A list of non-technical books crowdsourced by the Hacker News community.

This book list started as a question on Hacker News but the suggestions were too many to keep track off.

• Elon Musk: Inventing the Future - Ashlee Vance
• iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing by Steve Wozniak.
• Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture - David Kushner
• Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies - Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras
• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
• Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Everything I Know - Paul Jarvis
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win - Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days - Jessica Livingston
• FYI: For Your Improvement, A Guide for Development and Coaching
• Getting Things Done - David Allen
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In - Roger Fisher, William L. Ury
• Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal - Nick Bilton
• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life - Scott Adams
• How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business - Douglas W. Hubbard
• Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony - Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura
• Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die - Chip Heath, Dan Heath
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It - Chris Voss, Tahl Raz
• Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal - Oren Klaff
• Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable - Seth Godin
• Rework - Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
• Slide: ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations - Nancy Duarte
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
• Team of Teams: The Power of Small Groups in a Fragmented World - Stanley McChrystal, Chris Fussell
• Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well - Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen
• The 4-Hour Workweek - Timothy Ferriss
• The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk - Al Ries, Jack Trout
• The Daily Entrepreneur: 33 Success Habits for Small Business Owners, Freelancers and Aspiring 9-to-5 Escape Artists - S.J. Scott, Rebecca Livermore
• The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done - Peter F. Drucker
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - Ben Horowitz
• The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail - Clayton Christensen.
• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution - Walter Isaacson
• The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham
• The Lean startup - Eric Ries
• The Sticking Point Solution: 9 Ways to Move Your Business from Stagnation to Stunning Growth InTough Economic Times - Jay Abraham
• The Way to Wealth - Benjamin Franklin
• Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us - Seth Godin
• Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits - Robert C. Townsend, Warren G. Bennis
• What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful - Marshall Goldsmith , Mark Reiter
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future - Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

• Designed for Use - Lukas Mathis
• Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability - Steve Krug
• The Design of Everyday Things - Donald A. Norman

• A Short History of Financial Euphoria - John Kenneth Galbraith
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
• Rationality in Economics: Constructivist and Ecological Forms
• The State - Anthony de Jasay
• The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford

• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
• Nineteen Eighty-Four
• The Color of Magic (Discworld #1) - Terry Pratchett
• The Martian by Andy Weir

• Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unit - Charlie A. Beckwith, Donald Knox
• Devil Take the Hindmost: a History of Financial Speculation - Edward Chancellor
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy
• Legionnaire: Five Years in the French Foreign Legion - Simon Murray
• Strange Defeat - Marc Bloch
• The Old Regime and the Revolution
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York - Robert A. Caro
• War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
• Peter F. Drucker Books
• The Goal - Eliyahu M. Goldratt

• Common Sense (pamphlet)
• Game Over: From Pick-Up Artist to Social Heartist - John Cooper
• Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor - Paul Farmer
• The Bible
• The Complete Yes Minister - Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

• A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
• Metaphysical Horror - Leszek Kołakowski
• Moral letters to Lucilius - Seneca
• On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
• The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark - Mikhail Naimy, ميخائيل نعيمة
• The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
• The Law - Frédéric Bastiat
• The Machinery of Freedom - David D. Friedman
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph - Ryan Holiday
• The Revolt of the Masses - José Ortega y Gasset
• The Tao of Power: Lao Tzu's Classic Guide to Leadership, Influence, and Excellence - R.L. Wing, Lao Tzu
• Walden - Henry David Thoreau

• The Man Versus the State is a political theory book - Herbert Spencer
• On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth
• Sketched With the Quill - Andrzej Bobkowski

• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

• Ego Is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Impro - Keith Johnstone
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini
• Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
• Outliers: The Story of Success - Malcolm Gladwell
• The Power of Habit
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None - Friedrich Nietzsche
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People - Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins

• An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth - Chris Hadfield
• Disturbing the Universe - Freeman Dyson
• Geometry: Seeing, Doing, Understanding - Harold R. Jacobs
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter
• Cosmos: Carl Sagan
• The Ascent of Man - Jacob Bronowski
• The key to the universe - Nigel calder
• The Logic of Scientific Discovery - Karl Popper

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

• Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School - John Medina
• Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming - Peter Seibel
• 8 to Be Great: The 8-Traits That Lead to Great Success - Richard St. John
• How to Read a Book - Mortimer Adler
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen R. Covey
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande
• The Speed Reading Book - Tony Buzan

• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

• Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training - Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore

• Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel - Rolf Potts

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• HackerNews Books
• Top 30 books ranked by total number of links to Amazon in Hacker News comments