This is a respectable try at a better crowdsourced collection (if you haven't seen it): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-textbooks-on-

This is a respectable try at a better crowdsourced collection (if you haven't seen it): https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-textbooks-on-every-subject https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-t... To do better I'd want to sort/filter at least semiautomatically by personal taste/judgement -- that could use a UI along the lines of the one I prototyped for a client for image search in the late 2000s, maybe mixed with ideas from Advogato. That's starting to sound like work, to make a new system and get it to be popular enough to accumulate enough data to work with. I wonder if there's an open-data form of something like this five-books site (not this one: https://fivebooks.com/Terms-of-Service/ https://fivebooks.com/Terms-of-Service/)