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2024-05-19 · 28 points · 54 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.

2
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
2 here · 347 all-time · #1 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 2,713 ratings on Amazon
2
Zero to One
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
2 here · 89 all-time · #37 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 40,093 ratings on Amazon
2
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
2 here · 24 all-time · #249 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,956 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
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
1 here · 36 all-time · #141 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 23,886 ratings on Amazon
1
The Dictator's Handbook
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
1 here · 29 all-time · #196 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,461 ratings on Amazon
1A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
1 here · 25 all-time · #232 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 17,556 ratings on Amazon
1
Flatland
Edwin A. Abbott
1 here · 23 all-time · #261 overall
Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 5,255 ratings on Amazon
1
Capital
Karl Marx
1 here · 21 all-time · #307 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,644 ratings on Amazon
1Prometheus Rising
Prometheus Rising
Robert Anton Wilson
1 here · 12 all-time · #522 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,187 ratings on Amazon
1Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost
John Milton
1 here · 11 all-time · #584 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 4,872 ratings on Amazon
1The Elephant in the Brain
The Elephant in the Brain
Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson
1 here · 10 all-time · #661 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 1,746 ratings on Amazon
1Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
1 here · 9 all-time · #727 overall
1Imagined Communities
Imagined Communities
Benedict Anderson
1 here · 8 all-time · #887 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 1,038 ratings on Amazon
1The Doors of Perception
The Doors of Perception
Aldous Huxley
1 here · 7 all-time · #927 overall
1The Master and His Emissary
The Master and His Emissary
Iain McGilchrist
1 here · 7 all-time · #959 overall
1Small Is Beautiful
Small Is Beautiful
E. F. Schumacher
1 here · 6 all-time · #1083 overall
1To Have or to Be
To Have or to Be
Erich Fromm
1 here · 5 all-time · #1293 overall
1Against Method
Against Method
Paul Feyerabend
1 here · 5 all-time · #1369 overall
1The Gay Science
The Gay Science
Friedrich Nietzsche
1 here · 5 all-time · #1415 overall
1On the Genealogy of Morality
On the Genealogy of Morality
Friedrich Nietzsche
1 here · 5 all-time · #1481 overall
1Post Office
Post Office
Charles Bukowski
1 here · 4 all-time · #1580 overall
1Technics and Civilization
Technics and Civilization
Lewis Mumford
1 here · 4 all-time · #1629 overall
1Why Materialism Is Baloney
Why Materialism Is Baloney
Bernardo Kastrup
1 here · 3 all-time · #2111 overall
1Where Is My Flying Car?
Where Is My Flying Car?
J Storrs Hall
1 here · 3 all-time · #2142 overall
1The Human Zoo
The Human Zoo
Desmond Morris
1 here · 3 all-time · #2143 overall
1The Enigma of Reason
The Enigma of Reason
Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber
1 here · 3 all-time · #2144 overall