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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Nov 7, 2011 - Nov 14, 2011

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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) cover

1. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)

by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton

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2. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard Phillips Feynman, Ralph Leighton

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

3. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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Safecracker Suite: Drumming and Storytelling cover

4. Safecracker Suite: Drumming and Storytelling

by Richard Phillips Feynman

Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback) cover

5. Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback)

by Michael Lewis

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Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Great Discoveries) cover

6. Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Great Discoveries)

by Lawrence M Krauss

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Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade cover

7. Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade

by Robert Sabbag

Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion cover

8. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion

by Gary Webb

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Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual cover

9. Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual

by David Pogue

Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement cover

10. Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement

by John Hattie

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Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries cover

11. Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries

by Don Libes

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The C Programming Language cover

12. The C Programming Language

by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

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Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World cover

13. Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World

by Nicholas Shaxson

The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers cover

14. The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers

by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon

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The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook cover

15. The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook

by Michael Kerrisk

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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die cover

16. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

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A Room with a View (Bantam Classics) cover

17. A Room with a View (Bantam Classics)

by E.M. Forster

Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) cover

18. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering cover

19. Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

by Robert L. Glass

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Making Software cover

20. Making Software

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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Jennifer Government: A Novel cover

21. Jennifer Government: A Novel

by Max Barry

Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition cover

22. Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition

by Thomas H Cormen, Charles E Leiserson, Ronald L Rivest, Clifford Stein

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