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2013-06-11 · 13 points · 27 comments · 39 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. 5

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    5 here · 24 all-time · #247 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 16,338 ratings on Amazon
  2. 2The Old Testament

    The Old Testament

    2 here · 3 all-time · #2491 overall

  3. 1

    Gödel, Escher, Bach

    Douglas Hofstadter

    1 here · 347 all-time · #1 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 2,713 ratings on Amazon
  4. 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
  5. 1

    Black Swan

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    1 here · 110 all-time · #19 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 8,277 ratings on Amazon
  6. 1

    Code Complete

    Steve McConnell

    1 here · 108 all-time · #22 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,353 ratings on Amazon
  7. 1

    The Design of Everyday Things

    Don Norman

    1 here · 95 all-time · #33 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 8,629 ratings on Amazon
  8. 1

    The Diamond Age

    Neal Stephenson

    1 here · 64 all-time · #58 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 5,358 ratings on Amazon
  9. 1

    The Alchemist

    Paulo Coelho

    1 here · 52 all-time · #77 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 184,313 ratings on Amazon
  10. 1

    Founders at Work

    Jessica Livingston

    1 here · 51 all-time · #80 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 689 ratings on Amazon
  11. 1

    Outliers

    Malcolm Gladwell

    1 here · 44 all-time · #103 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 39,353 ratings on Amazon
  12. 1

    The Dispossessed

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    1 here · 42 all-time · #113 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 9,037 ratings on Amazon
  13. 1

    The Four Steps to the Epiphany

    Steve Blank

    1 here · 36 all-time · #137 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 673 ratings on Amazon
  14. 1

    The Little Prince

    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

    1 here · 29 all-time · #194 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 13,029 ratings on Amazon
  15. 1

    The Iliad

    Homer

    1 here · 28 all-time · #201 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 5,214 ratings on Amazon
  16. 1

    JavaScript: The Good Parts

    Douglas Crockford

    1 here · 28 all-time · #206 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 1,478 ratings on Amazon
  17. 1Reamde

    Reamde

    Neal Stephenson

    1 here · 26 all-time · #218 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 5,708 ratings on Amazon
  18. 1

    Steve Jobs

    Walter Isaacson

    1 here · 24 all-time · #245 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 26,863 ratings on Amazon
  19. 1

    Eloquent JavaScript

    Marijn Haverbeke

    1 here · 22 all-time · #283 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,797 ratings on Amazon
  20. 1Crossing the Chasm

    Crossing the Chasm

    Geoffrey Moore

    1 here · 21 all-time · #286 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,624 ratings on Amazon
  21. 1Moonwalking with Einstein

    Moonwalking with Einstein

    Joshua Foer

    1 here · 18 all-time · #357 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 10,911 ratings on Amazon
  22. 1Blink

    Blink

    Malcolm Gladwell

    1 here · 17 all-time · #375 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 14,166 ratings on Amazon
  23. 1Hacking

    Hacking

    Jon Erickson

    1 here · 14 all-time · #461 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,602 ratings on Amazon
  24. 1The New Jim Crow

    The New Jim Crow

    Michelle Alexander

    1 here · 11 all-time · #564 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 16,634 ratings on Amazon
  25. 1The Art of the Start

    The Art of the Start

    Guy Kawasaki

    1 here · 11 all-time · #578 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,667 ratings on Amazon
  26. 1The Undercover Economist

    The Undercover Economist

    Tim Harford

    1 here · 10 all-time · #635 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 1,821 ratings on Amazon
  27. 1A New Kind of Science

    A New Kind of Science

    Stephen Wolfram

    1 here · 9 all-time · #756 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 688 ratings on Amazon
  28. 1Mastering The Complex Sale

    Mastering The Complex Sale

    Jeff Thull

    1 here · 8 all-time · #807 overall

  29. 1Choose Yourself

    Choose Yourself

    James Altucher

    1 here · 7 all-time · #962 overall

  30. 1The New Testament

    The New Testament

    NT Wright

    1 here · 7 all-time · #965 overall

  31. 1Journey Through Genius

    Journey Through Genius

    William Dunham

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1066 overall

  32. 1For Whom the Bell Tolls

    For Whom the Bell Tolls

    Ernest Hemingway

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1087 overall

  33. 1The Tipping Point

    The Tipping Point

    Malcolm Gladwell

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1091 overall

  34. 1Madame Bovary

    Madame Bovary

    Gustave Flaubert

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1278 overall

  35. 1How to Create a Mind

    How to Create a Mind

    Ray Kurzweil

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1396 overall

  36. 1This Book Is Full of Spiders

    This Book Is Full of Spiders

    David Wong

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2059 overall

  37. 1The Prime Solution

    The Prime Solution

    Jeff Thull

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2226 overall

  38. 1Exceptional Selling

    Exceptional Selling

    Jeff Thull

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2227 overall

  39. 1Selling to VITO

    Selling to VITO

    Parinello

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2458 overall