My favorite is- Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture by Matt Goulding(Fascinating book on Japanese Culture)
Ask HN: What are some interesting books you read in 2017?
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#2My favorite was Pre-Suasion. An excellent book on influence.
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#3Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and The Dhammapada The Buddha's Path of Wisdom.
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#4Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
Book by Nir Eyal
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#5Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type by Isabel Briggs Myers was interesting to gain a better understanding of the Myers Briggs types.
Curing Cancer with Immunotherapy by Rene Chee and Edward Chee was interesting and informative as well as it describes Rene's cancer experience and immunotherapy which I knew nothing about.
Re: Ask HN: What are some interesting books you read in 2017?
#6Enjoyed the below:
The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch
Dear Friend, From My Life I Write To You in Your Life - Yiyun Li
Hillbilly Elegy - JD Vance
Inadequate Equilibria - Eliezer Yudkowsky
The Neapolitan Novels - Elena Ferrante
Mating In Captivity - Esther Perel
Our Mathematical Universe - Max Tegmark
Radical Candor - Kim Scott
Scale - Geoffrey West
The Seventh Day - Yu Hua
Somebody with a Little Hammer - Mary Gaitskill
Stubborn Attachments - Tyler Cowen (ebook)
What Do You Care What Other People Think? - Richard Feynman
Re: Ask HN: What are some interesting books you read in 2017?
#7Non tech book “On tyranny by Timothy Snyder”. The book points out that it is easy too loose democracy if you do not protect it.
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#8I particularly liked these 12 books:
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
- Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
- The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
- Do I Make Myself Clear? Why Writing Well Matters
- This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike
- A Life in Parts
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- Triggers: Creating Behavior That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be
- The Power of the Other: The startling effect other people have on you, from the boardroom to the bedroom and beyond-and what to do about it
- The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
- The Compassionate Achiever: How Helping Others Fuels Success
- The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play
Re: Ask HN: What are some interesting books you read in 2017?
#9These are my 10 favourites:
- Total Freedom by J Krishnamurti
- Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard’s Almanack: Benjamin Franklin
- Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
- The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius
- 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir by Haruki Murakami
- Damn Right!: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger by Janet Lowe
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari
- The Complete Adventures of Feluda (Volume 1) by Satyajit Ray
Re: Ask HN: What are some interesting books you read in 2017?
#10I have read
- Who Moved My Cheese?
- Che Guevara: A Life by Nick Caistor
- A Case of Exploding Mangoes