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Hacker News Books for 2026
Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2026.
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1. The Cult of Mac
by Leander Kahney
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2. Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
by Adrian Wooldridge
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3. The Cure for Alcoholism: Drink Your Way Sober Without Willpower, Abstinence or Discomfort
by Roy Eskapa, Roy D. Eskapa
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4. Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America
by Scott Adams
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5. Put Yourself First (Chinese Edition)
by 西村博之
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6. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
by Harvey Silverglate
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7. Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Independent Researcher Anjali Shrivastava
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8. Alone in the Ocean by Slava Kurilov
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9. Drink Your Way Sober: The Science-Based Method to Break Free from Alcohol
by Katie Herzog
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10. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)
by Leland Wilkinson
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11. Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
by Gordon Neufeld, Gabor Maté, MD
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12. After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
by Tripp Mickle
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13. How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (Dragonfly Books)
by Marjorie Priceman
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14. The VimL Primer
by Benjamin Klein
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15. Learning Domain-Driven Design: Aligning Software Architecture and Business Strategy
by Vladik Khononov
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16. Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing)
by Mar Hicks
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17. The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space (Ribbonfarm Roughs Book 2)
by Venkatesh Rao
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18. Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State
by Byron Tau
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19. Operating Systems Design and Implementation
by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull
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20. Gut: the inside story of our body's most under-rated organ
by Giulia Enders
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21. The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
by Henry Petroski
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22. Make Your Own Web Page!, A Guide for Kids - 1998 publication
by Ted Pedersen, Francis Moss
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23. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
by Martin Kleppmann
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24. Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith
by Sam Newman
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25. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston
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26. What's the Matter with Kansas?
by Thomas Frank
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27. Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition
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28. Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition
by AEleen Frisch
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29. Lao-tzu's Taoteching
by Laozi
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30. Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond
by Steve Yegge, Gene Kim
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31. Colossus
by D. F. Jones
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32. Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library
by Gary Bradski, Adrian Kaehler
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33. The New York Times Cooking No-Recipe Recipes: [A Cookbook]
by Sam Sifton
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34. 50 Human Studies, in Utero, Conducted in Modern China, Indicate Extreme Risk for Prenatal Ultrasound: A New Bibliography
by Jim West, harvoa Staff
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35. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)
by Eric Hoffer
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36. Ultrasound Causation for Microcephaly and Zika Virus, The Hypothesis (Part A)
by Jim West
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37. The CIA World Factbook 2026-2027
by Central Intelligence Agency
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38. CSS: The Definitive Guide: Web Layout and Presentation
by Eric A. Meyer, Estelle Weyl
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39. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
by Steven Rinella
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40. Low-Code and the Democratization of Programming
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41. Hobitti eli Sinne ja takaisin
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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42. Hobbitten. Eller Ud og hjem igen
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43. Tartine Bread
by Chad Robertson
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44. Sharp: The Definitive Introduction to Knives, Sharpening, and Cutting Techniques, with Recipes from Great Chefs
by Josh Donald
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45. Ivan Ramen: Love, Obsession, and Recipes from Tokyo's Most Unlikely Noodle Joint
by Ivan Orkin, Chris Ying
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46. The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes
by James Freeman, Caitlin Freeman, Tara Duggan
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47. Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to Overcome Anxiety, Panic, and Worry
by Catherine M. Pittman, Elizabeth M. Karle
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48. Healing ADD Revised Edition: The Breakthrough Program that Allows You to See and Heal the 7 Types of ADD
by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
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49. sed & awk, 2nd Edition
by Dale Dougherty, Arnold Robbins
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50. Exit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game
by Touraj Parang
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51. The Duke Nukem 3d Level Design Handbook (Duke Nukem Games)
by Matt Tagliaferri
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52. Byrne's Euclid: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid with Coloured Diagrams
by Oliver Byrne
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53. How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
by Leil Lowndes
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54. The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
by Matthew Hollis
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55. Writing a C Compiler: Build a Real Programming Language from Scratch
by Nora Sandler
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56. The CIA World Factbook 2025-2026
by Central Intelligence Agency
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57. The Voyage of the Space Beagle
by A. E. van Vogt
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58. Designing Interactions (Mit Press)
by Bill Moggridge
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59. Exotic Options and Hybrids: A Guide to Structuring, Pricing and Trading (The Wiley Finance Series)
by Mohamed Bouzoubaa, Adel Osseiran
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60. The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound (A Harvest Special)
by T. S. Eliot
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61. The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary
by Mark Sanborn
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62. Coolidge
by Amity Shlaes
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63. The Physics of Sorrow
by Georgi Gospodinov
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64. Learn Basic Now
by Michael Halvorson, David Rygmyr
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65. Honeybee Democracy
by Thomas D. Seeley
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66. How to Win Friends & Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
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67. Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone
by Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, Jill Tracie Nichols
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68. Introduction to Fourier Optics
by Joseph W. Goodman
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69. Finite State Morphology
by Kenneth R. Beesley, Lauri Karttunen
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70. Great Planning Disasters
by Peter Hall
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71. Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things
by Robert Frenay
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72. The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind
by B. Alan Wallace
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