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2012-10-01 · 16 points · 40 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.

3
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
3 here · 106 all-time · #23 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 8,425 ratings on Amazon
2Moonwalking with Einstein
Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer
2 here · 18 all-time · #357 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 10,911 ratings on Amazon
2Linchpin
Linchpin
Seth Godin
2 here · 8 all-time · #810 overall
2The Gift of Fear
The Gift of Fear
Gavin de Becker
2 here · 5 all-time · #1379 overall
1
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert Pirsig
1 here · 193 all-time · #5 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 13,921 ratings on Amazon
1
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
1 here · 165 all-time · #10 overall
Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 21,552 ratings on Amazon
1
Neuromancer
William Gibson
1 here · 117 all-time · #17 overall
Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 20,213 ratings on Amazon
1
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
1 here · 56 all-time · #68 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 17,985 ratings on Amazon
1
Ulysses
James Joyce
1 here · 55 all-time · #71 overall
Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 3,819 ratings on Amazon
1Rework
Rework
Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
1 here · 43 all-time · #106 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 11,954 ratings on Amazon
1
The Republic
Plato
1 here · 32 all-time · #174 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 1,034 ratings on Amazon
1
The Innovator's Dilemma
Clayton Christensen
1 here · 30 all-time · #185 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 4,076 ratings on Amazon
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
1
Wool
Hugh Howey
1 here · 23 all-time · #262 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 53,808 ratings on Amazon
1Mindstorms
Mindstorms
Seymour Papert
1 here · 18 all-time · #350 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 146 ratings on Amazon
1Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Katie Hafner
1 here · 12 all-time · #554 overall
Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 650 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 Last Lecture
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
1 here · 11 all-time · #594 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 13,429 ratings on Amazon
1Red Mars
Red Mars
Kim Stanley Robinson
1 here · 10 all-time · #624 overall
Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 7,567 ratings on Amazon
1Classical Mechanics
Classical Mechanics
John R. Taylor
1 here · 9 all-time · #721 overall
1Lies My Teacher Told Me
Lies My Teacher Told Me
James W. Loewen
1 here · 7 all-time · #964 overall
1Chronicles of Narnia
Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis
1 here · 7 all-time · #1023 overall
1The Omnivore's Dilemma
The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan
1 here · 6 all-time · #1086 overall
1Zorba the Greek
Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis
1 here · 5 all-time · #1294 overall
1Clojure Programming
Clojure Programming
Chas Emerick, Brian Carper, Christophe Grad
1 here · 4 all-time · #1578 overall
1The Dilbert Principle
The Dilbert Principle
Scott Adams
1 here · 4 all-time · #1635 overall
1Causality
Causality
Judea Pearl
1 here · 4 all-time · #1788 overall
1To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
1 here · 4 all-time · #1789 overall