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The Best Books of Hacker News
2021

• Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

  Nadia Eghbal · 127 HN points · 4 HN comments

• The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

  Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt · 8 HN comments

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

  Martin Kleppmann · 26 HN comments

• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't

  Jim Collins · 12 HN comments

• The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993--Illustrated Edition

  Jordan Mechner · 4 HN comments

• Effective Java

  Joshua Bloch · 5 HN points · 4 HN comments
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• Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing (The MIT Press)

  Jane Margolis, Allan Fisher · 1 HN points · 9 HN comments

• Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

  Gabriel Weinberg, Justin Mares · 8 HN comments

• Real-Time Rendering, Fourth Edition

  Tomas Akenine-Möller, Eric Haines, Naty Hoffman · 3 HN comments

• The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

  Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman · 31 HN comments

• Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

  Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, Gene Kim · 5 HN comments

• The Four Steps to the Epiphany

  Steve Blank · 15 HN comments

• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

  Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling · 8 HN comments

• Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves

  Christian Rudder · 5 HN comments

• Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody

  Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay · 3 HN comments

• A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

  Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins · 3 HN comments

• Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)

  Steve McConnell · 27 HN comments

• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

  Charles Petzold · 68 HN comments

• The Elements of Computing Systems, second edition: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

  Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken · 3 HN comments

• Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics)

  John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov · 9 HN comments

• COVID-19: The Great Reset

  Klaus Schwab, Thierry Malleret · 2 HN comments

• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

  Martin Fowler · 4 HN comments

• The Read Aloud Cloud: An Innocent's Guide to the Tech Inside

  Forrest Brazeal · 21 HN points · 1 HN comments

• Gödel's Proof

  Ernest Nagel, James Newman, Douglas R. Hofstadter · 20 HN comments

• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

  Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths · 6 HN comments

• A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

  Nassir Ghaemi · 4 HN comments

• The Carnivore Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Optimal Health by Returning to Our Ancestral Diet

  Paul Saladino M.D. · 3 HN comments

• Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work

  Alex Petrov · 4 HN comments

• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

  Jon Gertner · 16 HN comments