Ask HN: What books have been worth your time?

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

Sapiens

I suggested Siddhartha. Her friend picked War and Peace.

Having a kid and rereading it adds a different dimension to the story.

This book has stayed with me for years. It's a quiet, deeply reflective journey about self-discovery, the search for meaning.

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Its thesis is that everything is built up of smaller things that are all trying to replicate or get replicated.

The Selfish Gene

- The Soul of a New Machine

The Soul of a New Machine, by Tracy Kidder

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman

I'm advocating for reading the whole Bible, and reading it deeply and critically

The Bible

it's required reading for anyone interested in literature, philosophy, history, or related disciplines.

The bible

The Art of Computer Programming is well worth trying to read because it will be challenging for as long as you keep at it.

The Bible.

Deep work by cal newport.

Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn. One of the few books where you look so differently at the world after reading it

"Debt - the first 5000 years" by Prof. D. Graeber