Ask YC: Let's start a Hacker News book club
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swombat · Dec 23, 2008
including one for the Silmarillion (wtf? I enjoyed it, but "best book of the 20th century"? no way!)
Allocator2008 · Dec 24, 2008
Let me suggest "The Road Ahead" by Bill Gates. It was one of the first computer/software related books I ever read, and I think it is a classic in the field of software business kind of reads. It is accessible by anyone, even non-techie types, and its vision remains important for understanding where we are heading.