Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024? ↗
The books people recommended
2023-12-07 · 268 points · 234 comments · 149 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.
- 5Malazan Book of the Fallen
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- 3Solaris
- 3Invisible Cities
- 3Immune
- 3A Memory Called Empire
- 3Exploding the Phone
- 3The Farseer Trilogy
- 3A Desolation Called Peace
- 3Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
- 3Legends & Lattes
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- 2On Writing
- 2Chip War
- 2Piranesi
- 2Annihilation
- 2The Body
- 2There Is No Antimemetics Division
- 2Philosophical Investigations
- 2Story of Your Life
- 2The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
- 2Apology
- 2The Invincible
- 2The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- 2The 5 Love Languages
- 2The Two Towers
- 2Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- 2The Licanius Trilogy
- 2The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- 2A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- 2Nona the Ninth
- 2Silo series
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- 1The Brothers Karamazov
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- 1A Philosophy of Software Design
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- 1The Code Book
- 1Harvard Classics
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- 1Old Man's War
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- 1Remembrance of Earth's Past
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- 1Algorithms to Live By
- 1Dark Tower Series
- 1I Am That
- 1The Name of the Rose
- 1The Effective Engineer
- 1Behave
- 1Range
- 1The Handmaid's Tale
- 1The Courage to Be Disliked
- 1Dark Matter
- 1The Mote in God's Eye
- 1Lonesome Dove
- 1The Silmarillion
- 1Digital Minimalism
- 1Fermat's Last Theorem
- 1Fall of Hyperion
- 1The Psychology of Money
- 1Built to Sell
- 1How the World Really Works
- 1A Man for All Markets
- 1Dungeon Crawler Carl
- 1How Will You Measure Your Life
- 1Einstein
- 1Endymion
- 1Moneyball
- 1The Ascent of Money
- 1On Lisp
- 1Recursion
- 1Lies My Teacher Told Me
- 1When We Cease to Understand the World
- 1The Divine Comedy
- 1Outlive
- 1All the Light We Cannot See
- 1Poor Economics
- 1If on a winter's night a traveler
- 1Sometimes a Great Notion
- 1Build
- 1The Algebraist
- 1How Asia Works
- 1Blood Music
- 1Leviathan
- 1The Blacktongue Thief
- 1The End of the World Is just Beginning
- 1Letters to a Young Poet
- 1Mother of Learning
- 1Four Thousand Weeks
- 1Eon
- 14000 Weeks
- 1Long Walk to Freedom
- 1The Seasoned Schemer
- 1The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read
- 1Doom Guy
- 1India After Gandhi
- 1The Creative Act
- 1In a Sunburned Country
- 1Titanium Noir
- 1Slouching Towards Utopia
- 1The Locked Tomb
- 1Murderbot
- 1Eat & Run
- 1The Warden
- 1Cradle series
- 1Different
- 1How to Be Perfect
- 1The Diary of a Young Girl
- 1Greenlights
- 1Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
- 1Wayfarers
- 1A Primate's Memoir
- 1The Lost World
- 1Plato's Republic
- 1Southern Reach Trilogy
- 1Rifters
- 1Sex at Dawn
- 1The Path to Power
- 1The Federalist Papers
- 1The Founders
- 1Borne