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2019
Hacker News Books for 2019
Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2019.
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1. The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan
by Robert Shea
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2. Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone
by Mark Goulston
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3. Lifetime Conversation Guide
by James K. Van Fleet
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4. Understanding SEO: A Systematic Approach to Search Engine Optimization
by Franz Enzenhofer
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5. The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century Volume 1
by Fernand Braudel
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6. No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (American Empire Project)
by Anand Gopal
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7. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
by Max Tegmark
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8. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
by Paul Graham
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9. Game Theory and Strategy (New Mathematical Library, No. 36)
by Philip D. Straffin
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10. The Art of Hard Conversations: Biblical Tools for the Tough Talks That Matter
by Lori Stanley Roeleveld
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11. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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12. How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be
by Josh Kaufman
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13. What's Wrong with China
by Paul Midler
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14. The Gun
by C. J. Chivers
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15. The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
by R. Crumb
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16. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
by Marshall B. Rosenberg
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17. Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History
by Richard W. Bulliet
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18. Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think
by Bryan Caplan
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19. Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology
by James R. Chiles
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20. The Compound Effect
by Darren Hardy
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21. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))
by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
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22. Become What You Are
by Alan W. Watts
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23. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz
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24. Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
by Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen
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25. Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
by Jeff Ryan
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26. America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History Of Taverns And Saloons, Speakeasies And Grog Shops
by Christine Sismondo
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27. The Trauma Myth: The Truth About the Sexual Abuse of Children--and Its Aftermath
by Susan Clancy
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28. Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business 3/E
by Fons Trompenaars, Charles Hampden-Turner
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29. The Science of Interstellar
by Kip Thorne
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30. Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
by Rob Walling
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31. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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32. Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire"
by William R. Newman
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33. A Modern Method for Guitar - Volumes 1, 2, 3 Complete
by William Leavitt
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34. The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell
by Luca Turin
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35. Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen
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36. It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences
by June Casagrande
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37. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition
by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey
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38. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
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39. Finite and Infinite Games
by James Carse
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40. Mathematics Handbook for Science and Engineering
by Lennart Rade, Bertil Westergren
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41. The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life
by Steven E. Landsburg
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42. Master and Margarita: A Critical Companion (AATSEEL)
by Laura D. Weeks
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43. The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!
by Josh Kaufman
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44. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
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45. The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law
by Timothy Sandefur
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46. Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success
by Matthew Syed
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47. Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation
by R. G. Loeliger
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48. The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
by Ernest Freeberg
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49. A Tour of the Calculus
by David Berlinski
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50. An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by John Robinson Pierce
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51. Visual Group Theory (MAA Problem Book Series)
by Nathan Carter
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52. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker
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53. The Ashley Book of Knots
by Clifford Warren Ashley
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54. Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
by Joe Celko
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55. The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
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56. Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication
by Oren Jay Sofer
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57. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
by René Girard
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58. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
by Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman
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59. Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
by Jocko Willink
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60. Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't
by Jeffrey Pfeffer
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61. Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
by Mike Isaac
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62. Good Authority: How to Become the Leader Your Team Is Waiting For
by Jonathan Raymond
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63. What's Your Future Worth?: Using Present Value to Make Better Decisions
by Peter Neuwirth
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64. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
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65. Leonardo's Lost Robots
by Mikhail Cherniakov
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66. On Bullshit
by Harry G. Frankfurt
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67. Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules
by L. David Marquet
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68. The Pragmatic Programmer: journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)
by David Hurst Thomas, Andrew Hunt
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69. I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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70. The Armed Forces Officer: Edition of 1950
by United States. Department of Defense, Robert Davis
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71. Silent Invasion: China's Influence in Australia
by Clive Hamilton
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72. Practical UNIX and Internet Security
by Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford
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73. The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development
by Donald G. Reinertsen
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74. The Answer: How to start a relationship and make it last
by Dan Josefsson, Egil Linge
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75. The Art of SQL
by Stephane Faroult, Peter Robson
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76. Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
by G. Pascal Zachary
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77. 507 Mechanical Movements: Mechanisms and Devices (Dover Science Books)
by Henry T. Brown
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78. Exercises for the Feynman Lectures on Physics
by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands
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79. Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson
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80. Basic Mathematics
by Serge Lang
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81. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. New Preface and Epilogue with Updates on Economic Issues and Main Characters
by Pietra Rivoli
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82. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
by Thomas E. Pearsall
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83. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
by William Zinsser
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84. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
by Peter Gray
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85. Playing with Infinity: Mathematical Explorations and Excursions
by R¢zsa Pter
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86. Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson
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87. Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing (3rd Edition)
by David Harel, Yishai A. Feldman
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88. Borrow: The American Way of Debt
by Louis Hyman
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89. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
by George Dyson
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90. Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
by Ben Goldacre
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91. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking
by Barbara Minto
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92. Willing Accomplices: How KGB Covert Influence Agents Created Political Correctness and Destroyed America
by Kent Clizbe
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93. Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
by William Ophuls
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94. Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
by Matt Stoller
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95. Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, 5th Edition
by Neil Sclater
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96. Software Design Decoded: 66 Ways Experts Think (The MIT Press)
by Marian Petre, Andre Van Der Hoek
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97. Harmony and Theory: Essential Concepts Series (Essential Concepts (Musicians Institute).)
by Keith Wyatt, Carl Schroeder
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98. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
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99. Writing That Works; How to Communicate Effectively In Business
by Kenneth Roman, Joel Raphaelson
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100. How Will You Measure Your Life?
by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon
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