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2018-05-11 · 513 points · 374 comments · 26 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. 2The Dispossessed

    The Dispossessed

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    2 here · 14 all-time · #75 overall

  2. 1

    Gödel, Escher, Bach

    Douglas Hofstadter

    1 here · 82 all-time · #1 overall

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  3. 1

    Sapiens

    Yuval Noah Harari

    1 here · 41 all-time · #9 overall

  4. 1Antifragile

    Antifragile

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    1 here · 29 all-time · #15 overall

  5. 1The Brothers Karamazov

    The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    1 here · 26 all-time · #20 overall

  6. 1The Goal

    The Goal

    Eliyahu M. Goldratt

    1 here · 24 all-time · #26 overall

  7. 1Fooled by Randomness

    Fooled by Randomness

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    1 here · 23 all-time · #28 overall

  8. 1Thinking in Systems

    Thinking in Systems

    Donella Meadows

    1 here · 23 all-time · #31 overall

  9. 1Getting Things Done

    Getting Things Done

    David Allen

    1 here · 17 all-time · #55 overall

  10. 1Man's Search for Meaning

    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor Frankl

    1 here · 15 all-time · #66 overall

  11. 1Walden

    Walden

    Henry David Thoreau

    1 here · 14 all-time · #73 overall

  12. 1Crime and Punishment

    Crime and Punishment

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    1 here · 13 all-time · #84 overall

  13. 1Tao Te Ching

    Tao Te Ching

    Lao Tzu

    1 here · 13 all-time · #86 overall

  14. 1Slaughterhouse-Five

    Slaughterhouse-Five

    Kurt Vonnegut

    1 here · 12 all-time · #106 overall

  15. 1Outliers

    Outliers

    Malcolm Gladwell

    1 here · 11 all-time · #112 overall

  16. 1Crucial Conversations

    Crucial Conversations

    Kerry Patterson

    1 here · 11 all-time · #117 overall

  17. 1The Magic Mountain

    The Magic Mountain

    Thomas Mann

    1 here · 9 all-time · #148 overall

  18. 1Narcissus and Goldmund

    Narcissus and Goldmund

    Hermann Hesse

    1 here · 8 all-time · #173 overall

  19. 1East of Eden

    East of Eden

    John Steinbeck

    1 here · 7 all-time · #191 overall

  20. 1Shoe Dog

    Shoe Dog

    Phil Knight

    1 here · 5 all-time · #263 overall

  21. 1Skin in the Game

    Skin in the Game

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    1 here · 5 all-time · #274 overall

  22. 1Born a Crime

    Born a Crime

    Trevor Noah

    1 here · 4 all-time · #365 overall

  23. 1The Anatomy of Peace

    The Anatomy of Peace

    Arbinger Institute

    1 here · 4 all-time · #379 overall

  24. 1On the Road

    On the Road

    Jack Kerouac

    1 here · 4 all-time · #391 overall

  25. 1The Myth of Sisyphus

    The Myth of Sisyphus

    Albert Camus

    1 here · 4 all-time · #421 overall

  26. 1When Breath Becomes Air

    When Breath Becomes Air

    Paul Kalanithi

    1 here · 3 all-time · #551 overall