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2022-03-19 · 393 points · 521 comments · 231 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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- 9The Power of Now
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- 4The Quran
The Quran
4 here · 27 all-time · #216 overall
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- 4The Kingkiller Chronicle
- 4Peak
- 4The First and Last Freedom
- 4Programming Perl
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- 3The Mind Illuminated
- 3The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- 3Emotional Intelligence
- 3Mastering Regular Expressions
- 3What the Buddha Taught
- 3How to Practice
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- 2The Dawn of Everything
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- 2Walden
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- 2Bhagavad Gita
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- 2I Am That
- 2The Book of Why
- 2The Effective Executive
- 2The Tao of Pooh
- 2The Fabric of the Cosmos
- 2Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes
2 here · 12 all-time · #532 overall
- 2Mindfulness in Plain English
- 2The Trial
- 2The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
- 2QED
- 2Mother Night
- 2Learn C the Hard Way
- 2The Gay Science
- 2Awareness
- 2Stainless Steel Rat
- 2To the Lighthouse
- 2Happiness
- 2Fundamentals of Physics
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- 1The Brothers Karamazov
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- 1The Cuckoo's Egg
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- 1Endurance
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- 1The Dream Machine
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- 1Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
1 here · 29 all-time · #195 overall
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- 1Coders at Work
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- 1The Old Man and the Sea
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- 1Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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- 1The Innovators
- 1In Search of Lost Time
- 1The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- 1Impro
- 1Behave
- 1Orthodoxy
- 1Lord of Light
- 1Range
- 1Notes from Underground
- 1The Stranger
- 1The Book of Mormon
- 1Difficult Conversations
- 1Good Omens
- 1The Metamorphosis
- 1Breakfast of Champions
- 1On the Road
- 1The Guns of August
- 1The Myth of Sisyphus
- 1The Body
- 1Humankind
- 1Open Society and Its Enemies
- 1The Jungle
- 1Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
- 1All Quiet on the Western Front
- 1The Psychology of Money
- 1The Gene: An Intimate History
- 1The Picture of Dorian Gray
- 1Ministry for the Future
- 1Daring Greatly
- 1The Body Keeps the Score
- 1Chronicles of Amber
- 1A Wild Sheep Chase
- 1The Red Queen
- 1The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
- 1Anthem
- 1The Law
- 1Be Here Now
- 1The Sun Also Rises
- 1Master of the Senate
- 1The Holy Bible
The Holy Bible
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- 1Darwin's Dangerous Idea
- 1A Farewell to Arms
- 1The Man Who Was Thursday
- 1The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
- 1Franny and Zooey
- 1A Wrinkle in Time
- 1The New Testament
- 1The Fall
- 1Chronicles of Narnia
- 1Finding Flow
- 1Industrial Society and Its Future
- 1The Kingdom of God is Within You
- 1Computer Lib/Dream Machines
- 1For Whom the Bell Tolls
- 1As I Lay Dying
- 1Warbreaker
- 1Utopia for Realists
- 1Momo
- 1Labyrinths
- 1At Home
- 1Life 3.0
- 1The Scout Mindset
- 1Upanishads
- 1The Plague
- 1Accidental Empires
- 1Moral Mazes
- 1Practical Ethics
- 1Mind Magic
- 1Anatomy of the State
- 1The Castle
- 1A Treatise of Human Nature
- 1Parable of the Sower
- 1Soft Skills
- 1Timequake
- 1Total Freedom
- 1Words of Radiance
- 1Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
- 1The Precipice
- 1Dark Emu
- 1Rhythm of War
- 1How Emotions are Made
- 1Calvin and Hobbes
Calvin and Hobbes
1 here · 3 all-time · #2027 overall
- 1The Gita
- 1Edgedancer
- 1Awaken the Giant Within
- 1The Sword of Truth
- 1How to Talk to Anyone
- 1Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations
- 1The Sound and the Fury
- 1Absalom, Absalom!
- 1Feynman Lectures
- 1Aion
- 1Persepolis
- 1Elantris
- 1Hagakure
- 1Wages of Destruction
- 1Phenomenology of Perception
- 1The Old Testament
The Old Testament
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- 1Dandelion Wine