Book recommendations from Hacker News?

It always blows my mind that Lonesome Dove is recommended across so many different communities, especially nerd-related ones like HN. I read ~100 books a year on average and it continues to top my all time favorites list; but, in all honesty, I cannot believe it appeals to the wide audience it does due to its content.

That said, here are some of my all time favorites (no particular order):

01. Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)

02. Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry)

03. A Painted House (John Grisham)

04. A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)

05. The Great Alone (Kristin Hannah)

06. All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)

07. Annihilation (Jeff VanderMeer)

08. The First Law Trilogy (Joe Abercrombie)

* this encompasses three long books; however, I consider them one long epic novel

09. Mailman (Stephen Starring Grant)

10. Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver)

11. Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus)

12. Hench (Natalie Zina Walschots)

13. Personal Librarian (Marie Benedict)

14. In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)

15. Life We Bury (Allen Eskens)

16. Ordinary Grace (William Kent Krueger)

17. God of the Woods (Liz Moore)

18. Maid (Nita Prose)

19. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell (Robert Dugoni)

20. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store (James McBride)

The Death Ship B. Traven https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a4ebe2f2-14d3-4da3-a865-...

One Man's Wilderness, 50th Anniversary Edition: An Alaskan Odyssey https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/44f995ae-fa5a-4641-a696-...

The Experience of Insight: A Simple & Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation Ram Dass, Robert Hall, Joseph Goldstein https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/7588c259-a0c0-4481-81ed-...

A Briefer History of Time Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/c10780bc-8dcb-4620-9193-...

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software Charles Petzold https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/92559554-10f1-4cdf-8a9b-...

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography Simon Singh https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/6dd5c507-7098-4aef-b0de-...

In no particular order:

Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe. (Highly recommended)

A Fire Upon the Deep (Either you like the Tines or the Skroderiders)

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Borges (Is reality imbued with our ideas?)

Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard (Not unlike "the Greeks" of modern fic)

John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (perhaps the first true modern fic)

Understand by Ted Chiang (Most of his short stories are good, or provoking)

Xeethra and the Zothique Cycle by Clark Ashton Smith

The Dying Earth by Jack Vance

When McKinsey Comes to Town - The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm. By Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634029/when-mckinse...

A hackernews post pointing to blogspot URL linking to a chatgpt.site URL generated from a hackernews post on books. If the books were money this would be like banks lending money around and suddenly one dollar becomes a hundred dollars in the economy.

I'm here for it!

And I'm happy to see many titles that are new to me... too many book lists with the same old stuff. :)

Discussion, as linked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49893157

History for Tomorrow: Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity by Roman Krznaric - https://www.romankrznaric.com/history-for-tomorrow