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Books I Loved Reading in 2024 ↗

The books people recommended

2025-01-01 · 416 points · 175 comments · 68 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. 6All Systems Red

    All Systems Red

    Martha Wells

    6 here · 11 all-time · #609 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 69,410 ratings on Amazon
  2. 5Midnight's Children

    Midnight's Children

    Salman Rushdie

    5 here · 10 all-time · #685 overall

  3. 4There Is No Antimemetics Division

    There Is No Antimemetics Division

    qntm

    4 here · 12 all-time · #547 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 13,323 ratings on Amazon
  4. 4Cicero

    Cicero

    Robert Harris

    4 here · 5 all-time · #1524 overall

  5. 3

    The Murderbot Diaries

    Martha Wells

    3 here · 29 all-time · #198 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 69,410 ratings on Amazon
  6. 3Systemantics

    Systemantics

    John Gall

    3 here · 8 all-time · #831 overall

  7. 3Chemistry

    Chemistry

    Nivaldo Tro

    3 here · 8 all-time · #894 overall

  8. 2Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

    Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

    Eliezer Yudkowsky

    2 here · 101 all-time · #27 overall

    Buy on Amazon
  9. 2

    Siddhartha

    Hermann Hesse

    2 here · 97 all-time · #31 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 18,150 ratings on Amazon
  10. 2

    The Master and Margarita

    Mikhail Bulgakov

    2 here · 67 all-time · #57 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 4,777 ratings on Amazon
  11. 2Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

    Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

    Haruki Murakami

    2 here · 15 all-time · #418 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 6,333 ratings on Amazon
  12. 2A Wizard of Earthsea

    A Wizard of Earthsea

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    2 here · 11 all-time · #567 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 16,402 ratings on Amazon
  13. 2The Gene: An Intimate History

    The Gene: An Intimate History

    Siddhartha Mukherjee

    2 here · 9 all-time · #710 overall

  14. 2Nuclear War: A Scenario

    Nuclear War: A Scenario

    Annie Jacobsen

    2 here · 6 all-time · #1228 overall

  15. 2Fundamentals: Ten Keys To Reality

    Fundamentals: Ten Keys To Reality

    Frank Wilczek

    2 here · 4 all-time · #1732 overall

  16. 2The Strangest Man

    The Strangest Man

    Graham Farmelo

    2 here · 4 all-time · #1776 overall

  17. 2Born Standing Up

    Born Standing Up

    Steve Martin

    2 here · 4 all-time · #1811 overall

  18. 2John Dies at the End

    John Dies at the End

    David Wong

    2 here · 4 all-time · #1946 overall

  19. 1

    Dune

    Frank Herbert

    1 here · 250 all-time · #3 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 104,032 ratings on Amazon
  20. 1

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

    1 here · 178 all-time · #6 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 48,679 ratings on Amazon
  21. 1

    How to Win Friends and Influence People

    Dale Carnegie

    1 here · 175 all-time · #8 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 106,505 ratings on Amazon
  22. 1

    Meditations

    Marcus Aurelius

    1 here · 165 all-time · #10 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 21,552 ratings on Amazon
  23. 1

    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor Frankl

    1 here · 95 all-time · #32 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 100,360 ratings on Amazon
  24. 1

    Project Hail Mary

    Andy Weir

    1 here · 88 all-time · #38 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 281,070 ratings on Amazon
  25. 1

    Anathem

    Neal Stephenson

    1 here · 83 all-time · #40 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 5,275 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

    Ulysses

    James Joyce

    1 here · 55 all-time · #71 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 3,819 ratings on Amazon
  28. 1

    Tao Te Ching

    Lao Tzu

    1 here · 53 all-time · #76 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 1,771 ratings on Amazon
  29. 1

    Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy

    1 here · 51 all-time · #83 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 13,344 ratings on Amazon
  30. 1

    Animal Farm

    George Orwell

    1 here · 48 all-time · #90 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 94,716 ratings on Amazon
  31. 1

    Red Rising

    Pierce Brown

    1 here · 35 all-time · #147 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 111,087 ratings on Amazon
  32. 1

    Flowers for Algernon

    Daniel Keyes

    1 here · 33 all-time · #160 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 40,104 ratings on Amazon
  33. 1

    The Glass Bead Game

    Hermann Hesse

    1 here · 33 all-time · #164 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 1,540 ratings on Amazon
  34. 1

    House of Leaves

    Mark Z. Danielewski

    1 here · 28 all-time · #203 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 14,466 ratings on Amazon
  35. 1

    A Canticle for Leibowitz

    Walter M. Miller Jr.

