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2022-02-16 · 70 points · 59 comments · 44 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. 3The Goal

    The Goal

    Eliyahu M. Goldratt

    3 here · 70 all-time · #49 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 4,661 ratings on Amazon
  2. 2

    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor Frankl

    2 here · 95 all-time · #32 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 100,360 ratings on Amazon
  3. 2

    Hyperion

    Dan Simmons

    2 here · 56 all-time · #69 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 30,786 ratings on Amazon
  4. 2

    Moby Dick

    Herman Melville

    2 here · 51 all-time · #82 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 16,756 ratings on Amazon
  5. 2

    A Fire Upon the Deep

    Vernor Vinge

    2 here · 47 all-time · #93 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 5,097 ratings on Amazon
  6. 2The Dawn of Everything

    The Dawn of Everything

    David Graeber and David Wengrow

    2 here · 45 all-time · #102 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 289 ratings on Amazon
  7. 2

    A Deepness in the Sky

    Vernor Vinge

    2 here · 41 all-time · #121 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,418 ratings on Amazon
  8. 2Remembrance of Earth's Past

    Remembrance of Earth's Past

    Liu Cixin

    2 here · 20 all-time · #321 overall

  9. 2Ministry for the Future

    Ministry for the Future

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    2 here · 9 all-time · #714 overall

  10. 2Mother of Learning

    Mother of Learning

    Alexander Welch

    2 here · 5 all-time · #1411 overall

  11. 1

    Snow Crash

    Neal Stephenson

    1 here · 119 all-time · #16 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 20,720 ratings on Amazon
  12. 1

    Antifragile

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    1 here · 100 all-time · #29 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 8,430 ratings on Amazon
  13. 1

    1984

    George Orwell

    1 here · 94 all-time · #34 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 126,118 ratings on Amazon
  14. 1

    Project Hail Mary

    Andy Weir

    1 here · 88 all-time · #38 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 281,070 ratings on Amazon
  15. 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
  16. 1

    Debt: The First 5000 Years

    David Graeber

    1 here · 41 all-time · #120 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,289 ratings on Amazon
  17. 1The Culture

    The Culture

    Iain M. Banks

    1 here · 37 all-time · #133 overall

    Buy on Amazon3.8 out of 5, 182 ratings on Amazon
  18. 1

    Atomic Habits

    James Clear

    1 here · 25 all-time · #238 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 149,902 ratings on Amazon
  19. 1Revelation Space

    Revelation Space

    Alastair Reynolds

    1 here · 24 all-time · #251 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 10,275 ratings on Amazon
  20. 1

    No More Mr. Nice Guy

    Robert Glover

    1 here · 23 all-time · #265 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 17,153 ratings on Amazon
  21. 1

    A Confederacy of Dunces

    John Kennedy Toole

    1 here · 22 all-time · #276 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 16,890 ratings on Amazon
  22. 1

    Exhalation

    Ted Chiang

    1 here · 21 all-time · #298 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 14,849 ratings on Amazon
  23. 1

    The Gulag Archipelago

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    1 here · 20 all-time · #313 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 5,474 ratings on Amazon
  24. 1A Pattern Language

    A Pattern Language

    Christopher Alexander

    1 here · 19 all-time · #331 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 1,073 ratings on Amazon
  25. 1Critique of Pure Reason

    Critique of Pure Reason

    Immanuel Kant

    1 here · 16 all-time · #397 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 1,334 ratings on Amazon
  26. 1Worm

    Worm

    Wildbow

    1 here · 16 all-time · #401 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 130 ratings on Amazon
  27. 1A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

    A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

    Becky Chambers

    1 here · 15 all-time · #425 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 30,763 ratings on Amazon
  28. 1Superforecasting

    Superforecasting

    Philip Tetlock

    1 here · 13 all-time · #488 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 4,641 ratings on Amazon
  29. 1Fall of Hyperion

    Fall of Hyperion

    Dan Simmons

    1 here · 9 all-time · #701 overall

  30. 1The Histories

    The Histories

    Tacitus

    1 here · 9 all-time · #707 overall

  31. 1A Clockwork Orange

    A Clockwork Orange

    Anthony Burgess

    1 here · 8 all-time · #788 overall

  32. 1Endymion

    Endymion

    Dan Simmons

    1 here · 8 all-time · #827 overall

  33. 1House of Suns

    House of Suns

    Alastair Reynolds

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1164 overall

  34. 1Termination Shock

    Termination Shock

    Neal Stephenson

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1448 overall

  35. 1A Life of One's Own

    A Life of One's Own

    Marion Milner

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1519 overall

  36. 1Ward

    Ward

    Wildbow

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1585 overall

  37. 1The Wandering Inn

    The Wandering Inn

    Pirateaba

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1680 overall

  38. 1Quantum Psychology

    Quantum Psychology

    Robert Anton Wilson

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1702 overall

  39. 1Cosmic Trigger

    Cosmic Trigger

    Robert Anton Wilson

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1829 overall

  40. 1These Truths

    These Truths

    Jill Lepore

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1882 overall

  41. 1Wayfarers

    Wayfarers

    Becky Chambers

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2129 overall

  42. 1Great Books of the Western World

    Great Books of the Western World

    Mortimer Adler

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2146 overall

  43. 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Edward Gibbon

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2396 overall

  44. 1October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

    October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

    China Miéville

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2629 overall