Ask HN: What books have changed the way you think?
Recommendations from 15 sampled comments out of 15 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.
30 books
njharman · Aug 24, 2011
"The C Programming Language" by K&R (I read this very young 12-13, it's life changing aspects probably had a lot to do with my age)
salemh · Aug 25, 2011
Enders Game http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812550706/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... I have read this novel over 15 years roughly 8 times. I get more, and a different perspective
actionbrandon · Aug 24, 2011
fooled by randomness - nassim taleb. his books get progressively worse, but this one is excellent
njharman · Aug 24, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching The translations vary greatly. (from making it sound like new age mumbo jumbo, to mystic mumbo jumbo, to a profound philosophy), need to find one that's right for you.
katherinehague · Aug 26, 2011
Flowers for Algernon. It made me realize that my greatest fear is to leave the world and have it be as though I had never existed at all. I don't necessarily think that was the moral, but it is certainly what lasted with me the longest.
salemh · Aug 25, 2011
Prometheus Rising http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1561840564/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... "Hacking" reality, your mind, alternate viewpoints of reality and "living" accordingly