# Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin

4 Hacker News commenters recommended Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Readers recommend it for its rich, varied and humane writing and for how deeply it stays with them years later. One critic found it misandrous.

## Why people recommend it

- Rich, varied, humane writing (1 comments): "Such a rich and varied and humane book." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46938292))
- Lasting personal influence on readers (1 comments): "I read _Always Coming Home_ about 30 years ago now, and ever since, "heya" has been my default greeting." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944244))

## What people warn about

- Felt misandrous to one reader (1 comments): "I disliked _Always Coming Home_, substantially because it felt misandrous" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303040))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

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- [Blindsight by Peter Watts](https://hackerapproved.com/p/blindsight.md): 96 recommend
- [Dune by Frank Herbert](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dune.md): 82 recommend
- [Accelerando by Charles Stross](https://hackerapproved.com/p/accelerando.md): 71 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0575038551?tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)
- [Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/a/130825/9780575038554) (affiliate link)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin", https://hackerapproved.com/p/always-coming-home/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).