Hacker News Books
This Week
Languages
▼
C
C#
C++
Clojure
CSS
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fortran
Go
Haskell
HTML
Java
JavaScript
Julia
Kotlin
Lisp
Lua
Markdown
MATLAB
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Shell
SQL
Swift
TypeScript
Visual Basic
XHTML
XML
YAML
Zig
Lists
▼
Founder Favorites
All Time Top Books
Interviews
▼
Gabriel Weinberg (DuckDuckGo)
Ray Grieselhuber (DemandSphere)
Newsletter
Blog
▼
Reviews
Changelog
Top Books Of All Time
Top Books By Month
Years
>
2016
Hacker News Books for 2016
Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2016.
Showing 1 - 100 of 602 books
1. Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American
by Richard S. Tedlow
Read 3 comments
2. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
by Gene Kranz
Read 5 comments
3. The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series)
by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
Read 10 comments
4. The Timeless Way of Building
by Christopher Alexander
Read 3 comments
5. Dance Me to the End of Love (Art & Poetry)
by Leonard Cohen
Read 1 comment
6. The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief, 2nd Edition
by Clair Davies, Amber Davies
Read 6 comments
7. Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide for Programmers and Other Curious People
by Aditya Y. Bhargava
Read 1 comment
8. Data Structures and Algorithms (Addison-Wesley Series in Computer Science and Information Pr)
by Alfred V. Aho, John E. Hopcroft, Jeffrey D. Ullman
Read 2 comments
9. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
by Mark Manson
Read 5 comments
10. "Cracking DES" Shows How the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Machine Beat Government Encryption Standard O'Reilly and EFF Publish Book that Proves DES is Not Secure
Read 1 comment
11. Anarchy, State, and Utopia
by Robert Nozick
Read 6 comments
12. The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain
by John E. Sarno
Read 12 comments
13. All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School
by Thomas A. Garrity
Read 5 comments
14. Flight: My Life in Mission Control
by Christopher C. Kraft
Read 3 comments
15. Introduction to Hilbert Space and the Theory of Spectral Multiplicity
by Paul R. Halmos
Read 1 comment
16. Finite-Dimensional Vector Spaces
by Paul Richard Halmos
Read 1 comment
17. Cooking for Geeks, 2nd Edition
Read 1 comment
18. Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System (Platform Studies)
by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost
Read 5 comments
19. Atari Inc.: Business is Fun
by Marty Goldberg, Curt Vendel
Read 1 comment
20. Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys
by Michael Collins
Read 4 comments
21. Apollo 13
by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
Read 1 comment
22. The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space
by Eugene Cernan, Donald A. Davis
Read 1 comment
23. Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space
by John W. Young, James R. Hansen
Read 1 comment
24. We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves
by Scott M. Carpenter, Gordon L. Cooper, John H. Glenn, Virgil I. Grissom, Walter M. Schirra, Alan B. Shepard, Donald K. Slayton
Read 1 comment
25. Calculus (MindTap Course List)
by James Stewart
Read 1 comment
26. 68000 Family Assembly Language Programming
by Alan Clements
Read 1 comment
27. 6502 Assembly Language Programming
by Lance A. Leventhal
Read 1 comment
28. The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
by Kelly McGonigal
Read 2 comments
29. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
by Gary Taubes
Read 19 comments
30. Scala for Machine Learning
by Patrick R. Nicolas
Read 1 comment
31. Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More (Culture of Enterprise)
by John Medaille
Read 2 comments
32. Napoleon (Signet Classics)
by Felix Markham
Read 1 comment
33. Lisp in Small Pieces
by Christian Queinnec
Read 11 comments
34. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
by Henry Hazlitt
Read 8 comments
35. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Read 17 comments
36. Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely
Read 14 comments
37. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by Robert J. Gordon
Read 6 comments
38. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
by Milton Friedman, Rose D. Friedman
Read 3 comments
39. Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment
by Dorothea Lange
Read 1 comment
40. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
by Alfie Kohn
Read 7 comments
41. Two years of the U.S. Digital Service
Read 1 comment
42. Digital Design: With an Introduction to the Verilog HDL
by M. Morris Mano, Michael D. Ciletti
Read 1 comment
43. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
by Seymour A. Papert
Read 24 comments
44. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Read 10 comments
45. Introduction to Machine Learning with Python
Read 2 comments
46. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Read 9 comments
47. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication
by William Zinsser
Read 24 comments
48. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen
Read 9 comments
49. Cloud Architecture Patterns
Read 1 comment
50. The Sirens of Titan: A Novel
by Kurt Vonnegut
Read 1 comment
51. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
by Burton G Malkiel
Read 11 comments
52. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Read 5 comments
53. Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day? (Richard Scarry's Busy World)
by Richard Scarry
Read 1 comment
54. The Works: Anatomy of a City
by Kate Ascher
Read 1 comment
55. The Diversity Myth : Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus
by David O. Sacks, Peter A. Thiel
Read 2 comments
56. Shrinking the Earth: The Rise and Decline of Natural Abundance
by Donald Worster
Read 1 comment
57. What the Luck?: The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives
by Gary Smith
Read 1 comment
58. Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future
by Joi Ito, Jeff Howe
Read 1 comment
59. Quantum Computing Since Democritus
by Scott Aaronson
Read 11 comments
60. Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
by Nick Lane
Read 3 comments
61. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
by Scott Adams
Read 10 comments
62. The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the World Economy (Economic Controversies)
by Yanis Varoufakis
Read 1 comment
63. The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Read 1 comment
64. The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved And Why Numbers Are Like Gossip
by Keith Devlin
Read 4 comments
65. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)
by Steve Krug
Read 9 comments
66. The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value Investing
by Benjamin Graham
Read 12 comments
67. Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
by Paul Mason
Read 1 comment
68. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
Read 22 comments
69. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
by Michael Greger, Gene Stone
Read 9 comments
70. The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
by Clayton M. Christensen
Read 18 comments
71. Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Read 30 comments
72. Why Don't We Learn from History?
by B. H. Liddell Hart, Giles Laurén
Read 1 comment
73. The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation
by Achaan Chah
Read 2 comments
74. The Hills of Chianti: The Story of a Tuscan Winemaking Family, in Seven Bottles
by Piero Antinori
Read 1 comment
75. The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies
by Thomas C. Mcevilley
Read 1 comment
76. Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (Ruhlman's Ratios)
by Michael Ruhlman
Read 3 comments
77. Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
by Jim Gray, Andreas Reuter
Read 5 comments
78. The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief
by Clair Davies, Amber Davies
Read 3 comments
79. What Is Quantum Mechanics?: A Physics Adventure
Read 1 comment
80. Why Don't Students Like School?
by Daniel T. Willingham
Read 4 comments
81. The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel
by Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland
Read 1 comment
82. PostgreSQL: Up and Running, 2nd Edition
Read 1 comment
83. Garbage Collection: Algorithms for Automatic Dynamic Memory Management
by Richard Jones, Rafael Lins
Read 4 comments
84. Replay
by Ken Grimwood
Read 4 comments
85. C Programming: A Modern Approach
by Kim N. King
Read 6 comments
86. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design)
by John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson, Krste Asanović
Read 16 comments
87. The Nazi Census: Identification and Control in the Third Reich (Politics History & Social Chan)
by Götz Aly, Karl Heinz Roth
Read 3 comments
88. Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing
by Kai Hwang, Fayé Alayé Briggs
Read 1 comment
89. JavaScript in 2016: Beyond Harmony
Read 3 comments
90. Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight
by John W. Foreman
Read 10 comments
91. Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition
by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
Read 48 comments
92. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner
Read 4 comments
93. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Communication (with featured article "The Necessary Art of Persuasion," by Jay A. Conger)
by Harvard Business Review
Read 1 comment
94. The Art of Facilitation: The Essentials for Leading Great Meetings and Creating Group Synergy
by Dale Hunter
Read 1 comment
95. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
Read 3 comments
96. Computers & Typesetting, Volume B: TeX: The Program
by Donald Ervin Knuth
Read 2 comments
97. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup (Volume 1)
by Rob Walling
Read 15 comments
98. Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition
by Everett M. Rogers
Read 3 comments
99. The Forever War
by Dexter Filkins
Read 1 comment
100. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
by Marc Reisner
Read 6 comments
Next
