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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Apr 14, 2014 - Apr 21, 2014

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The Autumn of the Patriarch cover

1. The Autumn of the Patriarch

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club) cover

2. Love in the Time of Cholera (Oprah's Book Club)

by Gabriel García Márquez

Of Love and Other Demons (Vintage International) cover

3. Of Love and Other Demons (Vintage International)

by Gabriel García Márquez

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy cover

4. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

by David D. Burns

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Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup cover

5. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup

by Rob Walling

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The Art of UNIX Programming (The Addison-Wesley Professional Computng Series) cover

6. The Art of UNIX Programming (The Addison-Wesley Professional Computng Series)

by Eric S. Raymond

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Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition cover

7. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition

by W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago

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The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference cover

8. The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference

by Charles M. Kozierok

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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character cover

9. How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

by Paul Tough

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Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (Cambridge Series on Information and the Natural Sciences) cover

10. Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (Cambridge Series on Information and the Natural Sciences)

by Michael A. Nielsen, Isaac L. Chuang

To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design cover

11. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design

by Henry Petroski

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Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective (v. 1) cover

12. Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective (v. 1)

by Diomidis Spinellis

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No More Mr Nice Guy cover

13. No More Mr Nice Guy

by Robert A. Glover

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Life 102: What to Do When Your Guru Sues You cover

14. Life 102: What to Do When Your Guru Sues You

by Peter McWilliams

Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies) cover

15. Confronting Managerialism: How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance (Economic Controversies)

by Robert R. Locke, J.-C. Spender

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The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers cover

16. The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers

by Phil Rosenzweig

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RESTful Web APIs cover

17. RESTful Web APIs

by Leonard Richardson, Michael Amundsen, Mike Amundsen, Sam Ruby

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How to Lie with Statistics cover

18. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff

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The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System cover

19. The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil

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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance cover

20. The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance

by Henry Petroski

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Introduction to Parallel Computing: Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms cover

21. Introduction to Parallel Computing: Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms

by Vipin Kumar

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Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail cover

22. Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail

by Matthys Levy, Mario Salvadori

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Essentials of Programming Languages (MIT Press) cover

23. Essentials of Programming Languages (MIT Press)

by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand

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Compiler Design: Virtual Machines cover

24. Compiler Design: Virtual Machines

by Reinhard Wilhelm, Helmut Seidl

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Who Killed Kirov?: The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery cover

25. Who Killed Kirov?: The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery

by Amy W. Knight

Good To Great : Why Some Companies Make The Leap and Others Don't cover

26. Good To Great : Why Some Companies Make The Leap and Others Don't

by James Charles Collins, Jim Collins

Getting Results the Agile Way: A Personal Results System for Work and Life cover

27. Getting Results the Agile Way: A Personal Results System for Work and Life

by J. D. Meier

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More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder cover

28. More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder

by Jon Louis Bentley

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SystemVerilog for Verification: A Guide to Learning the Testbench Language Features cover

29. SystemVerilog for Verification: A Guide to Learning the Testbench Language Features

by Chris Spear, Greg Tumbush

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Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment cover

30. Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

by George Leonard

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Stalin's War of Extermination, 1941-1945: Planning, Realization and Documentation cover

31. Stalin's War of Extermination, 1941-1945: Planning, Realization and Documentation

by Joachim Hoffmann

Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences cover

32. Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

by Nancy Duarte

The Design of Everyday Things cover

33. The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

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Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe cover

34. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe

by Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee

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