The top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News this week.
1. Grassroots for Hire: Public Affairs Consultants In American Democracy (Business and Public Policy)
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2. Who Murdered Chaucer? A Medieval Mystery
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3. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
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4. The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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5. The Cloudspotter's Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds
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6. Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary
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7. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
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8. Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
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9. Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money
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10. Mindfulness in Plain English
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11. Unflattening
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12. Mac OS X and iOS Internals: To the Apple's Core
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13. Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach (paperback)
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14. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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15. West with the Night: A Memoir
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16. The Symmetries of Things
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17. The Story of the Mongols: Whom We Call the Tartars
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18. Travels (Vintage Departures)
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19. Ishmael: A Novel (Ishmael Series Book 1)
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20. Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Wordsworth Classics)
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21. The Non-Designer's Design Book (4th Edition)
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22. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
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23. White
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24. Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices
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25. Carefree Dignity
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26. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
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27. Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined
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28. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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29. The Shamanic Path to Quantum Consciousness: The Eight Circuits of Creative Power
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30. Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
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31. The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery
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32. The Volunteer: One Man's Mission to Lead an Underground Army in Auschwitz and Expose the Greatest Nazi Crimes
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33. Men Explain Things to Me
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34. Electrons and Valence: Development of the Theory, 1900-1925
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35. First to Fight: The Polish War 1939
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36. The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel
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37. Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
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38. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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39. The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
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40. Alex's Adventures in Numberland
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41. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
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42. Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
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43. Lysek z pokladu Idy
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44. The Songwriting Secrets Of The Beatles
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45. Far Futures
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46. Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win (Outlooks)
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