Hacker News Books for 2025

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Hacker News Books for 2025

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2025.

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1. The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy

2. The Late Great Planet Earth: The Classic Analysis of the Biblical Prophecies Leading Up To the Return of Jesus Christ

3. Les Aventures de Tintin: Coke en Stock (French Edition of the Red Sea Sharks)

4. They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45

5. Retrain Your Brain: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in 7 Weeks: A Workbook for Managing Depression and Anxiety (Retrain Your Brain with CBT)

6. Press Here (Herve Tullet)

7. Recent Economic Changes and Their Effect on the Production and Distribution of Wealth and Well-being of Society

8. Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection

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9. Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain

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

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11. If You Give a Moose a Muffin

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

13. Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World

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

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15. The Anarchist Cookbook

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

17. Fundamentals of Game Design

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

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19. Bullying: The Social Destruction of Self

20. Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

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

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

24. The Feynman Tapes, Volume 1 (Chief Research Chemist and other stories)

25. Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

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26. When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm (Random House Large Print)

27. The Invention of the Jewish People

28. Fearless Salary Negotiation: A step-by-step guide to getting paid what you're worth

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

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

31. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

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32. Scott And Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth

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

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

35. The Fractal Organization: Creating sustainable organizations with the Viable System Model

36. What's the Matter with Kansas?

37. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

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38. Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

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39. Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others (Dover Books on Mathematics)

40. The Quantum Physicists: And an Introduction to Their Physics

41. Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

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

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43. Introduction to Loudspeaker Design: Second Edition

44. Maverick!: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workshop

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45. Usability Engineering

46. Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies

47. Large-Scale C++ Software Design

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48. World Without End: An Illustrated Guide to the Climate Crisis

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

50. Ideas That Created the Future: Classic Papers of Computer Science

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51. Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse

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52. The C Programming Language

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53. Fundamentals of Astrodynamics: Second Edition (Dover Books on Physics)

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54. Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance, Seventh Edition (Two Volume Set)

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55. Tactical Missile Warheads (Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics)

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56. Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition

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

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58. Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will

59. Motorcycle Dynamics

60. Database Technology: Nulls Considered Harmful

61. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

62. Office 97 Annoyances

63. Island Bush Pilot: Founder of san Juan Airlines

64. Micromotives and Macrobehavior

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65. Bone People (Space Science Fiction Series)

66. Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media

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

68. Derelict

69. Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity

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70. All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School

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

72. Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation

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73. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

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74. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes

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75. Art of Violin Making

76. Tenure hacks: The 12 secrets of making tenure

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

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78. Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work (International Edition)

79. Simply Fly (Paperback)

80. Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union

81. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

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82. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)

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83. French Provincial Cooking

84. Prompt Engineering for LLMs: The Art and Science of Building Large Language Model–Based Applications

85. The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science)

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86. Matters Computational: Ideas, Algorithms, Source Code

87. Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition)

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88. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

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89. Counterexamples in Analysis (Dover Books on Mathematics)

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90. The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II

91. Stochastic Integration and Differential Equations

92. Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life

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

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

95. Advanced Engineering Mathematics

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

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97. Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor

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98. Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love

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99. Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

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100. Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook

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