Five years of Ask.MeFi book suggestions from Human Relations and Work & Money

April 16, 2009 3:40 PM

Ask.Metafilter is over 5 years old now, with volumes of suggestions and helpful ideas. philosophistry sorted through the years of posts categorized as Human Relations and Work & Money, and created ranked listings of the books people recommended the most often: Human Relations, Work & Money. Note that each little thumbs-up icon is a link back to the post which referred to the book in question. [via mefi projects]
posted by filthy light thief (10 comments total)

Another note: philosophistry only took Amazon links into account, and all links are to Amazon.com.
posted by filthy light thief at 3:42 PM on April 16

This is a pretty cool project (despite the shameful anti-Powell's bias). That said, it seems like it would be better-suited to Metatalk than to the front page.
posted by dersins at 3:46 PM on April 16

It's convenient, but the links use his amazon affiliate account, making it kind of spammy.
posted by stavrogin at 3:50 PM on April 16

Dz'oh - they're his links? I didn't know what the affiliate account links looked like, and thought they were Metafilter affils. Flag and mark accordingly.
posted by filthy light thief at 3:55 PM on April 16

I unequivocally like it.
posted by Jaltcoh at 3:58 PM on April 16

Right, but s/he didn't post it, and it's still a cool idea. Baby. Bathwater. etc. Nice post.
posted by leotrotsky at 3:59 PM on April 16

Also, I'd be curious to see what the most popular book recommendations are for all other subcategories as well.
posted by leotrotsky at 4:00 PM on April 16

It's convenient, but the links use his amazon affiliate account, making it kind of spammy.

In fairness, Matt transforms Amazon links on Metafilter to include Metafilter's affiliate account. There's no problem at all with that, so I don't think there's a major problem with philosophistry doing the same.
posted by matthewr at 4:08 PM on April 16

Can anyone recommend a book to help keep me from reading self-help books?
posted by cmoj at 4:10 PM on April 16

Also, I'd be curious to see what the most popular book recommendations are for all other subcategories as well.

Well, I see "Codependent No More" linked about four times a week, but then I do lurk in the relationship questions for my own prurient reasons. "Being An Adult In Relationships" often pops up in those same threads.
posted by arcanecrowbar at 4:12 PM on April 16