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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jan 19, 2026 - Jan 26, 2026

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Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World cover

1. Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

by Adrian Wooldridge
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Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Independent Researcher Anjali Shrivastava cover

2. Live with Tim O’Reilly: A Conversation with Independent Researcher Anjali Shrivastava

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The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing) cover

3. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)

by Leland Wilkinson
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Operating Systems Design and Implementation cover

4. Operating Systems Design and Implementation

by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Albert S. Woodhull
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What's the Matter with Kansas? cover

5. What's the Matter with Kansas?

by Thomas Frank
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Lao-tzu's Taoteching cover

6. Lao-tzu's Taoteching

by Laozi
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Exotic Options and Hybrids: A Guide to Structuring, Pricing and Trading (The Wiley Finance Series) cover

7. Exotic Options and Hybrids: A Guide to Structuring, Pricing and Trading (The Wiley Finance Series)

by Mohamed Bouzoubaa, Adel Osseiran
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The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary cover

8. The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary

by Mark Sanborn
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