The books people recommended

2017-06-21 · 32 points · 36 comments · 28 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.

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Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1 here · 110 all-time · #19 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 8,277 ratings on Amazon
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The Martian
Andy Weir
1 here · 103 all-time · #25 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 187,449 ratings on Amazon
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Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
1 here · 100 all-time · #29 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 8,430 ratings on Amazon
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The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
1 here · 67 all-time · #57 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 4,777 ratings on Amazon
1
Getting Things Done
David Allen
1 here · 62 all-time · #61 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 10,742 ratings on Amazon
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Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
1 here · 58 all-time · #64 overall
Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 31,865 ratings on Amazon
1
Deep Learning
Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
1 here · 47 all-time · #94 overall
Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 2,395 ratings on Amazon
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I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas Hofstadter
1 here · 33 all-time · #159 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 1,069 ratings on Amazon
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Mindset
Carol Dweck
1 here · 26 all-time · #222 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 23,745 ratings on Amazon
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The Information
James Gleick
1 here · 24 all-time · #248 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 1,588 ratings on Amazon
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The Personal MBA
Josh Kaufman
1 here · 23 all-time · #264 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 5,404 ratings on Amazon
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Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
1 here · 22 all-time · #275 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 26,031 ratings on Amazon
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Domain Driven Design
Eric Evans
1 here · 21 all-time · #289 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,578 ratings on Amazon
1Algorithms to Live By
Algorithms to Live By
Brian Christian
1 here · 19 all-time · #330 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 6,632 ratings on Amazon
1The Innovators
The Innovators
Walter Isaacson
1 here · 18 all-time · #351 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 6,179 ratings on Amazon
1When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
1 here · 16 all-time · #388 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 119,433 ratings on Amazon
1Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Martin Fowler
1 here · 15 all-time · #417 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 890 ratings on Amazon
1Drive
Drive
Daniel Pink
1 here · 13 all-time · #492 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 9,418 ratings on Amazon
1Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
Sandi Metz
1 here · 12 all-time · #537 overall
Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 521 ratings on Amazon
1Domain Modeling Made Functional
Domain Modeling Made Functional
Scott Wlaschin
1 here · 12 all-time · #549 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 357 ratings on Amazon
1Chronicles of Amber
Chronicles of Amber
Roger Zelazny
1 here · 9 all-time · #734 overall
1Silk Roads
Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
1 here · 8 all-time · #809 overall
1Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests
Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests
Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce
1 here · 6 all-time · #1070 overall
1The Farseer Trilogy
The Farseer Trilogy
Robin Hobb
1 here · 6 all-time · #1183 overall
1The Fear Index
The Fear Index
Robert Harris
1 here · 5 all-time · #1370 overall
1More Money Than God
More Money Than God
Sebastian Mallaby
1 here · 4 all-time · #1628 overall
1Engineering a Safer World
Engineering a Safer World
Nancy Leveson
1 here · 3 all-time · #2140 overall
1Pirate Diary
Pirate Diary
Richard Platt
1 here · 3 all-time · #2141 overall