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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Apr 15, 2019 - Apr 22, 2019

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

1. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

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Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success cover

2. Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success

by Matthew Syed

The Road Chose Me Volume 1: Two years and 40,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina cover

3. The Road Chose Me Volume 1: Two years and 40,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina

by Dan Grec

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Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It cover

4. Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment cover

5. Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

by George Leonard

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Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices) cover

6. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)

by Steve McConnell

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Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition cover

7. Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition

by Charles T. Munger

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The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it cover

8. The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it

by Andy Wightman

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How to Talk to Your Plants cover

9. How to Talk to Your Plants

by Will Eisner

The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life cover

10. The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life

by Robert Trivers

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Five Proofs of the Existence of God cover

11. Five Proofs of the Existence of God

by Edward Feser

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Straw Bale Gardens Complete cover

12. Straw Bale Gardens Complete

by Joel Karsten

Retro Game Dev: C64 Edition cover

13. Retro Game Dev: C64 Edition

by Derek Morris

Golden Gate Gardening, 3rd Edition: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California cover

14. Golden Gate Gardening, 3rd Edition: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California

by Pamela Peirce

Living Soul (Norvik Press Series B No 5) (English and Swedish Edition) cover

15. Living Soul (Norvik Press Series B No 5) (English and Swedish Edition)

by Per Christian Jersild

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care cover

16. The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

by T. R. Reid

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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration cover

17. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

by Weston Andrew Price

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Quantum Computing since Democritus cover

18. Quantum Computing since Democritus

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The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom cover

19. The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

by Evgeny Morozov

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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products cover

20. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

by Nir Eyal

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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams cover

21. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

by Matthew Walker

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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland cover

22. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

by Christopher R. Browning

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Modeling Software with Finite State Machines: A Practical Approach cover

23. Modeling Software with Finite State Machines: A Practical Approach

by Ferdinand Wagner, Ruedi Schmuki, Thomas Wagner, Peter Wolstenholme

You Don't Really Believe in Astrology, Do You?: How Astrology Reveals Profound Patterns in Your Life. cover

24. You Don't Really Believe in Astrology, Do You?: How Astrology Reveals Profound Patterns in Your Life.

by Pam Gregory (Astrologer)

Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats cover

25. Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats

by Gwynne Dyer

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Renormalization Methods: A Guide For Beginners cover

26. Renormalization Methods: A Guide For Beginners

by William David McComb

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Classical Mechanics with Mathematica® (Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology) cover

27. Classical Mechanics with Mathematica® (Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology)

by Antonio Romano, Addolorata Marasco

Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++ cover

28. Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++

by Miro Samek

Vaccines and Autoimmunity cover

29. Vaccines and Autoimmunity

by Yehuda Shoenfeld, Nancy Agmon-Levin, Lucija Tomljenovic

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