Ask HN: Books you read in 2022 and recommend for 2023

Recommendations from 100 sampled comments out of 201 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.

144 books

jsenn · Dec 28, 2022
Dune, The Dispossessed, The Martian.
xyzzy_plugh · Dec 28, 2022
This is definitely a book that stuck with me over the years.
shaftoe444 · Dec 28, 2022
Enjoyed it a lot. Recommend it if you haven't read it.
anotherevan · Dec 30, 2022
Alternate fan fic depiction of Harry Potter as a hyper-rationalist.
jsenn · Dec 28, 2022
Three Body Problem. I've heard of it many times, but never read it. Picked it up a month or two ago, read the whole thing in a few sessions, one of my favourite sci-fi books ever.
nomagicbullet · Dec 28, 2022
Man's Search For Meaning: An absolute classic. A moving but most of all inspiring book about the experience of a man in the Nazi camps.
Pietertje · Dec 28, 2022
Man's Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl
sershe · Dec 29, 2022
really good hard sci-fi imho, although felt very, very long.
jsenn · Dec 28, 2022
Dune, The Dispossessed, The Martian.
gbro3n · Dec 28, 2022
agree this book is brilliant. If you're technically / sci-fi inclined you'll love this.
ad-astra · Dec 28, 2022
this is a must-read for engineer-brain nerds like me that yearn to understand complex systems recreationally.
linsomniac · Dec 28, 2022
I also really enjoyed Andy Weir's _Project_Hail_Mary_