https://www.reddit.com/r/raerth/comments/cpxkq/reddits_favourite_books/
created by Raerth on 15/07/2010 at 16:06 UTC*
1287 upvotes, 26 top-level comments (showing 25)
I used these threads:
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I counted **only** upvotes.
Duplicates were combined.
I waved a magic wand.
1: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cpqsd/have_you_ever_had_a_book_change_your_life/
2: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/be0f5/whats_the_best_book_youve_ever_read/
3: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/9pgba/i_think_we_need_to_produce_a_definitive/
6: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/79rol/ask_reddit_i_want_to_read_a_book_that_will_move/
7: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/99rgk/what_nonfiction_book_can_you_recommend_looking/
8: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9u6g7/what_book_have_you_reread_the_most/
9: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9tepn/i_recently_decided_that_i_have_been_growing_up/
10: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9pe2t/reddit_comment_and_upvote_your_favorite/
11: http://www.reddit.com/comments/1lmig/ask_reddit_what_is_your_alltime_favorite_book
12: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a4ohl/what_book_have_you_read_had_such_a_great/
13: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/79f1g/whats_a_book_youve_read_more_than_twice/
14: http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/9vopc/good_post_apocalyptic_books/
15: http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/8r4ug/the_10_most_disturbing_books_of_all_time_what/
16: http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/9nh97/what_nonfiction_books_are_a_mustread_in_your/
17: http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/92idw/books_that_have_changed_your_life/
18: http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/9t22f/what_nonfiction_book_was_the_best_eyeopener_you/
19: http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/93e17/please_recommend_book_series_with_epichuge/
20: http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/8f7pa/hey_reddit_what_are_your_favorite_fantasy_books/
21: http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/a6qjm/apocalyptic_books_the_end_is_coming_so_read_up/
24: http://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/9wmi4/what_is_your_absolute_favorite_science_fiction/
25: http://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/9bsit/ultimate_scifi_book_list_only_reply_with_one/
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redditor pavpanchekha[28] has added these to Google Bookshelf[29] for easy searching.
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30: http://www.demonoid.me/redirect.php?url=http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2535620/7234281/
31: http://www.demonoid.me/files/details/2538348/006148779840/?load_bal=5704446&show_files
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Discussion thread in /r/books[32] | Discussion thread in /r/bestof[33] | 2nd Discussion in /r/bestof[34]
Comment by Raerth at 16/07/2010 at 02:02 UTC*
680 upvotes, 15 direct replies
1. **The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy** by Douglas Adams. (UP:1443 | WS:2210 | Total:**3653**)
2. **1984** by George Orwell. (UP:1447 | WS:2090 | Total:**3537**)
3. **Dune** by Frank Herbert. (UP:1122 | WS:2140 | Total:**3262**)
4. **Slaughterhouse 5** by Kurt Vonnegut. (UP:967 | WS:1750 | Total:**2717**)
5. **Ender's Game** by Orson Scott Card. (UP:931 | WS:1680 | Total:**2611**)
6. **Brave New World** by Aldous Huxley. (UP:1031 | WS:1530 | Total:**2561**)
7. **The Catcher in the Rye** by J. D. Salinger. (UP:907 | WS:1320 | Total:**2227**)
8. **The Bible** by Various. (UP:810 | WS:1230 | Total:**2040**)
9. **Snow Crash** by Neal Stephenson. (UP:603 | WS:1220 | Total:**1823**)
10. **Harry Potter Series** by J.K. Rowling. (UP:1169 | WS:560 | Total:**1729**)
