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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. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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3. One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
by Richard L. Brandt
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4. Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
by Walter Isaacson
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5. Maths: A Student's Survival Guide: A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students
by Jenny Olive
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6. That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right (Independent Studies in Political Economy)
by Stephen P. Halbrook
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7. Amazon.com: Get Big Fast
by Robert Spector
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8. Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
by Götz Aly
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9. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck
Read 15 comments
10. Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals
by Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.
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11. What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
by Richard Nelson Bolles
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12. Sharpening the Warriors Edge: The Psychology & Science of Training
by Bruce K. Siddle
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13. 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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14. Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music
by Derek Bailey
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15. Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames (Mit Press)
by Ian Bogost
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16. No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller
by Harry Markopolos
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17. Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution
by Jim Blascovich
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18. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)
by K. Anders Ericsson, Robert R. Hoffman, Aaron Kozbelt, A. Mark Williams
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19. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
by Guy Delisle
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20. 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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21. Vision in Elementary Mathematics (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by W. W. Sawyer
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22. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
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23. Secret Diary of a Call Girl
by Belle de Jour, Anonymous
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24. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick
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25. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl – The Riveting New York Times Bestseller About Medical Arrogance and Personal Triumph (P.S.)
by John Colapinto
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26. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
by Scott Rosenberg
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27. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000
by Lee Kuan Yew
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28. Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback)
by Michael Lewis
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29. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
by Harvey Silverglate
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30. Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals
by Robert Pirsig
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31. Safecracker Suite: Drumming and Storytelling
by Richard Phillips Feynman
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32. Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream – An Eye-Opening Social Experiment in American Democracy
by Adam W. Shepard
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33. Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery
by Garr Reynolds
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34. Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure
by Maxwell Ryan
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35. The Wizard of Oz (Puffin Classics)
by L. Frank Baum
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36. Rule 34
by Charles Stross
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37. The American Atlas: U.S. Longitudes & Latitudes Time Changes and Time Zones
by Thomas G. Shanks
Read 1 comment
38. Code Complete, 2nd Edition
by Steve McConnell
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39. How to Develop a Super Power Memory
by Harry Lorayne
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40. Mastering Algorithms with C
by Kyle Loudon
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41. The Children
by David Halberstam
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42. Talking Philosophy: Dialogues with Fifteen Leading Philosophers
by Bryan Magee
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43. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
by Gary Taubes
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44. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney
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45. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)
by George R. R. Martin
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46. Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
by Paul R. Lawrence, Nitin Nohria
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47. Beautiful Code
by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
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48. The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
by Dan Roam
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49. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition
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50. Computers and Typesetting
by Donald E. Knuth
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51. Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Great Discoveries)
by Lawrence Maxwell Krauss
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52. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard P Feynman
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53. This way out;: A guide to alternatives to traditional college education in the United States, Europe and the Third World
by John Coyne, Tom Hebert
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54. The Independent Scholar's Handbook
by Ronald Gross
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55. The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
by Neil Fiore
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56. Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition
by Jeffrey Friedl
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57. sed & awk, 2nd Edition
by Dale Dougherty, Arnold Robbins
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58. Learning the bash Shell, 3rd Edition
by Cameron Newham, Bill Rosenblatt
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59. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
by Charles Petzold
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60. Designers Don't Read
by Austin Howe
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61. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
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62. Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
by Aubrey de Grey, Michael Rae
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63. Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain
by Ron Hale-Evans
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64. The Algorithm Design Manual
by Steven S Skiena
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65. Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries
by Don Libes
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66. The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
by Yochai Benkler
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67. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, First Edition
by Charles Petzold
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68. Algorithms in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))
by George T. Heineman
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69. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
by Gary Webb
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70. Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade
by Robert Sabbag
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71. Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications
by John J. Murphy
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72. Calculus and Statistics (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by Michael C. Gemignani
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73. Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town
by Stacy Horn
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74. The Thank You Economy
by Gary Vaynerchuk
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75. 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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76. A New Kind of Science
by Stephen Wolfram
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77. Programmer's Guide to the EGA, VGA, and Super VGA Cards (3rd Edition)
by Richard F. Ferraro
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78. Kids Don't Want to Fail: Oppositional Culture and the Black-White Achievement Gap
by Angel L. Harris
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79. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
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80. Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models
by Andrew Gelman, Jennifer Hill
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81. The Millionaire Next Door
by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
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82. MySQL
by Paul DuBois
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83. The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society
by Eric D. Beinhocker
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84. Web Copy That Sells: The Revolutionary Formula for Creating Killer Copy That Grabs Their Attention and Compels Them to Buy
by Maria Veloso
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85. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
by David Kushner
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86. Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating
by Walter Willett
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87. Designing Design
by Kenya Hara
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88. The Wise Man's Fear (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 2)
by Patrick Rothfuss
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89. The River : A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS
by Edward Jonathan Hooper
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90. Andha Yug (Oxford India Paperbacks)
by the late Dharamvir Bharati
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91. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
by Edwin Lefèvre
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92. Revolution in The Valley [Paperback]: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
by Andy Hertzfeld, Steve Capps
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93. The Cartoon Guide to the Computer
by Larry Gonnick
Read 1 comment
94. Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language
by Don Watson
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95. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
by Caroline Alexander
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96. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
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97. The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America
by Nick Gillespie, Matt Welch
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98. Programming Challenges: The Programming Contest Training Manual (Texts in Computer Science)
by Steven S. Skiena, Miguel A. Revilla
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99. The Non-Designer's Design Book
by Robin Williams
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100. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition
by Robert B. Cialdini
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