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2020-06-09 · 63 points · 106 comments · 131 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. 6Extreme Ownership

    Extreme Ownership

    Jocko Willink

    6 here · 34 all-time · #158 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 39,461 ratings on Amazon
  2. 5

    Dune

    Frank Herbert

    5 here · 250 all-time · #3 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 104,032 ratings on Amazon
  3. 5

    Neuromancer

    William Gibson

    5 here · 117 all-time · #17 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 20,213 ratings on Amazon
  4. 4

    The Lord of the Rings

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    4 here · 114 all-time · #18 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.9 out of 5, 14,620 ratings on Amazon
  5. 4

    1984

    George Orwell

    4 here · 94 all-time · #34 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 126,118 ratings on Amazon
  6. 4

    The Hobbit

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    4 here · 53 all-time · #75 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 82,135 ratings on Amazon
  7. 4

    East of Eden

    John Steinbeck

    4 here · 36 all-time · #141 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 23,886 ratings on Amazon
  8. 4Harry Potter

    Harry Potter

    J.K. Rowling

    4 here · 30 all-time · #188 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 160,126 ratings on Amazon
  9. 4The Man in the High Castle

    The Man in the High Castle

    Philip K. Dick

    4 here · 9 all-time · #747 overall

  10. 3

    Sapiens

    Yuval Noah Harari

    3 here · 197 all-time · #4 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 133,705 ratings on Amazon
  11. 3

    Foundation

    Isaac Asimov

    3 here · 110 all-time · #20 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 36,591 ratings on Amazon
  12. 3

    Ender's Game

    Orson Scott Card

    3 here · 109 all-time · #21 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 45,794 ratings on Amazon
  13. 3

    Cryptonomicon

    Neal Stephenson

    3 here · 106 all-time · #23 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 8,425 ratings on Amazon
  14. 3

    Discworld

    Terry Pratchett

    3 here · 50 all-time · #87 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 28,137 ratings on Amazon
  15. 3

    Catch-22

    Joseph Heller

    3 here · 46 all-time · #96 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 14,669 ratings on Amazon
  16. 3

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    George Orwell

    3 here · 43 all-time · #108 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 15,224 ratings on Amazon
  17. 3

    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

    Robert A. Heinlein

    3 here · 38 all-time · #127 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 9,404 ratings on Amazon
  18. 3Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

    Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

    Douglas Adams

    3 here · 8 all-time · #822 overall

  19. 2

    How to Win Friends and Influence People

    Dale Carnegie

    2 here · 175 all-time · #8 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 106,505 ratings on Amazon
  20. 2

    The Three-Body Problem

    Cixin Liu

    2 here · 152 all-time · #11 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 53,978 ratings on Amazon
  21. 2

    Designing Data-Intensive Applications

    Martin Kleppmann

    2 here · 104 all-time · #24 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 5,595 ratings on Amazon
  22. 2

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Douglas Adams

    2 here · 101 all-time · #28 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 30,738 ratings on Amazon
  23. 2

    Siddhartha

    Hermann Hesse

    2 here · 97 all-time · #31 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 18,150 ratings on Amazon
  24. 2

    Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy

    2 here · 51 all-time · #83 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 13,344 ratings on Amazon
  25. 2

    Crime and Punishment

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    2 here · 50 all-time · #85 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 5,186 ratings on Amazon
  26. 2The Culture

    The Culture

    Iain M. Banks

    2 here · 37 all-time · #133 overall

    Buy on Amazon3.8 out of 5, 182 ratings on Amazon
  27. 2

    Finite and Infinite Games

    James P. Carse

    2 here · 31 all-time · #183 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 1,993 ratings on Amazon
  28. 2The Kingkiller Chronicle

    The Kingkiller Chronicle

    Patrick Rothfuss

    2 here · 19 all-time · #339 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 89,463 ratings on Amazon
  29. 2The Abolition of Man

    The Abolition of Man

    C. S. Lewis

    2 here · 7 all-time · #1041 overall

  30. 1

    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

    Harold Abelson

    1 here · 316 all-time · #2 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 742 ratings on Amazon
  31. 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
  32. 1

