Consensus
The books they agree on
Ranked by how many different people recommended each book in public. Distinct people is the honest unit — one person praising the same book four times is one opinion, four times. Two people is the floor for appearing here.
- The Design of Everyday Things Donald A. Norman 9 people
- Competing Against Luck Clayton Christensen 7 people
- The Mythical Man-Month Frederick P. Brooks 7 people
- Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman 7 people
- Influence Robert Cialdini 6 people
- The Innovator's Dilemma Clayton Christensen 6 people
- The Martian Andy Weir 6 people
- Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari 5 people
- The Beginning of Infinity David Deutsch 5 people
- The Lean Startup Eric Ries 5 people
- Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman 5 people
- Atomic Habits James Clear 5 people
- Breakneck Dan Wang 5 people
- Deep Work Cal Newport 5 people
- Don't Make Me Think Steve Krug 5 people
- Dune Frank Herbert 5 people
- Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond 5 people
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Harold Abelson 5 people
- The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham 5 people
- The Power of Habit Charles Duhigg 5 people
- Antifragile Nassim Nicholas Taleb 4 people
- Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future Dan Wang 4 people
- Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 4 people
- Finite and Infinite Games James P. Carse 4 people
- Foundation Isaac Asimov 4 people
- Getting Things Done David Allen 4 people
- High Output Management Andrew S. Grove 4 people
- How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie 4 people
- Masters of Doom David Kushner 4 people
- On Writing Stephen King 4 people
- Poor Charlie's Almanack Charles T. Munger 4 people
- REWORK Jason Fried 4 people
- Stumbling on Happiness Daniel Gilbert 4 people
- The Algorithm Design Manual Steven S. Skiena 4 people
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes 4 people
- The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins 4 people
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin 4 people
- When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi 4 people
- Zero to One Peter A. Thiel 4 people
- A Mathematician's Apology G. H. Hardy 3 people
- A Pattern Language Christopher Alexander 3 people
- Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 3 people
- Continuous Discovery Habits Teresa Torres 3 people
- Creativity, Inc Ed Catmull 3 people
- Crossing the Chasm Geoffrey Moore 3 people
- Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville 3 people
- Digital Minimalism Cal Newport 3 people
- Energy and Civilization Vaclav Smil 3 people
- Factfulness Hans Rosling 3 people
- How Big Things Get Done Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner 3 people
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Robert Cialdini 3 people
- Letters from a Stoic Seneca 3 people
- Life and Fate Vasily Grossman 3 people
- Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl 3 people
- Meditations Marcus Aurelius 3 people
- Moby-Dick Herman Melville 3 people
- Nonviolent Communication Marshall B. Rosenberg 3 people
- Not the End of the World Hannah Ritchie 3 people
- Originals Adam M. Grant 3 people
- Radical Candor Kim Scott 3 people
- Seeing Like a State James C. Scott 3 people
- Shoe Dog Phil Knight 3 people
- Skin in the Game Nassim Nicholas Taleb 3 people
- Superintelligence Nick Bostrom 3 people
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Steven Pinker 3 people
- The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky 3 people
- The Effective Executive Peter Drucker 3 people
- The Happiness Hypothesis Jonathan Haidt 3 people
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things Ben Horowitz 3 people
- The Iliad Homer 3 people
- The Lessons of History Will Durant and Ariel Durant 3 people
- The Little Schemer Friedman and Felleisen 3 people
- The Most Important Thing Howard Marks 3 people
- The No Asshole Rule Robert I. Sutton 3 people
- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master Andrew Hunt and David Thomas 3 people
- The Prize Dale Russakoff 3 people
- The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel 3 people
- The Righteous Mind Jonathan Haidt 3 people
- The Rise and Fall of American Growth Gordon, Robert J. 3 people
- The Secret of Our Success Joseph Henrich 3 people
- The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky 3 people
- The Timeless Way of Building Christopher Alexander 3 people
- The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy Adam Tooze 3 people
- Turn the Ship Around L. David Marquet 3 people
- War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 3 people
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig 3 people
- Getting Real 37signals 2 people
- The Dream Machine M. Mitchell Waldrop 2 people
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari 2 people
- 2666 Roberto Bolaño 2 people
- A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking 2 people
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 2 people
- A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles 2 people
- A History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell 2 people
- A Little History of the World E. H. Gombrich 2 people
- A Promised Land Barack Obama 2 people
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street Burton G. Malkiel 2 people
- A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson 2 people
- Abundance Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson 2 people
- Accelerate Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim 2 people
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk Peter L. Bernstein 2 people
- Albion's Seed David Hackett Fischer 2 people
- Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life Rory Sutherland 2 people
- Algorithms Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne 2 people
- An Elegant Puzzle Will Larson 2 people
- An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore 2 people
- An Unfinished Love Story Doris Kearns Goodwin 2 people
- Awaken the Giant Within Tony Robbins 2 people
- Battle Cry of Freedom James M. McPherson 2 people
- Becoming a Technical Leader Gerald Weinberg 2 people
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo 2 people
- Better Than Before Gretchen Rubin 2 people
- Black Wave Kim Ghattas 2 people
- Born a Crime Trevor Noah 2 people
- Built to Last Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras 2 people
- Business Adventures John Brooks 2 people
- Business Model Generation Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur 2 people
- Chaos: Making a New Science James Gleick 2 people
- Chip War Chris Miller 2 people
- Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze 2 people
Only books with two or more independent recommenders are listed. The rest — thousands of them — are on the feed and on each person’s page.