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2023-10-04 · 423 points · 206 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. 11

    Meditations

    Marcus Aurelius

    11 here · 165 all-time · #10 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 21,552 ratings on Amazon
  2. 8

    Atlas Shrugged

    Ayn Rand

    8 here · 173 all-time · #9 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 22,012 ratings on Amazon
  3. 8Meditations on First Philosophy

    Meditations on First Philosophy

    René Descartes

    8 here · 12 all-time · #559 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 774 ratings on Amazon
  4. 6

    The Art of Computer Programming

    Donald Knuth

    6 here · 127 all-time · #14 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 203 ratings on Amazon
  5. 5

    Code

    Charles Petzold

    5 here · 147 all-time · #12 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,787 ratings on Amazon
  6. 4

    How to Win Friends and Influence People

    Dale Carnegie

    4 here · 175 all-time · #8 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 106,505 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. 2

    Dune

    Frank Herbert

    2 here · 250 all-time · #3 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 104,032 ratings on Amazon
  10. 2

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

    2 here · 178 all-time · #6 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 48,679 ratings on Amazon
  11. 2

    Black Swan

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    2 here · 110 all-time · #19 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 8,277 ratings on Amazon
  12. 2The Elements of Computing Systems

    The Elements of Computing Systems

    Nisan and Schocken

    2 here · 58 all-time · #65 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 416 ratings on Amazon
  13. 2Principia Mathematica

    Principia Mathematica

    Isaac Newton

    2 here · 12 all-time · #557 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 20 ratings on Amazon
  14. 2The Origin of Species

    The Origin of Species

    Charles Darwin

    2 here · 10 all-time · #637 overall

  15. 2Mein Kampf

    Mein Kampf

    Adolf Hitler

    2 here · 6 all-time · #1112 overall

  16. 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
  17. 1

    Sapiens

    Yuval Noah Harari

    1 here · 197 all-time · #4 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 133,705 ratings on Amazon
  18. 1

    Snow Crash

    Neal Stephenson

    1 here · 119 all-time · #16 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 20,720 ratings on Amazon
  19. 1

    The Lord of the Rings

    J.R.R. Tolkien

    1 here · 114 all-time · #18 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.9 out of 5, 14,620 ratings on Amazon
  20. 1

    The Pragmatic Programmer

    Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

    1 here · 102 all-time · #26 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 3,644 ratings on Amazon
  21. 1

    Antifragile

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    1 here · 100 all-time · #29 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 8,430 ratings on Amazon
  22. 1

    The Design of Everyday Things

    Don Norman

    1 here · 95 all-time · #33 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 8,629 ratings on Amazon
  23. 1

    Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

    Richard Feynman

    1 here · 90 all-time · #35 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 13,344 ratings on Amazon
  24. 1

    The Fountainhead

    Ayn Rand

    1 here · 90 all-time · #36 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 12,667 ratings on Amazon
  25. 1

    Fooled by Randomness

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    1 here · 81 all-time · #41 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 6,682 ratings on Amazon
  26. 1

    Deep Work

    Cal Newport

    1 here · 72 all-time · #46 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,713 ratings on Amazon
  27. 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
  28. 1

    The Little Schemer

    Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

    1 here · 51 all-time · #81 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 185 ratings on Amazon
  29. 1

    The Power Broker

    Robert Caro

    1 here · 50 all-time · #86 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 3,176 ratings on Amazon
  30. 1

    Clean Code

    Robert C. Martin

    1 here · 47 all-time · #91 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 6,810 ratings on Amazon
  31. 1Working Effectively with Legacy Code

    Working Effectively with Legacy Code

    Michael Feathers

    1 here · 41 all-time · #122 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 739 ratings on Amazon
  32. 1

    East of Eden

    John Steinbeck

    1 here · 36 all-time · #141 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 23,886 ratings on Amazon
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 1

    Flatland

    Edwin A. Abbott

    1 here · 23 all-time · #261 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 5,255 ratings on Amazon
  37. 1Das Kapital

    Das Kapital

    Karl Marx

    1 here · 7 all-time · #915 overall

  38. 1The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1065 overall

  39. 1The Ancestor's Tale

    The Ancestor's Tale

    Richard Dawkins

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1145 overall

  40. 1Upanishads

    Upanishads

    Eknath Easwaran

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1376 overall

  41. 1Battlefield Earth

    Battlefield Earth

    L. Ron Hubbard

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1420 overall

  42. 1The Passenger

    The Passenger

    Cormac McCarthy

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1615 overall

  43. 1The Very Hungry Caterpillar

    The Very Hungry Caterpillar

    Eric Carle

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2010 overall

  44. 1Gruffalo

    Gruffalo

    Julia Donaldson

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2011 overall