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Last 30 days

  1. 3Statistics

    Statistics

    Freedman, Pisani and Purves

    3 recent recommendations · 13 all-time · #504 overall

    Buy on Amazon3.1 out of 5, 3 ratings on Amazon
  2. 2

    How to Win Friends and Influence People

    Dale Carnegie

    2 recent recommendations · 175 all-time · #8 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 106,505 ratings on Amazon
  3. 2

    Code

    Charles Petzold

    2 recent recommendations · 147 all-time · #12 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,787 ratings on Amazon
  4. 2

    How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

    Scott Adams

    2 recent recommendations · 36 all-time · #143 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 7,596 ratings on Amazon
  5. 2The Annotated Turing

    The Annotated Turing

    Charles Petzold

    2 recent recommendations · 25 all-time · #235 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 399 ratings on Amazon
  6. 2

    The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

    William L. Shirer

    2 recent recommendations · 19 all-time · #328 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 11,382 ratings on Amazon
  7. 2Statistical Rethinking

    Statistical Rethinking

    Richard McElreath

    2 recent recommendations · 19 all-time · #340 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 380 ratings on Amazon
  8. 2

    Data Smart

    John Foreman

    2 recent recommendations · 4 all-time · #1898 overall

  9. 2Infinity Within

    Infinity Within

    Reggie Hilliard

    2 recent recommendations · 2 all-time · #2644 overall

  10. 1

    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

    Harold Abelson

    1 recent recommendation · 316 all-time · #2 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 742 ratings on Amazon
  11. 1

    Sapiens

    Yuval Noah Harari

    1 recent recommendation · 197 all-time · #4 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 133,705 ratings on Amazon
  12. 1

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

    1 recent recommendation · 178 all-time · #6 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 48,679 ratings on Amazon
  13. 1

    Atlas Shrugged

    Ayn Rand

    1 recent recommendation · 173 all-time · #9 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 22,012 ratings on Amazon
  14. 1

    The Art of Computer Programming

    Donald Knuth

    1 recent recommendation · 127 all-time · #14 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 203 ratings on Amazon
  15. 1

    The C Programming Language

    Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie

    1 recent recommendation · 124 all-time · #15 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 182 ratings on Amazon
  16. 1

    Black Swan

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    1 recent recommendation · 110 all-time · #19 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 8,277 ratings on Amazon
  17. 1

    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor Frankl

    1 recent recommendation · 95 all-time · #32 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 100,360 ratings on Amazon
  18. 1

    Fooled by Randomness

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    1 recent recommendation · 81 all-time · #41 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 6,682 ratings on Amazon
  19. 1

    Never Split the Difference

    Chris Voss

    1 recent recommendation · 62 all-time · #60 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 51,660 ratings on Amazon
  20. 1

    The Feynman Lectures on Physics

    Richard Feynman

    1 recent recommendation · 59 all-time · #63 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,049 ratings on Amazon
  21. 1

    Moby Dick

    Herman Melville

    1 recent recommendation · 51 all-time · #82 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 16,756 ratings on Amazon
  22. 1

    Animal Farm

    George Orwell

    1 recent recommendation · 48 all-time · #90 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 94,716 ratings on Amazon
  23. 1

    Ishmael

    Daniel Quinn

    1 recent recommendation · 44 all-time · #104 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 7,045 ratings on Amazon
  24. 1

    Bad Blood

    John Carreyrou

    1 recent recommendation · 44 all-time · #105 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 33,871 ratings on Amazon
  25. 1

    Creativity Inc.

    Ed Catmull

    1 recent recommendation · 43 all-time · #107 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 10,683 ratings on Amazon
  26. 1

    The Beginning of Infinity

    David Deutsch

    1 recent recommendation · 38 all-time · #128 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 2,382 ratings on Amazon
  27. 1

    How to Read a Book

    Mortimer J. Adler

    1 recent recommendation · 31 all-time · #182 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 8,081 ratings on Amazon
  28. 1

    A Short History of Nearly Everything

    Bill Bryson

    1 recent recommendation · 30 all-time · #187 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 19,783 ratings on Amazon
  29. 1

    How to Measure Anything

    Douglas Hubbard

    1 recent recommendation · 27 all-time · #214 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 595 ratings on Amazon
  30. 1

    The Road

    Cormac McCarthy

    1 recent recommendation · 24 all-time · #243 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 39,314 ratings on Amazon

Last 90 days

  1. 15Xteink

    Xteink

    15 recent recommendations · 15 all-time · #446 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.0 out of 5, 679 ratings on Amazon
  2. 11Roget's Thesaurus

