Ask HN: What are your favorite books?

Infinite Jest

Ulysses

The Selfish Gene

The Histories of Herodotus

Moby-Dick

Gödel, Escher, Bach

The Four Steps To The Epiphany - Steve Blank

Code by Charles Petzold

Artificial Life - Steven Levy

Time Reborn - Lee Smolin

The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil

Surfaces and Essences - Douglas Hofstadter

How to Measure Anything - Douglas Hubbard

-- One of my favorites is How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenbreg

I have that on my list of "to read real soon now". Sounds fascinating.

Here are a few:

Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven Strogatz

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics by John Derbyshire

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull

Melville "Bartlby the Scrivener" & Ramsey "When We Are No More: how Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future"

Down "Brilliant Beacons: a History of the American Lighthouse"

Koestler "Darkness Before Noon" & "The Invisible Writing" & "The Ghost in the Machine"

John Gardner - anything really but October light and the sunlight dialogs in particular.