Meta-reading recommendations
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?
Danny Reviews
http://lesswrong.com/lw/2kk/book_recommendations/
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/siai
http://lesswrong.com/lw/bx/great_books_of_failure/
There are some threads that already discuss this.
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
The economist Herbert Gintis has a lot of Amazon reviews.
This article is asking for meta-reading recommendations.
The Discworld series
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series
The Salvation War: Armageddon??? and it’s sequel, The Salvation War: Pantheocide
How to Succeed in Evil
This article is asking for meta-reading recommendations.
Maybe the implied meta-recommendation is DanielLC ;)