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2022-09-04 · 54 points · 117 comments · 92 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. 12

    The Lord of the Rings

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    12 here · 114 all-time · #18 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.9 out of 5, 14,620 ratings on Amazon
  2. 8

    Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

    Robert Pirsig

    8 here · 193 all-time · #5 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 13,921 ratings on Amazon
  3. 7

    The Hobbit

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    7 here · 53 all-time · #75 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 82,135 ratings on Amazon
  4. 6

    Dune

    Frank Herbert

    6 here · 250 all-time · #3 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 104,032 ratings on Amazon
  5. 6

    Ender's Game

    Orson Scott Card

    6 here · 109 all-time · #21 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 45,794 ratings on Amazon
  6. 4Ender's Shadow

    Ender's Shadow

    Orson Scott Card

    4 here · 16 all-time · #407 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 5,741 ratings on Amazon
  7. 3

    Gödel, Escher, Bach

    Douglas Hofstadter

    3 here · 347 all-time · #1 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 2,713 ratings on Amazon
  8. 3

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Douglas Adams

    3 here · 101 all-time · #28 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 30,738 ratings on Amazon
  9. 3

    1984

    George Orwell

    3 here · 94 all-time · #34 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 126,118 ratings on Amazon
  10. 3Lonesome Dove

    Lonesome Dove

    Larry McMurtry

    3 here · 12 all-time · #528 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 31,757 ratings on Amazon
  11. 2

    Neuromancer

    William Gibson

    2 here · 117 all-time · #17 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 20,213 ratings on Amazon
  12. 2

    Foundation

    Isaac Asimov

    2 here · 110 all-time · #20 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 36,591 ratings on Amazon
  13. 2Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

    Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

    Eliezer Yudkowsky

    2 here · 101 all-time · #27 overall

    Buy on Amazon
  14. 2

    Siddhartha

    Hermann Hesse

    2 here · 97 all-time · #31 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 18,150 ratings on Amazon
  15. 2

    Hyperion

    Dan Simmons

    2 here · 56 all-time · #69 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 30,786 ratings on Amazon
  16. 2

    Tao Te Ching

    Lao Tzu

    2 here · 53 all-time · #76 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 1,771 ratings on Amazon
  17. 2

    Blood Meridian

    Cormac McCarthy

    2 here · 41 all-time · #118 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 21,706 ratings on Amazon
  18. 2

    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

    Robert A. Heinlein

    2 here · 38 all-time · #127 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 9,404 ratings on Amazon
  19. 2

    The Iliad

    Homer

    2 here · 28 all-time · #201 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 5,214 ratings on Amazon
  20. 2Rendezvous with Rama

    Rendezvous with Rama

    Arthur C. Clarke

    2 here · 25 all-time · #233 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 16,602 ratings on Amazon
  21. 2The Name of the Rose

    The Name of the Rose

    Umberto Eco

    2 here · 18 all-time · #359 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 6,463 ratings on Amazon
  22. 2Ringworld

    Ringworld

    Larry Niven

    2 here · 11 all-time · #569 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 8,555 ratings on Amazon
  23. 2My Side of the Mountain

    My Side of the Mountain

    Jean George

    2 here · 3 all-time · #2442 overall

  24. 1

    Atlas Shrugged

    Ayn Rand

    1 here · 173 all-time · #9 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 22,012 ratings on Amazon
  25. 1

    Meditations

    Marcus Aurelius

    1 here · 165 all-time · #10 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 21,552 ratings on Amazon
  26. 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
  27. 1

    Cryptonomicon

    Neal Stephenson

    1 here · 106 all-time · #23 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 8,425 ratings on Amazon
  28. 1

    Antifragile

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    1 here · 100 all-time · #29 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 8,430 ratings on Amazon
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 1

    Never Split the Difference

    Chris Voss

    1 here · 62 all-time · #60 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 51,660 ratings on Amazon
  32. 1

    Catch-22

    Joseph Heller

    1 here · 46 all-time · #96 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 14,669 ratings on Amazon
  33. 1

    The Wheel of Time

    Robert Jordan

    1 here · 43 all-time · #109 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 45,874 ratings on Amazon
  34. 1

    War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy

    1 here · 41 all-time · #117 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 3,710 ratings on Amazon
  35. 1The Cuckoo's Egg

    The Cuckoo's Egg

    Clifford Stoll

    1 here · 39 all-time · #124 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,286 ratings on Amazon
  36. 1

    Flowers for Algernon

    Daniel Keyes

    1 here · 33 all-time · #160 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 40,104 ratings on Amazon
  37. 1Bhagavad Gita

    Bhagavad Gita

    C Radhakrishnan

    1 here · 33 all-time · #168 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 63 ratings on Amazon
  38. 1

    Chaos

    James Gleick

    1 here · 31 all-time · #181 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 3,339 ratings on Amazon
  39. 1

    The Name of the Wind

    Patrick Rothfuss

    1 here · 30 all-time · #190 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 89,463 ratings on Amazon
  40. 1

    The Odyssey

    Homer

    1 here · 28 all-time · #200 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 5,214 ratings on Amazon
  41. 1

    A Canticle for Leibowitz

    Walter M. Miller Jr.

