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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Dec 6, 2010 - Dec 13, 2010

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Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men And Mountains cover

1. Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men And Mountains

by Jon Krakauer

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy cover

2. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

by William B. Irvine

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Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America cover

3. Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

by Robert Whitaker

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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1) cover

4. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)

by George R. R. Martin

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Energy, the Subtle Concept: The discovery of Feynman's blocks from Leibniz to Einstein cover

5. Energy, the Subtle Concept: The discovery of Feynman's blocks from Leibniz to Einstein

by Jennifer Coopersmith

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster cover

6. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer

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Atlas Shrugged cover

7. Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation cover

8. Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

by Steven Johnson

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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life cover

9. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

by Alice Schroeder

Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd cover

10. Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd

by Youngme Moon

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Breakfast of Champions: A Novel cover

11. Breakfast of Champions: A Novel

by Kurt Vonnegut

World Without End (Kingsbridge) cover

12. World Without End (Kingsbridge)

by Ken Follett

Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry cover

13. Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry

by Marc Benioff, Carlye Adler

8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back (Remember When It Didn't Hurt) cover

14. 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back (Remember When It Didn't Hurt)

by Esther Gokhale

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Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose cover

15. Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

by Tony Hsieh

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The Ridiculous Race: 26,000 Miles, 2 Guides, 1 Globe, No Airplanes cover

16. The Ridiculous Race: 26,000 Miles, 2 Guides, 1 Globe, No Airplanes

by Vali Chandrasekaran

Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices cover

17. Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices

by Peter F. Drucker

The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day cover

18. The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day

by Elie Wiesel

Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet cover

19. Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet

by Joseph Menn

Work Hard. Be Nice. cover

20. Work Hard. Be Nice.

by Jay Mathews

Outlines of a formalist philosophy of mathematics (Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics) cover

21. Outlines of a formalist philosophy of mathematics (Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics)

by Haskell Brooks Curry

The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman cover

22. The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

by Timothy Ferriss

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The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator cover

23. The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator

by Leigh L. Thompson

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams cover

24. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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A Little History of the World cover

25. A Little History of the World

by E. H. Gombrich

The Art of the Metaobject Protocol cover

26. The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

by Gregor Kiczales, Jim Des Rivieres, Daniel G. Bobrow

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Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence cover

27. Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence

by Ivan Bratko

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind cover

28. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

by Julian Jaynes

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A Technique for Producing Ideas (Advertising Age Classics Library) cover

29. A Technique for Producing Ideas (Advertising Age Classics Library)

by James Young

Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture (Design Briefs) cover

30. Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture (Design Briefs)

by Casey Reas

Power Sleep : The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance cover

31. Power Sleep : The Revolutionary Program That Prepares Your Mind for Peak Performance

by James B. Maas, Megan L. Wherry, David J. Axelrod, Barbara R. Hogan, Jennifer A. Blumin

Scalable Internet Architectures cover

32. Scalable Internet Architectures

by Theo Schlossnagle

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How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics cover

33. How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics

by Zbigniew Michalewicz, David B. Fogel

Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Microsoft Azure Platform (Patterns & Practices) cover

34. Moving Applications to the Cloud on the Microsoft Azure Platform (Patterns & Practices)

by Dominic Betts, Eugenio Pace, Scott Densmore, Ryan Dunn

Operating Systems Design and Implementation (Prentice Hall Software Series) cover

35. Operating Systems Design and Implementation (Prentice Hall Software Series)

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull

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