Ask HN: What interesting books are you reading now?
Recommendations from 20 sampled comments out of 20 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.
10 books
samiur1204 · Mar 19, 2013
Reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. It's an incredible novel, but very dense and over 1000 pages. It's a trek, but has been so worth it so far.
grn · Mar 20, 2013
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister - a great book about software projects management
Nightrider · Mar 19, 2013
Just finished Alfred Lansing's incredible classic Endurance. Highly recommended.
grn · Mar 20, 2013
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingstone - fascinating stories of founders of companies both young and old
orangethirty · Mar 19, 2013
Security Analysis - 1940 Edition. Re-reading it for the one millionth time. Always learn something new from it.
milkcircle · Mar 21, 2013
It's a very accessible and highly fascinating discussion about whether machines will ever be able to emulate the human mind.
toumhi · Mar 19, 2013
Book Yourself solid. Very interesting if you're a freelancer or building products. I'm 1/3 through the book. Goes a lot into how to create trust and how to adjust your sales and marketing based on the trust you've created.
chris_dcosta · Mar 20, 2013
The Half Life of Facts Most useful explanation I have found to explain why the pre-internet age grown-ups (that would also be me) get stuck thinking that facts remain always the same.
navait · Mar 19, 2013
"This is Running for Your Life", a collection of essays by Michelle Orange. She writes about a trip to Beirut and her grandmother's death to discuss our cuture's relationship with nostalgia and death. Very witty and fascinating - I ook forward to reading her next book.