Ask HN: Most Important Set of Books?

by max_on 8/5/2025, 4:12 PMwith 1 comments

There two books I constantly consult thought the year.

1. Incerto by Nassim Taleb

2. Pocket Oracle by Baltasar Gracion

1) Is very popular (though not throughly read)

2) Is not known much. But I would say its the most important book todo with "association with humans"

My view of the world changed completely by reading these books.

But I came across them completely by mistake.

Maybe other people have books they feel the same about?

Please share some titles.

by elviejoon 8/5/2025, 5:21 PM

The Goal and It's not luck by Goldratt.

Showed a better way to manage anything in particular ourselves.

Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl even in the darkest of times we kind find Meaning.

A Guide to the good life. The stoics found a way to handle our human experience 2500 years ago.

The mythical man month by Brooks. Everything we struggle with in software development we have been fighting since the 70s.