Ask HN: What books influenced your moral compass?
Recommendations from 25 sampled comments out of 25 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.
aziaziazi · Feb 7, 2025How to win friends and influence people - Dale Canergie
cblum · Feb 7, 2025that would be Dune and Starship Troopers
maxbrt · Feb 7, 2025Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
unfixed · Feb 7, 2025Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
DataDaoDe · Feb 6, 2025Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
unfixed · Feb 7, 2025Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse
foxandmouse · Feb 6, 2025Siddhartha – I highly recommend doing some background reading to get the most out of it.
firefax · Feb 7, 20251984
maxbrt · Feb 7, 20251984, George Orwell
unfixed · Feb 7, 20251984, by Orwell
maxbrt · Feb 7, 2025The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
foxandmouse · Feb 6, 2025Slaughterhouse-Five – Honestly, just read some Kurt Vonnegut.
disjunct · Feb 7, 2025But I'd also be careful reading Walden. I don't think it's a literal instruction manual
unfixed · Feb 7, 2025Walden, by Thoreau
k310 · Feb 6, 2025Walden, by Thoreau
maxbrt · Feb 7, 2025Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes