The books people recommended
2007-12-04 · 43 points · 80 comments · 88 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.
- 13
- 4The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- 4Cryptonomicon
- 4Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
- 4The Lord of the Rings
- 4Nineteen Eighty-Four
- 4Sherlock Holmes
- 3Dune
- 3
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman
3 here · 49 all-time · #7 overall
- 3House of Leaves
- 3The Diamond Age
- 2
- 2
- 2The Design of Everyday Things
- 2Snow Crash
- 2Getting Things Done
- 2The Alchemist
- 2Freakonomics
- 2Liar's Poker
- 2The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- 2The Great Gatsby
- 2Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
- 1
- 1
- 1Neuromancer
- 1The Mythical Man-Month
- 1Siddhartha
- 1Guns, Germs, and Steel
- 1Animal Farm
- 1Brave New World
- 1The Pragmatic Programmer
- 1Peopleware
- 1Walden
- 1The Illuminatus Trilogy
- 1Crime and Punishment
- 1Infinite Jest
- 1A Canticle for Leibowitz
- 1Slaughterhouse-Five
- 1Blood Meridian
- 1The Book of the New Sun
- 1Stranger in a Strange Land
- 1A Fire Upon the Deep
- 1A Deepness in the Sky
- 1Ubik
- 1The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
1 here · 10 all-time · #144 overall
- 1Hyperion
- 1The Odyssey
- 1The Blind Watchmaker
- 1The Wheel of Time
- 1Use of Weapons
- 1The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
- 1The Hobbit
- 1Getting to Yes
- 1Metamagical Themas
- 1The Mind's I
- 1The Wealth of Nations
- 1Flow
- 1Treasure Island
- 1The Art of Learning
- 1Prometheus Rising
- 1The Undercover Economist
- 12001: A Space Odyssey
- 1Baroque Cycle
- 1The Silmarillion
- 1The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- 1
- 1The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- 1Shogun
- 1Hackers
- 1Open Society and Its Enemies
- 1The Dark Tower
- 1Founders at Work
- 1Sophie's World
- 1Dubliners
- 1Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
- 1Confessions of an Economic Hitman
- 1How the Mind Works
- 1The Black Company
- 1The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- 1Shantaram
- 1Watership Down
- 1Kafka on the Shore
- 1Otherland
- 1Secrets of Consulting
- 1Are Your Lights On?
- 1Hero with a Thousand Faces
- 1Blink
- 1Think and Grow Rich