    Roget's Thesaurus

    11 recent recommendations · 11 all-time · #619 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 869 ratings on Amazon
  3. 10Kobo

    Kobo

    10 recent recommendations · 10 all-time · #693 overall

  4. 9The Decameron

    The Decameron

    Giovanni Boccaccio

    9 recent recommendations · 11 all-time · #617 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 865 ratings on Amazon
  5. 7Half a Second

    Half a Second

    7 recent recommendations · 7 all-time · #1059 overall

  6. 5King James Version

    King James Version

    5 recent recommendations · 5 all-time · #1533 overall

  7. 4Diary of a Wimpy Kid

    Diary of a Wimpy Kid

    Jeff Kinney

    4 recent recommendations · 6 all-time · #1233 overall

  8. 4The Little Book of Deep Learning

    The Little Book of Deep Learning

    François Fleuret

    4 recent recommendations · 4 all-time · #1951 overall

  9. 3Statistics

    Statistics

    Freedman, Pisani and Purves

    3 recent recommendations · 13 all-time · #504 overall

    Buy on Amazon3.1 out of 5, 3 ratings on Amazon
  10. 3The Second Maintainer

    The Second Maintainer

    3 recent recommendations · 3 all-time · #2636 overall

  11. 3Kobo Clara BW

    Kobo Clara BW

    3 recent recommendations · 3 all-time · #2637 overall

  12. 3Nook Simple Touch

    Nook Simple Touch

    3 recent recommendations · 3 all-time · #2638 overall

  13. 3Xteink X3

    Xteink X3

    3 recent recommendations · 3 all-time · #2639 overall

  14. 2

    How to Win Friends and Influence People

    Dale Carnegie

    2 recent recommendations · 175 all-time · #8 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 106,505 ratings on Amazon
  15. 2

    Code

    Charles Petzold

    2 recent recommendations · 147 all-time · #12 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,787 ratings on Amazon
  16. 2

    The Little Schemer

    Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

    2 recent recommendations · 51 all-time · #81 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 185 ratings on Amazon
  17. 2

    How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

    Scott Adams

    2 recent recommendations · 36 all-time · #143 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 7,596 ratings on Amazon
  18. 2The Annotated Turing

    The Annotated Turing

    Charles Petzold

    2 recent recommendations · 25 all-time · #235 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 399 ratings on Amazon
  19. 2

    Cosmos

    Carl Sagan

    2 recent recommendations · 20 all-time · #309 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 8,712 ratings on Amazon
  20. 2

    The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

    William L. Shirer

    2 recent recommendations · 19 all-time · #328 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 11,382 ratings on Amazon
  21. 2Statistical Rethinking

    Statistical Rethinking

    Richard McElreath

    2 recent recommendations · 19 all-time · #340 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 380 ratings on Amazon
  22. 2Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

    Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

    Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto

    2 recent recommendations · 13 all-time · #505 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 641 ratings on Amazon
  23. 2Underground

    Underground

    Haruki Murakami

    2 recent recommendations · 5 all-time · #1404 overall

  24. 2Redwall

    Redwall

    Brian Jacques

    2 recent recommendations · 4 all-time · #1751 overall

  25. 2

    Data Smart

    John Foreman

    2 recent recommendations · 4 all-time · #1898 overall

  26. 2Infinity Within

    Infinity Within

    Reggie Hilliard

    2 recent recommendations · 2 all-time · #2644 overall

  27. 2Kindle Oasis

    Kindle Oasis

    2 recent recommendations · 2 all-time · #2645 overall

  28. 2PocketBook

    PocketBook

    2 recent recommendations · 2 all-time · #2646 overall

  29. 2Kindle

    Kindle

    2 recent recommendations · 2 all-time · #2647 overall

  30. 2Xteink X4

    Xteink X4

    2 recent recommendations · 2 all-time · #2648 overall

  31. 2The Travels of Ibn Battutah

    The Travels of Ibn Battutah

    2 recent recommendations · 2 all-time · #2649 overall

  32. 2Pseudodoxia Epidemica

    Pseudodoxia Epidemica

    Richard Baxter

    2 recent recommendations · 2 all-time · #2650 overall

  33. 2Orbis Pictus

    Orbis Pictus

    Comenius

    2 recent recommendations · 2 all-time · #2651 overall

  34. 2Settlers

    Settlers

    2 recent recommendations · 2 all-time · #2652 overall

  35. 2Legacy Standard Bible

    Legacy Standard Bible

    2 recent recommendations · 2 all-time · #2653 overall

  36. 2NIV

    NIV

    2 recent recommendations · 2 all-time · #2654 overall

  37. 1

    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

    Harold Abelson

    1 recent recommendation · 316 all-time · #2 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 742 ratings on Amazon
  38. 1

