Ask HN: What book changed your life in 2013?

found it quite helpful, too

the advice is truely everlasting and extremely effective.

How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

This is a good book.

it's excellent. Definitely something everyone should read once, no matter what type of job or lifestyle one leads.

+1 Snow Crash

It truly is eye opening and life changing.

I was thinking about reading 'Thinking, Fast and Slow'

I read that book this year too and it was definitely a great read. It's aged really well.

Code Complete 2 by Steve McConnell

"The design of Everyday things" Donald A. Normann

Siddartha - Herman Hesse

Both Jobs and John Carmack have been huge sources of inspiration since I've read these books

I would also characterize Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality as "applied Thinking: Fast and Slow". I would strongly recommend it.

Guns, Germs & Steel was a real revelation

Read it twice now, absolutely fantastic.

Brilliant masterpiece.