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2009-07-20 · 13 points · 45 comments · 41 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. 3

    Gödel, Escher, Bach

    Douglas Hofstadter

    3 here · 347 all-time · #1 overall

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

    Anathem

    Neal Stephenson

    2 here · 83 all-time · #40 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 5,275 ratings on Amazon
  3. 2

    Accelerando

    Charles Stross

    2 here · 33 all-time · #162 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 1,553 ratings on Amazon
  4. 2Halting State

    Halting State

    Charles Stross

    2 here · 9 all-time · #745 overall

  5. 1

    The C Programming Language

    Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie

    1 here · 124 all-time · #15 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 182 ratings on Amazon
  6. 1

    Neuromancer

    William Gibson

    1 here · 117 all-time · #17 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 20,213 ratings on Amazon
  7. 1

    1984

    George Orwell

    1 here · 94 all-time · #34 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 126,118 ratings on Amazon
  8. 1

    The Fountainhead

    Ayn Rand

    1 here · 90 all-time · #36 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 12,667 ratings on Amazon
  9. 1

    Guns, Germs, and Steel

    Jared Diamond

    1 here · 83 all-time · #39 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 14,634 ratings on Amazon
  10. 1

    Infinite Jest

    David Foster Wallace

    1 here · 75 all-time · #44 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 6,443 ratings on Amazon
  11. 1

    The Power Broker

    Robert Caro

    1 here · 50 all-time · #86 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 3,176 ratings on Amazon
  12. 1

    Mistborn

    Brandon Sanderson

    1 here · 41 all-time · #119 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 60,557 ratings on Amazon
  13. 1

    The 48 Laws of Power

    Robert Greene

    1 here · 36 all-time · #136 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 90,218 ratings on Amazon
  14. 1

    I Am a Strange Loop

    Douglas Hofstadter

    1 here · 33 all-time · #159 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 1,069 ratings on Amazon
  15. 1

    Flow

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

    1 here · 33 all-time · #166 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 7,594 ratings on Amazon
  16. 1

    The Odyssey

    Homer

    1 here · 28 all-time · #200 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 5,214 ratings on Amazon
  17. 1A People's History of the United States

    A People's History of the United States

    Howard Zinn

    1 here · 25 all-time · #232 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 17,556 ratings on Amazon
  18. 1Rendezvous with Rama

    Rendezvous with Rama

    Arthur C. Clarke

    1 here · 25 all-time · #233 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 16,602 ratings on Amazon
  19. 1

    The Road

    Cormac McCarthy

    1 here · 24 all-time · #243 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 39,314 ratings on Amazon
  20. 1

    Cat's Cradle

    Kurt Vonnegut

    1 here · 22 all-time · #277 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 13,339 ratings on Amazon
  21. 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
  22. 1

    Getting Real

    37 Signals

    1 here · 20 all-time · #310 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 281 ratings on Amazon
  23. 1Lord of Light

    Lord of Light

    Roger Zelazny

    1 here · 16 all-time · #405 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 1,960 ratings on Amazon
  24. 1The Effective Executive

    The Effective Executive

    Peter Drucker

    1 here · 14 all-time · #457 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 3,714 ratings on Amazon
  25. 1Childhood's End

    Childhood's End

    Arthur C. Clarke

    1 here · 13 all-time · #480 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 15,230 ratings on Amazon
  26. 1Managing Humans

    Managing Humans

    Michael Lopp

    1 here · 12 all-time · #543 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 529 ratings on Amazon
  27. 1Little Brother

    Little Brother

    Cory Doctorow

    1 here · 11 all-time · #590 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 2,324 ratings on Amazon
  28. 1Real World Haskell

    Real World Haskell

    Paul Chiusano, Jonathan Lam

    1 here · 10 all-time · #640 overall

  29. 1Anthem

    Anthem

    Ayn Rand

    1 here · 8 all-time · #783 overall

  30. 1The Screwtape Letters

    The Screwtape Letters

    C.S. Lewis

    1 here · 8 all-time · #797 overall

  31. 1Master and Commander

    Master and Commander

    Patrick O'Brian

    1 here · 8 all-time · #857 overall

  32. 1The World Is Flat

    The World Is Flat

    Thomas Friedman

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1239 overall

  33. 1Programming in Scala

    Programming in Scala

    Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, Bill Venners

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1255 overall

  34. 1The Art of Software Security Assessment

    The Art of Software Security Assessment

    Mark Dow

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1371 overall

  35. 1In Defense of Food

    In Defense of Food

    Michael Pollan

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1372 overall

  36. 1Mind Magic

    Mind Magic

    Bill Harvey

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1562 overall

  37. 1Roughing It

    Roughing It

    Mark Twain

    1 here · 3 all-time · #1993 overall

  38. 1Beautiful Code

    Beautiful Code

    Greg Wilson, Andy Oram

    1 here · 3 all-time · #1998 overall

  39. 1The Atrocity Archives

    The Atrocity Archives

    Charles Stross

    1 here · 3 all-time · #1999 overall

  40. 1Infoquake

    Infoquake

    David Louis Edelman

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2000 overall

  41. 1The Double

    The Double

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2001 overall