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Ask HN: What was the best book you read in 2021?
- inverno303 5y ago"The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes
- jcun4128 5y agoHaven't finished it but reading: The Charisma Machine About the One Laptop Per Child computers Fiction I enjoyed reading: - Sourdough/24hr library - Nick Webb legacy fleet series - Long way to a small angry planet
- f0e4c2f7 5y agoI finished reading the last book in Iain M. Banks The Culture series. Not perfect but the series overall turned out to be my favorite fiction across any medium. Similar to a written version of Star Trek.
- euroderf 5y agoOh, lord no. The Culture series is grand in scope and imagination.
- jasonkester 5y agoI think I’m the only one who doesn’t like his Culture books. I think The Algebraist is amazing though. Set in a different universe where physics works as we currently understand it to, but with beings that have had billions of years to perfect all the technology you can have in it. Much cooler than he lazy rich people in space of the culture series.
- makeavish 5y agoThe Heart of Buddha's Teachings by Thich Nhat Han This is one of the life changing book!
- mardiyah 5y agoNim in Action
- milsorgen 5y agoA Man and His Symbols by Jung and others.
- Panino 5y agoBe Here Now by Ram Daas.
- anon2020dot00 5y agoStories of Your Life by Ted Chiang
- hansvs 5y agoAugustus: A Novel, by John Edward Williams
- asdfDanfdsa 5y agoHow Emotions Are Made - Lisa Feldman Barrett
- mindcrime 5y agoFiction: Attack Surface - Cory Doctorow Non-Fiction: Engineering General Intelligence Vol 2 - Ben Goertzel Honorable Mention - Fiction Daemon - Daniel Suarez Freedom - Daniel Suarez Billy Summers - Stephen King Elsewhere - Dean Koontz Honorable Mention - Non-Fiction: We See It All - Jon Fasman Integrating Rules and Connectionism for Robust Commonsense Reasoning - Ron Sun Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks - James A. Anderson The Soar Cognitive Architecture - John Laird
- hellisothers 5y agoLove Daemon and Freedom, some of the few books I’ve read twice. Strong recommend
- BMc2020 5y agoProject Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
- gandalfgreybeer 5y agoHonestly enjoyed this more than The Martian, which was already one of my favorite reads.
- BMc2020 5y agoAlready optioned to be a movie with Ryan Gosling to star. I do hope they keep true to the book.
- ivanmaeder 5y agoThese Truths (Jill Lepore)