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Meta-reading recommendations

3 Post author: hegemonicon 28 November 2011 12:17AM

Despite a glut of reading recommendation engines, I still find that I rely on personal recommendations for 90% of the books that I read. Given that, I thought it might be useful to try to compile a list of prolific recommenders - people who provide a large number of reliable book recommendations.

I'll start off with the two obvious ones, Tyler Cowen and Cosma Shalizi. The LW/OB group of Eliezer, Robin Hanson, and Michael Vassar also provide useful recommendations (though much less frequently).

Who else can reliably recommend a good book?

Comments (8)

Comment author: Curiouskid 28 November 2011 11:22:34PM 2 points [-]
Comment author: AlanCrowe 28 November 2011 05:38:02PM 2 points [-]
Comment author: hvass 28 November 2011 06:04:37AM 3 points [-]

These are Nassim Taleb's favorite literary works.

Comment author: Dirklectisch 14 February 2013 05:07:04PM 2 points [-]

This link now seems to be returning a 404. The list can still be accessed through the way back machine:

http://web.archive.org/web/20120505014228/http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/favbooks.html

Comment author: satt 07 April 2012 04:28:21AM 0 points [-]

The economist Herbert Gintis has a lot of Amazon reviews.