The books people recommended

2020-12-09 · 199 points · 124 comments · 31 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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Range
David Epstein
10 here · 16 all-time · #413 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 12,946 ratings on Amazon
2The Spy and the Traitor
The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre
2 here · 8 all-time · #892 overall
1
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
1 here · 175 all-time · #8 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 106,505 ratings on Amazon
1
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
1 here · 68 all-time · #54 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 34,551 ratings on Amazon
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
1
The Wheel of Time
Robert Jordan
1 here · 43 all-time · #109 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 45,874 ratings on Amazon
1The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen Covey
1 here · 30 all-time · #186 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 20,573 ratings on Amazon
1Reamde
Reamde
Neal Stephenson
1 here · 26 all-time · #218 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 5,708 ratings on Amazon
1
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
1 here · 26 all-time · #225 overall
Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 7,647 ratings on Amazon
1Poor Charlie's Almanack
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Charlie Munger
1 here · 25 all-time · #230 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,930 ratings on Amazon
1
Turn the Ship Around
L. David Marquet
1 here · 22 all-time · #280 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 8,318 ratings on Amazon
1Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
1 here · 15 all-time · #441 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 11,280 ratings on Amazon
1Digital Minimalism
Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport
1 here · 11 all-time · #605 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 9,470 ratings on Amazon
1The Decameron
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
1 here · 11 all-time · #617 overall
Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 865 ratings on Amazon
1Station Eleven
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
1 here · 9 all-time · #704 overall
1American Kingpin
American Kingpin
Nick Bilton
1 here · 8 all-time · #814 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 12,197 ratings on Amazon
1Venture Deals
Venture Deals
Brad Feld
1 here · 7 all-time · #932 overall
1Barbarian Days
Barbarian Days
William Finnegan
1 here · 7 all-time · #955 overall
1American Prometheus
American Prometheus
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
1 here · 7 all-time · #1007 overall
1Ego Is the Enemy
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday
1 here · 6 all-time · #1097 overall
1Where Good Ideas Come From
Where Good Ideas Come From
Steven Johnson
1 here · 6 all-time · #1211 overall
1A Little Life
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
1 here · 5 all-time · #1280 overall
1The Plague
The Plague
Albert Camus
1 here · 5 all-time · #1409 overall
1Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
1 here · 4 all-time · #1546 overall
1The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Naval Ravikant
1 here · 4 all-time · #1558 overall
1Life and Fate
Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
1 here · 4 all-time · #1582 overall
1The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
1 here · 4 all-time · #1687 overall
1Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
1 here · 4 all-time · #1797 overall
1Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
1 here · 3 all-time · #2006 overall
1The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
1 here · 3 all-time · #2200 overall
1The Tartar Steppe
The Tartar Steppe
Dino Buzzati
1 here · 3 all-time · #2379 overall