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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 6, 2014 - Oct 13, 2014

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Running with the Kenyans: Discovering the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth cover

1. Running with the Kenyans: Discovering the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth

by Adharanand Finn

The Doper Next Door: My Strange and Scandalous Year on Performance-Enhancing Drugs cover

2. The Doper Next Door: My Strange and Scandalous Year on Performance-Enhancing Drugs

by Andrew Tilin

Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart cover

3. Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart

by Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ABC Research Group

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How to Cook Everything Fast: A Better Way to Cook Great Food cover

4. How to Cook Everything Fast: A Better Way to Cook Great Food

by Mark Bittman

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Zen and Japanese Culture (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology) cover

5. Zen and Japanese Culture (Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology)

by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Richard M. Jaffe

The Way of Zen cover

6. The Way of Zen

by Alan Watts

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7. Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics

by R. H. Blyth

Sail Power: The Complete Guide to Sails and Sail Handling cover

8. Sail Power: The Complete Guide to Sails and Sail Handling

by Wallace Ross, Carl Chapman

Excession cover

9. Excession

by Iain Banks

A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought) cover

10. A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought)

by Vernor Vinge

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The Blade Itself (The First Law: Book One) cover

11. The Blade Itself (The First Law: Book One)

by Joe Abercrombie

The Magicians: A Novel (Magicians Trilogy) cover

12. The Magicians: A Novel (Magicians Trilogy)

by Lev Grossman

Spin cover

13. Spin

by Robert Charles Wilson

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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos) cover

14. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos)

by Dan Simmons

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The Nature of Paleolithic Art cover

15. The Nature of Paleolithic Art

by R. Dale Guthrie

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Ready Player One cover

16. Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

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The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience cover

17. The Optimistic Child: A Proven Program to Safeguard Children Against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience

by Martin E. P. Seligman, Karen Reivich, Lisa Jaycox, Jane Gillham

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Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future cover

18. Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

by Ian Morris

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Learning Scala cover

19. Learning Scala

by Jason Swartz

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Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier cover

20. Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier

by Brad J. Cox

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Programming Windows 3.1 cover

21. Programming Windows 3.1

by Charles Petzold

Perl Best Practices cover

22. Perl Best Practices

by Damian Conway

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Water For Every Farm: Yeomans Keyline Plan cover

23. Water For Every Farm: Yeomans Keyline Plan

by Yeomans, P. A., Ken B. Yeomans

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal cover

24. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop

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Concorde: New Shape in the Sky cover

25. Concorde: New Shape in the Sky

by Kenneth Owen

Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld cover

26. Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld

by Jake Halpern

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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions cover

27. Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions

by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End cover

28. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

by Atul Gawande

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Programming in Objective-C (5th Edition) (Developer's Library) cover

29. Programming in Objective-C (5th Edition) (Developer's Library)

by Stephen G. Kochan

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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) cover

30. Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

by Tom Vanderbilt

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