Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/1959324-john-taylor">John Taylor</a> (29 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by John Taylor (29 Lists)

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Favorite Comfort Reads

1,549 books — 765 voters

A Mind at Play by Jimmy Soni

Genius by James Gleick

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman/What Do You Care What Other... by Richard P. Feynman

Men of Mathematics by Eric Temple Bell

Frank Ramsey by Cheryl Misak

Scientists and Philosophers

233 books — 157 voters

The Mind’s I by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Philosophy of Mind

209 books — 105 voters

The Computational Beauty of Nature by Gary William Flake

The Self-Made Tapestry by Philip Ball

Chaos by James Gleick

Complexity by Melanie Mitchell

Introduction to the Theory of Complex Systems by Stefan Thurner

161 books — 164 voters

Watchmen by Alan Moore

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1 by Warren Ellis

Most Popular Graphic Novels on goodreads with over 25 thousand ratings

268 books — 166 voters

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Best Fantasy of the 20th Century

580 books — 249 voters

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

Popular Highly Rated Fantasy

197 books — 133 voters

Radical Embodied Cognitive Science by Anthony Chemero

How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

The Mind’s I by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Cognitive Neuroscience by Michael S. Gazzaniga

Best Cognitive Science Books

408 books — 492 voters

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman

The Mind’s I by Douglas R. Hofstadter

Books Scientists Should Read Before The Age of 20

183 books — 84 voters

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

Best Books Ever

76,600 books — 284,916 voters

Justice by Michael J. Sandel

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Listen, Liberal by Thomas Frank

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Best Progressive Reads

1,057 books — 710 voters

Nexus by Ramez Naam

Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez

Crux by Ramez Naam

The Rook by Daniel O'Malley

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Best Science Fiction of the 21st Century

1,230 books — 8,972 voters

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.

Best Science Fiction on Goodreads with between 1000 and 9999 ratings

2,178 books — 112 voters

Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez

Daemon by Leinad Zeraus

Nexus by Ramez Naam

Best Technothrillers Ever

700 books — 1,006 voters

Daemon by Leinad Zeraus

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez

Nexus by Ramez Naam

Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez

Science Fiction - 2010-2019

548 books — 780 voters

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

Best Fantasy of the 2000s

603 books — 675 voters

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Best Fantasy of the 2010s

1,630 books — 1,911 voters

The Elements of Statistical Learning by Trevor Hastie

Machine Learning and Data Mining by Igor Kononenko

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. Bishop

An Introduction to Computational Learning Theory by Michael J. Kearns

Machine Learning by Tom M. Mitchell

Machine Learning

102 books — 111 voters

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

Classic Science Fiction - 1990-1999

326 books — 184 voters

Mister Monday by Garth Nix

Best Fantasy Series: Hidden Gems

619 books — 453 voters

Nexus by Ramez Naam

Diaspora by Greg Egan

Accelerando by Charles Stross

Permutation City by Greg Egan

Transhuman Science Fiction

153 books — 186 voters

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

Blood Music by Greg Bear

Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler

Best Books About Nanotechnology

183 books — 660 voters

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Plays 5 by Tom Stoppard

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

The Lion in Winter by James Goldman

520 books — 455 voters

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Watchmen by Alan Moore

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

Best books for geeks

632 books — 280 voters

From Hell by Alan Moore

Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1 by Warren Ellis

Watchmen by Alan Moore

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Best Graphic Novels

3,450 books — 6,768 voters

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

The Best Epic Fantasy (fiction)

4,216 books — 25,810 voters

Mathematics Form and Function by Saunders MacLane

Journey through Genius by William Dunham

The Princeton Companion to Mathematics by Timothy Gowers

Proofs from the Book by Martin Aigner

Best Books About Mathematics

449 books — 667 voters

The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

Daemon by Leinad Zeraus

Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez

151 books — 427 voters

Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold

The Prestige by Christopher Priest

Hiding the Elephant by Jim Steinmeyer

Best Books About Stage Magic

95 books — 71 voters