The books people recommended

2016-05-30 · 575 points · 168 comments · 33 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.

4Mindstorms
Mindstorms
Seymour Papert
4 here · 18 all-time · #350 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 146 ratings on Amazon
3The Dream Machine
The Dream Machine
M. Mitchell Waldrop
3 here · 31 all-time · #184 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 307 ratings on Amazon
2
Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2 here · 81 all-time · #41 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 6,682 ratings on Amazon
2Zen Mind Beginners Mind
Zen Mind Beginners Mind
Shunryu Suzuki
2 here · 6 all-time · #1173 overall
2Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Gregory Bateson
2 here · 4 all-time · #1787 overall
2The Whole Earth Catalog
The Whole Earth Catalog
2 here · 3 all-time · #2466 overall
2Laws of Form
Laws of Form
George Spencer Brown
2 here · 3 all-time · #2472 overall
1
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
1 here · 83 all-time · #39 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 14,634 ratings on Amazon
1
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
1 here · 64 all-time · #58 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 5,358 ratings on Amazon
1
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
1 here · 41 all-time · #118 overall
Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 21,706 ratings on Amazon
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The Republic
Plato
1 here · 32 all-time · #174 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 1,034 ratings on Amazon
1The Inner Game of Tennis
The Inner Game of Tennis
W. Timothy Gallwey
1 here · 26 all-time · #226 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 10,399 ratings on Amazon
1
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
1 here · 24 all-time · #243 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 39,314 ratings on Amazon
1
The Vital Question
Nick Lane
1 here · 21 all-time · #291 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,792 ratings on Amazon
1
History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
1 here · 20 all-time · #312 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,074 ratings on Amazon
1Pattern Recognition
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
1 here · 13 all-time · #494 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 3,192 ratings on Amazon
1Society of Mind
Society of Mind
Marvin Minsky
1 here · 10 all-time · #673 overall
1Free to Choose
Free to Choose
Milton Friedman
1 here · 8 all-time · #832 overall
1Lateral Thinking
Lateral Thinking
Edward de Bono
1 here · 6 all-time · #1084 overall
1Science and Sanity
Science and Sanity
Alfred Korzybski
1 here · 6 all-time · #1124 overall
1Symposium
Symposium
Plato
1 here · 6 all-time · #1125 overall
1How Buildings Learn
How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand
1 here · 5 all-time · #1272 overall
1The Human Use of Human Beings
The Human Use of Human Beings
Norbert Wiener
1 here · 5 all-time · #1276 overall
1Ascent of Man
Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski
1 here · 5 all-time · #1387 overall
1Technics and Civilization
Technics and Civilization
Lewis Mumford
1 here · 4 all-time · #1629 overall
1Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Christopher Alexander
1 here · 4 all-time · #1630 overall
11493
1493
Charles C. Mann
1 here · 4 all-time · #1631 overall
1Ghost in the Machine
Ghost in the Machine
Arthur Koestler
1 here · 3 all-time · #2050 overall
1Cybernetics
Cybernetics
Norbert Wiener
1 here · 3 all-time · #2113 overall
1The Character of Physical Law
The Character of Physical Law
Richard Feynman
1 here · 3 all-time · #2145 overall
1Great Books of the Western World
Great Books of the Western World
Mortimer Adler
1 here · 3 all-time · #2146 overall
1Syntopicon
Syntopicon
Mortimer J. Adler
1 here · 3 all-time · #2147 overall
1Introduction to Cybernetics
Introduction to Cybernetics
W. Ross Ashby
1 here · 3 all-time · #2148 overall