Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? ↗
The books people recommended
2019-12-28 · 873 points · 417 comments · 66 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.
- 3The Count of Monte Cristo
- 3Steve Jobs
- 2
- 2Meditations
- 2The Master and Margarita
- 2Masters of Doom
- 2Outliers
- 2Manufacturing Consent
- 2Children of Time
- 2The Odyssey
- 2Elon Musk
- 1
- 1Dune
- 1The Three-Body Problem
- 1The Brothers Karamazov
- 1Fooled by Randomness
- 1Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
- 1Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
- 1Why We Sleep
- 1The Lord of the Rings
- 1Influence
- 1Anna Karenina
- 1The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Carl Sagan
1 here · 18 all-time · #49 overall
- 1Ender's Game
- 1Algorithms
- 1Blindsight
- 1The Mom Test
- 1The Pragmatic Programmer
- 1Discworld
- 1Walden
- 1Moby Dick
- 1Crime and Punishment
- 1The Power of Habit
- 1The Culture
- 1The Alchemist
- 1How to Change Your Mind
- 1Don't Make Me Think
- 1Principles
- 1Feeling Good
- 1The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
1 here · 10 all-time · #144 overall
- 1The Algorithm Design Manual
- 1The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- 1Hackers & Painters
- 1Bad Blood
- 1The Dark Forest
- 1Poor Charlie's Almanack
- 1Drive
- 1Skin in the Game
- 1American Kingpin
- 1Solaris
- 1On Writing Well
- 1Born to Run
- 1Shogun
- 1Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
- 1Axiomatic
- 1Incerto
- 1Founders at Work
- 1The Anatomy of Peace
- 1The Myth of Sisyphus
- 1Small Gods
- 1Blink
- 1How Not to Die
- 1Death's End
- 1Echopraxia
- 1Everything and More
- 1Revelation Space