Ask HN: Best book you read in 2011 ↗
The books people recommended
2011-12-27 · 336 points · 307 comments · 173 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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- 9Rework
- 6Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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- 4The Art of War
- 4The Checklist Manifesto
- 4The Art of Game Design
- 4Anything You Want
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- 3Starship Troopers
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- 3Moonwalking with Einstein
- 3Starting Strength
- 3The Wise Man's Fear
- 3Boomerang
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Introduction to Algorithms
Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
2 here · 71 all-time · #47 overall
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- 2Bhagavad Gita
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- 2Reamde
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
2 here · 25 all-time · #236 overall
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- 2Snowball
- 2The 4 Hour Work Week
- 2Born to Run
- 2Seeking Wisdom
- 2Delivering Happiness
- 2Logicomix
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- 2Pale Fire
- 2Fall of Hyperion
- 2The 4-Hour Body
- 2Incognito
- 2Status Anxiety
- 2Good Calories, Bad Calories
- 2A Little History of the World
- 2Business Model Generation
- 2Enchantment
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- 1The 4-Hour Workweek
- 1The Culture
- 1Endurance
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- 1The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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- 1Calculus Made Easy
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- 1Effective Java
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- 1The God Delusion
- 1The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- 1Blink
- 1Made to Stick
- 1Lila
- 1Start Small, Stay Small
- 1Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi
1 here · 16 all-time · #409 overall
- 11Q84
- 1The Guns of August
- 1The Fabric of the Cosmos
- 1Glasshouse
- 1Managing Humans
- 1Treasure Island
- 1The Devil in the White City
- 1Red Mars
- 1Land of Lisp
- 1The Linux Programming Interface
- 1Simulacra and Simulation
- 1Blue Ocean Strategy
- 1Built to Sell
- 1The Elegant Universe
- 1How to Make Friends and Influence People
- 1Things Fall Apart
- 1Sandman
- 1Gates of Fire
- 1Design for Hackers
- 1Naked Economics
- 1Spin
- 1Shop Class as Soulcraft
- 1The Swerve
- 1Learned Optimism
- 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 Once and Future King
- 1The City of God
- 1Built to Last
- 1Mona Lisa Overdrive
- 1Poor Economics
- 1Surface Detail
- 1Tribal Leadership
- 111/22/63
- 1Programming in Scala
- 1Dragons of Eden
- 1Neuropath
- 1In Cold Blood
- 1Why We Get Fat
- 1Musashi
- 1Java Concurrency in Practice
- 1Prime Obsession
- 1Animal Liberation
- 1The Art of Readable Code
- 1The Graveyard Book
- 1Bridge of Birds
- 1The Long Run
- 1What Technology Wants
- 1The Hunger Games
- 1Gang Leader for a Day
- 1South
- 1Lords of Finance
- 1Nothing to Envy
- 1How We Decide
- 1The Trouble With Physics
- 1Consider the Lobster
- 1Book of Mirdad
- 1The Moral Landscape
- 1One Piece
- 1Matter
- 1Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
- 1Eat That Frog
- 1The Most Human Human
- 1Growing a Business
- 1Programming Interviews Exposed
Programming Interviews Exposed
1 here · 3 all-time · #2440 overall