    1 here · 28 all-time · #205 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 5,243 ratings on Amazon
  42. 1Bobiverse

    Bobiverse

    Dennis E. Taylor

    1 here · 28 all-time · #207 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 34,413 ratings on Amazon
  43. 1The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

    Haruki Murakami

    1 here · 26 all-time · #221 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 11,999 ratings on Amazon
  44. 1

    Shogun

    James Clavell

    1 here · 26 all-time · #223 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 27,634 ratings on Amazon
  45. 1

    Gravity's Rainbow

    Thomas Pynchon

    1 here · 25 all-time · #229 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 2,472 ratings on Amazon
  46. 1Poor Charlie's Almanack

    Poor Charlie's Almanack

    Charlie Munger

    1 here · 25 all-time · #230 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,930 ratings on Amazon
  47. 1

    Ubik

    Philip K. Dick

    1 here · 25 all-time · #234 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 7,135 ratings on Amazon
  48. 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
  49. 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
  50. 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
  51. 1

    Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

    Shunryu Suzuki

    1 here · 22 all-time · #278 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,757 ratings on Amazon
  52. 1Starship Troopers

    Starship Troopers

    Robert A. Heinlein

    1 here · 21 all-time · #292 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 20,764 ratings on Amazon
  53. 1

    The Way of Kings

    Brandon Sanderson

    1 here · 21 all-time · #305 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 89,508 ratings on Amazon
  54. 1The Idea Factory

    The Idea Factory

    Jon Gertner

    1 here · 19 all-time · #333 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,862 ratings on Amazon
  55. 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
  56. 1American Gods

    American Gods

    Neil Gaiman

    1 here · 15 all-time · #415 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 58,725 ratings on Amazon
  57. 1Good Omens

    Good Omens

    Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

    1 here · 14 all-time · #464 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 37,803 ratings on Amazon
  58. 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
  59. 1Illusions

    Illusions

    Richard Bach

    1 here · 14 all-time · #468 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 7,139 ratings on Amazon
  60. 1Cannery Row

    Cannery Row

    John Steinbeck

    1 here · 12 all-time · #520 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 9,068 ratings on Amazon
  61. 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
  62. 12001: A Space Odyssey

    2001: A Space Odyssey

    Arthur C. Clarke

    1 here · 11 all-time · #572 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 11,089 ratings on Amazon
  63. 1Little Brother

    Little Brother

    Cory Doctorow

    1 here · 11 all-time · #590 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 2,324 ratings on Amazon
  64. 1Three Men in a Boat

    Three Men in a Boat

    Jerome K. Jerome

    1 here · 9 all-time · #757 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.1 out of 5, 7,432 ratings on Amazon
  65. 1Endymion

    Endymion

    Dan Simmons

    1 here · 8 all-time · #827 overall

  66. 1World War Z

    World War Z

    Max Brooks

    1 here · 7 all-time · #922 overall

  67. 1Franny and Zooey

    Franny and Zooey

    J. D. Salinger

    1 here · 7 all-time · #939 overall

  68. 1The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

    The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

    Edmund Morris

    1 here · 7 all-time · #943 overall

  69. 1The Godfather

    The Godfather

    Mario Puzo

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1061 overall

  70. 1Robinson Crusoe

    Robinson Crusoe

    Daniel Defoe

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1072 overall

  71. 1Fight Club

    Fight Club

    Chuck Palahniuk

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1119 overall

  72. 1Ready, Fire, Aim

    Ready, Fire, Aim

    Michael Masterson

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1235 overall

  73. 1The Book of Five Rings

    The Book of Five Rings

    Miyamoto Musashi

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1287 overall

  74. 1The Wizard of Oz

    The Wizard of Oz

    L. Frank Baum

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1297 overall

  75. 1The Giver

    The Giver

    Lois Lowry

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1324 overall

  76. 1The Gap

    The Gap

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1359 overall

  77. 1The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

    The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

    Claire North

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1391 overall

  78. 1Running Lean

    Running Lean

    Ash Maurya

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1414 overall

  79. 1Neverwhere

    Neverwhere

    Neil Gaiman

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1471 overall

  80. 1Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1566 overall

  81. 1Farmer in the Sky

    Farmer in the Sky

    Robert A. Heinlein

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1570 overall

  82. 1The Chrysalids

    The Chrysalids

    John Wyndham

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1590 overall

  83. 1Honor Harrington

    Honor Harrington

    David Weber

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1607 overall

  84. 1The Earthsea Series

    The Earthsea Series

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1676 overall

  85. 1The Tripod Trilogy

    The Tripod Trilogy

    John Christopher

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2061 overall

  86. 1The Pilgrim's Progress

    The Pilgrim's Progress

    John Bunyan

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2122 overall

  87. 1Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

    Lewis Carroll

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2220 overall

  88. 1Hannibal

    Hannibal

    Thomas Harris

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2233 overall

  89. 1Where the Red Fern Grows

    Where the Red Fern Grows

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2234 overall

  90. 1Magician

    Magician

    Raymond E. Feist

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2235 overall

  91. 1Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver's Travels

    Jonathan Swift

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2429 overall

  92. 1Clear and Simple as the Truth

    Clear and Simple as the Truth

    Noel and Turner

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2516 overall