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2011
Hacker News Books for 2011
Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2011.
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1. Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
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2. Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
by Robert Baer
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3. One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
by Richard L. Brandt
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4. Maths: A Student's Survival Guide: A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students
by Jenny Olive
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5. The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
by Peter Singer
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6. The Waite Group's Master C/Book and 4 Disks
by Mitchell Waite, Stephen Prata, Rex Woollard
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7. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
by Seymour A. Papert
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8. Self-discipline in 10 days: How to go from thinking to doing
by Theodore Bryant
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9. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
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10. Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition)
by Josef Müller-Brockmann
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11. Why She Buys: The New Strategy for Reaching the World's Most Powerful Consumers
by Bridget Brennan
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12. What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
by Richard Nelson Bolles
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13. Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
by Götz Aly
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14. Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions, Sixth Edition
by Stuart McClure
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15. Sharpening the Warriors Edge: The Psychology & Science of Training
by Bruce K. Siddle
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16. Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music
by Derek Bailey
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17. Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite
by Robert D. Kaplan
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18. The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
by T. R. Reid
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19. That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right (Independent Studies in Political Economy)
by Stephen P. Halbrook
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20. Building Web Reputation Systems
by Randy Farmer, Bryce Glass
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21. Practical C Programming (Nutshell Handbooks)
by Steve Oualline
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22. Amazon.com: Get Big Fast
by Robert Spector
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23. Procrastination: Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now
by Jane B. Burka, Lenora M. Yuen
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24. The Systems Bible: The Beginner's Guide to Systems Large and Small
by John Gall
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25. Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
by Geoffrey Miller
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26. The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do
by Clotaire Rapaille
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27. The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation (Shambhala Library)
by Chögyam Trungpa
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28. Apple Inside Macintosh, Volumes I, II, and III
by Caroline Rose
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29. Inside Macintosh: Networking
by Apple Computer Inc
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30. Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines
by Apple Computer, Inc
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31. OpenDoc Programmer's Guide
by Apple Computer, Inc
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32. Newton User Interface Guidelines
by Apple Computer, Inc
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33. Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution
by Jim Blascovich
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34. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
by Guy Delisle
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35. Compulsory Mis-Education and the Community of Scholars
by Paul Goodman
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36. Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood
by Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey
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37. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)
by K. Anders Ericsson, Neil Charness, Paul J. Feltovich, Robert R. Hoffman
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38. Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You
by John Warrillow
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39. Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
by Nicholas Ostler
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40. MICROSOFT SECRETS: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets, and Manages People
by Michael A. Cusumano, Richard W. Selby
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41. Using C on the UNIX System
by David A. Curry
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42. Learning Gap: Why Our Schools Are Failing and What We Can Learn from Japanese and Chinese Education
by Harold Stevenson, James W. Stigler
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43. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
by Brian Greene
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44. Designer & the Grid
by Lucienne Roberts, Julia Thrift
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45. PHP/Architect's Guide to Date and Time Programming
by Derick Rethans
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46. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business Essentials)
by Clayton M. Christensen
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47. Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
by David Owen
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48. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by j.k. rowling
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49. Secret Diary of a Call Girl
by Belle de Jour, Anonymous
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50. C Programming: A Modern Approach, 2nd Edition
by Kim N. King
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51. Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
by Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
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52. The Mac is Not a Typewriter, 2nd Edition
by Robin Williams
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53. Visual Thinking for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)
by Colin Ware
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54. Self-Discipline in 10 days: How To Go From Thinking to Doing
by Theodore Bryant
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55. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story - 1965-2000
by Lee Kuan Yew
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56. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick
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57. The New Rules of Lifting: Six Basic Moves for Maximum Muscle
by Lou Schuler, Alwyn Cosgrove
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58. Creating You & Co.: Learn To Think Like The CEO Of Your Own Career
by William Bridges
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59. Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
by John Bowe
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60. The Evolution of Physics
by Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld
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61. The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
by James E. Loehr, Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
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62. Controlling Software Projects
by Tom DeMarco
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63. How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard
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64. Is There Anything Good About Men?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men
by Roy F. Baumeister
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65. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
by John Colapinto
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66. Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
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67. Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival
by T. S. Wiley, Bent Formby
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68. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
by Scott Rosenberg
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69. The People You Are
by Rita Carter
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70. Essential System Administration: Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration, 3rd Edition
by AEleen Frisch
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71. Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions (Hacking Exposed)
by Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz
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72. The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations
by Dietrich Dorner
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73. Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
by Robert Pirsig
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74. Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction
by James Edward McClellan, Harold Dorn
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75. Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy
by Evans
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76. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman
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77. Safecracker Suite: Drumming and Storytelling
by Richard Phillips Feynman
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78. The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
by William K. Black
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79. Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals
by Frans B. M. de Waal, F. B. M. de Waal
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80. The Wizard of Oz (Puffin Classics)
by L. Frank Baum
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81. Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure
by Maxwell Ryan
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82. Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery
by Garr Reynolds
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83. The Wise Man's Fear (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2)
by Patrick Rothfuss
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84. The American Atlas, Expanded 5th Edition
by Thomas G. Shanks
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85. How to Develop a Super Power Memory
by Harry Lorayne
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86. Rule 34
by Charles Stross
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87. Stories of Your Life and Others
by Ted Chiang
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88. The Lifecycle of Software Objects
by Ted Chiang
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89. Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
by Orlando Figes
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90. Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback)
by Michael Lewis
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91. Fatal Error (Repairman Jack)
by F. Paul Wilson
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92. When Cultures Collide
by Richard D. Lewis
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93. Mastering Algorithms with C
by Kyle Loudon
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94. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
by Steve Krug
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95. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
by Daniel Quinn
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96. Spin
by Robert Charles Wilson
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97. Against Intellectual Monopoly
by Michele Boldrin, David K. Levine
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98. The Children
by David Halberstam
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99. The Black Mirror and Other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Germany and Austria (Early Classics of Science Fiction)
by Franz Rottensteiner
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100. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)
by George R. R. Martin
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