The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

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I looked through the list a little bit, but it seems a bit haphazard. It would be nice if it were organized hierarchically, and there were some indications as to how many people concurred or disputed various recommendations.

There used to be a website, one canonicaltomes.org that did these things: there was an organizational scheme in place, and a voting mechanism, and the number of votes a book received was displayed. Unfortunately it became defunct long ago. You can still browse what they had, back in early 2006, on archive.org [1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20060214203037/http://www.canoni...

Each recommended book comes with a link to the comment of the person that recommended it. Click on the link that says recommend. Then you can read their comments to know the reason for the recommendation and look at how many upvotes it has to see if other people approve.

I agree it's very haphazard.

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