The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

1776 ★ 4.1

Tao te Ching

老子

1870 ★ 4.3

The Art of War

Stephen F. Kaufman, Lionel Giles, 孙武 (Sun Tzu) et al.

1910 ★ 4.1

Anatomy

Henry Gray F.R.S., Henry Vandyke Carter

1858 ★ 4.4

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

1810 ★ 3.9

Writing Down the Bones

Nathalie Goldberg, Natalie Goldberg

1986 ★ 4.1

Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Lynne Truss

2003 ★ 3.7

Aeneis

Publius Vergilius Maro

1800 ★ 3.4

How Not to Write a Novel

Sandra Newman, Howard Mittelmark

2009 ★ 4.5

The Devil's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce

1911 ★ 4.4

Learning Python

David Ascher, Mark Lutz

1999 ★ 4.2

Principles of internal medicine

Marc Marie, Dennis L. Kasper, Richard K. Root et al.

1950 ★ 3.7

The Road to Serfdom

Friedrich A. von Hayek

1944 ★ 4.3

On food and cooking

Harold McGee

1984 ★ 4.6

The mushroom at the end of the world

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

2015 ★ 3.5

Signals and Systems

Alan V. Oppenheim, Alan S. Willsky

1983 ★ 3.2

Infinite City

Rebecca Snedeker, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Rebecca Solnit

2010 ★ 4.0

The Origins of Totalitarianism

Hannah Arendt

1951 ★ 4.6

Python for Everybody

Charles R. Severance

2016 ★ 3.7

On Photography

Susan Sontag

1977 ★ 4.3

The golem

H. M. Collins, Trevor Pinch, Harry Collins et al.

1993 ★ 3.8

100 Ways to Improve Your Writing

Gary Provost

1985 ★ 3.7

The book of general ignorance

John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

2007 ★ 4.3

Writing Tools

Roy Peter Clark

2006 ★ 4.0

Lives

Plutarch

1769 ★ 3.4

Daily Rituals

Mason Currey

2013 ★ 3.1

Nixonland

Rick Perlstein

2008 ★ 4.8

Le Deuxième Sexe

Simone de Beauvoir

1953 ★ 4.1

Soccernomics

Stefan Szymanski, Simon Kuper

2009 ★ 4.8

The Elements of Style

E. B. White, Roger Angell, William Strunk, Jr.

1920 ★ 3.7