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2021-09-20 · 1,359 points · 273 comments · 56 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. 8Permutation City

    Permutation City

    Greg Egan

    8 here · 73 all-time · #45 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 2,604 ratings on Amazon
  2. 5

    Cryptonomicon

    Neal Stephenson

    5 here · 106 all-time · #23 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 8,425 ratings on Amazon
  3. 4

    Atlas Shrugged

    Ayn Rand

    4 here · 173 all-time · #9 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 22,012 ratings on Amazon
  4. 4

    Seveneves

    Neal Stephenson

    4 here · 58 all-time · #64 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 31,865 ratings on Amazon
  5. 3

    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

    Harold Abelson

    3 here · 316 all-time · #2 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 742 ratings on Amazon
  6. 3

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

    3 here · 178 all-time · #6 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 48,679 ratings on Amazon
  7. 3

    Snow Crash

    Neal Stephenson

    3 here · 119 all-time · #16 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 20,720 ratings on Amazon
  8. 3

    The Martian

    Andy Weir

    3 here · 103 all-time · #25 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 187,449 ratings on Amazon
  9. 3Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

    Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

    Eliezer Yudkowsky

    3 here · 101 all-time · #27 overall

    Buy on Amazon
  10. 3

    Brave New World

    Aldous Huxley

    3 here · 67 all-time · #55 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 48,055 ratings on Amazon
  11. 3The Art of War

    The Art of War

    Sun Tzu

    3 here · 43 all-time · #110 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 9,633 ratings on Amazon
  12. 3Reamde

    Reamde

    Neal Stephenson

    3 here · 26 all-time · #218 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 5,708 ratings on Amazon
  13. 2

    Meditations

    Marcus Aurelius

    2 here · 165 all-time · #10 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 21,552 ratings on Amazon
  14. 2

    The C Programming Language

    Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie

    2 here · 124 all-time · #15 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 182 ratings on Amazon
  15. 2

    The Lord of the Rings

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    2 here · 114 all-time · #18 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.9 out of 5, 14,620 ratings on Amazon
  16. 2

    Calculus

    Spivak

    2 here · 99 all-time · #30 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 187 ratings on Amazon
  17. 2

    Zero to One

    Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

    2 here · 89 all-time · #37 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 40,093 ratings on Amazon
  18. 2

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    George Orwell

    2 here · 43 all-time · #108 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 15,224 ratings on Amazon
  19. 2A Pattern Language

    A Pattern Language

    Christopher Alexander

    2 here · 19 all-time · #331 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 1,073 ratings on Amazon
  20. 2Open

    Open

    Andre Agassi

    2 here · 8 all-time · #826 overall

  21. 2The Awakening

    The Awakening

    Kate Chopin

    2 here · 5 all-time · #1466 overall

  22. 2Who

    Who

    Geoff Smart

    2 here · 3 all-time · #2426 overall

  23. 1

    Gödel, Escher, Bach

    Douglas Hofstadter

    1 here · 347 all-time · #1 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 2,713 ratings on Amazon
  24. 1

    Dune

    Frank Herbert

    1 here · 250 all-time · #3 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 104,032 ratings on Amazon
  25. 1

    Code

    Charles Petzold

    1 here · 147 all-time · #12 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,787 ratings on Amazon
  26. 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
  27. 1

    Code Complete

    Steve McConnell

    1 here · 108 all-time · #22 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,353 ratings on Amazon
  28. 1

    The Design of Everyday Things

    Don Norman

    1 here · 95 all-time · #33 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 8,629 ratings on Amazon
  29. 1

    Infinite Jest

    David Foster Wallace

    1 here · 75 all-time · #44 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 6,443 ratings on Amazon
  30. 1

    Ready Player One

    Ernest Cline

    1 here · 69 all-time · #52 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 155,485 ratings on Amazon
  31. 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
  32. 1

    Getting Things Done

    David Allen

    1 here · 62 all-time · #61 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 10,742 ratings on Amazon
  33. 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
  34. 1

    The Hobbit

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    1 here · 53 all-time · #75 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 82,135 ratings on Amazon
  35. 1

    Animal Farm

    George Orwell

    1 here · 48 all-time · #90 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 94,716 ratings on Amazon
  36. 1

    Clean Code

    Robert C. Martin

    1 here · 47 all-time · #91 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 6,810 ratings on Amazon
  37. 1

    A Fire Upon the Deep

    Vernor Vinge

    1 here · 47 all-time · #93 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 5,097 ratings on Amazon
  38. 1

    The Elements of Style

    William Strunk Jr.

    1 here · 38 all-time · #129 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 7,297 ratings on Amazon
  39. 1

    The Prince

    Niccolò Machiavelli

    1 here · 34 all-time · #152 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 8,164 ratings on Amazon
  40. 1

    Children of Time

    Adrian Tchaikovsky

    1 here · 34 all-time · #157 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 51,405 ratings on Amazon
  41. 1Solaris

    Solaris

    Stanisław Lem

    1 here · 29 all-time · #197 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.1 out of 5, 6,713 ratings on Amazon
  42. 1

    Fahrenheit 451

    Ray Bradbury

    1 here · 28 all-time · #199 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 61,227 ratings on Amazon
  43. 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
  44. 1

    Steve Jobs

    Walter Isaacson

    1 here · 24 all-time · #245 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 26,863 ratings on Amazon
  45. 1Calculus Made Easy

    Calculus Made Easy

    Francis Weston Sears

    1 here · 22 all-time · #271 overall

    Buy on Amazon3.7 out of 5, 191 ratings on Amazon
  46. 1Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    Philip K. Dick

    1 here · 17 all-time · #367 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 25,618 ratings on Amazon
  47. 1Pride and Prejudice

    Pride and Prejudice

    Jane Austen

    1 here · 14 all-time · #447 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 39,261 ratings on Amazon
  48. 1Unsong

    Unsong

    David Z. Albert

    1 here · 12 all-time · #548 overall

  49. 1The Communist Manifesto

    The Communist Manifesto

    Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

    1 here · 11 all-time · #581 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 255 ratings on Amazon
  50. 1Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

    Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

    Neal Stephenson

    1 here · 7 all-time · #947 overall

  51. 1The Talent Code

    The Talent Code

    Daniel Coyle

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1302 overall

  52. 1The Two Towers

    The Two Towers

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1373 overall

  53. 1Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

    Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

    Charles Seife

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1563 overall

  54. 1Twilight

    Twilight

    Stephenie Meyer

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1647 overall

  55. 1Nothing to Envy

    Nothing to Envy

    Barbara Demick

    1 here · 3 all-time · #1958 overall

  56. 1Games People Play

    Games People Play

    Eric Berne

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2002 overall