11. **Stranger in a Strange Land** by Robert A. Heinlein. (UP:610 | WS:1090 | Total:**1700**)
12. **Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!** by Richard P. Feynman. (UP:483 | WS:1130 | Total:**1613**)
13. **To Kill A Mockingbird** by Harper Lee. (UP:473 | WS:1070 | Total:**1543**)
14. **The Foundation Saga** by Isaac Asimov. (UP:519 | WS:960 | Total:**1479**)
15. **Neuromancer** by William Gibson. (UP:449 | WS:960 | Total:**1409**)
16. **Calvin and Hobbes** by Bill Watterson. (UP:664 | WS:710 | Total:**1374**)
17. **Guns, Germs, and Steel** by Jared Diamond. (UP:455 | WS:870 | Total:**1325**)
18. **Catch-22** by Joseph Heller. (UP:402 | WS:880 | Total:**1282**)
19. **Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance** by Robert M. Pirsig. (UP:388 | WS:890 | Total:**1278**)
20. **Siddhartha** by Hermann Hesse. (UP:466 | WS:790 | Total:**1256**)
21. **The Selfish Gene** by Richard Dawkins. (UP:403 | WS:830 | Total:**1233**)
22. **Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid** by Douglas Hofstadter. (UP:400 | WS:790 | Total:**1190**)
23. **Tao Te Ching** by Lao Tse. (UP:334 | WS:770 | Total:**1104**)
24. **House of Leaves** by Mark Z. Danielwelski. (UP:347 | WS:720 | Total:**1067**)
25. **The Giver** by Lois Lowry. (UP:429 | WS:630 | Total:**1059**)
26. **Crime and Punishment** by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. (UP:264 | WS:680 | Total:**944**)
27. **Animal Farm** by George Orwell. (UP:367 | WS:550 | Total:**917**)
28. **A People's History of the United States** by Howard Zinn. (UP:266 | WS:580 | Total:**846**)
29. **The Lord of the Rings** by J. R. R. Tolkien. (UP:254 | WS:550 | Total:**804**)
30. **Ishmael** by Daniel Quinn. (UP:265 | WS:520 | Total:**785**)
31. **A Brief History of Time** by Stephen Hawking. (UP:264 | WS:520 | Total:**784**)
32. **Lolita** by Vladimir Nabokov. (UP:249 | WS:530 | Total:**779**)
33. **The Count of Monte Cristo** by Alexandre Dumas. (UP:212 | WS:560 | Total:**772**)
34. **His Dark Materials Trilogy** by Philip Pullman. (UP:194 | WS:560 | Total:**754**)
35. **The Stranger** by Albert Camus. (UP:197 | WS:550 | Total:**747**)
36. **Various** by Dr. Seuss. (UP:235 | WS:500 | Total:**735**)
37. **The Road** by Cormac McCarthy. (UP:157 | WS:570 | Total:**727**)
38. **Lord of the Flies** by William Golding. (UP:247 | WS:470 | Total:**717**)
39. **The Monster At The End Of This Book** by Jon Stone and Michael Smollin. (UP:277 | WS:430 | Total:**707**)
40. **Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas** by Hunter S. Thompson. (UP:224 | WS:480 | Total:**704**)
41. **A Short History of Nearly Everything** by Bill Bryson. (UP:241 | WS:460 | Total:**701**)
42. **Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep** by Phillip K. Dick. (UP:270 | WS:390 | Total:**660**)
43. **A Hundred Years of Solitude** by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (UP:169 | WS:460 | Total:**629**)
44. **The Art of War** by Sun Tzu. (UP:199 | WS:430 | Total:**629**)
45. **How to Win Friends and Influence People** by Dale Carnegie. (UP:228 | WS:390 | Total:**618**)
46. **Flowers For Algernon** by Daniel Keyes. (UP:140 | WS:460 | Total:**600**)
47. **The Hyperion Cantos** by Dan Simmons. (UP:251 | WS:340 | Total:**591**)
48. **A Confederacy of Dunces** by John Kennedy Toole. (UP:108 | WS:450 | Total:**558**)
49. **The Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights** by Various. (UP:178 | WS:370 | Total:**548**)
50. **Cat's Cradle** by Kurt Vonnegut. (UP:194 | WS:340 | Total:**534**)
51. **A Canticle for Leibowitz** by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (UP:169 | WS:340 | Total:**509**)
52. **Odyssey** by Homer. (UP:153 | WS:310 | Total:**463**)
53. **Fahrenheit 451** by Ray Bradbury. (UP:173 | WS:280 | Total:**453**)
54. **A Song of Ice and Fire** by George RR Martin. (UP:167 | WS:270 | Total:**437**)
55. **The Great Gatsby** by F. Scott Fitzgerald. (UP:147 | WS:290 | Total:**437**)