    Sapiens

    Yuval Noah Harari

    1 recent recommendation · 197 all-time · #4 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 133,705 ratings on Amazon
  39. 1

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

    1 recent recommendation · 178 all-time · #6 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 48,679 ratings on Amazon
  40. 1

    Atlas Shrugged

    Ayn Rand

    1 recent recommendation · 173 all-time · #9 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 22,012 ratings on Amazon

Last 365 days

  1. 15Xteink

    Xteink

    15 recent recommendations · 15 all-time · #446 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.0 out of 5, 679 ratings on Amazon
  2. 11Roget's Thesaurus

    Roget's Thesaurus

    11 recent recommendations · 11 all-time · #619 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 869 ratings on Amazon
  3. 10Kobo

    Kobo

    10 recent recommendations · 10 all-time · #693 overall

  4. 9The Decameron

    The Decameron

    Giovanni Boccaccio

    9 recent recommendations · 11 all-time · #617 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 865 ratings on Amazon
  5. 7Half a Second

    Half a Second

    7 recent recommendations · 7 all-time · #1059 overall

  6. 6Becoming Steve Jobs

    Becoming Steve Jobs

    Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli

    6 recent recommendations · 13 all-time · #512 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 4,222 ratings on Amazon
  7. 5King James Version

    King James Version

    5 recent recommendations · 5 all-time · #1533 overall

  8. 4

    The Road

    Cormac McCarthy

    4 recent recommendations · 24 all-time · #243 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 39,314 ratings on Amazon
  9. 4Dungeon Crawler Carl

    Dungeon Crawler Carl

    Matt Dinniman

    4 recent recommendations · 9 all-time · #748 overall

  10. 4Star Wars

    Star Wars

    Timothy Zahn

    4 recent recommendations · 7 all-time · #1013 overall

  11. 4Diary of a Wimpy Kid

    Diary of a Wimpy Kid

    Jeff Kinney

    4 recent recommendations · 6 all-time · #1233 overall

  12. 4The Little Book of Deep Learning

    The Little Book of Deep Learning

    François Fleuret

    4 recent recommendations · 4 all-time · #1951 overall

  13. 3

    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

    Harold Abelson

    3 recent recommendations · 316 all-time · #2 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 742 ratings on Amazon
  14. 3

    Dune

    Frank Herbert

    3 recent recommendations · 250 all-time · #3 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 104,032 ratings on Amazon
  15. 3

    Designing Data-Intensive Applications

    Martin Kleppmann

    3 recent recommendations · 104 all-time · #24 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 5,595 ratings on Amazon
  16. 3Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

    Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

    Eliezer Yudkowsky

    3 recent recommendations · 101 all-time · #27 overall

    Buy on Amazon
  17. 3

    Project Hail Mary

    Andy Weir

    3 recent recommendations · 88 all-time · #38 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 281,070 ratings on Amazon
  18. 3The Culture

    The Culture

    Iain M. Banks

    3 recent recommendations · 37 all-time · #133 overall

    Buy on Amazon3.8 out of 5, 182 ratings on Amazon
  19. 3Solaris

    Solaris

    Stanisław Lem

    3 recent recommendations · 29 all-time · #197 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.1 out of 5, 6,713 ratings on Amazon
  20. 3

    The Princeton Companion to Mathematics

    Timothy Gowers

    3 recent recommendations · 26 all-time · #227 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 454 ratings on Amazon
  21. 3The Cyberiad

    The Cyberiad

    Stanisław Lem

    3 recent recommendations · 21 all-time · #304 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 805 ratings on Amazon
  22. 3Statistics

