Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days? ↗
The books people recommended
2015-04-09 · 211 points · 388 comments · 283 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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- 7Permutation City
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- 5The Art of War
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- 4Remote
- 4The Shallows
- 4The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error
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- 3Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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- 3Kafka on the Shore
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- 3The Guns of August
- 3Becoming Steve Jobs
- 3The Dip
- 3Command and Control
- 3The Kingkiller Chronicles
The Kingkiller Chronicles
3 here · 4 all-time · #1934 overall
- 3Regenesis
- 3The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
3 here · 4 all-time · #1939 overall
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- 2Working Effectively with Legacy Code
- 2Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 2The Culture
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- 2Harry Potter
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- 2The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- 2Rationality: From AI to Zombies
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- 2Quantum Computing since Democritus
- 2Worm
- 2The Windup Girl
- 2Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
- 2The Linux Programming Interface
- 2Mindfulness in Plain English
- 2Measurement
- 2Functional Programming in Scala
- 2Rainbows End
- 2The New Turing Omnibus
- 2Lies My Teacher Told Me
- 2iWoz
- 2Going Clear
- 2Galápagos
- 2How to Create a Mind
- 2Mort
- 2Capital in the 21st Century
- 2The $100 Startup
The $100 Startup
2 here · 4 all-time · #1734 overall
- 2Effective Modern C++
- 2Systems Performance
- 2What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
- 2John Dies at the End
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Introduction to Algorithms
Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
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- 1The Brothers Karamazov
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- 1Rework
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- 1The 4-Hour Workweek
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- 1The Dream Machine
- 1Coders at Work
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- 1Reamde
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- 1A People's History of the United States
- 1Rendezvous with Rama
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- 1Old Man's War
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- 1The Box
- 1Ancillary Justice
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- 1Dark Tower Series
- 1Snowball
- 1Invisible Cities
- 1Flash Boys
- 1The Signal and the Noise
- 1Time Enough for Love
- 1Blink
- 1Made to Stick
- 1Lila
- 1Start Small, Stay Small
- 1The Practice of Programming
- 1Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
- 1American Gods
- 1Types and Programming Languages
- 1The Denial of Death
- 1Road to Reality
- 1Longitude
- 1Consider Phlebas
- 1Heart of Darkness
- 1Breakfast of Champions
- 1Joy of Clojure
- 1Metamagical Themas
- 1Off to Be the Wizard
- 1Logicomix
- 1Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
- 1A Wizard of Earthsea
- 1Ringworld
- 12001: A Space Odyssey
- 1Machine Learning
- 1VALIS
- 1Purely Functional Data Structures
- 1The Peripheral
- 1The Unix Programming Environment
- 1Good to Great
- 1Autobiography of a Yogi
- 1Artificial Life
- 1Anthem
- 1Watership Down
- 1Continuous Delivery
- 1The Time Machine
- 1A Discipline of Programming
- 1Be Here Now
- 1What If?
- 1History of the Peloponnesian War
- 1What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- 1Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
- 1Probability
- 1The Wise Man's Fear
- 1Losing My Virginity
- 1Exploding the Phone
- 1The Conquest of Happiness
- 1Never Eat Alone
- 1Le Ton Beau de Marot
- 1World War Z
- 1Venture Deals
- 1The Swerve
- 1Wherever You Go, There You Are
- 1The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
- 1Countdown to Zero Day
- 1Mini Habits
- 1Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami
1 here · 7 all-time · #1029 overall
- 1Robot series
- 1Understanding Media
- 1Mein Kampf
- 1The Way of the Superior Man
- 1Bluebeard
- 1The Wisdom of Crowds
- 1Tribal Leadership
- 1Code Complete 2
- 1The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- 1The Book of Five Rings
- 1The Wind in the Willows
- 1Stuff Matters
- 1The Difference Engine
- 1Bayesian Data Analysis
- 1The Art of Software Security Assessment
- 1Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
- 1The Best Interface Is No Interface
- 1The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- 1Schild's Ladder
- 1Against the Day
- 1Freedom(tm)
- 1Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
- 1Persuasion
- 1Emma
- 1Quicksilver
- 1An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
- 133 Strategies of War
- 1Americanah
- 1Corporate Confidential
- 1Manifold: Time
- 1Green Mars
- 1Catch Me If You Can
- 1Gang Leader for a Day
- 1Revolutionary Road
- 1The Age of Reason
- 1Serious Creativity
- 1Rama
- 1No Place to Hide
- 1Alice in Wonderland
- 1The Machinery of Life
- 1The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System
The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System
1 here · 4 all-time · #1915 overall
- 1SmartCuts
- 1Consider the Lobster
- 1Programming in Lua
- 1This Book Is Full of Spiders
- 1Abundance
- 1The Sword of Truth
- 1Fuzzy Nation
- 1Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks
- 1Data and Goliath
- 1Soldier of a Great War
- 1Magic 2.0
- 1Big Data
- 1The Island of Doctor Moreau
- 1Atomic Accidents
- 1The Confusion
- 1Metamorphoses
- 1The Buried Giant
- 1CSS Secrets
- 1Building Microservices
- 1The Most Human Human
- 1Spam Nation
- 1Existence
- 1The Power of Myth
- 1Triumph of the City
- 1The Blade Itself
- 1The Snow Leopard
- 1Linear and Geometric Algebra
- 1Avogadro Corp. series
- 1Darwin's Theorem
- 1Churchill
- 1Software Architecture: The Hard Parts