Ask HN: Which books have made you a better thinker and problem solver? ↗
The books people recommended
2022-11-30 · 354 points · 237 comments · 63 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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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman
2 here · 49 all-time · #7 overall
- 2Antifragile
- 2Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
- 2How to Solve It
- 2Principles
- 2The Art of War
- 2Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
- 2The Scout Mindset
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- 1Meditations
- 1The Fountainhead
- 1The Black Swan
- 1The Goal
- 1Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- 1Thinking in Systems
- 1The Righteous Mind
- 1Zero to One
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- 1Basic Economics
- 1The Beginning of Infinity
- 1The Dictator's Handbook
- 1Masters of Doom
- 1Outliers
- 1How to Read a Book
- 1Feeling Good
- 1The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 1Rationality: From AI to Zombies
- 1Economics in One Lesson
- 1Test-Driven Development
- 1Steve Jobs
- 1The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- 148 Laws of Power
- 1Thinking in Bets
- 1Nicomachean Ethics
- 1The Enchiridion
- 1Predictably Irrational
- 1The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- 1Seeing Like a State
- 1How to Measure Anything
- 1Chaos
- 1Proofs and Refutations
- 1Critique of Pure Reason
- 1The Art of Thinking Clearly
- 1Out of the Crisis
- 1Bad Science
- 1Algorithms to Live By
- 1An Introduction to General Systems Thinking
- 1Make It Stick
Make It Stick
Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
1 here · 4 all-time · #404 overall
- 1The Pyramid Principle
- 1The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
- 1Language in Thought and Action
- 1How to Lie with Statistics
- 1The Reasoned Schemer
The Reasoned Schemer
Daniel P. Friedman, William E. Byrd, Oleg Kiselyov
1 here · 3 all-time · #493 overall
- 1Secrets of Consulting
- 1Becoming a Technical Leader
- 1Are Your Lights On?
- 1Hooked
- 1Normal Accidents
- 1Peak
- 1Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking