# Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

4 Hacker News commenters recommended Doppelganger by Naomi Klein and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a compelling non-fiction explanation of how a major event happened, and one reader called it among the best non-fiction books they read that year.

## Why people recommend it

- Compelling explanation of how events happened (1 comments): "Naomi Klein has a compelling explanation for how this happened in her book Doppleganger" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45997941))
- Among best nonfiction reads this year (1 comments): "One of the best non-fiction books I read this year was Doppleganger" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49899930))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cuckoo-s-egg.md): 40 recommend
- [Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amusing-ourselves-to-death.md): 36 recommend
- [The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt](https://hackerapproved.com/p/anxious-generation.md): 24 recommend
- [Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bullshit-jobs.md): 20 recommend
- [Enshittification by Cory Doctorow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/enshittification.md): 19 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1645941574?tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)
- [Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/a/130825/9781645941576) (affiliate link)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Doppelganger by Naomi Klein", https://hackerapproved.com/p/doppelganger/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).