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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The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China cover

1. The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China

by Xiaofei Kang

iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library) cover

2. iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library)

by Marcel Weiher

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The Dabare Snake Launcher cover

3. The Dabare Snake Launcher

by Joelle Presby

IPv6 Essentials cover

4. IPv6 Essentials

Building Machine Learning Systems with a Feature Store cover

5. Building Machine Learning Systems with a Feature Store

Bag in the Wind cover

6. Bag in the Wind

by Ted Kooser

The Man With the President's Mind cover

7. The Man With the President's Mind

United Nations: A History cover

8. United Nations: A History

by Stanley Meisler

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“A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide cover

9. “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide

by Samantha Power

Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition cover

10. Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition

by Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa, Alan R. Hayakawa

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Thought and Language - Revised Edition cover

11. Thought and Language - Revised Edition

by Lev Semenovich Vygotskiĭ

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum cover

12. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

by Alan Cooper

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning cover

13. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel

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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet cover

14. Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet

by Yasha Levine

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Ideology and Discontent cover

15. Ideology and Discontent

by David Ernest Apter

Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America cover

16. Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America

by Lee Drutman

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All cover

17. If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares

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The Political Economy of Dictatorship cover

18. The Political Economy of Dictatorship

by Ronald Wintrobe

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma cover

19. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel A. Van der Kolk

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Just Java™ 2 cover

20. Just Java™ 2

Beautiful Code cover

21. Beautiful Code

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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Designer Relationships: A Guide to Happy Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, and Optimistic Open Relationships cover

22. Designer Relationships: A Guide to Happy Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, and Optimistic Open Relationships

by Mark A. Michaels, Patricia Johnson

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 cover

23. 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

by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner

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Hello Sweetheart Get Me A Rewrite cover

24. Hello Sweetheart Get Me A Rewrite

by A. A. Dornfeld, Tom Vickerman, Archibald Leckie

Friends in High Places cover

25. Friends in High Places

by William L. Livingston

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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent cover

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

by Harvey Silverglate

Read 62 comments

A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? cover

27. A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?

by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn cover

28. The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

by Richard Hamming

Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists cover

29. Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists

by Kimberley A. Bobo, Jackie Kendall, Steve Max

Learning From Data cover

30. Learning From Data

by Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Hsuan-Tien Lin

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High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out cover

31. High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

by Amanda Ripley

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

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

by Eric Berger

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

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

by Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox, David Whitford

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UNIX: A History and a Memoir cover

34. UNIX: A History and a Memoir

by Brian W. Kernighan

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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires cover

35. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu

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2026 Farmers' Amanac cover

36. 2026 Farmers' Amanac

by Sondra Duncan

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition cover

37. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition

by Betty Edwards

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Plentiful Energy: The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor: The complex history of a simple reactor technology, with emphasis on its scientific bases for non-specialists cover

38. Plentiful Energy: The Story of the Integral Fast Reactor: The complex history of a simple reactor technology, with emphasis on its scientific bases for non-specialists

by Charles E. Till, Yoon Il Chang

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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry cover

39. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff

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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series) cover

40. Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series)

by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

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

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

by Tom DeMarco

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Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson cover

42. Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson

by Tom Sito

Thinking, Fast and Slow cover

43. Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman

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SVG Essentials, 2nd Edition cover

44. SVG Essentials, 2nd Edition

by J. David Eisenberg. Amelia Bellamy-Royds

SVG Text Layout cover

45. SVG Text Layout

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Quality Is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain: How to Manage Quality - So That It Becomes A Source of Profit for Your Business cover

46. Quality Is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain: How to Manage Quality - So That It Becomes A Source of Profit for Your Business

by Philip B. Crosby

AI Engineering cover

47. AI Engineering

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How to draw

48. How to draw "hands" that Takami Kagami teaches with all of his power: An overwhelming drawing style

by 加々美高浩

Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom cover

49. Developing Your Own 32-Bit Operating System/Book and Cd-Rom

by Richard A. Burgess

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We're Number One: Where America Stands--and Falls--in the New World Order cover

50. We're Number One: Where America Stands--and Falls--in the New World Order

by Andrew L. Shapiro

Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

51. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott

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Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower cover

52. Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower

by Henry M. Paulson Jr.

