Ask HN: What are the most thought-provoking books that you have read?
Recommendations from 28 sampled comments out of 28 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.
thescribe · Oct 3, 2015it turned a math-hating young man into a math obsessed man.
zafka · Oct 3, 2015Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance
mindcrime · Oct 3, 2015Atlas Shrugged - Rand
rayalez · Oct 3, 2015These are the most intelligent and well written books I've ever read.
mindcrime · Oct 3, 2015I also "second the motion" in regards to both The Selfish Gene and *Gödel, Escher, Bach".
mindcrime · Oct 3, 2015The Selfish Gene - Dawkins
Udik · Oct 3, 2015makes you look at living beings as software, and at the world as an immense optimization algorithm.
mindcrime · Oct 3, 2015Neuromancer - William Gibson
thescribe · Oct 3, 2015I think it's the best book with the worst synopsis on the jacket.
jseliger · Oct 3, 2015Blindsight by Peter Watts.
mindcrime · Oct 3, 2015Nineteen Eighty-Four - Orwell
mindcrime · Oct 3, 2015The Game, Predictably Irrational, The Mating Mind, and Lord of the Rings stand out to me as excellent suggestions.
jseliger · Oct 3, 2015The Lord of the Rings, for its combination of story, interior drama, and (underrated) political economy.
mindcrime · Oct 3, 2015Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
mindcrime · Oct 3, 2015The Fountainhead - Rand
rayalez · Oct 3, 2015These are the most intelligent and well written books I've ever read.
mindcrime · Oct 3, 2015The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb