Ask HN: What are your favorite non-fiction books of all time?
Recommendations from 86 sampled comments out of 86 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.
atlas1428 · Sep 7, 2018Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
yesenadam · Sep 5, 2018Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach - read it when I was 14, and I was into music, art and programming, so it blew my mind.
myth_buster · Sep 4, 2018Godel Eschel Bach
lcall · Sep 4, 2018How to Win Friends and Influence People by Carnegie
TeMPOraL · Sep 4, 2018They explain exactly what it says in their titles.
swaggyBoatswain · Sep 4, 2018these were good
- Thinking fast, and slow
burke · Sep 4, 2018• Thinking Fast and Slow
myth_buster · Sep 4, 2018Thinking Fast and Slow
cryptozeus · Sep 4, 2018Sapiens
burke · Sep 4, 2018• Sapiens
mirceal · Sep 4, 2018Sapiens is an okay book, but it’s all over the place.
itpragmatik · Sep 4, 20181. Sapiens
pwillia7 · Sep 4, 2018it is phenomenal. It's like one of those books that took some ideas I had been kicking around for years and blew the whole thing wide open.
atlas1428 · Sep 7, 2018The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
pergadad · Sep 4, 2018The book is now around 40 years old but still stunning in its insightfulness.
dominotw · Sep 4, 2018The Selfish Gene - Dawkins
sorenn111 · Sep 4, 2018The Selfish Gene has been the most influential book on my life.
rayalez · Sep 4, 2018The Selfish Gene
merrua · Sep 7, 2018I enjoyed all these. All of them are worth a read.
lcall · Sep 4, 2018"The Little Schemer", also about Scheme
adventured · Sep 4, 2018Masters of Doom, by Kushner.
lcall · Sep 4, 2018the 7 Habits book (Covey)