    1 here · 28 all-time · #205 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 5,243 ratings on Amazon
  36. 1Bobiverse

    Bobiverse

    Dennis E. Taylor

    1 here · 28 all-time · #207 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 34,413 ratings on Amazon
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 1

    A Brief History of Time

    Stephen Hawking

    1 here · 23 all-time · #259 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 11,605 ratings on Amazon
  40. 1

    Steppenwolf

    Hermann Hesse

    1 here · 22 all-time · #272 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 1,837 ratings on Amazon
  41. 1

    Riddley Walker

    Russell Hoban

    1 here · 22 all-time · #285 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.1 out of 5, 739 ratings on Amazon
  42. 1

    Nexus

    Ramez Naam

    1 here · 21 all-time · #288 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 3,715 ratings on Amazon
  43. 1Ancillary Justice

    Ancillary Justice

    Ann Leckie

    1 here · 21 all-time · #301 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 21,235 ratings on Amazon
  44. 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
  45. 1The Death and Life of Great American Cities

    The Death and Life of Great American Cities

    Jane Jacobs

    1 here · 15 all-time · #434 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,700 ratings on Amazon
  46. 1Dark Matter

    Dark Matter

    Blake Crouch

    1 here · 14 all-time · #458 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 92,485 ratings on Amazon
  47. 1The Idiot

    The Idiot

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    1 here · 13 all-time · #481 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,847 ratings on Amazon
  48. 1The Remains of the Day

    The Remains of the Day

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    1 here · 13 all-time · #491 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 29,067 ratings on Amazon
  49. 11491

    1491

    Charles C. Mann

    1 here · 12 all-time · #541 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 6,857 ratings on Amazon
  50. 1Immune

    Immune

    Philipp Dettmer

    1 here · 11 all-time · #588 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 9,532 ratings on Amazon
  51. 1Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

    Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

    Betty Edwards

    1 here · 11 all-time · #612 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 4,403 ratings on Amazon
  52. 1A Clockwork Orange

    A Clockwork Orange

    Anthony Burgess

    1 here · 8 all-time · #788 overall

  53. 1The Fall

    The Fall

    Albert Camus

    1 here · 7 all-time · #968 overall

  54. 1Convenience Store Woman

    Convenience Store Woman

    Sayaka Murata

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1254 overall

  55. 1A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    A Psalm for the Wild-Built

    Becky Chambers

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1270 overall

  56. 1On Tyranny

    On Tyranny

    Timothy Snyder

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1341 overall

  57. 1The God of Small Things

    The God of Small Things

    Arundhati Roy

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1389 overall

  58. 1The Sorrows of Young Werther

    The Sorrows of Young Werther

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1718 overall

  59. 1The Creative Act

    The Creative Act

    Rick Rubin

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1725 overall

  60. 1Commonwealth

    Commonwealth

    Peter F. Hamilton

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1792 overall

  61. 1Killers of the Flower Moon

    Killers of the Flower Moon

    David Grann

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1839 overall

  62. 1Pachinko

    Pachinko

    Min Jin Lee

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2044 overall

  63. 1Killing Commendatore

    Killing Commendatore

    Haruki Murakami

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2176 overall

  64. 1Gnomon

    Gnomon

    Nick Harkaway

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2224 overall

  65. 1Rifters

    Rifters

    Peter Watts

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2295 overall

  66. 1Babel

    Babel

    R. F. Kuang

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2333 overall

  67. 1The Philosophy of Mind

    The Philosophy of Mind

    John Heil

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2385 overall

  68. 1Monk in the Garden

    Monk in the Garden

    Robin Marantz Henig

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2613 overall