Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored
Recommendations from 75 sampled comments out of 75 eligible comments. This page covers the sample, rather than the entire HN thread.
danschuller · Jul 30, 2014If you've never it I recommend Godel Escher Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid, as it also likes to play with Buddhism.
cursork · Jul 30, 2014GEB is the big one, but if you like his style - probably worth checking out some of the others.
arh68 · Jul 30, 2014read Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It's not about motorcycles.
dirktheman · Jul 30, 2014Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance was a real eye-opener to me.
alphadevx · Jul 30, 2014Favorite book of all time is Frank Herbert's Dune
mrcdima · Jul 30, 2014Thinking Fast and Slow
khc · Jul 30, 2014Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
glormph · Jul 30, 2014Thinking, fast and slow by Kahnemann.
mrcdima · Jul 30, 2014Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (must read)
kilo_man · Jul 30, 2014The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
tomp · Jul 30, 2014It's an amazing book.
un_publishable · Jul 30, 2014Siddhartha is a great meditation on life in its entirety.
cellover · Jul 30, 2014Siddartha - Hermann Hesse
tomp · Jul 30, 2014Siddhartha (by Hermann Hesse)
mrcdima · Jul 30, 2014The Selfish Gene
Aym_C · Jul 30, 2014the Bible (David's psalms and Job's book)
sogen · Jul 30, 2014Lord of the Rings
Shorel · Jul 30, 2014I second the Discworld recomendation. The series is fantastic. Read everything Pratchett has written, it is worth it.
yen223 · Jul 30, 2014Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
khc · Jul 30, 2014Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Taleb