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2020-01-19 · 613 points · 388 comments · 96 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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- 5Feersum Endjinn
- 5Ethics
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- 4Harmony
- 4A Life of One's Own
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- 3Lila
- 3Travels
- 3New Sun
- 3Journey to the West
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- 2The Road to Serfdom
- 2The Bridge
- 2The Story of B
- 2Planiverse
- 2The Devil's Dictionary
- 2Slan
- 2Interface
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- 1The Brothers Karamazov
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- 1Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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- 1Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
1 here · 29 all-time · #195 overall
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
1 here · 25 all-time · #236 overall
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- 1Behave
- 1Are Your Lights On?
- 1Thinking Forth
- 1The Courage to Be Disliked
- 1The Nicomachean Ethics
- 1The Communist Manifesto
- 1Propaganda
- 1The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
John Maynard Keynes
1 here · 11 all-time · #599 overall
- 1The True Believer
- 1The Technological Society
- 1Cloud Atlas
- 1Trust Me, I'm Lying
- 1Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
- 1Management: A Political Activity
- 1Grammatical Man
- 1Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down
- 1The City of God
- 1The Variational Principles of Mechanics
- 1West with the Night
- 1Einstein's Dreams
- 1The Invincible
- 1Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
- 1Killer of Men
- 1An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
1 here · 5 all-time · #1252 overall
- 1Leviathan
- 1The Secret of Our Success
- 1Consilience
- 1The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
- 1The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- 1The Hidden Persuaders
- 1Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay
1 here · 5 all-time · #1399 overall
- 1All the King's Men
- 1The Breakdown of Nations
- 1Mind Magic
- 1The Years of Rice and Salt
- 1Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity
- 1Energy And Civilization
- 1The Second Sex
- 1The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Simon Winchester
1 here · 4 all-time · #1798 overall
- 1Systems of Survival
- 1Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
- 1You Can't Win
- 1The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
- 1Book of Mirdad
- 1The Warden
- 1The Retreat to Commitment
- 1Universe in a Single Atom
- 1Unix Power Tools
- 1Super Thinking
- 1The Fifth Head of Cerberus
- 1Sex at Dawn
- 1The Federalist Papers
- 1The Social Contract
- 1The Way We Live Now
- 1Twinkie, Deconstructed
- 1Engines That Move Markets