The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 9, 2017 - Oct 16, 2017

Building Parallel, Embedded, and Real-Time Applications with Ada cover

2. Building Parallel, Embedded, and Real-Time Applications with Ada

by John W. McCormick, Frank Singhoff, Jérôme Hugues

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Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler (Acm Press Books) cover

3. Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler (Acm Press Books)

by Niklaus Wirth, Jürg Gutknecht

PC Intern: System Programming : The Encyclopedia of DOS Programming Know How (Developer's Series/Book and Disk) cover

4. PC Intern: System Programming : The Encyclopedia of DOS Programming Know How (Developer's Series/Book and Disk)

by Michael Tischer

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The Dots and Boxes Game: Sophisticated Child's Play cover

5. The Dots and Boxes Game: Sophisticated Child's Play

by Elwyn R. Berlekamp

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism cover

6. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

by James W. Loewen

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7. Sapiens

by Yuval Noah Harari

Mobile MBA: 112 Skills to Take You Further, Faster cover

8. Mobile MBA: 112 Skills to Take You Further, Faster

by Jo Owen

Street Fight: The Struggle over Urban Mobility in San Francisco cover

9. Street Fight: The Struggle over Urban Mobility in San Francisco

by Jason Henderson

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The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards (MIT Press) cover

10. The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards (MIT Press)

by Allan B. Jacobs, Elizabeth MacDonald, Yodan Rofe

11. The Naked Bonobo

by Lynn Saxon

The Luxury Strategy: Break the Rules of Marketing to Build Luxury Brands cover

12. The Luxury Strategy: Break the Rules of Marketing to Build Luxury Brands

by Jean-Noël Kapferer, Vincent Bastien

13. The Enigmas of Easter Island

by John Flenley, Paul Bahn

The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science cover

14. The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science

by Culadasa (John Yates Ph D ), Matthew Immergut, Jeremy Graves

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15. Mastering Regular Expressions

by Jeffrey Friedl

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Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th Edition cover

16. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th Edition

by Bruce Alberts

An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical and Computational Biology) cover

17. An Introduction to Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical and Computational Biology)

by Uri Alon

18. Biochemistry

by Reginald H. Garrett, Charles M. Grisham

19. Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie

by Marie Curie

20. Google BigQuery Analytics

by Jordan Tigani, Siddartha Naidu

Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

21. Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Gray, Jim

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22. Seeing That Frees

by Rob Burbea

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

23. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) cover

24. Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)

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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World cover

25. The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

by A. J. Jacobs

Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson: Recipes for Innovation from IBM & the Institute of Culinary Education cover

26. Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson: Recipes for Innovation from IBM & the Institute of Culinary Education

by IBM, Watson (Chef.), Institute of Culinary Education

Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive cover

27. Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive

by Bruce Schneier

Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness cover

28. Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness

by Jeffrey Gitomer

Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools cover

29. Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools

by Jack Greenfield, Keith Short

Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 5th Edition cover

30. Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 5th Edition

by McKinsey & Company Inc., Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart, David Wessels