to Zombies
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- 1Crossing the Chasm
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- 1The Kingkiller Chronicle
- 1Malazan Book of the Fallen
- 1On Writing
- 1In Search of Lost Time
- 1The Mind Illuminated
- 1The 4 Hour Work Week
- 1The Checklist Manifesto
- 1Blink
- 1The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- 1Made to Stick
- 1Lila
- 1Worm
- 1The Wisdom of Insecurity
- 1A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
- 1Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
- 1The Road to Serfdom
- 1Pride and Prejudice
- 1The Prophet
- 1The Courage to Be Disliked
- 1Small Gods
- 1The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
- 1Superforecasting
- 1Drive
- 1The Myth of Sisyphus
- 1Permanent Record
- 1Skin in the Game
- 1Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes
1 here · 12 all-time · #532 overall
- 1The Road to Character
- 1Unsong
- 1Death's End
- 1The Origin of Wealth
- 1Echopraxia
- 1Shadow Divers
- 1The Coddling of the American Mind
- 1Essentialism
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- 1The Peripheral
- 1Vagabonding
- 1The Linux Programming Interface
- 1The True Believer
- 1Mindfulness in Plain English
- 1The Elephant in the Brain
- 1All of Statistics
- 1How Not to Die
- 1An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- 1Self-Reliance
- 1Spark
- 1Pitch Anything
- 1Make It Stick
- 1The 4-Hour Body
- 1The Anatomy of Peace
- 1The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- 1Lean Customer Development
- 1American Kingpin
- 1Einstein
- 122 Immutable Laws of Marketing
- 1The Rational Optimist
- 1Weapons of Math Destruction
- 1The Dip
- 1Tai-Pan
- 1The Circle
- 1The Rust Programming Language
- 1The Conquest of Happiness
- 1The Lord of the Flies
- 1The Doors of Perception
- 1Venture Deals
- 1Wherever You Go, There You Are
- 1The Invention of Nature
- 1The Earth Abides
- 1Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
David Foster Wallace
1 here · 7 all-time · #966 overall
- 1The Machine Stops
- 1Blindness
- 1Mini Habits
- 121 Lessons for the 21st Century
- 1Why Buddhism Is True
- 1Axiomatic
- 1The Tipping Point
- 1Predictable Revenue
- 1One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- 1The World Until Yesterday
- 1Collapse
- 1Zen Mind Beginners Mind
- 1Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
- 1Martin Eden
- 1The Rise and Fall of American Growth
- 1The Pyramid Principle
- 1No Country for Old Men
- 111/22/63
- 1The Slight Edge
- 1Utopia for Realists
- 1The Outsiders
- 1The Talent Code
- 1Neuropath
- 1Why We Get Fat
- 1The Sense of Style
- 1In Defense of Food
- 1Letters to a Young Poet
- 1Journey to the West
- 1Total Recall
- 1The Breakdown of Nations
- 1Long Walk to Freedom
- 1Jack Reacher
- 1Collected Fictions
- 1What Got You Here Won't Get You There
- 1The Power of Full Engagement
- 1The $100 Startup
The $100 Startup
1 here · 4 all-time · #1734 overall
- 1Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- 1Cosmic Trigger
- 1Active Portfolio Management
- 1It doesn't have to be crazy at work
It doesn't have to be crazy at work
David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried
1 here · 4 all-time · #1849 overall
- 1Touching the Void
Touching the Void
1 here · 3 all-time · #1970 overall
- 1The Stand
- 1Mating in Captivity
- 1A Universe From Nothing
- 1The War on Normal People
- 1How Democracies Die
- 1Awaken the Giant Within
- 1Wayfarers
- 1The Education of Millionaires
- 1Universe in a Single Atom
- 1Decisive
- 1Radical Markets
- 1Come As You Are
- 1Let My People Go Surfing
- 1Blitzscaling
- 1Out of Control
- 1Art of Happiness
- 1Understanding Michael Porter
- 1Lost and Founder
- 1The Social Animal
- 1The Things They Carried
- 1Battle Cry of Freedom
- 1American Nations
- 1Red Famine
- 1Gai-Jin
- 1My Name is Red
- 1Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems
- 1We the Living