Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2016? ↗

The books people recommended

2017-01-02 · 74 points · 69 comments · 39 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.

5The Three-Body Problem
The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin
5 here · 36 all-time · #11 overall
4
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
4 here · 57 all-time · #4 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 106,505 ratings on Amazon
3
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
3 here · 41 all-time · #9 overall
2The Righteous Mind
The Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt
2 here · 22 all-time · #33 overall
2The Name of the Wind
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
2 here · 12 all-time · #104 overall
2Seveneves
Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
2 here · 11 all-time · #114 overall
2Deep Work
Deep Work
Cal Newport
2 here · 10 all-time · #135 overall
2Mastery
Mastery
Robert Greene
2 here · 7 all-time · #190 overall
2Grokking Algorithms
Grokking Algorithms
Aditya Y. Bhargava
2 here · 6 all-time · #247 overall
1
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
1 here · 51 all-time · #5 overall
1Meditations
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
1 here · 35 all-time · #13 overall
1The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
1 here · 32 all-time · #14 overall
1
Code
Charles Petzold
1 here · 27 all-time · #17 overall
1The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
1 here · 26 all-time · #21 overall
1Siddhartha
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
1 here · 26 all-time · #22 overall
1Catch-22
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
1 here · 20 all-time · #40 overall
1Zero to One
Zero to One
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
1 here · 19 all-time · #43 overall
1The Beginning of Infinity
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
1 here · 16 all-time · #59 overall
1The Hard Thing About Hard Things
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
1 here · 14 all-time · #74 overall
1Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
1 here · 11 all-time · #115 overall
1Feeling Good
Feeling Good
David D. Burns
1 here · 10 all-time · #129 overall
1A Guide to the Good Life
A Guide to the Good Life
William Irvine
1 here · 10 all-time · #136 overall
1Daemon
Daemon
Daniel Suarez
1 here · 10 all-time · #141 overall
1Hackers & Painters
Hackers & Painters
Paul Graham
1 here · 8 all-time · #170 overall
1The Dark Forest
The Dark Forest
Liu Cixin
1 here · 7 all-time · #184 overall
1Inspired
Inspired
Marty Cagan
1 here · 6 all-time · #216 overall
1Shoe Dog
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
1 here · 5 all-time · #263 overall
1The Vital Question
The Vital Question
Nick Lane
1 here · 5 all-time · #301 overall
1Our Mathematical Universe
Our Mathematical Universe
Max Tegmark
1 here · 5 all-time · #303 overall
1Elon Musk
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
1 here · 5 all-time · #304 overall
1Remote: Office Not Required
Remote: Office Not Required
Jason Fried
1 here · 4 all-time · #366 overall
1Rework
Rework
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
1 here · 4 all-time · #377 overall
1Freedom
Freedom
Daniel Suarez
1 here · 4 all-time · #401 overall
1Chasing the Scream
Chasing the Scream
Johann Hari
1 here · 4 all-time · #417 overall
1Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial Society and Its Future
Theodore Kaczynski
1 here · 3 all-time · #466 overall
1Tools of Titans
Tools of Titans
Tim Ferriss
1 here · 3 all-time · #492 overall
1Flash Boys
Flash Boys
Michael Lewis
1 here · 3 all-time · #538 overall
1Pale Blue Dot
Pale Blue Dot
Carl Sagan
1 here · 3 all-time · #539 overall
1Mastering The Complex Sale
Mastering The Complex Sale
Jeff Thull
1 here · 3 all-time · #623 overall