"Bible" should probably have been excluded. Besides the fact that I can't imagine this many people here actually recommending reading it (rather than it just be

"Bible" should probably have been excluded. Besides the fact that I can't imagine this many people here actually recommending reading it (rather than it just being mentioned it in passing), it's multiple books written by multiple authors across multiple centuries. If people were actually recommending the Bible, they'd probably be recommending specific books like Job or Psalms or one of the Gospels. In a similar way Fooled By Randomness, The Black Swan, and Antifragile are all a part of the Incerto series and could have been condensed to one line item. In any case, great work! I'd like to see a post like this with the top 50-100 authors and the comments full of discussions about which of the books are the author's best / most accessible.