The books people recommended

2019-02-25 · 597 points · 147 comments · 23 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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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard Feynman
4 here · 90 all-time · #35 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 13,344 ratings on Amazon
4
The Manager's Path
Camille Fournier
4 here · 22 all-time · #284 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,380 ratings on Amazon
3
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
3 here · 52 all-time · #79 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 63,714 ratings on Amazon
2
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
2 here · 165 all-time · #10 overall
Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 21,552 ratings on Amazon
2White Noise
White Noise
Don Delillo
2 here · 7 all-time · #986 overall
1
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
1 here · 197 all-time · #4 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 133,705 ratings on Amazon
1
The Art of Computer Programming
Donald Knuth
1 here · 127 all-time · #14 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 203 ratings on Amazon
1
Deep Work
Cal Newport
1 here · 72 all-time · #46 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,713 ratings on Amazon
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Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
1 here · 68 all-time · #54 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 34,551 ratings on Amazon
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Moby Dick
Herman Melville
1 here · 51 all-time · #82 overall
Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 16,756 ratings on Amazon
1
Concrete Mathematics
Donald Knuth
1 here · 46 all-time · #98 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 2 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
1
Linear Algebra Done Right
Sheldon Axler
1 here · 36 all-time · #142 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 736 ratings on Amazon
1
Quiet
Susan Cain
1 here · 33 all-time · #165 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 35,789 ratings on Amazon
1A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
1 here · 25 all-time · #232 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 17,556 ratings on Amazon
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman
1 here · 25 all-time · #240 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 156 ratings on Amazon
1A Scanner Darkly
A Scanner Darkly
Philip K. Dick
1 here · 14 all-time · #455 overall
Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 4,019 ratings on Amazon
1Cannery Row
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
1 here · 12 all-time · #520 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 9,068 ratings on Amazon
1A Book of Abstract Algebra
A Book of Abstract Algebra
Charles C. Pinter
1 here · 12 all-time · #526 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 593 ratings on Amazon
1Switch
Switch
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
1 here · 7 all-time · #948 overall
1Elementary Number Theory
Elementary Number Theory
David Burton
1 here · 5 all-time · #1419 overall
1The Crossing
The Crossing
Cormac McCarthy
1 here · 3 all-time · #2004 overall
1Generatingfunctionology
Generatingfunctionology
Herbert S. Wilf
1 here · 3 all-time · #2175 overall