Ask HN: What were the best books you read this year? ↗
The books people recommended
2024-11-28 · 117 points · 150 comments · 88 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.
- 7We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- 4Liftoff
- 4Reentry
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- 3The Dawn of Everything
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- 3Piranesi
- 3Pale Fire
- 3The Last Samurai
- 3Nuclear War: A Scenario
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- 2Worm
- 2Annihilation
- 2Benjamin Franklin
- 2When We Cease to Understand the World
- 2A Desolation Called Peace
- 2Silent Spring
- 2The Machinery of Life
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- 1Understanding Power
- 1Chip War
- 1Notes from Underground
- 1Pride and Prejudice
- 1The Courage to Be Disliked
- 11Q84
- 1This Is How You Lose the Time War
- 1The Windup Girl
- 1Lonesome Dove
- 1Unsong
- 1Echopraxia
- 1The City & the City
- 1Sprawl trilogy
- 1Replay
- 1How the World Really Works
- 1The Bridge
- 1The Art of Worldly Wisdom
- 1Breath
- 1Tai-Pan
- 1Wherever You Go, There You Are
- 1Leviathan Wakes
- 1Last and First Men
- 1Count Zero
- 1Mona Lisa Overdrive
- 1Never Let Me Go
- 1Star Maker
- 1Klara and the Sun
- 1Colossus
- 1The Algebraist
- 1A Psalm for the Wild-Built
- 1On Tyranny
- 1Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
- 1Grendel
- 1Four Thousand Weeks
- 1Light
- 1The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- 1Lost in Math
- 1David Copperfield
- 1What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
- 1Slouching Towards Utopia
- 1Elements of Clojure
- 1Concrete Island
- 1Railsea
- 1How the World Works
- 1Orthogonal
- 1Our Band Could Be Your Life
- 1Jane Eyre
- 1The Deluge
- 1Gai-Jin
- 1A Brief History of Intelligence
- 1The Tartar Steppe
- 1Origin
- 1Matterhorn
- 1Say Nothing
- 1Golden Road