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2024-08-13 · 28 points · 46 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. 2

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    Alexandre Dumas

    2 here · 70 all-time · #50 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 12,487 ratings on Amazon
  2. 2

    The Iliad

    Homer

    2 here · 28 all-time · #201 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 5,214 ratings on Amazon
  3. 2The Mayor of Casterbridge

    The Mayor of Casterbridge

    Thomas Hardy

    2 here · 3 all-time · #2572 overall

  4. 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
  5. 1

    Meditations

    Marcus Aurelius

    1 here · 165 all-time · #10 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 21,552 ratings on Amazon
  6. 1

    Siddhartha

    Hermann Hesse

    1 here · 97 all-time · #31 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 18,150 ratings on Amazon
  7. 1The Brothers Karamazov

    The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    1 here · 69 all-time · #51 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 3,359 ratings on Amazon
  8. 1

    Ulysses

    James Joyce

    1 here · 55 all-time · #71 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 3,819 ratings on Amazon
  9. 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
  10. 1

    Don Quixote

    Miguel de Cervantes

    1 here · 33 all-time · #161 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 3,758 ratings on Amazon
  11. 1

    The Odyssey

    Homer

    1 here · 28 all-time · #200 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 5,214 ratings on Amazon
  12. 1Harvard Classics

    Harvard Classics

    Charles W. Eliot

    1 here · 28 all-time · #209 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 308 ratings on Amazon
  13. 1

    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    Gabriel García Márquez

    1 here · 25 all-time · #231 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 9,706 ratings on Amazon
  14. 1The Old Man and the Sea

    The Old Man and the Sea

    Ernest Hemingway

    1 here · 23 all-time · #256 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 42,509 ratings on Amazon
  15. 1

    Flatland

    Edwin A. Abbott

    1 here · 23 all-time · #261 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 5,255 ratings on Amazon
  16. 1

    Grapes of Wrath

    John Steinbeck

    1 here · 22 all-time · #269 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 25,575 ratings on Amazon
  17. 1

    Candide

    Voltaire

    1 here · 21 all-time · #297 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 5,755 ratings on Amazon
  18. 1

    Stoner

    John Williams

    1 here · 20 all-time · #326 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 24,233 ratings on Amazon
  19. 1Notes from Underground

    Notes from Underground

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    1 here · 15 all-time · #414 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 5,859 ratings on Amazon
  20. 1The Aeneid

    The Aeneid

    Virgil

    1 here · 8 all-time · #802 overall

  21. 1Jude the Obscure

    Jude the Obscure

    Thomas Hardy

    1 here · 7 all-time · #1025 overall

  22. 1The Consolation of Philosophy

    The Consolation of Philosophy

    Boethius

    1 here · 7 all-time · #1032 overall

  23. 1Mahabharata

    Mahabharata

    Ramesh Menon

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1162 overall

  24. 1My Antonia

    My Antonia

    Willa Cather

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1306 overall

  25. 1The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

    The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

    Naval Ravikant

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1558 overall

  26. 1White Fang

    White Fang

    Jack London

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2179 overall

  27. 1Epic of Gilgamesh

    Epic of Gilgamesh

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2182 overall

  28. 1Call of the Wild

    Call of the Wild

    Jack London

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2394 overall