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Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by arethuza » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 2:08 PM UTC

rocketpastsix wrote: post #47

dgellow wrote: post #31

I want to finish to read Snowden’s autobiography: “Permanent Record”. I started during a long train trip recently and found that I really enjoyed the tone of the first few chapters. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Record_(autobiogra...

I listened to him read it on Audible. It's really interesting. Though it started off a little slow but picks up as it keeps going. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

It's definitely a book that I thought benefited from being read by the author - strongly recommended!

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by criddell » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 2:08 PM UTC

0kl wrote: post #42

I plan to reread a couple core works for myself. Of that list the ones that I’d recommend for others are: Aurelius (trans. Martin Hammond) Fear and Trembling Man’s Search for Meaning Tolstoy’s Confessions Kundera’s The Art of the Novel After doing a thorough reading of “How to Read a Book” I decided to try rereading a few books to pull more out of them. I can’t recommend “How to Read a Book” enough - despite its anac…

How to Read a Book has been on my list for the longest time. I might have to finally give it a go. Is the book very dense? I think one of the reasons I've held off is because I have a suspicion that it could probably be distilled down to the length of a magazine article...

I read a decent amount and enjoy it, but I feel in the end I don't get much from it. The time doesn't feel well spent. FWIW, I try to alternate fiction with non-fiction.

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by douglaswlance » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 2:12 PM UTC

My top priority books:

    Software Requirements - Karl Wiegers

    Programming TypeScript - Boris Cherny

    Associate Cloud Engineer Study - Dan Sullivan

    Design Patterns - Gang of Four

    Refactoring - Kent Beck, Martin Fowler

    Programming Pearls - Jon Bentley

    Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Martin Fowler

    The Pragmatic Programmer - David Thomas, Andrew Hunt

    CSS: The Definitive Guide - Eric A. Meyer, Estelle Weyl

    Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael Feathers

    Head First Design Patterns - Eric Freeman, Bert Bates

    Code Complete - Steve McConnell

    Peopleware - Tim Lister, Tom DeMarco

    Clean Code - Robert C. Martin

    The Clean Coder - Robert C. Martin

    Clean Architecture - Robert C. Martin

    Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug

    Functional Design Patterns for Express.js - Jonathan Lee Martin

    The Surrender Experiment - Michael A. Singer

The best books I've ever read:

    Principles - Ray Dalio

    The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle

    The Effective Executive - Peter F. Drucker

    Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill

    Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

    Influence - Robert B. Cialdini

    The Startup Way - Eric Ries

    The Lean Startup - Eric Ries

    12 Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson

    Measure What Matters - John Doerr, Larry Page

    The Fish That Ate the Whale - Rich Cohen

    The E-Myth Revisited - Michael E. Gerber

    The Score Takes Care of Itself - Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh

    Management - Peter F. Drucker

    Thinking in Systems - Donella H. Meadows

    Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by kaypro » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 2:12 PM UTC

The Body - Bill Bryson

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Rovelli, Carlo

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment - Robert Wright

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by sbolt » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 2:13 PM UTC

I'm hoping to tackle this list in 2020, I've been wanting to read Caro's LBJ series for a while now.

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Robert Caro - Lyndon B. Johnson series & The Power Broker

S.C Gwynne - Empire of the Summer Moon

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Black Swan & Antifragile

Graham Hancock - America Before

Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel

Safi Bahcall - Loonshots

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by philshem » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 2:14 PM UTC

I'm not much for planning my reading, but still unread in 2019 is Tara Westover's _Educated_

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35133922-educated

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by MattConfluence » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 2:14 PM UTC

The Dune movie isn't due until December 2020, but I figured I'd get started with Dune the book, which has been sitting on my bookshelf for a while. Maybe if I enjoy it I will get my hands on the rest of the Dune series.

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by bloudermilk » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 2:14 PM UTC

criddell wrote: post #72

0kl wrote: post #42

I plan to reread a couple core works for myself. Of that list the ones that I’d recommend for others are: Aurelius (trans. Martin Hammond) Fear and Trembling Man’s Search for Meaning Tolstoy’s Confessions Kundera’s The Art of the Novel After doing a thorough reading of “How to Read a Book” I decided to try rereading a few books to pull more out of them. I can’t recommend “How to Read a Book” enough - despite its anac…

How to Read a Book has been on my list for the longest time. I might have to finally give it a go. Is the book very dense? I think one of the reasons I've held off is because I have a suspicion that it could probably be distilled down to the length of a magazine article... I read a decent amount and enjoy it, but I feel in the end I don't get much from it. The time doesn't feel well spent. FWIW, I try to alternate fi…

Anne-Laure Le Cunff just published a blog post that appears to be a summary of the book, which you might find interesting.

https://nesslabs.com/how-to-read-a-book

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by r_singh » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 2:15 PM UTC

Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

Re: Ask HN: Books you plan to read in 2020?

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Post by ronyfadel » Mon, Dec 16, 2019, 2:16 PM UTC

kidintech wrote: post #23

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 (Kierkegaa…

Can someone tell me why Master and Margarita is a masterpiece? I’ve read it this year and it was a slow read, of basically (possibly) the author’s dreams or long mescaline trip.