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2017-07-11 · 70 points · 63 comments · 15 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
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
3 here · 41 all-time · #9 overall
3The Book of the New Sun
The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe
3 here · 11 all-time · #119 overall
2Homo Deus
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
2 here · 9 all-time · #151 overall
2Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Luo Guanzhong
2 here · 4 all-time · #429 overall
1The Three-Body Problem
The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin
1 here · 36 all-time · #11 overall
1
Code
Charles Petzold
1 here · 27 all-time · #17 overall
1Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
1 here · 13 all-time · #86 overall
1The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
1 here · 12 all-time · #98 overall
1Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach
1 here · 10 all-time · #138 overall
1Mathematics
Mathematics
Timothy Gowers
1 here · 7 all-time · #182 overall
1Nexus
Nexus
Ramez Naam
1 here · 6 all-time · #229 overall
1Mars trilogy
Mars trilogy
Kim Stanley Robinson
1 here · 4 all-time · #390 overall
1Pale Blue Dot
Pale Blue Dot
Carl Sagan
1 here · 3 all-time · #539 overall
1In Search of Lost Time
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
1 here · 3 all-time · #545 overall
1Racing the Beam
Racing the Beam
Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort
1 here · 3 all-time · #553 overall