Ask HN: Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in? ↗
The books people recommended
2022-09-22 · 200 points · 207 comments · 158 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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- 3The World as Will and Representation
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- 2The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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- 2In Search of Lost Time
- 2Speaker for the Dead
- 2Ficciones
- 2Open Society and Its Enemies
- 2The Body Keeps the Score
- 2How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
- 2Software Engineering at Google
Software Engineering at Google
2 here · 9 all-time · #770 overall
- 2Incerto
- 2The New Testament
- 2Zen Mind Beginners Mind
- 2The Invincible
- 2Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
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Introduction to Algorithms
Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
1 here · 71 all-time · #47 overall
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- 1The Dawn of Everything
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- 1Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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- 1The Power of Now
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- 1Harry Potter
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- 1The Quran
The Quran
1 here · 27 all-time · #216 overall
- 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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- 1Crossing the Chasm
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- 1Hyperion Cantos
- 1Snowball
- 1Behave
- 1The Magic Mountain
- 1This is Water
- 1Difficult Conversations
- 1Pride and Prejudice
- 1The Prophet
- 1A Scanner Darkly
- 1The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
- 1Site Reliability Engineering
- 1The Tao of Pooh
- 1The Fabric of the Cosmos
- 1Skin in the Game
- 1The Worldly Philosophers
- 1A Mind for Numbers
- 1Paradise Lost
- 1Stumbling on Happiness
- 1The Jungle
- 1Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
- 1The Knowledge
- 1The Overstory
- 1Society of Mind
- 1Artificial Life
- 1The Psychology of Money
- 1Advanced Engineering Mathematics
- 1The Elegant Universe
- 1How the World Really Works
- 1Things Fall Apart
- 1Jurassic Park
- 1The Millionaire Fastlane
- 122 Immutable Laws of Marketing
- 1Master and Commander
- 1On Lisp
- 1Spin
- 1The Daily Stoic
- 1Travels
- 1The Man Who Knew Infinity
- 1The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- 1Summa Technologiae
- 1The Way of the Superior Man
- 1An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
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- 1Art of Deception
- 1The Computational Beauty of Nature
- 1Differentiate or Die
- 1Programming Language Pragmatics
- 1The Man Who Solved The Market
- 1The Fish That Ate the Whale
- 1Alexander Hamilton
- 1Lost in Math
- 1Hyperspace
- 1Time Reborn
- 1The Dharma Bums
- 1A Course in Miracles
A Course in Miracles
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- 1More Money Than God
- 1Against the Grain
- 1The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
- 1The Machinery of Life
- 1After Virtue
- 1Complete Robot
- 1The Compound Effect
- 1The Trouble With Physics
- 1The Discipline of Market Leaders
- 1Why Stock Markets Crash
- 1Losing the Signal
- 1The Tartar Steppe
- 1A Study in Scarlet
- 1Triumph of the City
- 1The Satanic Verses
- 1Nim in Action
Nim in Action
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- 1Jeeves