Ask HN: What 3 Books Would You Recommend to Anyone?
Recommendations from 11 sampled comments out of 11 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.
PaulHoule · Apr 15, 2025anything by Herbert that isn't Dune, the trashier the better.
WheelsAtLarge · Apr 15, 2025If you like sapiens, try "Unstoppable Us."
more_corn · Apr 14, 2025“Sapiens” read it twice, wish I could go back in time and give it to 18yr old me.
HenryBemis · Apr 15, 20251984 (Orwell)
hulitu · Apr 15, 20251984, Animal farm by George Orwell
Uzmanali · Apr 14, 2025"Man's Search for Meaning" by viktor E. frankl.
hulitu · Apr 15, 2025Animal farm by George Orwell
PaulHoule · Apr 14, 2025would benefit from Rippetoe's Starting Strength
HenryBemis · Apr 15, 2025The Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn)
hulitu · Apr 15, 2025God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert.
PaulHoule · Apr 15, 2025"A Pattern Language" had very little impact on architecture but a huge impact on software design.
more_corn · Apr 14, 2025“A Pattern Language” on how spaces inform life and life informs spaces.
PaulHoule · Apr 15, 2025Dahlgren is at least a based choice of a sci-fi novel.