Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately? ↗
The books people recommended
2023-08-17 · 439 points · 520 comments · 169 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.
- 15The Goal
- 8The Dawn of Everything
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- 4Breath
- 4Outlive
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- 3The Culture
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- 3The Mind Illuminated
- 3The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- 3Titanium Noir
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- 2The Brothers Karamazov
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- 2Impro
- 2Chip War
- 2The Idiot
- 2Prisoners of Geography
- 2God Emperor of Dune
- 2The Water Knife
- 2Silk Roads
- 2Art & Fear
- 2The WEIRDest people in the world
- 2Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
- 2Material World
- 2Leave It to Psmith
- 2Empire of the Summer Moon
- 2Killers of the Flower Moon
- 2The Chip
- 2Nudge
- 2Embracing Defeat
- 2The Roman Empire in Crisis
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- 1Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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- 1The Code Book
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- 1The Inner Game of Tennis
- 1Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach
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- 1Malazan Book of the Fallen
- 1Piranesi
- 1The Stranger
- 1Annihilation
- 1Leonardo da Vinci
- 1The Lies of Locke Lamora
- 1Heart of Darkness
- 1The Myth of Sisyphus
- 1This Is How You Lose the Time War
- 1The Windup Girl
- 1The Body
- 1Death's End
- 1Echopraxia
- 1A Wizard of Earthsea
- 1The City & the City
- 1Bullshit Jobs
- 1Shadow Divers
- 1Altered Carbon
- 1The Shadow of the Wind
- 1Fermat's Last Theorem
- 1How Not to Die
- 1Blue Ocean Strategy
- 1Built to Sell
- 1The Body Keeps the Score
- 1Make It Stick
- 1Three Men in a Boat
- 1Master of the Senate
- 1The Wise Man's Fear
- 1Going Postal
- 1Learned Optimism
- 1Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
- 1Naked Lunch
- 1The DevOps Handbook
- 1When We Cease to Understand the World
- 1Expeditionary Force
- 1American Prometheus
- 1Ecology of the Planted Aquarium
- 1The Defining Decade
- 1Children of Dune
- 1Zealot
- 1Dragons of Eden
- 1The Machine that Changed the World
- 1Down and Out in Paris and London
- 1Why We Get Fat
- 1The Fear Index
- 1The End of the World Is just Beginning
- 1Four Thousand Weeks
- 1Cicero
- 1The Border Trilogy
- 1The Theoretical Minimum
- 1It's Not Luck
- 1Critical Chain
- 1Children of Ruin
- 1The Peter Principle
- 1Salt Fat Acid Heat
- 1Doom Guy
- 1The Wandering Inn
- 1The Splendid and the Vile
- 1The Creative Act
- 1Empire of the Sun
- 1The Licanius Trilogy
- 1The Word for World is Forest
- 1Eragon
- 1Cradle series
- 1Plato's Republic
- 1The Sound and the Fury
- 1Vorkosigan Saga
- 1How We Think
- 1The Immortality Key
- 1The Wizard and the Prophet
- 1The Inner Citadel
- 1The Song of the Cell