    Snow Crash

    Neal Stephenson

    1 here · 119 all-time · #16 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 20,720 ratings on Amazon
  33. 1

    Code Complete

    Steve McConnell

    1 here · 108 all-time · #22 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,353 ratings on Amazon
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 1

    Anathem

    Neal Stephenson

    1 here · 83 all-time · #40 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 5,275 ratings on Amazon
  38. 1

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    Alexandre Dumas

    1 here · 70 all-time · #50 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 12,487 ratings on Amazon
  39. 1

    Stranger in a Strange Land

    Robert A. Heinlein

    1 here · 55 all-time · #70 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 12,077 ratings on Amazon
  40. 1

    The Stormlight Archive

    Brandon Sanderson

    1 here · 55 all-time · #73 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 93,054 ratings on Amazon
  41. 1

    Shoe Dog

    Phil Knight

    1 here · 52 all-time · #79 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 63,714 ratings on Amazon
  42. 1

    Moby Dick

    Herman Melville

    1 here · 51 all-time · #82 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 16,756 ratings on Amazon
  43. 1

    The Power Broker

    Robert Caro

    1 here · 50 all-time · #86 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 3,176 ratings on Amazon
  44. 1

    Principles

    Ray Dalio

    1 here · 49 all-time · #88 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 19,363 ratings on Amazon
  45. 1

    Concrete Mathematics

    Donald Knuth

    1 here · 46 all-time · #98 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 2 ratings on Amazon
  46. 1

    The Dispossessed

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    1 here · 42 all-time · #113 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 9,037 ratings on Amazon
  47. 1

    Blood Meridian

    Cormac McCarthy

    1 here · 41 all-time · #118 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 21,706 ratings on Amazon
  48. 1

    Mistborn

    Brandon Sanderson

    1 here · 41 all-time · #119 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 60,557 ratings on Amazon
  49. 1

    A Deepness in the Sky

    Vernor Vinge

    1 here · 41 all-time · #121 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,418 ratings on Amazon
  50. 1The Cuckoo's Egg

    The Cuckoo's Egg

    Clifford Stoll

    1 here · 39 all-time · #124 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,286 ratings on Amazon
  51. 1

    The Four Steps to the Epiphany

    Steve Blank

    1 here · 36 all-time · #137 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 673 ratings on Amazon
  52. 1

    Slaughterhouse-Five

    Kurt Vonnegut

    1 here · 34 all-time · #153 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 40,601 ratings on Amazon
  53. 1

    The War of Art

    Steven Pressfield

    1 here · 33 all-time · #163 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 31,336 ratings on Amazon
  54. 1

    The Intelligent Investor

    Benjamin Graham

    1 here · 33 all-time · #169 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 52,344 ratings on Amazon
  55. 1

    The Art of Electronics

    Horowitz and Hill

    1 here · 33 all-time · #170 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 2,192 ratings on Amazon
  56. 1

    Chaos

    James Gleick

    1 here · 31 all-time · #181 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 3,339 ratings on Amazon
  57. 1

    The Name of the Wind

    Patrick Rothfuss

    1 here · 30 all-time · #190 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 89,463 ratings on Amazon
  58. 1

    The Illuminatus! Trilogy

    Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson

    1 here · 30 all-time · #192 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 1,268 ratings on Amazon
  59. 1

    The Little Prince

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

    1 here · 29 all-time · #194 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 13,029 ratings on Amazon
  60. 1

    The Odyssey

    Homer

    1 here · 28 all-time · #200 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 5,214 ratings on Amazon
  61. 1

    The Wealth of Nations

    Adam Smith

    1 here · 27 all-time · #212 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 2,706 ratings on Amazon
  62. 1

    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    Gabriel García Márquez

    1 here · 25 all-time · #231 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 9,706 ratings on Amazon
  63. 1

    Ubik

    Philip K. Dick

    1 here · 25 all-time · #234 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 7,135 ratings on Amazon
  64. 1

    Les Misérables

    Victor Hugo

    1 here · 24 all-time · #250 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,681 ratings on Amazon
  65. 1

    Flatland

    Edwin A. Abbott

    1 here · 23 all-time · #261 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 5,255 ratings on Amazon
  66. 1Kafka on the Shore

