Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021? ↗
The books people recommended
2021-12-24 · 515 points · 631 comments · 229 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 Brothers Karamazov
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- 7The Dawn of Everything
- 6The Goal
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- 6Unsong
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- 5Piranesi
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- 4The Lies of Locke Lamora
- 4The Overstory
- 4My Struggle
- 4Team of Rivals
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- 3The Culture
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- 3Rationality: From AI to Zombies
- 3The Quantum Thief
- 3Immune
- 3Three Men in a Boat
- 3How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- 3The Last Ringbearer
- 3A Conflict of Visions
- 3Defying Hitler
- 3A Gentleman in Moscow
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- 2Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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- 2The Guns of August
- 2This Is How You Lose the Time War
- 2Permanent Record
- 2Humankind
- 2American Kingpin
- 2The Rational Optimist
- 2The Magus
- 2When We Cease to Understand the World
- 2Perdido Street Station
- 2Democracy: The God That Failed
- 2Klara and the Sun
- 2Capitalist Realism
- 2The Blacktongue Thief
- 2Termination Shock
- 2Against the Grain
- 2A Mind at Play
- 2Clear and Simple as the Truth
- 2Eleven Minutes
- 2The Anubis Gates
- 2Pre-Industrial Societies
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- 1Endurance
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- 1Reamde
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- 1Revelation Space
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- 1The First Law
- 1In Search of Lost Time
- 1Speaker for the Dead
- 1Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- 1Impro
- 1The Book of Why
- 1The Psychology of Computer Programming
- 1A Scanner Darkly
- 1Good Omens
- 1The Idiot
- 1The Martian Chronicles
- 11Q84
- 1The Mote in God's Eye
- 1Born a Crime
- 1Skin in the Game
- 1Being Mortal
- 1Pandora's Star
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- 1Death's End
- 1Ringworld
- 1Open Society and Its Enemies
- 1Paradise Lost
- 1Prisoners of Geography
- 1Digital Minimalism
- 1The Coddling of the American Mind
- 1The Code Breaker
- 1Altered Carbon
- 1The Shadow of the Wind
- 1The Three Musketeers
- 1Money: The Unauthorised Biography
- 1Fall of Hyperion
- 1The Psychology of Money
- 1Ministry for the Future
- 1Beyond Good and Evil
- 1A Clockwork Orange
- 1The Aeneid
- 1Silk Roads
- 1Breath
- 1The Spy and the Traitor
- 1Liftoff
- 1I, Robot
- 1Recursion
- 1Gateway
- 1The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
- 1Unbroken
- 1Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
- 1On Food and Cooking
- 1The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- 1All the Light We Cannot See
- 1The Laundry Files
- 1Tuesdays with Morrie
- 1Zodiac
- 1How to Take Smart Notes
- 1The WEIRDest people in the world
- 1House of Suns
- 1The Pyramid Principle
- 1Psycho-Cybernetics
- 1How Asia Works
- 1The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
- 1Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
- 1In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
Merril R. Chapman
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- 1In Cold Blood
- 1The Scout Mindset
- 1The Teachings of Don Juan
- 1Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
- 1Against the Day
- 1Braiding Sweetgrass
- 1The Bitcoin Standard
- 1Alexander Hamilton
- 1The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- 1Children of Ruin
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- 1Alchemy
- 1Unwomanly Face of War
- 1Love in the Time of Cholera
- 1Energy And Civilization
- 1The Sixth Extinction
- 1The Color of Law
- 1Utopia
- 1Fundamentals: Ten Keys To Reality
- 1How Music Works
- 1Empire of the Summer Moon
- 1Rhythm of War
- 1The Sequences
- 1A Mathematical Theory of Communication
- 1For the Love of Physics
- 1Secret History
- 1Hench
- 1A Universe From Nothing
- 1The Locked Tomb
- 1Lying For Money
- 1Where Is My Flying Car?
- 1Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution
- 1The Underground Railroad
- 1If This Is a Man
- 1The Midnight Library
- 1The Fault in Our Stars
- 1Terra Ignota
- 1To Pixar and Beyond
- 1Book of the Long Sun
- 1The Immortality Key
- 1Empire of Pain