    Statistics

    Freedman, Pisani and Purves

    3 recent recommendations · 13 all-time · #504 overall

    Buy on Amazon3.1 out of 5, 3 ratings on Amazon
  23. 3Inversions

    Inversions

    Iain M. Banks

    3 recent recommendations · 4 all-time · #1910 overall

  24. 3The Worm Ouroboros

    The Worm Ouroboros

    E. R. Eddison

    3 recent recommendations · 4 all-time · #1943 overall

  25. 3The Second Maintainer

    The Second Maintainer

    3 recent recommendations · 3 all-time · #2636 overall

  26. 3Kobo Clara BW

    Kobo Clara BW

    3 recent recommendations · 3 all-time · #2637 overall

  27. 3Nook Simple Touch

    Nook Simple Touch

    3 recent recommendations · 3 all-time · #2638 overall

  28. 3Xteink X3

    Xteink X3

    3 recent recommendations · 3 all-time · #2639 overall

  29. 3Steve Jobs and the Next Big Thing

    Steve Jobs and the Next Big Thing

    Randall E. Stross

    3 recent recommendations · 3 all-time · #2640 overall

  30. 3The Night Land

    The Night Land

    William Hope Hodgson

    3 recent recommendations · 3 all-time · #2641 overall

  31. 3Voyage to Arcturus

    Voyage to Arcturus

    3 recent recommendations · 3 all-time · #2642 overall

  32. 3There Is No Antimimetics Division

    There Is No Antimimetics Division

    qntm

    3 recent recommendations · 3 all-time · #2643 overall

  33. 2

    Gödel, Escher, Bach

    Douglas Hofstadter

    2 recent recommendations · 347 all-time · #1 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 2,713 ratings on Amazon
  34. 2

    How to Win Friends and Influence People

    Dale Carnegie

    2 recent recommendations · 175 all-time · #8 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 106,505 ratings on Amazon
  35. 2

    Code

    Charles Petzold

    2 recent recommendations · 147 all-time · #12 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,787 ratings on Amazon
  36. 2

    Foundation

    Isaac Asimov

    2 recent recommendations · 110 all-time · #20 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 36,591 ratings on Amazon
  37. 2

    Ender's Game

    Orson Scott Card

    2 recent recommendations · 109 all-time · #21 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 45,794 ratings on Amazon
  38. 2

    The Martian

    Andy Weir

    2 recent recommendations · 103 all-time · #25 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 187,449 ratings on Amazon
  39. 2

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Douglas Adams

    2 recent recommendations · 101 all-time · #28 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 30,738 ratings on Amazon
  40. 2

    Calculus

    Spivak

    2 recent recommendations · 99 all-time · #30 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 187 ratings on Amazon
  41. 2

    Daemon

    Daniel Suarez

    2 recent recommendations · 52 all-time · #78 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 6,091 ratings on Amazon
  42. 2

    The Little Schemer

    Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

    2 recent recommendations · 51 all-time · #81 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 185 ratings on Amazon
  43. 2

    Mistborn

    Brandon Sanderson

    2 recent recommendations · 41 all-time · #119 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 60,557 ratings on Amazon
  44. 2

    How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

    Scott Adams

    2 recent recommendations · 36 all-time · #143 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 7,596 ratings on Amazon
  45. 2

    Red Rising

    Pierce Brown

    2 recent recommendations · 35 all-time · #147 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 111,087 ratings on Amazon
  46. 2

    Flowers for Algernon

    Daniel Keyes

    2 recent recommendations · 33 all-time · #160 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 40,104 ratings on Amazon
  47. 2

    The Murderbot Diaries

    Martha Wells

    2 recent recommendations · 29 all-time · #198 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 69,410 ratings on Amazon
  48. 2

    A Canticle for Leibowitz

    Walter M. Miller Jr.

    2 recent recommendations · 28 all-time · #205 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 5,243 ratings on Amazon
  49. 2The Annotated Turing

    The Annotated Turing

    Charles Petzold

    2 recent recommendations · 25 all-time · #235 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 399 ratings on Amazon
  50. 2

    Roadside Picnic

    Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

    2 recent recommendations · 25 all-time · #237 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 4,708 ratings on Amazon
  51. 2

    A Game of Thrones

    George R.R. Martin

    2 recent recommendations · 22 all-time · #274 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 83,380 ratings on Amazon
  52. 2

    Cosmos

    Carl Sagan

    2 recent recommendations · 20 all-time · #309 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 8,712 ratings on Amazon
  53. 2

    The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

    William L. Shirer

    2 recent recommendations · 19 all-time · #328 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 11,382 ratings on Amazon
  54. 2Statistical Rethinking

    Statistical Rethinking

    Richard McElreath

    2 recent recommendations · 19 all-time · #340 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 380 ratings on Amazon
  55. 2Ender's Shadow

    Ender's Shadow

    Orson Scott Card

    2 recent recommendations · 16 all-time · #407 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 5,741 ratings on Amazon
  56. 2Consider Phlebas

    Consider Phlebas

    Iain M. Banks

    2 recent recommendations · 13 all-time · #477 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.1 out of 5, 14,019 ratings on Amazon
  57. 2Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

    Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

    Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto

    2 recent recommendations · 13 all-time · #505 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 641 ratings on Amazon
  58. 2The Dying Earth

    The Dying Earth

    Jack Vance

    2 recent recommendations · 9 all-time · #767 overall

  59. 2Open

    Open

    Andre Agassi

    2 recent recommendations · 8 all-time · #826 overall

  60. 2Story of Your Life

    Story of Your Life

    Ted Chiang

    2 recent recommendations · 8 all-time · #896 overall