Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before? ↗
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2020-05-12 · 961 points · 719 comments · 314 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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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
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- 4Foucault's Pendulum
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- 4Discipline and Punish
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- 3The Culture
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- 3Ancillary Justice
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- 3Invisible Cities
- 3Narcissus and Goldmund
- 3A Thousand Plateaus
- 3Metamagical Themas
- 3The Mind's I
- 3Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes
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- 3Essays
- 3The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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- 2Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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- 2Rationality: From AI to Zombies
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- 2The Name of the Rose
- 2Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- 2Impro
- 2The Myth of Sisyphus
- 2Echopraxia
- 2The City & the City
- 2Propaganda
- 2The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- 2A New Kind of Science
- 2Cracking the Coding Interview
- 2The Magus
- 2The Master and His Emissary
- 2The Fall
- 2Desert Solitaire
- 2The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- 2The Teachings of Don Juan
- 2Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- 2The Nature of Order
- 2Capital in the 21st Century
- 2Tribe
- 2Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha
- 2Don't Shoot the Dog
- 2Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
- 2Surfing Uncertainty
- 2Understand
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- 1The Art of War
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- 1Extreme Ownership
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- 1Bhagavad Gita
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- 1On Writing
- 1The God Delusion
- 1Understanding Power
- 1Use of Weapons
- 1The Four Agreements
- 1Behave
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- 1Economics
- 1Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
- 1The Wisdom of Insecurity
- 1Broken Earth
- 1The Denial of Death
- 1The Handmaid's Tale
- 1The Lathe of Heaven
- 1The Art of Learning
- 1A Scanner Darkly
- 1Dark Matter
- 1The Nicomachean Ethics
- 1Capitalism and Freedom
- 1The Blind Watchmaker
- 1The Blank Slate
- 1The Undoing Project
- 1Glasshouse
- 1Prometheus Rising
- 1Skin in the Game
- 1The Quantum Thief
- 1Open Society and Its Enemies
- 1Bullshit Jobs
- 1The Timeless Way of Building
- 1Proofs and Refutations
- 1The Outsider
- 1The Elephant in the Brain
- 1How Not to Die
- 1The Technological Society
- 1The Moral Animal
- 1The Histories
- 1The Trial
- 1Beyond Good and Evil
- 1The Invisible Man
- 1Thinking in Bets
- 1Unwritten Laws of Engineering
- 1The Man in the High Castle
- 1The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
- 1Anthem
- 1The Law
- 1The Screwtape Letters
- 1The Time Machine
- 1The Road Less Traveled
- 1Oryx and Crake
- 1Weapons of Math Destruction
- 1Systemantics
- 1Power
- 1Incerto
- 1The Disappearance of the Universe
- 1Recursion
- 1The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
- 1Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- 1The Charisma Myth
- 1How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
- 1Lies My Teacher Told Me
- 1The Futurological Congress
- 1On the Origin of Species
- 1Going Clear
- 1Consciousness Explained
- 1Food of the Gods
- 1The Abolition of Man
- 1Industrial Society and Its Future
- 1Progress and Poverty
- 1Axiomatic
- 1The Art of Loving
- 1The Omnivore's Dilemma
- 1How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
- 1Maps of Meaning
- 1Lying
- 1If on a winter's night a traveler
- 1The War of the Worlds
- 1Democracy: The God That Failed
- 1The Organized Mind
- 1The Story of B
- 1Cyteen
- 1What the Buddha Taught
- 1The Brain That Changes Itself
- 1Psycho-Cybernetics
- 1Art of Deception
- 1The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- 1Utopia for Realists
- 1Sum
- 1The Machine that Changed the World
- 1Normal Accidents
- 1Neuropath
- 1The Giver
- 1Down and Out in Paris and London
- 1The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
- 1Quarantine
- 1The Egg
- 1Nine Stories
- 1Escape from Freedom
- 1The Sane Society
- 1Light
- 1How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
- 1Player Piano
- 1And Then There Were None
- 1The Language Instinct
- 1God Created the Integers
- 1The Peace War
- 1Hidden Order
- 110% Happier
- 1Notes on the Synthesis of Form
- 1The Revolt of the Masses
- 1Alchemy
- 1Unwomanly Face of War
- 1The Peter Principle
- 1Nausea
- 1The World Beyond Your Head
- 1Leadership and Self Deception
- 1Robots
- 1Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
- 1Democracy in America
- 1What Every Body Is Saying
- 1Infoquake
- 1The Crossing
- 1Only Forward
- 1Murder on the Orient Express
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- 1The Tao
- 1Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
- 1The Garden of Forking Paths
- 1Muv-Luv Alternative
Muv-Luv Alternative
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- 1Why Materialism Is Baloney
- 1Way of the Peaceful Warrior
- 1Syntopicon
- 1Phantoms in the Brain
- 1Universe in a Single Atom
- 1The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
- 1Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution
- 1If This Is a Man
- 1What Is Life?
- 1The Island of Doctor Moreau
- 1Mason & Dixon
- 1The Tao of Programming
- 1Ethics of Ambiguity
- 1The Reality Dysfunction
- 1Black Oceans
- 1Laws of Form
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