Dan Milne
@dkam
73
Books ranked
341
Head-to-heads
2009
Member since
Top Shelf
Dan Milne's favourite books, decided one comparison at a time.
Fiction
All Systems Red
Martha Wells
Elo1616
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Elo1651
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Elo1607
Non-Fiction
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Elo1581
Utopia for Realists
Rutger Bregman
Elo1594
A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
William R. Trotter
Elo1556
Fiction — The Full Ranking
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Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
All Systems Red
Martha Wells
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Network Effect
Martha Wells
Reamde
Neal Stephenson
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Martian
Andy Weir
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Fall, or Dodge in Hell
Neal Stephenson
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
Quicksilver
Neal Stephenson
We Are Legion
Dennis E. Taylor
The System of the World
Neal Stephenson
Consider Phlebas
Iain M. Banks
Burning Chrome
William Gibson
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Excession
Iain M. Banks
Artificial Condition
Martha Wells
System Collapse
Martha Wells
Exit Strategy
Martha Wells
Count Zero
William Gibson
Platform Decay
Martha Wells
Rogue Protocol
Martha Wells
Inversions
Iain M. Banks
The Confusion
Neal Stephenson
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
The Cruel Stars
John Birmingham
The Peripheral
William Gibson
Look to Windward
Iain M. Banks
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Gibson
Dune
Frank Herbert
The Ruins of Gorlan
John Flanagan
Matter
Iain M. Banks
Fugitive Telemetry
Martha Wells
Oakleaf Bearers
John Flanagan
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
She Rides Shotgun
Jordan Harper
Escape from Falaise
John Flanagan
The Siege of Macindaw
John Flanagan
The Midnight Line
Lee Child
Halt’s Peril
John Flanagan
The Kings of Clonmel
John Flanagan
The Invaders
John Flanagan
The Algebraist
Iain M. Banks
Flashman
George MacDonald Fraser
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart
Heaven's River
Dennis E. Taylor
Timeline
Michael Crichton
The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stieg Larsson
Zodiac
Neal Stephenson
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
Stieg Larsson
Tripwire
Lee Child
The Missing Prince
John Flanagan
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Five Go Adventuring Again
Enid Blyton
La Belle Sauvage
Philip Pullman
Artemis
Andy Weir
Smart-Aleck Kill
Raymond Chandler
Five Go Off In A Caravan
Enid Blyton
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J.K. Rowling
Duel at Araluen
John Flanagan
Non-Fiction — The Full Ranking
1
Utopia for Realists
Rutger Bregman
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940
William R. Trotter
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
SuperFreakonomics
Levitt, Steven D.
One Hundred Years of Dirt
Rick Morton
The Moral Landscape
Sam Harris
Blink
Malcolm Gladwell
12 Rules for Life
Jordan B. Peterson
The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss
Lists
Goodreads Most Read This Week in the World, week ending 02/08/26
20 items
Australian Bestsellers — Children's, week ending 09/08/26
2 items
Australian Bestsellers — Non-Fiction, week ending 09/08/26
7 items
Australian Bestsellers — Fiction, week ending 09/08/26
5 items
The Age Book of the Year 2025 Shortlist
11 items
Still Settling In
A few more head-to-heads will place these.
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Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
For We Are Many
Dennis E. Taylor
The Hydrogen Sonata
Iain M. Banks
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks
Surface Detail
Iain M. Banks
The Emperor of Nihon-Ja
John Flanagan
Use of Weapons
Iain M. Banks
The Diamond Age
Neal Stephenson
All These Worlds
Dennis E. Taylor
Children of Ruin
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Home
Martha Wells
The State of the Art
Iain M. Banks
Erak’s Ransom
John Flanagan
Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
The Outcasts
John Flanagan
The Icebound Land
John Flanagan
Children of Memory
Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Hobbit
J.R.R. Tolkien
Vernon God Little
DBC Pierre
Not Till We Are Lost
Dennis E. Taylor
The Red Fox Clan
John Flanagan
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
The Sorcerer of the North
John Flanagan
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
The Royal Ranger
John Flanagan
Five Run Away Together
Enid Blyton
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hunters
John Flanagan
Five on a Treasure Island
Enid Blyton
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
George Orwell
Five Go To Smuggler's Top
Enid Blyton
HHhH
Laurent Binet
The Burning Bridge
John Flanagan
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick
The Extended Mind
Annie Murphy Paul
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Eric Schlosser
Nurtureshock
Po Bronson, Ashley Merryman
Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
Educated
Tara Westover
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
Douglas Rushkoff