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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?

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These are Nassim Taleb's favorite literary works.

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

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The economist Herbert Gintis has a lot of Amazon reviews.

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This article is asking for meta-reading recommendations.

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This article is asking for meta-reading recommendations.

Maybe the implied meta-recommendation is DanielLC ;)