Top 28 Programming Books Recommended by Hacker News Users (Analyzed with ChatGPT)

This blog post is a collections of programming books that comes up most often in various discussion on this subject. The data was Scrapped/Polished with LLMs so take it with a grain of salt.

Rank	Book Title	Authors	Mentions
1	The Pragmatic Programmer	Andrew Hunt, David Thomas	7
2	Designing Data-Intensive Applications	Martin Kleppmann	6
3	Programming Pearls	Jon Bentley	6
4	Clean Architecture	Robert C. Martin	5
5	Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software	Eric Evans	5
6	Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code	Martin Fowler	5
7	Code Complete	Steve McConnell	5
8	The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering	Frederick P. Brooks Jr.	5
9	Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship	Robert C. Martin	4
10	The Design of Everyday Things	Don Norman	4
11	Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach	John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson	4
12	Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams	Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister	4
13	Game Programming Patterns	Robert Nystrom	4
14	Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces	Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau	4
15	The Art of Computer Programming	Donald E. Knuth	4
16	Introduction to Algorithms	Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein	3
17	Algorithms Unlocked	Thomas H. Cormen	3
18	How to Solve It	George Pólya	3
19	The Elements of Statistical Learning	Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman	3
20	The Programming Brain	Felienne Hermans	2
21	The Phoenix Project	Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford	2
22	Tidy First!	Kent Beck	2
23	C Programming: A Modern Approach	K.N. King	2
24	The Little Schemer	Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen	2
25	Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach	Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig	2
26	How to Design Programs	Matthias Felleisen et al.	2
27	Statistical Rethinking	Richard McElreath	2
28	What Is This Thing Called Science?	A. F. Chalmers	2