Ask HN: Read any good books lately?

Recommendations from 81 sampled comments out of 81 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.

68 books

kalado · Sep 16, 2019
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | book on human rationality and irrationality
rohitbhats · Sep 16, 2019
'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' can't stop recommending it.
w4tson · Sep 17, 2019
I listened to the Selfish Gene on Audible recently and was blown away by it.
jfrd · Sep 16, 2019
“The Soul of a New Machine”
kedean · Sep 16, 2019
I'm on my third Discworld book and loving them (Men At Arms).
bill_rr · Sep 17, 2019
The Fountainhead is about work, art and passion. It's also just a much better story.
sebcat · Sep 16, 2019
So far, I can highly recommend it.
ageitgey · Sep 16, 2019
The Count of Monti Cristo is a really fun book.
kalado · Sep 16, 2019
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
docwpipe · Sep 22, 2019
It is one the best sci-fi books out there. You will love the way it ends.
peter_chickens · Sep 16, 2019
I think it is the best book I have read in years.
silvat · Sep 16, 2019
It's an incredibly funny and poignant book
MattLeBlanc001 · Sep 16, 2019
Just finished the "four steps to epiphany". A must read for any startup founder. 10/10
ageitgey · Sep 16, 2019
This is an amazing book, though I jokingly like to describe it as the best beginning and ending prose ever written with 100 chapters of whalefacts.tumblr.com sandwiched in between.
louismerlin · Sep 16, 2019
I was amazed at how modern it felt for a book written in 1850.