56. **The Brothers Karamazov** by Fyodor Dostoevsky. (UP:103 | WS:320 | Total:**423**)
57. **Ringworld** by Larry Niven. (UP:193 | WS:220 | Total:**413**)
58. **A Game of Thrones** by George RR Martin. (UP:82 | WS:330 | Total:**412**)
59. **The Art of Deception** by Kevin Mitnick. (UP:74 | WS:330 | Total:**404**)
60. **The Little Prince** by Antoine de Saint Exupéry. (UP:84 | WS:320 | Total:**404**)
61. **Freakonomics** by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt. (UP:126 | WS:270 | Total:**396**)
62. **The Moon is a Harsh Mistress** by Robert A. Heinlein. (UP:155 | WS:240 | Total:**395**)
63. **The Omnivore's Dilemma** by Michael Pollan. (UP:106 | WS:280 | Total:**386**)
64. **Heart of Darkness** by Joseph Conrad. (UP:143 | WS:230 | Total:**373**)
65. **The Forever War** by Joe Haldeman. (UP:148 | WS:210 | Total:**358**)
66. **Adventures of Huckleberry Finn** by Mark Twain. (UP:148 | WS:190 | Total:**338**)
67. **Lies My Teacher Told Me** by James Loewen. (UP:97 | WS:240 | Total:**337**)
68. **Notes From Underground** by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. (UP:77 | WS:260 | Total:**337**)
69. **Everybody Poops** by Tarō Gomi. (UP:118 | WS:200 | Total:**318**)
70. **On the Origin of Species** by Charles Darwin. (UP:118 | WS:190 | Total:**308**)
71. **The Autobiography of Malcolm X** by Malcolm X with Alex Haley. (UP:105 | WS:200 | Total:**305**)
72. **John Dies at the End** by David Wong. (UP:59 | WS:240 | Total:**299**)
73. **The Communist Manifesto** by Karl Marx. (UP:117 | WS:180 | Total:**297**)
74. **Contact** by Carl Sagan. (UP:104 | WS:190 | Total:**294**)
75. **A Clockwork Orange** by Anthony Burgess. (UP:116 | WS:170 | Total:**286**)
76. **The Prince** by Niccolò Machiavelli. (UP:121 | WS:160 | Total:**281**)
77. **Atlas Shrugged** by Ayn Rand. (UP:92 | WS:180 | Total:**272**)
78. **The Diamond Age** by Neal Stephenson. (UP:119 | WS:150 | Total:**269**)
79. **War and Peace** by Leo Tolstoy. (UP:55 | WS:210 | Total:**265**)
80. **The Stand** by Stephen King. (UP:83 | WS:180 | Total:**263**)
81. **The Dharma Bums** by Jack Kerouac. (UP:80 | WS:180 | Total:**260**)
82. **The Hobbit** by J. R. R. Tolkien. (UP:48 | WS:210 | Total:**258**)
83. **Moby Dick** by Herman Melville. (UP:55 | WS:200 | Total:**255**)
84. **The Unbearable Lightness of Being** by Milan Kundera. (UP:75 | WS:180 | Total:**255**)
85. **Why People Believe Weird Things** by Michael Shermer. (UP:75 | WS:180 | Total:**255**)
86. **Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media** by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky. (UP:129 | WS:120 | Total:**249**)
87. **Asimov's Guide to the Bible** by Isaac Asimov. (UP:58 | WS:180 | Total:**238**)
88. **The Old Man and the Sea** by Ernest Hemingway. (UP:104 | WS:130 | Total:**234**)
89. **Collapse** by Jared Diamond. (UP:53 | WS:180 | Total:**233**)
90. **Infinite Jest** by David Foster Wallave. (UP:53 | WS:180 | Total:**233**)
91. **Don Quixote** by Miguel de Cervantes. (UP:112 | WS:120 | Total:**232**)
92. **Chaos** by James Gleick. (UP:58 | WS:170 | Total:**228**)
93. **American Gods** by Neil Gaiman. (UP:46 | WS:180 | Total:**226**)
94. **Starship Troopers** by Robert A. Heinlein. (UP:103 | WS:120 | Total:**223**)
95. **The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime** by Mark Haddon. (UP:52 | WS:170 | Total:**222**)
96. **You Can Choose to Be Happy** by Tom G. Stevens. (UP:70 | WS:150 | Total:**220**)
97. **The Geography of Nowhere** by James Howard Kunstler. (UP:58 | WS:160 | Total:**218**)
98. **All Quiet on the Western Front** by Erich Maria Remarque. (UP:73 | WS:130 | Total:**203**)
99. **Candide** by Voltaire. (UP:102 | WS:100 | Total:**202**)
100. **Mein Kampf** by Adolf Hitler. (UP:62 | WS:140 | Total:**202**)
Comment by [deleted] at 12/08/2010 at 01:50 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Threads like this are why Reddit is my favorite website and the BEST interactive community on the net. Thank you. You sir are a good person.
