Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2014? ↗
The books people recommended
2014-12-08 · 329 points · 284 comments · 148 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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- 6Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
- 6Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- 6Starting Strength
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- 5The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Michael LeBoeuf
5 here · 7 all-time · #1056 overall
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- 4Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami
4 here · 7 all-time · #1029 overall
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- 3The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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- 3Remote
- 31Q84
- 3After Dark
- 3The Art of Profitability
- 3The Sequences
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- 2The Power of Now
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- 2The Obstacle Is the Way
- 2Start Small, Stay Small
- 2Spark
- 2The 4-Hour Body
- 2The Circle
- 2Mini Habits
- 2Steal Like An Artist
- 2The Art of Asking
- 2Body by Science
- 2The Inner Citadel
- 2The Trauma of Everyday Life
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- 1Permutation City
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- 1The Brothers Karamazov
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- 1Coders at Work
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- 1Kafka on the Shore
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- 1The Innovators
- 1Superintelligence
- 1The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- 1Born to Run
- 1Impro
- 1The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
- 1The Four Agreements
- 1Norwegian Wood
- 1Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
- 1The Wisdom of Insecurity
- 1Frankenstein
- 1Thinking Forth
- 1The Denial of Death
- 1Amusing Ourselves to Death
- 1Road to Reality
- 1Inspired
- 1Delivering Happiness
- 1Prometheus Rising
- 1Being Mortal
- 1The New Jim Crow
- 1The Singularity Is Near
- 1Vagabonding
- 1The Outsider
- 1Mindfulness in Plain English
- 1The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
- 1How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
1 here · 10 all-time · #683 overall
- 1The Fifth Discipline
- 1The Happiness Hypothesis
- 1The Millionaire Fastlane
- 1Start With Why
- 1Untethered Soul
- 1Functional Programming in Scala
- 1Free Will
- 1Confessions of an Economic Hitman
- 1Shop Class as Soulcraft
- 1Modern C++ Design
- 1Art & Fear
- 1Rapid Development
- 1Choose Yourself
- 1Team of Rivals
- 1Surfaces and Essences
- 1Lateral Thinking
- 1I Will Teach You To Be Rich
- 1The Score Takes Care of Itself
- 1A Conflict of Visions
- 1Zealot
- 1How Buildings Learn
- 1How to Create a Mind
- 1On Numbers & Games
- 1Life and Fate
- 1For a New Liberty
- 1Silent Spring
- 1The Emperor's Handbook
- 1Eat to Live
- 1Gruffalo
- 1Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
- 1Object-Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach
- 1Great Books of the Western World
- 1Complete Works
- 1Limits to Growth
Limits to Growth
Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, William W. Behrens III
1 here · 3 all-time · #2203 overall
- 1Overcoming Gravity
- 1The Promise of Sleep
- 1Enchiridion of Epictetus
- 1Nature of Code
- 1The Happiness Advantage
- 1love and math
- 1Mortality
- 1Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
- 1The Price of Inequality
- 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
1 here · 3 all-time · #2396 overall
- 1Javascript and Jquery
- 1Annapurna
- 1How to See Color and Paint It
- 1The Great Bridge