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2012-05-17 · 13 points · 27 comments · 27 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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Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely
4 here · 35 all-time · #144 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 11,450 ratings on Amazon
2Old Man's War
Old Man's War
John Scalzi
2 here · 21 all-time · #295 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 32,356 ratings on Amazon
2
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
2 here · 20 all-time · #313 overall
Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 5,474 ratings on Amazon
1
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
1 here · 173 all-time · #9 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 22,012 ratings on Amazon
1
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
1 here · 101 all-time · #28 overall
Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 30,738 ratings on Amazon
1
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
1 here · 67 all-time · #57 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 4,777 ratings on Amazon
1
The Righteous Mind
Jonathan Haidt
1 here · 57 all-time · #66 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 12,156 ratings on Amazon
1
Daemon
Daniel Suarez
1 here · 52 all-time · #78 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 6,091 ratings on Amazon
1
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
1 here · 41 all-time · #118 overall
Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 21,706 ratings on Amazon
1
The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Steve Blank
1 here · 36 all-time · #137 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 673 ratings on Amazon
1
The Game
Neil Strauss
1 here · 26 all-time · #224 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 6,899 ratings on Amazon
1
Roadside Picnic
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
1 here · 25 all-time · #237 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 4,708 ratings on Amazon
1
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
1 here · 24 all-time · #243 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 39,314 ratings on Amazon
1
Freedom
Daniel Suarez
1 here · 23 all-time · #260 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 5,152 ratings on Amazon
1In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
1 here · 18 all-time · #353 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 2,507 ratings on Amazon
1How to Get Rich
How to Get Rich
Felix Dennis
1 here · 15 all-time · #443 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,644 ratings on Amazon
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
1The New Jim Crow
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
1 here · 11 all-time · #564 overall
Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 16,634 ratings on Amazon
1The Startup Owner's Manual
The Startup Owner's Manual
Steve Blank
1 here · 10 all-time · #669 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 915 ratings on Amazon
1Blue Ocean Strategy
Blue Ocean Strategy
W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
1 here · 9 all-time · #698 overall
1Understanding Media
Understanding Media
Marshall McLuhan
1 here · 6 all-time · #1078 overall
1Business Model Generation
Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwalder
1 here · 5 all-time · #1402 overall
1All the Pretty Horses
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
1 here · 4 all-time · #1614 overall
1The Strangest Man
The Strangest Man
Graham Farmelo
1 here · 4 all-time · #1776 overall
1The Monk and the Riddle
The Monk and the Riddle
Randy Komisar
1 here · 4 all-time · #1903 overall
1Discourse on Method
Discourse on Method
René Descartes
1 here · 4 all-time · #1904 overall
1The Psychopath Test
The Psychopath Test
Jon Ronson
1 here · 3 all-time · #2099 overall