Comment by myheadhurtsalot at 16/07/2010 at 02:58 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
As a fellow Excel nerd, I love you.
Comment by IOwin at 04/08/2010 at 16:03 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Surprised Reddit isn't more of a fan of World War Z
Comment by [deleted] at 16/07/2010 at 07:42 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I have quite a reading list now.
Comment by Raerth at 16/07/2010 at 20:14 UTC
14 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It amuses me that some people have downvoted this.
It is a self-post, so I receive no karma. It is also one of only three posts on my own subreddit, so it cannot affect any kind of ranking.
Maybe the results simply angered them so much they needed to vent somehow...
Comment by [deleted] at 16/07/2010 at 08:27 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Impressive work, sir!
Comment by [deleted] at 17/09/2010 at 12:45 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'm impressed with the effort you went through. Thanks a lot.
Comment by Titan_Astraeus at 16/07/2010 at 17:26 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
definitely saving this in my notes for future reference :P good job
Comment by ConfitOfDuck at 16/07/2010 at 17:49 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Cloud Atlas is a great book. I'm glad to see that it made it onto the list. I read it when I was house-sitting for my thesis adviser in college and was blown away by Mitchell's ability to completely change his voice in each section.
Has anyone read Ulysses? In Episode 14 when Joyce parodies every pretty much every English language writing style from old Anglo-Saxon and Latin poetry to modern slang. Its kinda like that but more enjoyable.
Comment by Ban10 at 16/07/2010 at 20:05 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Thank you for the effort.. I would definitely be more interested in the magic wand thing! Just because some of those highly voted books are not so great! So I wonder if the performance of your magic can be optimized! (in my opinion at least!)
Comment by Dax420 at 03/08/2010 at 21:43 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
How the hell did *Anathem - Neal Stephenson* not make the list? I call shenanigans!
Comment by [deleted] at 04/08/2010 at 08:53 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
"A Song of Ice and Fire" isn't actually a book. It's a series. Of which "A Game of Thrones" is the first book.
Comment by GabrielJames at 02/11/2010 at 13:57 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Reddit, why don't you read poetry? It is where the literary tradition began, how we mark the great ceremonies of our lives, and what we turn to when the mysteries of life and death interrupt the banal chatter that fills our day to day life. Poems are books - check the OED of you would like.
Comment by holdie at 16/11/2010 at 04:12 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This is an amazing list, but what about "Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas - definitely deserves an honorable mention!
Comment by yenemy at 16/11/2010 at 14:04 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Holy crap, thank you so much for posting this! So glad I found this thread ust when I needed some new reading material.
Comment by [deleted] at 12/12/2010 at 06:58 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Did a Google search for "reddit's favorite books." This was the first hit and it did not disappoint. Seriously, this is beyond impressive. Thanks a million!
Comment by [deleted] at 25/12/2010 at 21:53 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Im glad I can go through the list and check off a number those books. Now to read more and more of them!
Comment by jomateix at 02/01/2011 at 17:40 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
tis
Comment by _sic at 16/07/2010 at 08:50 UTC
-1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Hmm, I've read about 80% of the first list. I guess that means I am typical. This makes me sad.
Comment by anormalfella at 09/08/2010 at 04:26 UTC
0 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Saving for later.
Comment by jamsm at 04/08/2010 at 06:10 UTC
-1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
commenting so I can look at this later.
Comment by luvdab3achx0x0 at 20/07/2022 at 07:20 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Thanks so much for your meticulous compilation!! “The Journeys of Socrates,” has had a huge influence on my life. I’ve read it at least 3 times. Every time I notice new details that help my perspective in life.
Comment by Head-Gap-1717 at 16/12/2022 at 20:41 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
this is quite a comprehensive list. thanks for putting this together.
Comment by ColdCofeeeee at 26/02/2023 at 10:36 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Nice