Bad Blood by John CarreyrouWorm by WildbowThe Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven PinkerReady Player One by Ernest ClineThe Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze
4+ Stars on Gwern.net
41st out of 95 books — 7 voters
Expert Political Judgment by Philip E. TetlockHow to Measure Anything by Douglas W. HubbardA Tradecraft Primer by Central Intelligence AgencyCollaborative Intelligence by J. Richard HackmanPsychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards J. Heuer Jr.
Best books for intelligence analysts
9th out of 13 books — 8 voters

Quiet by Susan CainThe Invention of Nature by Andrea WulfEnergy and Civilization by Vaclav SmilReality is Not What it Seems by Carlo RovelliThe Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Farnam Street - The Books I’ve Read in 2017
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AI Doctor by Ronald M. RazmiPattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. BishopUnmasking AI by Joy BuolamwiniThe Coming Wave by Mustafa SuleymanThe Elements of Statistical Learning by Trevor Hastie
Machine Learning
97th out of 102 books — 111 voters

Cosmos by Carl SaganSurely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman1984 by George OrwellA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter
A Nerd's Guide to Reading
137th out of 255 books — 76 voters
Blink by Malcolm GladwellPredictably Irrational by Dan ArielyThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Intelligent Investor by Benjamin GrahamElements of the Philosophy of Right by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Non Fiction Plans for 2016
31st out of 33 books — 2 voters

Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah BlumBonk by Mary RoachGulp by Mary Roach
Popular Science Books Written By Women
93rd out of 181 books — 71 voters

Mind Fields by Julia FultonThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirSeven Beyond by Stella AtriumA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Philosophy Written By Women
113th out of 229 books — 61 voters
An Introduction to Statistical Learning by Gareth JamesMachine Learning by Samuel HackMachine Learning Mathematics by Samuel HackNatural Language Processing with PyTorch by Delip RaoMachine Learning by Samuel Hack
Big Data, Data Science & Machine Learning
17th out of 27 books — 4 voters

The Theory That Would Not Die by Sharon Bertsch McGrayneEat Stop Eat by Brad PilonThe Okinawa Flat Belly Tonic System by Mike BannerA First Course in Bayesian Statistical Methods by Peter D. HoffThe Smoothie Diet by Drew Sgoutas
In the Church of the Reverend Bayes
1st out of 17 books — 2 voters
The Foundations of Scientific Inference by Wesley C. SalmonThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. TufteFooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas TalebAntifragile by Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Book of Why by Judea Pearl
Non-Stats Books for Statisticians
16th out of 29 books — 1 voter

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayThe One Year Chronological Bible, NIV by AnonymousNicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
Most Excellent Books
72nd out of 226 books — 6 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondMath Jokes by Ralph LaneThe Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. FeynmanThe Lessons of History by Will DurantThe Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Polymath's Library
213th out of 257 books — 69 voters