Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021? ↗
The books people recommended
2021-12-24 · 515 points · 631 comments · 108 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.
- 9Project Hail Mary
- 6The Three-Body Problem
- 6The Dawn of Everything
- 5
- 5The Goal
- 5How to Change Your Mind
- 4The Brothers Karamazov
- 4Fooled by Randomness
- 4Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- 4Anathem
- 4The Murderbot Diaries
- 4My Struggle
- 3Dune
- 3
- 3Snow Crash
- 3Anna Karenina
- 3The Beginning of Infinity
- 3Creativity Inc.
- 3The Last Ringbearer
- 3The Expanse
- 3Three Men in a Boat
- 3Immune
- 2Cryptonomicon
- 2Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
- 2Guns, Germs, and Steel
- 2Never Split the Difference
- 2Crime and Punishment
- 2Seveneves
- 2Manufacturing Consent
- 2Children of Time
- 2Ubik
- 2The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- 2Permanent Record
- 2Flow
- 2Piranesi
- 2American Kingpin
- 2This Is How You Lose the Time War
- 2When We Cease to Understand the World
- 2Capitalist Realism
- 2Democracy: The God That Failed
- 2A Mind at Play
- 2The Blacktongue Thief
- 2Klara and the Sun
- 2The Guns of August
- 1
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- 1Foundation
- 1Catch-22
- 1Zero to One
- 1The Lord of the Rings
- 1Ender's Game
- 1The Phoenix Project
- 1Blindsight
- 1The Mom Test
- 1Man's Search for Meaning
- 1Masters of Doom
- 1The Hard Thing About Hard Things
- 1War and Peace
- 1The Name of the Wind
- 1Freakonomics
- 1Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up
- 1Principles
- 1Crucial Conversations
- 1The Book of the New Sun
- 1The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 1Rationality: From AI to Zombies
- 1Hyperion
- 1An Elegant Puzzle
- 1The Wheel of Time
- 1Bad Blood
- 1The Stormlight Archive
- 1Quiet
- 1Exhalation
- 1Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
- 1Impro
- 1Prisoners of Geography
- 1The Psychology of Money
- 1Stories of Your Life and Others
- 1Skin in the Game
- 1The First Law
- 1A Scanner Darkly
- 1Alchemy
- 1Born a Crime
- 1Open Society and Its Enemies
- 1Being Mortal
- 1Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
- 11491
- 1On Food and Cooking
- 1The Pyramid Principle
- 11Q84
- 1All the Light We Cannot See
- 1Emperor of All Maladies
- 1The Shadow of the Wind
- 1Psycho-Cybernetics
- 1Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution
- 1Unwomanly Face of War
- 1The Rational Optimist
- 1Beyond Good and Evil
- 1In Search of Lost Time
- 1Fall of Hyperion
- 1How to Take Smart Notes
- 1Ministry for the Future
- 1The Scout Mindset
- 1The Teachings of Don Juan
- 1The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- 1Against the Day
- 1Rhythm of War