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# Title Author Count First Mention
1 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Abelson and Sussman 376 5675
2 Gödel, Escher, Bach Douglas Hofstadter 293 56795
3 How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie 292 5584
4 The C Programming Language Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie 284 135262
5 Dune Brian Herbert 263 57231
6 Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman 244 3277457
7 Meditations Descartes 233 134993
8 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand 222 86114
9 The Art of Computer Programming Donald E. Knuth 213 135245
10 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Harari 205 10028239
11 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M Pirsig 203 56941
12 The Pragmatic Programmer Andrew Hunt 203 5704
13 Introduction to Algorithms Charles E. Leiserson, Clifford Stein, Ronald Rivest, Thomas H. Cormen 171 55391
14 The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins 168 85867
15 Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software Charles Petzold 160 135906
16 The Mythical Man-Month Fred Brooks 159 5725
17 The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb 158 56763
18 Designing Data-Intensive Applications Martin Kleppman 153 8671875
19 1984 George Orwell 152 85938
20 Code Complete Steve McConnell 149 56709
21 Snow Crash Neal Stephenson 146 85862
22 The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu 143 8867599
23 Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card 143 56704
24 The Design of Everyday Things Don Norman 136 85860
25 Bible Unknown 134 85859
26 Founders at Work Jessica Livingston 133 5613
27 Antifragile Nassim Nicholas Taleb 130 4966437
28 Man’s Search for Meaning Victor E. Frankl 129 1634144
29 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 128 56709
30 Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson 127 85940
31 The Fountainhead Ayn Rand 127 135463
32 Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! Richard Feynman 125 85858
33 Fooled by Randomness Nassim Nicholas Taleb 125 57595
34 Siddhartha Herman Hesse 124 86337
35 Foundation Isaac Asimov 123 140379
36 The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 121 56629
37 Zero to One Peter Thiel 115 7968392
38 Calculus Charles B. Morrey Jr., Murray H. Protter 114 193554
39 Neuromancer William Gibson 112 56663
40 The Phoenix Project Gene Kim 110 5569687
41 The Lean Startup Eric Ries 110 1570888
42 Never Split the Difference Chris Voss 108 12245967
43 Design Patterns Addy Osmani 107 80916
44 Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond 107 56777
45 JavaScript: The Good Parts Douglas Crockford 106 259986
46 Clean Code Robert C. Martin 106 1945860
47 Deep Work Cal Newport 105 11702897
48 The Elements of Computing Systems Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken 104 1295307
49 The Little Schemer Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen 102 56629
50 Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Robert B. Cialdini 101 193848
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