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cneesonMay 11, 2018

The Bible. The book of Mark is a good place to start, or Romans, since you’re more interested in introspection.
I’ve been meaning to reread a book by a Holocaust survivor called The Hiding Place.

brobdingnagiansonMay 26, 2021

Not a country or group, but individuals. The countless good people who work for what is right. Like Corrie Ten Boom who wrote The Hiding Place [1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrie_ten_Boom

yegborschtonJuly 12, 2016

If you like Corrie ten Boom you'll love The Hiding Place, but I suspect you've already read it, it's a classic :-)

johnfnonSep 14, 2020

Wow, turns out I still have it on GitHub, including the results I ground out 8 years ago. The script probably doesn't work, but the results are still good:

https://github.com/johnfn/GoodReadsScraper

Particularly, load bigdata.js into nodejs and then run a command sort of like this to parse out the results, filtering out young adult/romance/religion stuff/comics:

    bigdata.filter(f => f.ratings > 5000 && !f.genres.includes('Young Adult') && !f.genres.includes('Religion') && !f.genres.includes('Romance') && !f.genres.includes('Sequential Art')).map(f => f.title)

I get some pretty interesting stuff. First result is the Constitution... OK, fair enough... but the next 10 or so are:

    'A Song of Ice and Fire',
    'Collected Fictions', (by Borges)
    'The Name of the Wind',
    'Infinite Jest',
    'The Complete Works',
    'The Way of Kings',
    'The Wise Man\'s Fear',
    'Ficciones',
    'A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold',
    'The Complete Stories',
    'Labyrinths',
    'Don\'t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!',
    'The Hiding Place',

Is it an amazing list? Eh. Is Name of the Wind better than Infinite Jest? Probably not. They're both fantastic books, though! And still, it's way better than Listopia. Also, this data is 8 years old. I bet it would be way better if I were to clean it up and run it in 2020.

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