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2009
Hacker News Books for 2009
Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2009.
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1. Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
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2. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
by Daniel Coyle
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3. On Competition
by ME. Porter
Read 1 comment
4. Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis.
by Eric Berne, MD
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5. Creating Harmonious Relationships: A Practical Guide to the Power of True Empathy
by Andrew LeCompte
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6. The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth
by Eric M. Jackson
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7. Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow
by Chip Conley
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8. The Rich Are Different: A Priceless Treasury of Quotations and Anecdotes About the Affluent, the Posh, a nd the Just Plain Loaded
by Jon Winokur
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9. Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
by Daniel T. Willingham
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10. Dive Into Python
by Mark Pilgrim
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11. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
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12. The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Book & CD)
by John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal
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13. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
by Barry Schwartz
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14. Modern Compiler Implementation in ML
by Andrew W. Appel
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15. Land of LISP: Learn to Program in LISP, One Game at a Time!
by Conrad Barski
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16. The Money Is the Gravy: Finding the Career That Nourishes You
by John Clark
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17. Hacker's Delight
by Henry S. Warren
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18. Essential System Administration: Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration, 3rd Edition
by AEleen Frisch
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19. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
by Robert L. Glass
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20. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)
by Tom Vanderbilt
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21. How to Lie with Statistics
by Darrell Huff
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22. The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
by Irving Stone
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23. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
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24. A Course in Mathematical Logic (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)
by I͡U. I. Manin
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25. Speak, Memory (Everyman's Library)
by Vladimir Nabokov
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26. Super Freakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
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27. Evolution: The First Four Billion Years
by Michael Ruse, Joseph Travis
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28. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
by Betty Edwards
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29. Basic Mathematics
by Serge Lang
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30. Sequences, Combinations, Limits (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by S. I. Gelʹfand, M. L. Gerver, A. A. Kirillov, N. N. Konstantinov
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31. Teach Your Child to Read in Just Ten Minutes a Day
by Sidney Ledson
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32. Functions and Graphs (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by I. M. Gelfand, E. G. Glagoleva, E. E. Shnol
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33. The Check Is Not in the Mail: How to Get Paid More in Full, on Time, at Less Cost and Without Losing Valued Customers
by Leonard Sklar
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34. Measurement in Psychology: A Critical History of a Methodological Concept (Ideas in Context)
by Joel Michell
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35. Learning the bash Shell
by Cameron Newham, Bill Rosenblatt
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36. The Tyranny of Testing
by Banesh Hoffmann, Jacques Barzun
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37. The Day I Became an Autodidact and the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies That Befell Me Thereafter
by Kendall Hailey
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38. The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time
by Michael Craig
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39. Pushing Yourself to Power: The Ultimate Guide to Total Body Transformation
by John E. Peterson
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40. Masterminds of Programming
by Federico Biancuzzi, Chromatic
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41. Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Revised Edition)
by Deborah A. Stone
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42. Selected Papers on Computer Science (Lecture Notes)
by Donald E. Knuth
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43. Quantum Fields and Strings: A Course for Mathematicians
by Pierre Deligne, Pavel Etingof, Daniel S. Freed, Lisa C. Jeffrey, David Kazhdan, John W. Morgan, David R. Morrison, Edward Witten
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44. DNS and BIND (5th Edition)
by Cricket Liu, Paul Albitz
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45. Insider's Tell-All Handbook on Weight-Training Technique: Illustrated Step-by-step Guide to Perfecting Your Exercise Form for Injury-free Maximum Gains, 3rd Edition
by Stuart McRobert
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46. Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
by J. E. Gordon
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47. Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
by Peter Norvig
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48. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics
by Larry Gonick
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49. The Art & Science Of Dumpster Diving
by John Hoffman
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50. The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor
by John McPhee
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51. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
by Roger Lowenstein
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52. Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
by Julia Angwin
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53. Game Theory at Work: How to Use Game Theory to Outthink and Outmaneuver Your Competition
by James Miller
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54. Buddhism Plain and Simple
by Steve Hagen
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55. The Design of the UNIX Operating System
by Maurice J. Bach
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56. Modern Operating Systems (3rd Edition)
by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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57. Understanding the Linux Kernel
by Daniel P. Bovet
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58. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
by Randal E. Bryant, David R. O'Hallaron
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59. Linux System Programming
by Robert Love
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60. The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe
by Roger Penrose
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61. Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
by Ian H. Witten, Eibe Frank
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62. The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body
by Steven J. Mithen
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63. The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
by Daniel J. Levitin
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64. Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care
by Arnold King
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65. War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900 (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by John V. C. Nye
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66. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
by Michael Pollan
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67. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround
by Louis V. Gerstner
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68. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszent
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69. Beautiful Data
by Jeff Hammerbacher, Toby Segaran
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70. Axiomatic
by Greg Egan
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71. Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown
by Roxy Peck
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72. Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C
by Bruce Schneier
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73. Principles of Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by M. G. Bulmer
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74. The Killing Zone: How & Why Pilots Die
by Paul A. Craig
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75. Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution
by Ray Jackendoff
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76. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
by Steven Pinker
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77. Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
by Neil Postman
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78. The Leap: How 3 Simple Changes Can Propel Your Career from Good to Great
by Rick Smith
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79. Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 4th Edition
by Gilbert Strang
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80. Unix Power Tools
by Shelley Powers
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81. Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
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82. Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd (Strategy and History)
by Frans P. B. Osinga
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83. Outliers: The Story of Success
by Malcolm Gladwell
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84. Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering
by Eldad Eilam
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85. Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control
by Dominic Streatfeild
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86. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Generalized Causal Inference
by William R. Shadish, Thomas D. Cook, Donald Thomas Campbell
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87. Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America
by Jay Mathews
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88. What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought
by Keith E. Stanovich
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89. The Practice of System and Network Administration, Second Edition
by Thomas A. Limoncelli, Tom Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup
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90. DNS and BIND
by Cricket Liu, Paul Albitz
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91. Elementary Classical Analysis, 2nd Edition
by Jerrold E. Marsden, Michael J. Hoffman
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92. Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting
by Robert McKee
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93. The Piano Tuner
by Daniel Philippe Mason
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94. Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition
by Jay Abraham
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95. Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (MIT Press)
by Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi
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96. Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality
by Brad Warner
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97. In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed
by Carl Honore
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98. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
by Michael Shermer
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99. Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction
by Timothy Gowers
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100. Numbers and Geometry (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
by John Stillwell
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