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Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterChaos by James GleickThe Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas TalebThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Information by James Gleick
Complexity
14th out of 161 books — 164 voters
Complexity by Melanie MitchellSync by Steven H. StrogatzChaos by James GleickGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterA New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
Complex Systems (networks, ecology, etc.)
5th out of 62 books — 39 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsCosmos by Carl SaganGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Best General Science Books
111th out of 583 books — 490 voters
AI Doctor by Ronald M. RazmiLife 3.0 by Max TegmarkThe Book of Why by Judea PearlSuperintelligence by Nick BostromA Brief History of Intelligence by Max Solomon Bennett
Best Popular Computer Science Books on Goodreads
246th out of 292 books — 129 voters

The Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsSurely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanThe Greatest Show on Earth by Richard DawkinsThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerEuler by William Dunham
Popular Science for Smarties
67th out of 132 books — 39 voters
Our Mathematical Universe by Max TegmarkPale Blue Dot by Carl SaganRelativity by Albert EinsteinThe Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics by Jeffrey Alan BarrettThe Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. Feynman
Max Tegmark's Mathematical Universe
46th out of 91 books — 19 voters

The Unseen Body by Jonathan Reisman1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynGulag by Anne Applebaum
Lex Fridman Podcast: Book List
18th out of 21 books — 1 voter
House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiDictionary of the Khazars by Milorad PavićLandscape Painted with Tea by Milorad PavićA Humument by Tom PhillipsEinstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
Jonathan Blow
14th out of 20 books — 1 voter

In Crypto We Trust by Shivam SinghSolana by Shivam SinghBTC by Shivam SinghEthereum by Shivam SinghThe Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
bitcoin-resources.com gigi bitcoin books
21st out of 72 books — 9 voters
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas TalebFooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas TalebSkin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas TalebThe (Mis)Behavior of Markets by Benoît B. MandelbrotThe Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
Unofficial #RWRI16 Book Recs (aka, the Antilibrary)
14th out of 83 books — 4 voters

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. FeynmanThe Book of Why by Judea PearlSuperintelligence by Nick BostromSeven And A Half Lessons About The Brain by Lisa Feldman BarrettIncognito by David Eagleman
Lex Fridman Podcast
38th out of 126 books — 19 voters
The Year of the Flood by Margaret AtwoodStrength in What Remains by Tracy KidderThe Line of Beauty by Alan HollinghurstInherent Vice by Thomas PynchonNazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño
Village Voice 2000s
117th out of 197 books — 4 voters

Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm GladwellFactfulness by Hans RoslingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Bill Gates Booklist
269th out of 289 books — 206 voters
The Art of Scalability by Martin L. AbbottScalability Rules by Martin L. AbbottThe Power of Customer Misbehavior by Michael T. FisherAnalysis For Financial Management by Robert C. HigginsAccounting Made Simple by Mike Piper
AKF Recommended Books
25th out of 59 books — 1 voter

Patterns in Nature by Philip BallPlant by Phaidon PressThe Where, the Why, and the How by Jenny VolvovskiThe Field Researcher's Handbook by David J. DaneloThe Art of Science by Richard Hamblyn
Art of Science
7th out of 26 books — 6 voters
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanWhat If? by Randall MunroeThink and Grow Rich by Napoleon HillThe Art of War by Sun TzuSteve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Bill Gates' Recommendations I
34th out of 100 books — 3 voters

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas TalebThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanAntifragile by Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf DobelliFooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Non-bullshit books
21st out of 44 books — 16 voters
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterFermat's Enigma by Simon SinghFlatland by Edwin A. AbbottInside Interesting Integrals by Paul J. NahinDeep Down Things by Bruce A. Schumm
Ubernerd Reading
11th out of 24 books — 3 voters

Vehicles by Valentino BraitenbergAt Home in the Universe by Stuart A. KauffmanInto the Cool by Eric D. SchneiderEmergence by Steven JohnsonComplexity by M. Mitchell Waldrop
The Road to Complexity
17th out of 20 books — 6 voters
Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. CormenStructure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold AbelsonThe C Programming Language by Brian W. KernighanThe Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set by Donald Ervin KnuthThe Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt
Essential Books of Computer Science
164th out of 201 books — 323 voters

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. NormanUnderstanding Comics by Scott McCloudThe Ecological Approach to Visual Perception by James J. GibsonA Pattern Language by Christopher W. AlexanderVisualizing Data by Ben Fry
Information Experience Design Reading List
11th out of 42 books — 7 voters


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