Ask HN: Can we make a list of obscure/unknown non-fiction books?

  • This would actually just be a list of less well known but still popular books.

    Probably 90+% of books published are "obscure" in the sense that they didn't become best sellers and won't be recognized by the average person or likely mentioned in a list like you requested. Most books just don't become popular enough to be well known. Which I think is a tough benchmark.

  • Kybalion, Reality transurfing, The illusion of money, The minimalist entrepreneur, Power vs Force, Psycho cybernetics, No self no problem

  • "Lost Continents" by L. Sprague de Camp (1954). Looks at Atlantis and other lost continents as rhetorical devices in ancient history and philosophy, 20th century pseudoscience/pseudohistory, and science fiction

  • Anything by Merwin Crawford Young, early Zen Buddhist texts, Anthony Giddens, Peter Berger, the Tao te Ching, Max Weber, Norbert Elias, Nisargadatta Maharaj

  • By definition such a list is impossible