The top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News this week.
1. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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2. Leadership Step by Step: Become the Person Others Follow
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3. Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
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4. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
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5. The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
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6. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't
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7. Principles: Life and Work
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8. Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't
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9. The Manager's Path
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10. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
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11. Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For
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12. Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules
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13. The Armed Forces Officer: Edition of 1950
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14. Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
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15. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd Edition)
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16. The Captain Class: The Hidden Force Behind the World's Greatest Teams
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17. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
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18. Motel of the Mysteries
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19. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
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20. The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)
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21. Queen in 3-D: Bohemian Rhapsody Edition: 2019
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22. C Programming Language, 2nd Edition
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23. The C Programming Language
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24. War with the Newts
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25. I Am a Strange Loop
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26. The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things: Crime, Drugs, Minorities, Teen Moms, Killer Kids, Mutant Microbes, Plane Crashes, Road Rage, & So Much More
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27. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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28. The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy
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29. A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
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30. Corporate Flashcards
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31. Finite and Infinite Games
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32. Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++
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33. Writing Secure Code, Second Edition (Developer Best Practices)
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34. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind - and Keep - Love
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35. Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
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36. Bayesian Data Analysis (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)
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37. The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
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38. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
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39. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
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40. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
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41. Salt: A World History
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42. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
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43. So You Want to Start a Brewery?: The Lagunitas Story
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44. Cocktail Codex: Fundamentals, Formulas, Evolutions
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45. Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC
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46. Elena's Messages: From Her Big Sur Sanctuary
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47. Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
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48. The Mathematical Theory of Communication
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49. Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
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50. At Home: A Short History of Private Life
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51. A First Course in Information Theory (Information Technology: Transmission, Processing and Storage)
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52. Adventures of a Mathematician
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53. Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
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54. Modern Compiler Design
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55. Hacker's Handbook
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56. SQL Performance Explained Everything Developers Need to Know about SQL Performance
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57. Open Source Intelligence Techniques: Resources for Searching and Analyzing Online Information
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58. Normal People: A Novel
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59. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
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60. Time Reborn
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61. The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 5: Mathematical Preliminaries Redux; Introduction to Backtracking; Dancing Links
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62. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history)
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