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2021-06-25 · 129 points · 65 comments · 41 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. 6

    Designing Data-Intensive Applications

    Martin Kleppmann

    6 here · 104 all-time · #24 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 5,595 ratings on Amazon
  2. 4

    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

    Harold Abelson

    4 here · 316 all-time · #2 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 742 ratings on Amazon
  3. 3Convex Optimization

    Convex Optimization

    Boyd and Vanderberghe

    3 here · 17 all-time · #384 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 210 ratings on Amazon
  4. 3Domain Modeling Made Functional

    Domain Modeling Made Functional

    Scott Wlaschin

    3 here · 12 all-time · #549 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 357 ratings on Amazon
  5. 2

    Clean Code

    Robert C. Martin

    2 here · 47 all-time · #91 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 6,810 ratings on Amazon
  6. 2

    Refactoring

    Martin Fowler

    2 here · 37 all-time · #132 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 1,228 ratings on Amazon
  7. 2

    The Art of Electronics

    Horowitz and Hill

    2 here · 33 all-time · #170 overall

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

    Crafting Interpreters

    Robert Nystrom

    2 here · 32 all-time · #175 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 734 ratings on Amazon
  9. 2

    High Performance Browser Networking

    Ilya Grigorik

    2 here · 22 all-time · #281 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 213 ratings on Amazon
  10. 2Out of the Crisis

    Out of the Crisis

    W. Edwards Deming

    2 here · 10 all-time · #629 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 549 ratings on Amazon
  11. 2Bayesian Data Analysis

    Bayesian Data Analysis

    Andrew Gelman et al.

    2 here · 5 all-time · #1368 overall

  12. 2Category theory for programmers

    Category theory for programmers

    Bartosz Milewski

    2 here · 3 all-time · #2421 overall

  13. 2Category Theory in Context

    Category Theory in Context

    Riehl

    2 here · 3 all-time · #2422 overall

  14. 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
  15. 1

    The C Programming Language

    Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie

    1 here · 124 all-time · #15 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 182 ratings on Amazon
  16. 1

    Code Complete

    Steve McConnell

    1 here · 108 all-time · #22 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,353 ratings on Amazon
  17. 1The Goal

    The Goal

    Eliyahu M. Goldratt

    1 here · 70 all-time · #49 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 4,661 ratings on Amazon
  18. 1

    The Master and Margarita

    Mikhail Bulgakov

    1 here · 67 all-time · #57 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 4,777 ratings on Amazon
  19. 1

    Peopleware

    Tom DeMarco

    1 here · 62 all-time · #59 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 1,189 ratings on Amazon
  20. 1

    Thinking in Systems

    Donella H. Meadows

    1 here · 55 all-time · #72 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 6,475 ratings on Amazon
  21. 1

    The Elements of Statistical Learning

    Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman

    1 here · 30 all-time · #191 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,362 ratings on Amazon
  22. 1Coders at Work

    Coders at Work

    Peter Seibel

    1 here · 27 all-time · #213 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 330 ratings on Amazon
  23. 1The Quran

    The Quran

    1 here · 27 all-time · #216 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 4,496 ratings on Amazon
  24. 1

    Domain Driven Design

    Eric Evans

    1 here · 21 all-time · #289 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,578 ratings on Amazon
  25. 1Quantum Computing since Democritus

    Quantum Computing since Democritus

    Scott Aaronson

    1 here · 20 all-time · #319 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 287 ratings on Amazon
  26. 1Statistical Rethinking

    Statistical Rethinking

    Richard McElreath

    1 here · 19 all-time · #340 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 380 ratings on Amazon
  27. 1The Denial of Death

    The Denial of Death

    Ernest Becker

    1 here · 14 all-time · #448 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 3,415 ratings on Amazon
  28. 1Machine Learning

    Machine Learning

    Tom Mitchell

    1 here · 11 all-time · #580 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 551 ratings on Amazon
  29. 1Statistical Inference

    Statistical Inference

    George Casella and Roger L. Berger

    1 here · 7 all-time · #1040 overall

  30. 1Software Foundations

    Software Foundations

    Robert Harper

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1062 overall

  31. 1Analysis I

    Analysis I

    Terence Tao

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1250 overall

  32. 1Team Topologies

    Team Topologies

    Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1251 overall

  33. 1Black Hat Go

    Black Hat Go

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1511 overall

  34. 1The Theoretical Minimum

    The Theoretical Minimum

    Leonard Susskind

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1554 overall

  35. 1Ruby Under a Microscope

    Ruby Under a Microscope

    Pat Shaughnessy

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1736 overall

  36. 1Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch

    Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch

    Jeremy Howard and Sylvain Gugger

    1 here · 3 all-time · #1979 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 580 ratings on Amazon
  37. 1Emergence

    Emergence

    Steven Johnson

    1 here · 3 all-time · #1980 overall

  38. 1Elements of Clojure

    Elements of Clojure

    Zachary Tellman

    1 here · 3 all-time · #1981 overall

  39. 1Understanding Analysis

    Understanding Analysis

    Abbott

    1 here · 3 all-time · #1982 overall

  40. 1Introduction to Analysis

    Introduction to Analysis

    Richard J. Mattuck

    1 here · 3 all-time · #1983 overall

  41. 1Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography

    Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography

    Jeffrey Hoffstein, Jill Pipher, and Joseph H. Silverman

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2423 overall