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2022-07-22 · 28 points · 88 comments · 74 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

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

    Robert Pirsig

    6 here · 193 all-time · #5 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 13,921 ratings on Amazon
  2. 5

    The Phoenix Project

    Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

    5 here · 67 all-time · #56 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 14,975 ratings on Amazon
  3. 3

    Foundation

    Isaac Asimov

    3 here · 110 all-time · #20 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 36,591 ratings on Amazon
  4. 2

    Code

    Charles Petzold

    2 here · 147 all-time · #12 overall

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

    Snow Crash

    Neal Stephenson

    2 here · 119 all-time · #16 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 20,720 ratings on Amazon
  6. 2The First Law

    The First Law

    Joe Abercrombie

    2 here · 18 all-time · #349 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 29,733 ratings on Amazon
  7. 2Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Walter Isaacson

    2 here · 15 all-time · #441 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 11,280 ratings on Amazon
  8. 2Upgrade

    Upgrade

    Blake Crouch

    2 here · 4 all-time · #1764 overall

  9. 1

    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

    Harold Abelson

    1 here · 316 all-time · #2 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 742 ratings on Amazon
  10. 1

    Black Swan

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    1 here · 110 all-time · #19 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 8,277 ratings on Amazon
  11. 1

    The Martian

    Andy Weir

    1 here · 103 all-time · #25 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 187,449 ratings on Amazon
  12. 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
  13. 1

    Seveneves

    Neal Stephenson

    1 here · 58 all-time · #64 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 31,865 ratings on Amazon
  14. 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
  15. 1

    Moby Dick

    Herman Melville

    1 here · 51 all-time · #82 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 16,756 ratings on Amazon
  16. 1

    Deep Learning

    Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

    1 here · 47 all-time · #94 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 2,395 ratings on Amazon
  17. 1

    The Demon-Haunted World

    Carl Sagan

    1 here · 45 all-time · #99 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 7,776 ratings on Amazon
  18. 1

    The Left Hand of Darkness

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    1 here · 36 all-time · #140 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 15,332 ratings on Amazon
  19. 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
  20. 1

    Crafting Interpreters

    Robert Nystrom

    1 here · 32 all-time · #175 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 734 ratings on Amazon
  21. 1

    The Innovator's Dilemma

    Clayton Christensen

    1 here · 30 all-time · #185 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 4,076 ratings on Amazon
  22. 1

    House of Leaves

    Mark Z. Danielewski

    1 here · 28 all-time · #203 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 14,466 ratings on Amazon
  23. 1Bobiverse

    Bobiverse

    Dennis E. Taylor

    1 here · 28 all-time · #207 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 34,413 ratings on Amazon
  24. 1Rationality: From AI to Zombies

    Rationality: From AI to Zombies

    Eliezer Yudkowsky

    1 here · 24 all-time · #246 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 242 ratings on Amazon
  25. 1

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    1 here · 24 all-time · #247 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 16,338 ratings on Amazon
  26. 1The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea

    Ernest Hemingway

    1 here · 23 all-time · #256 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 42,509 ratings on Amazon
  27. 1

    Wool

    Hugh Howey

    1 here · 23 all-time · #262 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 53,808 ratings on Amazon
  28. 1

    The Catcher in the Rye

    J.D. Salinger

    1 here · 21 all-time · #290 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 48,047 ratings on Amazon
  29. 1

    The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

    William L. Shirer

    1 here · 19 all-time · #328 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 11,382 ratings on Amazon
  30. 1

    Mere Christianity

    C.S. Lewis

    1 here · 19 all-time · #332 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 14,091 ratings on Amazon
  31. 1Dark Tower Series

    Dark Tower Series

    Stephen King

    1 here · 18 all-time · #343 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 34,581 ratings on Amazon
  32. 1Malazan Book of the Fallen

    Malazan Book of the Fallen

    Steven Erikson

    1 here · 18 all-time · #344 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 16,649 ratings on Amazon
  33. 1Flash Boys

    Flash Boys

    Michael Lewis

    1 here · 17 all-time · #368 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 18,690 ratings on Amazon
  34. 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
  35. 1Dark Matter

    Dark Matter

    Blake Crouch

    1 here · 14 all-time · #458 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 92,485 ratings on Amazon
  36. 1Small Gods

