Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books. ↗
The books people recommended
2009-10-12 · 105 points · 227 comments · 175 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.
- 9
- 6
- 6
- 5
- 5
- 5
- 5
- 4
- 4
- 4
- 4
- 4
- 4
- 3
- 3
- 3
- 3
- 3The Brothers Karamazov
- 3
- 3
- 3Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 3Sophie's World
- 3Finnegans Wake
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2Walden
- 2The Power of Now
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2Foucault's Pendulum
- 2
- 2
- 2Hyperion Cantos
- 2Time Enough for Love
- 2Lord of Light
- 2American Gods
- 2The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- 2The Way Things Work
- 2Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- 2The Emperor's New Mind
- 2Star Diaries
- 2All the King's Men
- 2My Family and Other Animals
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1The Goal
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1The Art of War
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1Harry Potter
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1The Old Man and the Sea
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1Starship Troopers
- 1
- 1
- 1Dark Tower Series
- 1The Name of the Rose
- 1Invisible Cities
- 1Impro
- 1Made to Stick
- 1Notes from Underground
- 1The Stranger
- 1Frankenstein
- 1Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
- 1The Metamorphosis
- 1Heart of Darkness
- 1The Martian Chronicles
- 1The Mysterious Island
- 1The Fabric of the Cosmos
- 1Glasshouse
- 1Lonesome Dove
- 1The Story of Civilization
- 1The Silmarillion
- 1The Jungle
- 1All Quiet on the Western Front
- 1Midnight's Children
- 1The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 1Understanding Comics
- 1Things Fall Apart
- 1The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
- 1Watership Down
- 1City
- 1Darkness at Noon
- 1Tai-Pan
- 1I, Robot
- 1The Man Who Was Thursday
- 1How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
- 1The Neverending Story
- 1Fiasco
- 1White Noise
- 1Desert Solitaire
- 1The Last Samurai
- 1King Rat
- 1The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- 1Small Is Beautiful
- 1Zodiac
- 1One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- 1Nine Princes in Amber
- 1Burning Chrome
- 1Einstein's Dreams
- 1Bluebeard
- 1The World Is Flat
- 1The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- 1Wind, Sand and Stars
- 1The Outsiders
- 1Dragons of Eden
- 1Maverick
- 1Grendel
- 1The Gay Science
- 1Leave It to Psmith
- 1Hyperspace
- 1All the Pretty Horses
- 1Island
- 1Bridge of Birds
- 1Day of the Triffids
- 1The Mating Mind
- 1Manifold: Time
- 1Lives
- 1Quantum Psychology
- 1Rama
- 1High Fidelity
- 1The Double
- 1The Hacker Crackdown
- 1Titus Groan
- 1The Princess Bride
- 1How Children Fail
- 1In Search of Miraculous
- 1The Lost World
- 1Where the Red Fern Grows
Where the Red Fern Grows
1 here · 3 all-time · #2234 overall
- 1Ecce Homo
- 1The (Mis)behavior of Markets
- 1Eugene Onegin
- 1The Mezzanine
- 1The Nature of Paleolithic Art
- 1Firestar