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Public reading lists
30 places where people keep their reading in the open — their own pages, not anyone’s summary of them. Bill Gates has been writing up what he reads since 2010; Cosma Shalizi has reviewed books on the same page since the nineties.
Community and Topic Lists
- Free Programming Books The canonical community list of freely available programming books.
- Mind Expanding Books A large community-curated list of books "that will expand your mind".
- The Personal MBA Josh Kaufman's curated list of the best business books.
Discovery Sites
- Five Books Experts pick and discuss the five best books in their field, in interview form.
- Goodbooks Thousands of book recommendations from well-known people.
- Most Recommended Books Aggregates book recommendations from famous founders, investors and authors.
- Read This Twice Search any public figure and see the books they've recommended, with sources.
- The Greatest Books A meta-list generated from hundreds of "best books" lists.
Engineers and Technologists
- Alexey Migutsky A "mind-expanding" booklist for engineers, maintained as a GitHub repo.
- Dan Luu Programming book recommendations with unusually thoughtful commentary.
- Jeff Atwood The Coding Horror recommended reading list for developers.
- Pamela Fox A long-running personal reading log.
- Radek Pietruszewski Books with short, honest reviews.
- Rakhim Davletkaliyev A bookshelf with ratings and notes.
Founders and Investors
- Bill Gates Reviews of everything he reads, plus his famous yearly summer and holiday lists.
- Patrick Collison The Stripe cofounder's bookshelf, with his favorites marked.
- Warren Buffett Curated from his shareholder letters and interviews — no public list of his own.
Publishers
- Stripe Press Beautifully produced editions of "ideas for progress" — a reading list in publisher form.
Writers and Thinkers
- Alexey Guzey An opinionated list of the books he found most valuable.
- Blas Moros Hundreds of in-depth book summaries (The Rabbit Hole).
- Cosma Shalizi Decades of erudite reviews across science, statistics and history (The Bactra Review).
- Derek Sivers Every book he's read since 2007, rated 1-10 with detailed notes.
- Gwern Branwen Over a thousand book reviews with ratings.
- James Clear Recommended reading organized by category, with summaries.
- Jason Evanish Books for managers, leaders and startup people.
- Nat Eliason Detailed notes and ratings for hundreds of books.
- Ryan Holiday Archive of his monthly reading-recommendation newsletter.
- Scott Alexander Deep, essay-length book reviews from Slate Star Codex.
- Shane Parrish Farnam Street's reading guides and yearly "what I read" lists.
- Tim Ferriss The books most recommended by guests across Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors.