[npsimons]

There have been quite a few interesting book threads on HN, and believe it or not, not all of them have been about programming. Usually they pop up around the end and beginning of the year (probably due in no small part to holiday gift giving and new year's resolutions). The thing that always gets me about the lists, though, is there is so much to wade through; not bad, necessarily, just verbose commentary, which makes it a slog to actually find titles and/or links.

EDIT: This sort of thing is so common, people have made meta-lists that combine links to lists (which was what I was about to do until I remembered it's been done before). Just one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4185504

And hey, look, here's one for non-software books:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1226736

One More EDIT: Please, please, please, if you're going to do another AskHN about books, make it very focused, and not covering previous book list topics. The value in these lists is that they clearly identify a good scope, instead of saying "everything that isn't X" and then list EVERYTHING, from pulpy scifi (not that there's anything wrong with that) to interesting treasures (like the one for this article), and end up with a thousand links to random books.