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The books people recommended

2017-08-15 · 41 points · 42 comments · 37 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.

  1. 2

    The Righteous Mind

    Jonathan Haidt

    2 here · 57 all-time · #66 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 12,156 ratings on Amazon
  2. 2

    The Power Broker

    Robert Caro

    2 here · 50 all-time · #86 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 3,176 ratings on Amazon
  3. 2

    Debt: The First 5000 Years

    David Graeber

    2 here · 41 all-time · #120 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,289 ratings on Amazon
  4. 2

    The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

    Marie Kondo

    2 here · 33 all-time · #171 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 45 ratings on Amazon
  5. 2The Devil in the White City

    The Devil in the White City

    Erik Larson

    2 here · 10 all-time · #623 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 31,370 ratings on Amazon
  6. 1

    Sapiens

    Yuval Noah Harari

    1 here · 197 all-time · #4 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 133,705 ratings on Amazon
  7. 1

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

    1 here · 178 all-time · #6 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 48,679 ratings on Amazon
  8. 1

    The Selfish Gene

    Richard Dawkins

    1 here · 178 all-time · #7 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 8,966 ratings on Amazon
  9. 1

    Atlas Shrugged

    Ayn Rand

    1 here · 173 all-time · #9 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 22,012 ratings on Amazon
  10. 1Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

    Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

    Eliezer Yudkowsky

    1 here · 101 all-time · #27 overall

    Buy on Amazon
  11. 1

    Antifragile

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    1 here · 100 all-time · #29 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 8,430 ratings on Amazon
  12. 1

    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor Frankl

    1 here · 95 all-time · #32 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 100,360 ratings on Amazon
  13. 1

    The Fountainhead

    Ayn Rand

    1 here · 90 all-time · #36 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 12,667 ratings on Amazon
  14. 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
  15. 1

    Anathem

    Neal Stephenson

    1 here · 83 all-time · #40 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 5,275 ratings on Amazon
  16. 1

    Discworld

    Terry Pratchett

    1 here · 50 all-time · #87 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 28,137 ratings on Amazon
  17. 1

    Clean Code

    Robert C. Martin

    1 here · 47 all-time · #91 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 6,810 ratings on Amazon
  18. 1

    War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy

    1 here · 41 all-time · #117 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 3,710 ratings on Amazon
  19. 1

    Blood Meridian

    Cormac McCarthy

    1 here · 41 all-time · #118 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 21,706 ratings on Amazon
  20. 1

    The Glass Bead Game

    Hermann Hesse

    1 here · 33 all-time · #164 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 1,540 ratings on Amazon
  21. 1

    The Road

    Cormac McCarthy

    1 here · 24 all-time · #243 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 39,314 ratings on Amazon
  22. 1

    The Emperor of All Maladies

    Siddhartha Mukherjee

    1 here · 19 all-time · #334 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 9,907 ratings on Amazon
  23. 1The First Law

    The First Law

    Joe Abercrombie

    1 here · 18 all-time · #349 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 29,733 ratings on Amazon
  24. 1The Undoing Project

    The Undoing Project

    Michael Lewis

    1 here · 13 all-time · #507 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 12,094 ratings on Amazon
  25. 1How Will You Measure Your Life

    How Will You Measure Your Life

    Clayton Christensen

    1 here · 8 all-time · #786 overall

  26. 1Venture Deals

    Venture Deals

    Brad Feld

    1 here · 7 all-time · #932 overall

  27. 1The Black Company

    The Black Company

    Glen Cook

    1 here · 7 all-time · #1011 overall

  28. 1The Laundry Files

    The Laundry Files

    Charles Stross

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1075 overall

  29. 1A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

    A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

    David Foster Wallace

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1076 overall

  30. 1No Country for Old Men

    No Country for Old Men

    Cormac McCarthy

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1245 overall

  31. 1Angel

    Angel

    Jason Calacanis

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1325 overall

  32. 1As a Man Thinketh

    As a Man Thinketh

    James Allen

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1330 overall

  33. 1The Bone Clocks

    The Bone Clocks

    David Mitchell

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1583 overall

  34. 1The Mandibles

    The Mandibles

    Lionel Shriver

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2021 overall

  35. 1Night Watch

    Night Watch

    Terry Pratchett

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2046 overall

  36. 1The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O

    The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O

    Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2160 overall

  37. 1Lyndon Johnson

    Lyndon Johnson

    Robert Caro

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2268 overall