Ask HN: Books you read in 2022 and recommend for 2023 ↗
The books people recommended
2022-12-28 · 183 points · 201 comments · 165 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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- 4Invisible Cities
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- 2The Dawn of Everything
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- 2Walden
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- 2Behave
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- 2How the World Really Works
- 2Master of the Senate
- 2Pillars of the Earth
- 2The End of the World Is just Beginning
- 2Four Thousand Weeks
- 2The Precipice
- 2The 1619 Project
The 1619 Project
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- 2Churchill
- 2The Song of the Cell
- 2Grinding it Out
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- 1Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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- 1Revelation Space
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- 1Kafka on the Shore
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- 1The Cyberiad
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- 1We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
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- 1On Writing
- 1The God Delusion
- 1Norwegian Wood
- 1Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- 1The Book of Mormon
- 1Amusing Ourselves to Death
- 1The Courage to Be Disliked
- 1The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
- 1The Metamorphosis
- 1The Martian Chronicles
- 1The Guns of August
- 1The Tao of Pooh
- 1About Face
- 1Chaos Monkeys
- 1The New Jim Crow
- 1Echopraxia
- 1Open Society and Its Enemies
- 1Bullshit Jobs
- 1Shadow Divers
- 1Immune
- 1The Coddling of the American Mind
- 1All Systems Red
- 1Night
- 1The Knowledge
- 1The Outsider
- 1Homage to Catalonia
- 1The Technological Society
- 1Station Eleven
- 1The Gene: An Intimate History
- 1Ministry for the Future
- 1The Invisible Man
- 1The Dying Earth
- 1The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
- 1Jurassic Park
- 1Anthem
- 1The Time Machine
- 1The Gods Themselves
- 1History of the Peloponnesian War
- 1Hard Drive
- 1A Memory Called Empire
- 1Breath
- 1Darkness at Noon
- 1A Mathematician's Apology
- 1The Spy and the Traitor
- 1Gateway
- 1Maus
- 1New Sun
- 1Fermat's Enigma
- 1How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
- 1One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- 1Poor Economics
- 1The Lessons of History
- 1Children of Dune
- 1More Than Human
- 1Build
- 1Convenience Store Woman
- 1This Changes Everything
- 1A Psalm for the Wild-Built
- 1How Asia Works
- 1Down and Out in Paris and London
- 1The Lady Tasting Tea
- 1The Order of Time
- 1The Scout Mindset
- 1The Double Helix
- 1The Blacktongue Thief
- 1Qur'an
- 1Dragon's Egg
- 1Player Piano
- 1Kindred
- 1Tuxedo Park
- 1Binti
- 1The Third Policeman
- 1Alas, Babylon
- 1The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read
- 1The Dilbert Principle
- 1Energy And Civilization
- 1The Wandering Inn
- 1Collected Fictions
- 1Only the Paranoid Survive
- 1The Crying of Lot 49
- 1Upgrade
- 1The Licanius Trilogy
- 1Suttree
- 1The Crossing
- 1Working Backwards
- 1Winter is Coming
- 1The Secret Race
- 1How to Be Perfect
- 1The Diary of a Young Girl
- 1Greenlights
- 1Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
- 1The Psychopath Test
- 1Magician
- 1Come As You Are
- 1Anarchy, State, and Utopia
- 1The Body Electric
- 1A Christmas Carol
- 1Red Famine
- 1What You Do Is Who You Are
- 1Conquistador