Book Recommendations

My compiled list for 2020, as suggested by friends I respect and HN:General====- Master & Margarita (w reader's guide)- Why we sleep- The righteous mind: why good people are divided by politics and religion- The wisdom of insecurity- The denial of death- The three body problem (friend's advice: slow burn, stick with it)- The dubliners- The devils (Dostoyevski)- The name of the rose- Enten-Oller (Kierkegaard)- Zero to one (Peter Thiel, recommen

Start with Guns, Germs, and Steel and/or Digital Minimalism ;)

The classic Clean Code by Robert C. Martin The Secret War Against the Jews by John Loftus The life changing magic of cleaning up by Marie Kondo Nassim Taleb books, pretty sure everyone on here read i

If you do a search through HN, you'll find some really good recommendations.Read The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Fooled By Randomness is also good) if you want to peer into the mind of an investor.Read Hesse's Siddhartha if you're thinking along the lines of culture/religion/philosophy.Read a few Ayn Rand books if you like libertarianism and don't really care to relate to the characters.Read We by Yevgheny Zamyatin if you want an interesting allegory that metaphorically comp

Interesting/Recommended: The Snowball, Alice SchroederShantaram, Gregory David RobertsThe Art of Happiness, HH Dalai LamaGetting Things Done (I know I'm late to the party...)Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew Crawford (I heard about that one here, thank-you HN)On Writing, Stephen King

Books that I read (and re-read) in 2022 that I'd recommend to folks on HN. Ordered from most enjoyable / insightful to least.- Edward O. Wilson - Biophilia- Will Durant - The Lessons Of History- Freeman J. Dyson - A Many-Colored Glass- Venkatesh Rao - The Gervais Principle- Ray Bradbury - The Martian Chronicles- Colin Wilson - The Outsider- Stanislaw Lem - Cyberiad- Antonio Martinez - Chaos Monkeys- Ben Horowitz - What You Do Is Who You Are- Alice Flaher

Some book suggestions from another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36429792 The last one changed my life completely. ;)

If you looking for something more substantive I highly recommend Ideas by Peter Watson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408204.Ideas

Thanks.Pretty much all books gives you something or the other to learn. I started writing about the books I read, each year, since 2018. For this year, here are few, in no particular order that I feel happy and fulfilled reading them. I will be digging deeper and doing a retrospective, and write a blog post by early 2021.- Cant't hurt me by David Goggins.- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport.- Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday. (Re-read)- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Moder

Worth checking out:Ask HN: Best Non-fiction Books You Read in 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42218828Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21900498Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read? - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.co