HACKER Q&A
📣 hifuncmaniac

Autodidacts, give me your book recommendations


I am an autodidact and I like to read books on subjects entirely out of my wheelhouse to get some breadth of perspective.

As I am coming into these topics with a completely open mind, it can be exhausting trying to find good content to learn from, but good learning content is soooooo rewarding.

I have had a lot of success talking to some people (IRL) and sourcing book recommendations that way, but my wells are running dry.

I tried (strategically) asking strangers in person, and that has not been successful either.

So, what better place to ask than HN?

Please share your oft-unsolicited book recommendations.

I specifically love self help and business/organizational health books lately.


  👤 mtmail Accepted Answer ✓
HN archive has many recommendations

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

There's also tools like 'Show HN: All books recommended on Ask HN' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41881788 and 'Show HN: I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41473518


👤 keikobadthebad
Autodidacts learn by doing themselves. I am not sure they're going to dig this whole book learning concept.

👤 bediger4000
Beginners Guide to Mathematical Logic Raymond Smullyan

👤 sandwichsphinx
Mastery by Robert Greene, 2012