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I love reading and have enjoyed some of the recommendations I found on LW; however, I'm sure the collective knowledge of interesting books in the LW-community is much bigger than the few book seen in the Media Thread or in the wiki. Moreover, there doesn't seem to be a place to find the, say, top-5 most higly rated books in some subject, or the top-5 of must-read books of the last 12 months.
If someone knows how we could start something like this on LW, your advice would be highly appreciated!
I'm also interested. There's a list compiled by Lukeprog et al. about the best textbooks in every subject, but that's just textbooks.
Perhaps opening a thread asking peeps to post a few books would be useful? I'd ask for one or two books for each of...
Favorite
Most influential (towards your life, your thinking, idk)
Most fun
Best outside of a genre that you normally read
and others. maybe.
I think the textbook-list was a nice idea, but in the ended didn't really work that well, since too few people were involved, and, as you say, it's only textbooks -- not my normal digest of books.
So as my own little contribution, I'll try to add a few books every time the Media Thread comes up; hopefully more people will do that. Let's fight against Sturgeon's Law!
For specific subjects, try searching the site for "The Best Books in Every Subject" - a list of academic books highly rated by LWers.
Link.