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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 27, 2019 - Jun 3, 2019

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On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication cover

1. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication

by William Zinsser

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The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition cover

2. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

by Thomas E. Pearsall

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It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences cover

3. 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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4. Building Tools with GitHub

by Chris Dawson, Ben Straub

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Writing That Works; How to Communicate Effectively In Business cover

5. Writing That Works; How to Communicate Effectively In Business

by Kenneth Roman, Joel Raphaelson

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition cover

6. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

by Robert B. Cialdini

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7. Help! For Writers

by Roy Peter Clark

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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work cover

8. It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

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Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work) cover

9. Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work)

by Joshua Spodek

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Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science cover

10. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science

by Philip N. Klein

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The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing) cover

11. The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing)

by Kees Doets, Jan Eijck

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The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King cover

12. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

by Rich Cohen

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Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot (Reprint ed.) cover

13. Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot (Reprint ed.)

by James B. Stockdale

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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives cover

14. In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

by Steven Levy

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15. Bugging In and Bugging Out

by David E Crossley

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16. MEDICAL NIHILISM

by Jacob Stegenga

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Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb cover

17. Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb

by Mike Davis

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How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps cover

18. How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps

by Lawrence Krubner, Natalie Sidner

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Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome cover

19. Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome

by Nessa Carey

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The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt cover

20. The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt

by Robert I. Sutton

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Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline cover

21. Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline

by Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson

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How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers cover

22. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers

by Sönke Ahrens

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It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy, 10th Anniversary Edition cover

23. It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy, 10th Anniversary Edition

by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff

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Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development cover

24. Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development

by Jim Blandy, Jason Orendorff, Leonora F. s. Tindall

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25. The Rust Programming Language

by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols

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26. Mastery

by Robert Greene

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27. The Terminal Man

by Alfred Mehran, Andrew Donkin

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Shut Out: How a Housing Shortage Caused the Great Recession and Crippled Our Economy (Mercatus Center at George Mason University) cover

28. Shut Out: How a Housing Shortage Caused the Great Recession and Crippled Our Economy (Mercatus Center at George Mason University)

by Kevin Erdmann

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29. The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power cover

30. Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

by Howard W. French

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How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease cover

31. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

by Michael Greger, Gene Stone

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The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting cover

32. The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting

by Jason Fung

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33. Why the West Rules—for Now

by Giuseppe Baldeschi, Mortimer Von Montbach

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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 27, 2019 - Jun 3, 2019

Showing 1 - 35 of 35 books

1. On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication

2. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition

3. It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences: A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences

4. Building Tools with GitHub

5. Writing That Works; How to Communicate Effectively In Business

6. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

7. Help! For Writers

8. It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

9. Initiative: A Proven Method to Bring Your Passions to Life (and Work)

10. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science

11. The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing)

12. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

13. Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot (Reprint ed.)

14. In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

15. Bugging In and Bugging Out

16. MEDICAL NIHILISM

17. Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb

18. How to Destroy a Tech Startup in 3 Easy Steps

19. Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome

20. The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt

21. Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline

22. How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers

23. It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy, 10th Anniversary Edition

24. Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development

25. The Rust Programming Language

26. Mastery

27. The Terminal Man

28. Shut Out: How a Housing Shortage Caused the Great Recession and Crippled Our Economy (Mercatus Center at George Mason University)

29. The Gene: An Intimate History

30. Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

31. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

32. The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting

33. Why the West Rules—for Now

34. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

35. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition