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2022-10-17 · 62 points · 40 comments · 28 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. 5Tokyo Vice

    Tokyo Vice

    Jake Adelstein

    5 here · 7 all-time · #1049 overall

  2. 2How the World Really Works

    How the World Really Works

    Vaclav Smil

    2 here · 9 all-time · #730 overall

  3. 2Empire of Pain

    Empire of Pain

    Patrick Radden Keefe

    2 here · 3 all-time · #2504 overall

  4. 1

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

    1 here · 178 all-time · #6 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 48,679 ratings on Amazon
  5. 1

    The Three-Body Problem

    Cixin Liu

    1 here · 152 all-time · #11 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 53,978 ratings on Amazon
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 1Rework

    Rework

    Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

    1 here · 43 all-time · #106 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 11,954 ratings on Amazon
  9. 1Endurance

    Endurance

    Alfred Lansing

    1 here · 37 all-time · #135 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 27,447 ratings on Amazon
  10. 1

    Hackers and Painters

    Paul Graham

    1 here · 36 all-time · #139 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 765 ratings on Amazon
  11. 1

    Flow

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

    1 here · 33 all-time · #166 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 7,594 ratings on Amazon
  12. 1The Dream Machine

    The Dream Machine

    M. Mitchell Waldrop

    1 here · 31 all-time · #184 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 307 ratings on Amazon
  13. 1

    The Dark Forest

    Cixin Liu

    1 here · 27 all-time · #210 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 34,505 ratings on Amazon
  14. 1

    Exhalation

    Ted Chiang

    1 here · 21 all-time · #298 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 14,849 ratings on Amazon
  15. 1

    An Elegant Puzzle

    Will Larson

    1 here · 20 all-time · #325 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 1,414 ratings on Amazon
  16. 1The Courage to Be Disliked

    The Courage to Be Disliked

    Ichiro Kishimi

    1 here · 14 all-time · #456 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 27,543 ratings on Amazon
  17. 1Essays

    Essays

    Michel de Montaigne

    1 here · 12 all-time · #546 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 750 ratings on Amazon
  18. 1Death's End

    Death's End

    Cixin Liu

    1 here · 11 all-time · #563 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 25,031 ratings on Amazon
  19. 1The Omnivore's Dilemma

    The Omnivore's Dilemma

    Michael Pollan

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1086 overall

  20. 1Klara and the Sun

    Klara and the Sun

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1150 overall

  21. 1Embassytown

    Embassytown

    China Miéville

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1259 overall

  22. 1The Sparrow

    The Sparrow

    Mary Doria Russell

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1641 overall

  23. 1Think Again

    Think Again

    Adam Grant

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1799 overall

  24. 1The Psychopath Test

    The Psychopath Test

    Jon Ronson

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2099 overall

  25. 1How to Live

    How to Live

    Sarah Bakewell

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2198 overall

  26. 1Lost Connections

    Lost Connections

    Johann Hari

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2223 overall

  27. 1Gnomon

    Gnomon

    Nick Harkaway

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2224 overall

  28. 1Freedom's Forge

    Freedom's Forge

    Arthur Herman

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2505 overall