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The books people recommended

2026-03-09 · 10 points · 29 comments · 18 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
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
3 here · 104 all-time · #24 overall
Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 5,595 ratings on Amazon
3
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
3 here · 24 all-time · #243 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 39,314 ratings on Amazon
2
Daemon
Daniel Suarez
2 here · 52 all-time · #78 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 6,091 ratings on Amazon
2
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
2 here · 33 all-time · #160 overall
Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 40,104 ratings on Amazon
2
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
2 here · 22 all-time · #274 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 83,380 ratings on Amazon
2Open
Open
Andre Agassi
2 here · 8 all-time · #826 overall
1
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
1 here · 152 all-time · #11 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 53,978 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
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
1 here · 88 all-time · #38 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 281,070 ratings on Amazon
1
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
1 here · 34 all-time · #153 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 40,601 ratings on Amazon
1
The Murderbot Diaries
Martha Wells
1 here · 29 all-time · #198 overall
Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 69,410 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
1Shadow Divers
Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson
1 here · 11 all-time · #587 overall
Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 5,689 ratings on Amazon
1Star Diaries
Star Diaries
Stanisław Lem
1 here · 6 all-time · #1156 overall
1The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
1 here · 5 all-time · #1389 overall
1The Book of Disquiet
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
1 here · 4 all-time · #1687 overall
1A Brief History of Intelligence
A Brief History of Intelligence
Michael Hanlon
1 here · 3 all-time · #2378 overall
1The Pearl
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
1 here · 3 all-time · #2563 overall