    Kafka on the Shore

    Haruki Murakami

    1 here · 22 all-time · #270 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 22,113 ratings on Amazon
  67. 1

    On the Shortness of Life

    Seneca

    1 here · 22 all-time · #273 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 3,385 ratings on Amazon
  68. 1Foucault's Pendulum

    Foucault's Pendulum

    Umberto Eco

    1 here · 22 all-time · #282 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 2,373 ratings on Amazon
  69. 1Crossing the Chasm

    Crossing the Chasm

    Geoffrey Moore

    1 here · 21 all-time · #286 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,624 ratings on Amazon
  70. 1Ancillary Justice

    Ancillary Justice

    Ann Leckie

    1 here · 21 all-time · #301 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 21,235 ratings on Amazon
  71. 1

    Skunk Works

    Ben Rich

    1 here · 21 all-time · #302 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 5,053 ratings on Amazon
  72. 1

    Sherlock Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    1 here · 21 all-time · #303 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 1,781 ratings on Amazon
  73. 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
  74. 1The Name of the Rose

    The Name of the Rose

    Umberto Eco

    1 here · 18 all-time · #359 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 6,463 ratings on Amazon
  75. 1Time Enough for Love

    Time Enough for Love

    Robert A. Heinlein

    1 here · 17 all-time · #373 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,709 ratings on Amazon
  76. 1Norwegian Wood

    Norwegian Wood

    Haruki Murakami

    1 here · 16 all-time · #396 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 23,666 ratings on Amazon
  77. 1Ender's Shadow

    Ender's Shadow

    Orson Scott Card

    1 here · 16 all-time · #407 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 5,741 ratings on Amazon
  78. 1American Gods

    American Gods

    Neil Gaiman

    1 here · 15 all-time · #415 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 58,725 ratings on Amazon
  79. 1The Book of Mormon

    The Book of Mormon

    Joseph Smith

    1 here · 15 all-time · #419 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 2,494 ratings on Amazon
  80. 1Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad

    1 here · 13 all-time · #479 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.0 out of 5, 11,723 ratings on Amazon
  81. 1The Idiot

    The Idiot

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    1 here · 13 all-time · #481 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,847 ratings on Amazon
  82. 1On the Road

    On the Road

    Jack Kerouac

    1 here · 13 all-time · #483 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 12,129 ratings on Amazon
  83. 1Joy of Clojure

    Joy of Clojure

    Michael Fogus

    1 here · 13 all-time · #493 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 44 ratings on Amazon
  84. 1The Mysterious Island

    The Mysterious Island

    Jules Verne

    1 here · 13 all-time · #495 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 932 ratings on Amazon
  85. 1Logicomix

    Logicomix

    Apostolos Doxiades, Christos Papadimitriou

    1 here · 12 all-time · #523 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 953 ratings on Amazon
  86. 1The Windup Girl

    The Windup Girl

    Paolo Bacigalupi

    1 here · 12 all-time · #527 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 5,206 ratings on Amazon
  87. 1Lonesome Dove

    Lonesome Dove

    Larry McMurtry

    1 here · 12 all-time · #528 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 31,757 ratings on Amazon
  88. 1The Quantum Thief

    The Quantum Thief

    Hannu Rajaniemi

    1 here · 12 all-time · #530 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 2,607 ratings on Amazon
  89. 1Unsong

    Unsong

    David Z. Albert

    1 here · 12 all-time · #548 overall

  90. 1The Magicians

    The Magicians

    Lev Grossman

    1 here · 12 all-time · #556 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.0 out of 5, 16,061 ratings on Amazon
  91. 1Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    1 here · 11 all-time · #560 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 19,136 ratings on Amazon
  92. 1The Silmarillion

    The Silmarillion

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    1 here · 11 all-time · #573 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 24,821 ratings on Amazon
  93. 1Sprawl trilogy

    Sprawl trilogy

    William Gibson

    1 here · 11 all-time · #586 overall

  94. 1Altered Carbon

    Altered Carbon

    Richard K. Morgan

    1 here · 10 all-time · #628 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 15,405 ratings on Amazon
  95. 1Out of the Crisis

