Hacker News Books for 2025

Hacker News Books

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Hacker News Books for 2025

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2025.

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1. Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties: Advanced SQL Programming (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

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2. Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

3. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

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4. The Goal: 40th Anniversary Edition: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

5. Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

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6. Bullying: The Social Destruction of Self

7. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

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8. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

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9. Riding the Runaway Horse: The Rise and Decline of Wang Laboratories

10. The Invention of the Jewish People

11. Insisting On the Impossible : The Life of Edwin Land

12. Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II

13. Scott And Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth

14. Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.

15. "Cause Unknown": The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022 (Children’s Health Defense)

16. The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations

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17. Introduction to Loudspeaker Design: Second Edition

18. Large-Scale C++ Software Design

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19. Bioenergetics: The Revolutionary Therapy That Uses the Language of the Body to Heal the Problems of the Mind

20. Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse

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21. Motorcycle Dynamics

22. Database Technology: Nulls Considered Harmful

23. Island Bush Pilot: Founder of san Juan Airlines

24. Micromotives and Macrobehavior

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25. Bone People (Space Science Fiction Series)

26. James Lambert (1758-1847): An Elaboration of His American Revolutionary War Service in the Virginia Militia and Virginia Line Based Upon a Compre

27. Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

28. Secrets of Question-Based Selling: How the Most Powerful Tool in Business Can Double Your Sales Results

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29. Simply Fly (Paperback)

30. Compliance-Industrial Complex: The Operating System of a Pre-Crime Society

31. Wellness Sense: A Practical Guide to Your Physical and Emoti

32. The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded

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33. Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer

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34. How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History

35. Calculus from the Ground Up

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36. Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

37. Lobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels

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38. The Patrick O'Brian Muster Book: Persons, Animals, Ships and Cannon in the Aubrey-Maturin Sea Novels

39. The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism

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40. Poems

41. A Little War That Shook the World: Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West

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42. Cows: Discover These Cows On The Farm And More! A Children's Cow Book

43. How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution

44. Chris Beat Cancer: A Comprehensive Plan for Healing Naturally

45. Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity

46. The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, 20th Anniversary Edition

47. Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book for Smart People

48. Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is

49. Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation

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50. The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet