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.
- Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond 5 people
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Harold Abelson 5 people
- The Design of Everyday Things Donald A. Norman 5 people
- The Mythical Man-Month Frederick P. Brooks 5 people
- Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari 4 people
- The Beginning of Infinity David Deutsch 4 people
- Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman 4 people
- Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future Dan Wang 4 people
- Don't Make Me Think Steve Krug 4 people
- Influence Robert Cialdini 4 people
- Masters of Doom David Kushner 4 people
- The Algorithm Design Manual Steven S. Skiena 4 people
- The Intelligent Investor Benjamin Graham 4 people
- The Martian Andy Weir 4 people
- The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins 4 people
- Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman 4 people
- Zero to One Peter A. Thiel 4 people
- Antifragile Nassim Nicholas Taleb 3 people
- Atomic Habits James Clear 3 people
- Breakneck Dan Wang 3 people
- Creativity, Inc Ed Catmull 3 people
- Deep Work Cal Newport 3 people
- Dune Frank Herbert 3 people
- High Output Management Andrew S. Grove 3 people
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Robert Cialdini 3 people
- Poor Charlie's Almanack Charles T. Munger 3 people
- REWORK Jason Fried 3 people
- Shoe Dog Phil Knight 3 people
- Skin in the Game Nassim Nicholas Taleb 3 people
- Stumbling on Happiness Daniel Gilbert 3 people
- Superintelligence Nick Bostrom 3 people
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things Ben Horowitz 3 people
- The Innovator's Dilemma Clayton Christensen 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 Psychology of Money Morgan Housel 3 people
- The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky 3 people
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin 3 people
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari 2 people
- A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking 2 people
- A History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell 2 people
- A Mathematician's Apology G. H. Hardy 2 people
- Abundance Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson 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
- Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 2 people
- Awaken the Giant Within Tony Robbins 2 people
- Becoming a Technical Leader Gerald Weinberg 2 people
- Better Than Before Gretchen Rubin 2 people
- Business Adventures John Brooks 2 people
- Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze 2 people
- Crossing the Chasm Geoffrey Moore 2 people
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications Martin Kleppmann 2 people
- Enemy Of All Mankind Steven Johnson 2 people
- Ensorcelled Eliot Peper 2 people
- Factfulness Hans Rosling 2 people
- Finite and Infinite Games James P. Carse 2 people
- Foundation Isaac Asimov 2 people
- Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech Sally Smith Hughes 2 people
- Getting Things Done David Allen 2 people
- Grit Angela Duckworth 2 people
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big Scott Adams 2 people
- How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler Ryan North 2 people
- Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors Matt Parker 2 people
- In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives Steven Levy 2 people
- Introduction to Algorithms Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein 2 people
- Invisible Cities Italo Calvino 2 people
- Lord of Light Roger Zelazny 2 people
- Margin of Safety Seth Klarman 2 people
- Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha Daniel M. Ingram 2 people
- Mindstorms Seymour Papert 2 people
- Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Steven Strogatz 2 people
- Nonviolent Communication Marshall B. Rosenberg 2 people
- Not the End of the World Hannah Ritchie 2 people
- Number Go Up Zeke Faux 2 people
- Obviously Awesome April Dunford 2 people
- On Writing Stephen King 2 people
- On Writing Well William Zinsser 2 people
- Only the Paranoid Survive Andrew S. Grove 2 people
- Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming Peter Norvig 2 people
- Peopleware Tom DeMarco 2 people
- Principles Ray Dalio 2 people
- Quiet Susan Cain 2 people
- Rocket Surgery Made Easy Steve Krug 2 people
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari 2 people
- Seeing Like a State James C. Scott 2 people
- Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century Brad DeLong 2 people
- Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson 2 people
- Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang 2 people
- Switch Chip Heath and Dan Heath 2 people
- The 5 Love Languages Gary Chapman 2 people
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant Eric Jorgenson 2 people
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering Richard Hamming 2 people
- The Black Company Glen Cook 2 people
- The Bomber Mafia Malcolm Gladwell 2 people
- The C Programming Language Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie 2 people
- The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams Sam Walker 2 people
- The Captive Mind Czeslaw Milosz 2 people
- The Code Breaker Walter Isaacson 2 people
- The Cold War: A New History John Lewis Gaddis 2 people
- The Effective Executive Peter Drucker 2 people
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni 2 people
- The Founder's Dilemmas Noam Wasserman 2 people
- The Fountainhead Ayn Rand 2 people
- The Goal Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox 2 people
- The Happiness Hypothesis Jonathan Haidt 2 people
- The Iliad Homer 2 people
- The Inner Game of Tennis Timothy Gallwey 2 people
- The Kaiju Preservation Society John Scalzi 2 people
- The Lean Startup Eric Ries 2 people
- The Lessons of History Will Durant and Ariel Durant 2 people
- The Manager’s Path Camille Fournier 2 people
- The NVIDIA Way Tae Kim 2 people
- The Old Way Elizabeth Marshall Thomas 2 people
- The Paradox of Choice - Why More is Less Barry Schwartz 2 people
- The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life Paul Millerd 2 people
- The Phoenix Project Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford 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.