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition cover

53. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition

by Richard Rhodes

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Nolo's LLC Handbook: A Complete Legal Guide to Creating and Operating Your LLC cover

54. Nolo's LLC Handbook: A Complete Legal Guide to Creating and Operating Your LLC

by Secor Glen

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams cover

55. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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Sense of Honor cover

56. Sense of Honor

by James Webb

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The Gene: An Intimate History cover

57. The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Read 8 comments

Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform cover

58. Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform

by Patrick Henry Winston

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The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition cover

59. The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Pfizer Papers: Pfizer's Crimes Against Humanity cover

60. Pfizer Papers: Pfizer's Crimes Against Humanity

by The WarRoom/DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysts

Declarative Models of Concurrent Cyclic Processes (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 438) cover

61. Declarative Models of Concurrent Cyclic Processes (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 438)

by Grzegorz Bocewicz

The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places cover

62. The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places

by Bernie Krause

Designing Data-Intensive Applications cover

63. Designing Data-Intensive Applications

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Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least cover

64. Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least

by Antti Ilmanen

Node: Up and Running cover

65. Node: Up and Running

The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition cover

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

by Don Norman

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Coding Theory and Cryptography: The Essentials, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics) cover

67. Coding Theory and Cryptography: The Essentials, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics)

by D.C. Hankerson, Gary Hoffman, D.A. Leonard, Charles C. Lindner, K.T. Phelps, C.A. Rodger, J.R. Wall

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine cover

68. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

by Rashid Khalidi

The Logic Of Sports Betting cover

69. The Logic Of Sports Betting

by Matthew Davidow, Ed Miller

How the Irish Became White cover

70. How the Irish Became White

by Noel Ignatiev

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes cover

71. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

by Bill Watterson

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In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity cover

72. In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity

by Eamonn Fingleton

Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right cover

73. Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right

Official Marimba Guide to Bongo cover

74. Official Marimba Guide to Bongo

by Danny Goodman

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Designing Large Language Model Applications cover

75. Designing Large Language Model Applications

Semantic Information Processing cover

76. Semantic Information Processing

Principles of Semantic Networks: Explorations in the Representation of Knowledge cover

77. Principles of Semantic Networks: Explorations in the Representation of Knowledge

Parallel Distributed Processing, Vol. 1: Foundations cover

78. Parallel Distributed Processing, Vol. 1: Foundations

by David E. Rumelhart

Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies cover

79. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies

by Charles Perrow

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Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life cover

80. Embrace the Suck: The Navy SEAL Way to an Extraordinary Life

by Brent Gleeson

Read 2 comments

Facts Don't Care about Your Feelings cover

81. Facts Don't Care about Your Feelings

by Ben Shapiro

Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling cover

82. Meathead: The Science of Great Barbecue and Grilling

by Meathead Goldwyn

A Philosophy of Software Design cover

83. A Philosophy of Software Design

by John Ousterhout

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The End of Error cover

84. The End of Error

by John L. Gustafson

ABCs of Programming cover

85. ABCs of Programming

by Arthur Johnston, Madison Johnston

The Possible Human : A Course in Enhancing Your Physical, Mental, and Creative Abilities cover

86. The Possible Human : A Course in Enhancing Your Physical, Mental, and Creative Abilities

by Jean Houston

The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives cover

87. The Varieties of Spiritual Experience: 21st Century Research and Perspectives

by David B. Yaden, Andrew Newberg

Game, Set, Cash!: Inside the Secret World of International Tennis Trading cover

88. Game, Set, Cash!: Inside the Secret World of International Tennis Trading

by Brad Hutchins

Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation cover

89. Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation

by Eva Illouz

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Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry cover

90. Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry

by Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff

Bayesian Methods for Hackers: Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference cover

91. Bayesian Methods for Hackers: Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Inference

by Cameron Davidson-Pilon

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Tim O'Reilly - Frank Herbert - O'Reilly Media cover

92. Tim O'Reilly - Frank Herbert - O'Reilly Media

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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

93. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald C. Shoup

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Fundamentals of Data Engineering cover

94. Fundamentals of Data Engineering

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The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) cover

95. The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)

by John Torpey

The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President cover

96. The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President

by George H. W. Bush

Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy cover

97. Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

by Matt Stoller

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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future cover

98. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

by Ashlee Vance

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Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks cover

99. Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks

by Arthur Benjamin, Michael Shermer

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Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire cover

100. Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

by James Wallace, Jim Erickson

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