# Watership Down by Richard Adams

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/watership-down/

3 people recommended Watership Down by Richard Adams in Hacker News comments and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 12 months, in 4 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended as an adventure story, and it comes up in HN threads about books that changed how people think.

Summary written by Claude from 2 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Recommended as an adventure story (1 comment in the sample): "adventure stories like Watership Down" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49595626))

## Other adventure novels people recommend

- [Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson](https://hackerapproved.com/p/treasure-island/): 3 recommend, 1 mixed, 0 criticize
- [King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard](https://hackerapproved.com/p/king-solomon-s-mines/): 2 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Watership Down by Richard Adams", https://hackerapproved.com/p/watership-down/ (3 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.