Ask HN: What interesting books are you reading now?

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by sun123 • 13 years ago

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I'm reading Richard Feynman's 'QED' right now. It is fascinating to know how much we don't know :)

samiur1204• 13 years ago

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.

duggieawesome• 13 years ago

The Cuckoo's Egg. It's Clifford Stoll's story of chasing a hacker who broke through LBL during the late 80's.

Nightrider• 13 years ago

Just finished Alfred Lansing's incredible classic Endurance. Highly recommended.

atlantic• 13 years ago

Algernon Blackwood's short stories.

keiferski• 13 years ago

"The Story of My Life" by Giacomo Casanova.

woodruffc2• 13 years ago

I'm reading "The Launch Pad Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups" by Randall Stross

woodruffc2• 13 years ago

Also "Start With Why" Simon Sinek

navait• 13 years ago

"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.

toumhi• 13 years ago

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.

canatan01• 13 years ago

'Laravel: Code Happy' by Dayle Rees

clockwork_189• 13 years ago

The $100 startup.

orangethirty• 13 years ago

Security Analysis - 1940 Edition.

Re-reading it for the one millionth time. Always learn something new from it.

chris_dcosta• 13 years ago

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.

grn• 13 years ago

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister - a great book about software projects management

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingstone - fascinating stories of founders of companies both young and old

manoji• 13 years ago

The Brothers Karamazov . Incredible insight into human psyche .

tr0ss• 13 years ago

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman

notdrunkatall• 13 years ago

The Souls of Black Folk by WEB Dubois.

meerita• 13 years ago

I just finished The Checklist Manifesto. Jack Dorsey gift this when you enter Square.

milkcircle• 13 years ago

The Emperor's New Mind by Sir Roger Penrose. It's a very accessible and highly fascinating discussion about whether machines will ever be able to emulate the human mind.

Maven911• 13 years ago

Beginner's guide to HTML5/CSS

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