Books

Resources

Articles

• 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime - Amazon UK

• How to Read a Book - The Art of Manliness

• How to Remember What You Read - Farnam Street

• Is this a good book for me, now? - Mary Rose Cook

• The 100 best books of the 21st century - The Guardian

• The Need to Read - Paul Graham

• Top 100 Books - Newsweek

• Top 100 Books - The Big Read, BBC

Book Clubs

• Engineering Book Club

• Rebel Book Club

Books

• How To Read A Book - Mortimer Adler, Charles Van Doren

Bookshelves

• Alex Vermeer
• Bill Gates
• Derek Sivers
• HN Reads

  • Top 40 books of 2023
• James Clear

  • Book Summaries
• Jordan Peterson
• Mark Manson
• Michael Lynch
• Mind Expanding Books (GitHub)
• Patrick Collison
• Rebel Book Club
• The Kurzweil Library

Hacker News Threads

• Best books read in 2022?
• Books you read in 2022 and recommend for 2023
• Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?
• Do you read books regularly? Fiction or nonfiction?
• Extracting Hacker News Book Recommendations with the ChatGPT API
• Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021?
• Life Changing Books?
• What's the "best" book you've ever read?
• What's the best book you read in 2021?
• What's the best book you've read so far in 2024?
• What are some must read books?
• What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?
• What are the most eye-opening textbooks you have ever read?
• What are your favorite sci-fi books?
• What book changed your life?

  • 2022
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
  • 2015
  • 2013
  • 2011
• What are the best books for professional effectiveness?
• What books have been worth your time?
• What is the best book you read in 2020?
• What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?
• What was a book that changed your life?
• What were the best books you read this year?
• Which book has had the most meaningful contribution in your life?
• Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study?
• Which books made you the most money?
• Which books you have read till now that were worth investing time in?

Infographics

/lit/'s Top 100 Books of All Time

Sci-Fi Guide

Online Stores

• Awesome Books
• Axel Books
• BetterWorldBooks
• Blackwell's
• Books etc.
• Books4People
• Bookshop
• Foyles
• Hive.co.uk
• Waterstones
• Wordery

Recommendations

• Collectoral for Hacker News
• Hacker News Books
• HackerNews Readings
• HN Books
• Librarian AI
• Most Recommended Books
• Read This Twice - Books worth reading twice
• Reddit Reads
• Shepherd
• The 50 Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Books Of The Past Decade - NPR
• The Best Textbooks on Every Subject - LessWrong
• The Book Seer - What should I read next
• The Greatest Books
• The StoryGraph
• What Should I Read Next?
• Whichbook

Reddit Threads

• Besides The Hunger Games and Harry Potter, what are your favorite well-written modern YA novels/series?
• Epic sci-fi novels you should read before they become films
• Growing up, what was your favorite book series to read?
• If one could only read 5 books over their lifetime, what might some of those books be?
• What are the books that pretty much everyone has positive reviews of, that never seem to disappoint?
• What are the books you would give five out of five
• What are your favorite light hearted, feel good or funny books? What is your comfort book?
• What book could you just not put down after picking up?
• What book do you love so much that you have read it 5+ times?
• What book do you think every person should read at least once?
• What book should everyone on the planet read?
• What book would recommend to read?
• What books do you find yourself re-reading?
• What is a book everyone must read?
• What is that one book, that absolutely changed your life?
• What is the best book you’ve ever read?
• What is the best book you have read?
• What is the one book you read which made you rethink your life?
• What is the greatest dystopian book you have ever read?
• What is the most valuable book that changed how you live and gave useful advice?
• What is your favorite book?
• What is your favourite book, that is at least 100 years old?
• What was the last book you rated 5/5 stars?
• What was your last up-til-2 am book?
• What was your most 'can't-put-down' book that you've ever read?
• What’s a book everyone should read at least once in their lives?
• What’s a book that completely broke your brain—in a good way?
• What's the book that has made you laugh out loud the most?
• What’s the most life-changing book you’ve read?
• Which book to film adaptation hasn't been made yet which you think can be a big box office hit?

Subreddits

• r/audiobooks
• r/books
• r/booksuggestions
• r/FreeEBOOKS
• r/suggestmeabook

Websites

• 1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free
• 800 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices
• Anobii
• Best-Book-Price
• Book Finder
• Bookcelerator
• BookPecker.com - 14509 books summarized in 5 bullet points
• BooksMyMood - Find Books Based on Your Mood
• BookWatch - Animated Book Summaries
• ComproVendoLibri.it
• Feedbooks
• Find Book - UK prices comparator
• Five Books - The best books on everything
• Four Minute Books - Book Summaries
• Free Audiobook Search
• Kavita - Self-hosted reading server (GitHub)
• Internet Archive - eBooks and Texts
• LibriVox
• Momox - Vendi libri usati
• Open Library
• Project Gutenberg

  • The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection
• Public Books Database
• Readest (GitHub)
• Standard Ebooks
• Summaries.com
• The Book Bundle
• The Neglected Books Page
• thebookguide
• Used Book Search.co.uk
• World of Books