I thought this was pretty odd too but it does tend to find its way onto aggregated HN book lists (linked throughout the comments) a lot. My theory is that the short name combined with it's rather divisive content leads to people arguing about it by name which boosts these "per mention" metrics.

For example: take a look at some of the comments here https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/0/all-t... while there are some recommendations (I expect this) there are also quite a lot of people using the book as a way to deride purveyors of its ideology.

I think what we're both experiencing here is an expectation that this list will be GOOD recommendations, but the methodology is popular mentions, which happen to contain some people's (subjective) GOOD recommendations but also peoples (subjective) BAD popular mentions.