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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 29, 2018 - Nov 5, 2018

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Xunzi: The Complete Text cover

1. Xunzi: The Complete Text

by Xunzi, Eric L. Hutton
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C Traps and Pitfalls cover

2. C Traps and Pitfalls

by Andrew Koenig
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Tcl and the Tk Toolkit cover

3. Tcl and the Tk Toolkit

by John K. Ousterhout
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Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA cover

4. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

by Tim Weiner
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Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump cover

5. Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump

by David Neiwert
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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas cover

6. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

by Seymour A. Papert
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Information Machines cover

7. Information Machines

by Ben H. Bagdikian
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Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu cover

8. Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

by David Swartz
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Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations cover

9. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

by Ronen Bergman
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Modern Classical Physics: Optics, Fluids, Plasmas, Elasticity, Relativity, and Statistical Physics cover

10. Modern Classical Physics: Optics, Fluids, Plasmas, Elasticity, Relativity, and Statistical Physics

by Kip S. Thorne, Roger D. Blandford
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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work cover

11. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

by Mason Currey
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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon cover

12. Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

by Kim Zetter
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The Decline and Fall of IBM: End of an American Icon? cover

13. The Decline and Fall of IBM: End of an American Icon?

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life cover

14. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

by Mark Manson
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Kelly: More Than My Share of It All cover

15. Kelly: More Than My Share of It All

by Clarence L. Johnson
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History cover

16. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert
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The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age cover

17. The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age

by David E. Sanger
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think cover

18. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund
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The Great American Tax Dodge: How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance Are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, and Costing You cover

19. The Great American Tax Dodge: How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance Are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, and Costing You

by Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele
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The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein cover

20. The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein

by John Lauritsen
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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover

21. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann
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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship cover

22. Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

by Robert C. Martin
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Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series) cover

23. Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design (Robert C. Martin Series)

by Robert C. Martin
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Mondo Utah cover

24. Mondo Utah

by Trent Harris
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley cover

25. Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley

by Charlotte Gordon
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Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies cover

26. Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies

by Geoffrey West
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