Ask HN: What are you reading? What've you read lately?

Recommendations from 41 sampled comments out of 41 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.

27 books

gruseom · Dec 10, 2011
Peopleware I remember as being pretty enlightened in spirit and ahead of its time for software projects
pettinato · Dec 10, 2011
I'm just finishing the last book of the The Baroque Cycle, and it's pretty good. I recommend making it through.
euroclydon · Dec 10, 2011
The Baroque Cycle, which this is the second volume of, has been very educational and always entertaining
aestetix_ · Dec 10, 2011
It's absolutely brilliant, I recommend it to anyone with an interest in security or economics.
tptacek · Dec 10, 2011
Maybe the same thing happened with Peopleware, where pretty much every blog post we read about dev teams expresses a sentiment traceable to some part of Peopleware.
gruseom · Dec 10, 2011
I love Pattern Language and use ideas from it all the time.
tptacek · Dec 10, 2011
* A Pattern Language (but don't bother reading it straight through)