    Out of the Crisis

    W. Edwards Deming

    1 here · 10 all-time · #629 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 549 ratings on Amazon
  96. 1The Extended Phenotype

    The Extended Phenotype

    Richard Dawkins

    1 here · 10 all-time · #663 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 462 ratings on Amazon
  97. 1Midnight's Children

    Midnight's Children

    Salman Rushdie

    1 here · 10 all-time · #685 overall

  98. 1The Principles of Product Development Flow

    The Principles of Product Development Flow

    Donald G. Reinertsen

    1 here · 9 all-time · #751 overall

  99. 1How Will You Measure Your Life

    How Will You Measure Your Life

    Clayton Christensen

    1 here · 8 all-time · #786 overall

  100. 1The Screwtape Letters

    The Screwtape Letters

    C.S. Lewis

    1 here · 8 all-time · #797 overall

  101. 1Mastering The Complex Sale

    Mastering The Complex Sale

    Jeff Thull

    1 here · 8 all-time · #807 overall

  102. 1Be Here Now

    Be Here Now

    Ram Dass

    1 here · 8 all-time · #808 overall

  103. 1The Wise Man's Fear

    The Wise Man's Fear

    Patrick Rothfuss

    1 here · 8 all-time · #840 overall

  104. 1The Disappearance of the Universe

    The Disappearance of the Universe

    Gary Renard

    1 here · 7 all-time · #911 overall

  105. 1The Dog Stars

    The Dog Stars

    Peter Heller

    1 here · 7 all-time · #920 overall

  106. 1The Man Who Was Thursday

    The Man Who Was Thursday

    G. K. Chesterton

    1 here · 7 all-time · #926 overall

  107. 1Leviathan Wakes

    Leviathan Wakes

    James S. A. Corey

    1 here · 7 all-time · #938 overall

  108. 1The Phantom Tollbooth

    The Phantom Tollbooth

    Norton Juster

    1 here · 7 all-time · #994 overall

  109. 1Robinson Crusoe

    Robinson Crusoe

    Daniel Defoe

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1072 overall

  110. 1Zodiac

    Zodiac

    Neal Stephenson

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1101 overall

  111. 1Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

    Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

    Jules Verne

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1189 overall

  112. 1The Wisdom of Crowds

    The Wisdom of Crowds

    James Surowiecki

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1193 overall

  113. 1The Problems of Philosophy

    The Problems of Philosophy

    Bertrand Russell

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1290 overall

  114. 1Dragons of Eden

    Dragons of Eden

    Carl Sagan

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1291 overall

  115. 1The Power of Vulnerability

    The Power of Vulnerability

    Brené Brown

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1292 overall

  116. 1How to Get What You Want

    How to Get What You Want

    Raymond Hull

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1540 overall

  117. 1Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1566 overall

  118. 1The Castle

    The Castle

    Franz Kafka

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1626 overall

  119. 1Island

    Island

    Aldous Huxley

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1627 overall

  120. 1The Inimitable Jeeves

    The Inimitable Jeeves

    P.G. Wodehouse

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1911 overall

  121. 1Roughing It

    Roughing It

    Mark Twain

    1 here · 3 all-time · #1993 overall

  122. 1The Very Hungry Caterpillar

    The Very Hungry Caterpillar

    Eric Carle

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2010 overall

  123. 1Gruffalo

    Gruffalo

    Julia Donaldson

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2011 overall

  124. 1Book of Mirdad

    Book of Mirdad

    Mikhail Naimy

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2037 overall

  125. 1False Memory

    False Memory

    Dean Koontz

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2053 overall

  126. 1The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

    Mark Twain

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2067 overall

  127. 1Plato's Republic

    Plato's Republic

    Plato

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2132 overall

  128. 1Dichotomy of Leadership

    Dichotomy of Leadership

    Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2136 overall

  129. 1Game Change

    Game Change

    John Heilemann and Mark Halperin

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2137 overall

  130. 1The Sword of Truth

    The Sword of Truth

    Terry Goodkind

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2138 overall

  131. 1The Asian Saga

    The Asian Saga

    James Clavell

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2470 overall