    Small Gods

    Terry Pratchett

    1 here · 14 all-time · #466 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 9,536 ratings on Amazon
  37. 1Breakfast of Champions

    Breakfast of Champions

    Kurt Vonnegut

    1 here · 13 all-time · #482 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 7,546 ratings on Amazon
  38. 1Pattern Recognition

    Pattern Recognition

    William Gibson

    1 here · 13 all-time · #494 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 3,192 ratings on Amazon
  39. 1Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    1 here · 11 all-time · #560 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 19,136 ratings on Amazon
  40. 1Immune

    Immune

    Philipp Dettmer

    1 here · 11 all-time · #588 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 9,532 ratings on Amazon
  41. 1The Last Lecture

    The Last Lecture

    Randy Pausch

    1 here · 11 all-time · #594 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 13,429 ratings on Amazon
  42. 1Artemis

    Artemis

    Andy Weir

    1 here · 11 all-time · #603 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 52,884 ratings on Amazon
  43. 1The Overstory

    The Overstory

    Richard Powers

    1 here · 10 all-time · #659 overall

  44. 1The Moral Animal

    The Moral Animal

    Robert Wright

    1 here · 9 all-time · #700 overall

  45. 1The Psychology of Money

    The Psychology of Money

    Morgan Housel

    1 here · 9 all-time · #705 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 74,322 ratings on Amazon
  46. 1Ministry for the Future

    Ministry for the Future

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    1 here · 9 all-time · #714 overall

  47. 1Stand on Zanzibar

    Stand on Zanzibar

    John Brunner

    1 here · 9 all-time · #750 overall

  48. 1Recursion

    Recursion

    Blake Crouch

    1 here · 7 all-time · #912 overall

  49. 1World War Z

    World War Z

    Max Brooks

    1 here · 7 all-time · #922 overall

  50. 1The Sleepwalkers

    The Sleepwalkers

    Christopher Clark

    1 here · 7 all-time · #931 overall

  51. 1Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Walter Isaacson

    1 here · 7 all-time · #969 overall

  52. 1Bad Science

    Bad Science

    Ben Goldacre

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1107 overall

  53. 1The Infinite Game

    The Infinite Game

    Simon Sinek

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1203 overall

  54. 1Tropic of Cancer

    Tropic of Cancer

    Henry Miller

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1206 overall

  55. 1Babel-17

    Babel-17

    Samuel R. Delany

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1277 overall

  56. 1How Asia Works

    How Asia Works

    Joe Studwell

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1279 overall

  57. 1Dracula

    Dracula

    Bram Stoker

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1299 overall

  58. 1Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

    Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

    Simon Sebag Montefiore

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1344 overall

  59. 1The Order of Time

    The Order of Time

    Carlo Rovelli

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1347 overall

  60. 1The Blacktongue Thief

    The Blacktongue Thief

    Christopher Buehlman

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1397 overall

  61. 1The End of the World Is just Beginning

    The End of the World Is just Beginning

    Peter Zeihan

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1398 overall

  62. 1Mort

    Mort

    Terry Pratchett

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1417 overall

  63. 1Foundation's Edge

    Foundation's Edge

    Isaac Asimov

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1425 overall

  64. 1Children of Ruin

    Children of Ruin

    Adrian Tchaikovsky

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1596 overall

  65. 1Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

    Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

    Carlo Rovelli

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1625 overall

  66. 1Aurora

    Aurora

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1640 overall

  67. 1Neurosis and Human Growth

    Neurosis and Human Growth

    Karen Horney

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1692 overall

  68. 1The Splendid and the Vile

    The Splendid and the Vile

    Erik Larson

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1694 overall

  69. 1Robots

    Robots

    Isaac Asimov

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1722 overall

  70. 1Billion Dollar Spy

    Billion Dollar Spy

    David E. Hoffman

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1859 overall

  71. 1Hands-on Rust

    Hands-on Rust

    Herbert Wolverson

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1950 overall

  72. 1Napoleon: A Life

    Napoleon: A Life

    Andrew Roberts

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2018 overall

  73. 1Gnomon

    Gnomon

    Nick Harkaway

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2224 overall

  74. 1Babel

    Babel

    R. F. Kuang

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2333 overall