# The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

2 Hacker News commenters recommended The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Readers recommend it as an immersive portrait of a minor Sicilian noble's inner life, and one reader named it the best book they read that year.

## Why people recommend it

- Immersive portrait of Sicilian nobility (1 comments): "To read The Leopard is to inhabit the soul of a minor Sicilian noble" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207941))
- Named best book of the year (1 comments): "Best book this year was The Leopard" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49902628))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://hackerapproved.com/p/crime-and-punishment.md): 39 recommend
- [The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://hackerapproved.com/p/brothers-karamazov.md): 28 recommend
- [Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace](https://hackerapproved.com/p/infinite-jest.md): 26 recommend
- [The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://hackerapproved.com/p/great-gatsby.md): 24 recommend
- [Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand](https://hackerapproved.com/p/atlas-shrugged.md): 23 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0099512157?tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)
- [Bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/a/130825/9780099512158) (affiliate link)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa", https://hackerapproved.com/p/leopard/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).