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What are the best books you read in 2017?

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Bill Gates recommends books every year. Which book would you recommend?

I recently read The Three Body Problem and it surely is one of the most interesting and accessible hard science fiction books that I have read in a long time.

- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

- Tools of Titans (was positively surprised by this one)

For developers I can highly recommend the Domain Driven Design books by Vaughn Vernon.

"Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World" was a standout read this year https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted-...

The best book published in 2017 for me is this one:

"A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market" by Edward O. Thorp

http://www.edwardothorp.com/books/a-man-for-all-markets/

For any current or perspective developer; Clean Code. I cannot recommend this and the rest of Uncle Bob's books.

In no particular order:

* Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

* Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl

* The Obstacle is the Way, Ryan Holiday

* The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday

* The Effective Engineer, Edmund Lau

* The Lean Startup, Eric Ries

* The Personal MBA, Josh Kaufman

* Certain to Win, Chet Richards

* Left of Bang, Patrick Van Horn & Jason A. Riley

* Native Set Theory, Paul R. Halmos

EDIT: list formatting

I like the book 'Man Searching for Meaning'. I read it multiple times.

-- all fiction except Tense Bees --

Born - jeff vandermeer

Dichronauts — Greg Egan

That's Why I'm a Journalist - Mark Bulgutch interviews

Mooncop - Tom Gauld

Tense Bees and Shell-Shocked Crabs - Michael Tye

Alif the Unseen - G. Willow Wilson

Junction True - Ray Fawkes, Vince Locke

  -When Breath Becomes Air
  -The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return

Agree with tools of Titans, disappreance of childhood (older book), on tyranny, and trust me I'm lying

- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

- Euler letter to German Princess - Part 1

- Tipping Point

consider the lobster

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

cryptonomicon

The hunt for Vulcan: and how Albert Einstein destroyed a planet

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