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The books people recommended

2015-02-13 · 38 points · 54 comments · 12 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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Introduction to Algorithms
Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
5 here · 71 all-time · #47 overall
Buy on Amazon
3Cracking the Coding Interview
Cracking the Coding Interview
Gayle Laakmann McDowell
3 here · 9 all-time · #764 overall
2
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
2 here · 56 all-time · #67 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 15,933 ratings on Amazon
1
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
1 here · 178 all-time · #6 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 48,679 ratings on Amazon
1
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
1 here · 175 all-time · #8 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 106,505 ratings on Amazon
1
Algorithms
Robert Sedgewick
1 here · 49 all-time · #89 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 876 ratings on Amazon
1
Hackers and Painters
Paul Graham
1 here · 36 all-time · #139 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 765 ratings on Amazon
1
Programming Pearls
Jon Bentley
1 here · 35 all-time · #145 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 402 ratings on Amazon
1
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton Christensen
1 here · 30 all-time · #185 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 4,076 ratings on Amazon
1Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Christopher Bishop
1 here · 15 all-time · #428 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 801 ratings on Amazon
1Computer Networks
Computer Networks
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
1 here · 11 all-time · #570 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 503 ratings on Amazon
1How Google Works
How Google Works
Eric Schmidt
1 here · 5 all-time · #1315 overall