1. The power of a positive no 2. Black box thinking 3. Difficult conversations 4. Transcending loss 5. Braving the wilderness 6. Motherless daughters 7. The happy medium 8. Deep work 9. The golden sayings of Epictetus 10. The best interface is no interface 11. 101 essays that will change the way you think 12. Leaders eat last

Will keep adding more as I remember. Hope this helps :)

The best book published in 2017 for me is this one:

"A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market" by Edward O. Thorp

http://www.edwardothorp.com/books/a-man-for-all-markets/

1) The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto (my almost-annual re-reading)

2) The Collapsing Empire - John Scalzi

3) The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

I have a feeling the book I am reading now - Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith might have been on this list if I had finished it (and might still be tomorrow).

If you read most of it in 2017 I say it still counts. Nice to see some fiction on here, these lists are almost always non fiction and make me feel uneducated because I read almost exclusively fiction

1) De Vita Beata ("On the Happy Life") - Seneca

2) Shoe Dog - Phil Knight

3) Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman

No. 1 is a bit of a tricky read but completely worth it in my opinion, never have I read anything that has changed my everyday mindset so much.

1) Shoe Dog - Phil Knight

2) The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson

3) Start with Why - Simon Sinek

1. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand 2. Dragons of Eden - Carl Sagan 3. Idea Factory - Jon Gertner 4. Why I am an atheist - Bhagat Singh

Creative Confidence by Tom Kelley, founder of ideo. Changed my definition of and relationship with creativity.

The Gray House by Mariam Petrosyan

It was magical for me.

Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin.

Foundation series by Isaac Asimov

In 2017, I discovered that books are becoming increasingly obsolete as a medium of sharing knowledge. I've found that more condensed and/or interactive forms are much more useful to me and enable me to learn at an increased pace.

I think this generally applies to self-help style books, where the majority of the book is fluff with very little useful content. Those books can definitely be condensed into short blogs posts. However blogs and random tutorials don't do technical topics justice. If I'm learning how to reverse engineer a piece of malware or how to create a blockchain application, textbooks are the best resource to guide me.

To be fair a vast amount of technical books have the same problems, going over the same things again and again.

A couple of years ago, here o HN, an author shared his experience about collaborating with a publishing house. Apparently the publishers have very specific requirements about the required number of pages and the author has to conform.