Ask HN: End of Year Book Recommendations

Recommendations from 20 sampled comments out of 20 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.

34 books

paperplaneflyr · Dec 11, 2025
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
wryoak · Dec 11, 2025
Man’s Search For Meaning (Frankl)
devrundown · Dec 12, 2025
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
bix6 · Dec 11, 2025
Caves of Steel, Forever War, Childhood’s End
elnatro · Dec 16, 2025
Childhood’s End was not bad, but it didn’t leave an impression on me.
bix6 · Dec 11, 2025
Caves of Steel, Forever War, Childhood’s End
tra3 · Dec 12, 2025
Parable of the Sawer by Octavia E. Butler, science fiction. Collapse of society, survival etc. Pretty bleak.
bix6 · Dec 11, 2025
Caves of Steel, Forever War, Childhood’s End
wxw · Dec 11, 2025
The Courage to Be Disliked, Ichiro Kishimi Philosophy as a dialogue between teacher and student, lots to think about.
gethly · Dec 13, 2025
Sebastian Junger - Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
lopatin · Dec 15, 2025
Advances in Financial Machine Learning Deep dive into ML techniques if you want to start making money from data and math.
firefax · Dec 14, 2025
my most recent new favorite book that's fiction was Convenience Store Woman