A Decade of Hit Books

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Thinking in Bets by Annie DukeBad Blood by John CarreyrouThe Power of Habit by Charles DuhiggAtomic Habits by James ClearLearn Better by Ulrich Boser
Farnam Street - What I’m Reading in 2018
78 books — 26 voters
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterFermat's Enigma by Simon SinghFlatland by Edwin A. AbbottThe Code Book by Simon SinghZero by Charles Seife
Best Books About Mathematics
466 books — 684 voters

Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de SaussureThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerAn Introduction to Language by Victoria A. FromkinThe Study of Language by George YuleMetaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Best Books about Linguistics
258 books — 226 voters
Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodDune by Frank HerbertThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
A Biopunk reading list
233 books — 102 voters

Ubik by Philip K. DickNeuromancer by William GibsonSnow Crash by Neal StephensonPermutation City by Greg EganThe Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Life is a Simulation
112 books — 42 voters
Worm by WildbowXkcd by Randall MunroeHark! A Vagrant by Kate BeatonGunnerkrigg Court, Volume 1 by Thomas SiddellHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Best of the Web
468 books — 463 voters

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithThe Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. HayekDas Kapital by Karl MarxGeneral Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard KeynesDebt by David Graeber
Best Economics Books
458 books — 535 voters
Zero-Sum Mindset by Rainer ZitelmannUnlock Your Deliverance by Kathryn KrickExperience Jesus. Really by John EldredgeThe Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark ComerThe Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
Best Self-Help Books
1,523 books — 1,241 voters

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate by Steven PinkerThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Best Cognitive Science Books
436 books — 538 voters
On Writing by Stephen KingBird by Bird by Anne LamottThe Artist's Way by Julia CameronLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria RilkeWriting Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Best Books on Creative Life
515 books — 628 voters

Color and Light by James GurneySteal Like an Artist by Austin KleonUnderstanding Comics by Scott McCloudFigure Drawing by Michael HamptonImaginative Realism by James Gurney
Art Reference books for Illustrators and Animators
215 books — 82 voters