Best Books from Hacker News in 2017

2017 has passed away one week now, it’s time for us to make a summary. We analyzed the statistics from hacker news(use BigQuery), and the result show that the following 10 books were the most frequently mentioned.

1. Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic

Author: Sam Quinones, Mentioned times: 7

2. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Author: Charles Petzold, Mentioned times: 7

3. iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer’s Library)

Author: Marcel Weiher, Mentioned times: 7

4. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Author: Cal Newport, Mentioned times: 6

5. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives

Author: Jesse Eisinger, Mentioned times: 6

6. Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

Author: Harvey Silverglate, Mentioned times: 6

7. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

Author: Robert B. Cialdini, Mentioned times: 6

8. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Mentioned times: 5

9. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

Author: Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger, Mark A. McDaniel, Mentioned times: 5

10. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Author: Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright, Mentioned times: 5

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