Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022) ↗

The books people recommended

2024-02-04 · 388 points · 317 comments · 22 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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Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
206 here · 347 all-time · #1 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 2,713 ratings on Amazon
6
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
6 here · 178 all-time · #7 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 8,966 ratings on Amazon
5
Ulysses
James Joyce
5 here · 55 all-time · #71 overall
Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 3,819 ratings on Amazon
4
The Art of Computer Programming
Donald Knuth
4 here · 127 all-time · #14 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 203 ratings on Amazon
3
I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas Hofstadter
3 here · 33 all-time · #159 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 1,069 ratings on Amazon
3The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
3 here · 26 all-time · #221 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 11,999 ratings on Amazon
3Phenomenology of Spirit
Phenomenology of Spirit
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3 here · 8 all-time · #853 overall
2
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert Pirsig
2 here · 193 all-time · #5 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 13,921 ratings on Amazon
22001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
2 here · 11 all-time · #572 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 11,089 ratings on Amazon
2Shadows of the Mind
Shadows of the Mind
Roger Penrose
2 here · 3 all-time · #2503 overall
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
1
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
1 here · 24 all-time · #249 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,956 ratings on Amazon
1Sophie's World
Sophie's World
Jostein Gaarder
1 here · 18 all-time · #364 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 7,501 ratings on Amazon
1Metamagical Themas
Metamagical Themas
Douglas Hofstadter
1 here · 12 all-time · #518 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 119 ratings on Amazon
1Logicomix
Logicomix
Apostolos Doxiades, Christos Papadimitriou
1 here · 12 all-time · #523 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 953 ratings on Amazon
1Unsong
Unsong
David Z. Albert
1 here · 12 all-time · #548 overall
1Mother Night
Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut
1 here · 8 all-time · #873 overall
1Le Ton Beau de Marot
Le Ton Beau de Marot
Douglas Hofstadter
1 here · 7 all-time · #908 overall
1Gödel's Proof
Gödel's Proof
Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman
1 here · 6 all-time · #1121 overall
1Finnegan's Wake
Finnegan's Wake
Joyce
1 here · 5 all-time · #1484 overall
1Timequake
Timequake
Kurt Vonnegut
1 here · 4 all-time · #1685 overall
1Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin
Pushkin
1 here · 3 all-time · #2284 overall