Tag: books

This is a list compiled by careful reading of the recent Ask Metafilter thread “[What books do people proselytize about?][orig]” The first list are books, the second list is authors that users noted “all” works by. Where an author AND book has been mentioned, I took into account the intent of the poster: “Ayn Rand” puts Rand on the Authors list. “Ayn Rand’s The Fontainhead” puts the book on the books list, but does not add to her author’s list total. Both lists are ordered by mentions. Following Basically, [I do whatever Andy Baio][waxy] tells me. If it entirely possible and even likely that I have made an error or omission in this list. If you feel this is the case, contact me using the Contact link in my sidebar.

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[orig]: http://ask.metafilter.com/123662/What-books-do-people-proselytize-about “Ask.Metafilter: What books do people proselytize about?”

## Books

1. Harry Potter – 4
2. Infinite Jest – 4
3. The Celestine Prophecy – 4
4. Twilight – 3
5. Catcher In The Rye – 3
6. Atlas Shrugged – 3
7. Gravity’s Rainbow – 3
8. The Celestine Prophesy – 2
9. The Stranger – 2
10. Ulysses – 2
11. Dune – 2
12. The Great Gatsby – 2
13. The Corrections – 2
14. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – 2
15. The Jungle – 2
16. The Master and Margarita – 2
17. Lord of the Rings – 2
18. Starship Troopers – 2
19. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – 2
20. 1984 – 2
21. The Shack – 2
22. Siddhartha – 2
23. The Secret – 2
24. Who Moved My Cheese – 2
25. The Alchemist – 2
26. The Long Tail – 2
27. House of Leaves – 2
28. The Prophet – 1
29. The Turner Diaries – 1
30. Deep Thoughts – 1
31. The C Programming Language – 1
32. Neuromancer – 1
33. The Education of Little Tree – 1
34. Fuzzy Memories – 1
35. Battlefield Earth – 1
36. Dharma Bums – 1
37. On The Road – 1
38. The Art of War – 1
39. The Power of One – 1
40. Getting Things Done – 1
41. Thus Spoke Zarathustra – 1
42. Dianetics – 1
43. The Giver – 1
44. The Captain – 1
45. The Tao of Pooh – 1
46. Catch 22 – 1
47. The Watchmen – 1
48. Stranger In A Strange Land – 1
49. Les Misérables – 1
50. The Te of Piglet – 1
51. Ender’s Game – 1
52. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – 1
53. Candide – 1
54. A Rememberance of Things Past – 1
55. The Dice Man – 1
56. Fight Club – 1
57. V for Vendetta – 1
58. Story Of O – 1
59. Magic Mountain – 1
60. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull – 1
61. One Hundred Years of Solitude – 1
62. Prozac Nation – 1
63. White Teeth – 1
64. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs – 1
65. Night Train to Lisbon – 1
66. The World According to Garp – 1
67. The Woman’s Room – 1
68. Kundera’s Slowness – 1
69. Das Capital – 1
70. Holy Blood, Holy Grail – 1
71. The Confidence Man – 1
72. The Giving Tree – 1
73. State of Fear – 1
74. Freakonomics – 1
75. The Teachings of Don Juan – 1
76. Mutant Message Down Under – 1
77. Confederacy of Dunces – 1
78. Manhattan Transfer – 1
79. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – 1
80. Notes from the Underground – 1
81. The Catcher in the Rye – 1
82. Ender’s Game – 1
83. Last Exit to Brooklyn – 1
84. The Little Prince – 1
85. Crime and Punishment – 1
86. The Omnivore’s Dilemma – 1
87. Jonathan Livingston Seagull – 1
88. The Brothers Karamazov – 1
89. Eat, Love, Pray – 1
90. Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas – 1
91. Rubyfruit Jungle – 1
92. The Metamorphosis – 1
93. The Lovely Bones – 1
94. Men are From Mars, Women Are From Venus – 1
95. The Trial – 1
96. Nausea – 1
97. The Fountainhead – 1
98. Chicken Soup for the Soul – 1
99. The Crying of Lot 49 – 1
100. The 4-Hour Work Week – 1
101. Snow Crash – 1
102. Contact – 1
103. The Tipping Point – 1
104. Foucault’s Pendulum – 1
105. Jonathan Livington Seagull – 1
106. The Grapes of Wrath – 1
107. Crowdsourcing – 1
108. What Color is Your Parachute? – 1
109. The Elements of Style – 2
110. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – 1
111. Here Comes Everybody – 1
112. Night – 1
113. Left Behind – 1
114. A People’s History of The United States – 1

## Authors

1. Ayn Rand – 6
2. Dan Brown – 3
3. Michael Crichton – 2
4. Kurt Vonnegut – 2
5. David Sedaris – 2
6. Daniel Quinn – 2
7. Philip K Dick – 1
8. TS Eliot – 1
9. Toni Morrison – 1
10. William Faulkner – 1
11. Robert A. Heinlein – 1
12. Chris Ware – 1
13. Danielle Steel – 1
14. Malcolm Gladwell – 1
15. Tom Clancy – 1
16. Chuck Palahniuk – 1
17. Carlos Castaneda – 1
18. Charles Bukowski – 1
19. John Norman – 1
20. Henry Miller – 1
21. Isaac Asimov – 1
22. Noam Chomsky – 1
23. Herman Hesse – 1
24. L. Ron Hubbard – 1
25. Michael Pollan – 1
26. Alice Waters – 1
27. William Shakespere – 1
28. C. S. Lewis – 1
29. Jonathan Safran Foer – 1
30. Gore Vidal – 1
31. Jorge Luis Borges – 1
32. Philip Pullman – 1
33. Neal Stephenson – 1
34. Neil Gaiman – 1
35. Holderlin – 1
36. Nicholas Sparks – 1
37. William Carlos Williams – 1
38. Ernest Hemingway – 1
39. Isaac Isamov – 1
40. Hunter S. Thompson – 1
41. James Joyce – 1
42. Chuck Klosterman – 1
43. Thomas Mann – 1
44. Anne Rice – 1
45. Vladimir Nabokov – 1
46. Michel Houellebecq – 1
47. Ford Maddox Ford – 1