Comment by Raerth on 16/07/2010 at 02:02 UTC*

677 upvotes, 15 direct replies (showing 15)

View submission: Reddit's Favourite Books

1 - 100

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**)

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Comment by Raerth at 16/07/2010 at 02:04 UTC*

278 upvotes, 20 direct replies

101 - 200

101. **The Girl Next Door** by Jack Ketchum. (UP:50 | WS:150 | Total:**200**)

102. **In Defense of Food** by Michael Pollan. (UP:49 | WS:150 | Total:**199**)

103. **The Dark Tower** by Stephen King. (UP:67 | WS:130 | Total:**197**)

104. **Fight Club** by Chuck Palahniuk. (UP:62 | WS:130 | Total:**192**)

105. **The Greatest Show on Earth** by Richard Dawkins. (UP:58 | WS:130 | Total:**188**)

106. **The Making of a Radical** by Scott Nearing. (UP:48 | WS:140 | Total:**188**)

107. **The Turner Diaries** by Andrew MacDonald. (UP:45 | WS:140 | Total:**185**)

108. **The Scar** by China Mieville. (UP:24 | WS:160 | Total:**184**)

109. **Steppenwolf ** by Hermann Hesse. (UP:58 | WS:120 | Total:**178**)

110. **Going Rogue** by Sarah Palin. (UP:51 | WS:120 | Total:**171**)

111. **120 Days of Sodom** by Marquis De Sade. (UP:40 | WS:130 | Total:**170**)

112. **Rendezvous with Rama** by Arthur C Clarke. (UP:87 | WS:80 | Total:**167**)

113. **Oryx and Crake** by Margaret Atwood. (UP:33 | WS:130 | Total:**163**)

114. **Beyond Good and Evil** by Friedrich Nietzsche. (UP:50 | WS:110 | Total:**160**)

115. **Gravity's Rainbow** by Thomas Pynchon. (UP:37 | WS:120 | Total:**157**)

116. **Naked Lunch** by William Burroughs. (UP:25 | WS:130 | Total:**155**)

117. **Childhood's End** by Arthur C Clarke. (UP:44 | WS:110 | Total:**154**)

118. **Of Mice and Men** by John Steinbeck. (UP:34 | WS:120 | Total:**154**)

119. **The Book of Ler** by MA Foster. (UP:57 | WS:90 | Total:**147**)

120. **The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark** by Carl Sagan. (UP:57 | WS:90 | Total:**147**)

121. **Johnny Got His Gun** by Dalton Trumbo. (UP:35 | WS:110 | Total:**145**)

122. **Cryptonomicon ** by Neal Stephenson. (UP:24 | WS:120 | Total:**144**)

123. **Watership Down** by Richard Adams. (UP:32 | WS:110 | Total:**142**)

124. **Breakfast of Champions** by Kurt Vonnegut. (UP:29 | WS:110 | Total:**139**)

125. **Civilization and Capitalism** by Fernand Braudel. (UP:28 | WS:110 | Total:**138**)

126. **Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs** by Chuck Klosterman. (UP:48 | WS:90 | Total:**138**)

127. **A Fire Upon the Deep** by Vernor Vinge. (UP:97 | WS:40 | Total:**137**)

128. **The Saga of Seven Suns** by Kevin J Anderson. (UP:57 | WS:80 | Total:**137**)

129. **The Grapes of Wrath** by John Steinbeck . (UP:86 | WS:50 | Total:**136**)

130. **American Psycho** by Bret Easton Ellis. (UP:30 | WS:100 | Total:**130**)

131. **The Mote in God's Eye** by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. (UP:40 | WS:90 | Total:**130**)

132. **The Chomsky Reader** by Noam Chomsky. (UP:28 | WS:100 | Total:**128**)

133. **The Panda's Thumb** by Stephen Jay Gould. (UP:17 | WS:110 | Total:**127**)

134. **Flatland ** by Edwin Abbot. (UP:36 | WS:90 | Total:**126**)

135. **On the Road** by Jack Kerouac . (UP:36 | WS:90 | Total:**126**)

136. **The God Delusion** by Richard Dawkins. (UP:44 | WS:80 | Total:**124**)

137. **The Classical Style** by Charles Rosen. (UP:28 | WS:90 | Total:**118**)

138. **Here Be Dragons** by Sharon Kay Penman. (UP:17 | WS:100 | Total:**117**)

139. **An American Life** by Ronald Reagan. (UP:16 | WS:100 | Total:**116**)

140. **Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space** by Carl Sagan. (UP:36 | WS:80 | Total:**116**)

141. **The Little Schemer** by Friedman & Felleisen. (UP:36 | WS:80 | Total:**116**)

142. **Life in the Woods** by Henry David Thoreau. (UP:24 | WS:90 | Total:**114**)

143. **Black Lamb, Grey Falcon** by Rebecca West. (UP:28 | WS:80 | Total:**108**)

144. **Thus Spake Zarathustra** by Friedrich Nietzsche. (UP:48 | WS:60 | Total:**108**)

145. **Sandman** by Neil Gaiman. (UP:17 | WS:90 | Total:**107**)

146. **The Game** by Neil Strauss. (UP:36 | WS:70 | Total:**106**)

147. **Good Omens** by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman. (UP:15 | WS:90 | Total:**105**)

148. **Mere Christianity** by CS Lewis. (UP:34 | WS:70 | Total:**104**)

149. **Walden** by Henry David Thoreau. (UP:24 | WS:80 | Total:**104**)

150. **The Collapse of Complex Societies** by Joseph Tainter. (UP:10 | WS:90 | Total:**100**)

151. **Cthulhu Mythos** by H.P. Lovecraft. (UP:19 | WS:80 | Total:**99**)

152. **The Stars My Destination** by Alfred Bester. (UP:39 | WS:60 | Total:**99**)

153. **The Pillars of the Earth** by Ken Follett. (UP:26 | WS:70 | Total:**96**)

154. **The Prince of Nothing ** by R. Scott Bakker. (UP:45 | WS:50 | Total:**95**)

155. **Perdido Street Station** by China Mieville. (UP:14 | WS:80 | Total:**94**)

156. **Man's Search for Meaning** by Viktor Frankl. (UP:33 | WS:60 | Total:**93**)

157. **The Wasteland** by TS Elliot. (UP:19 | WS:70 | Total:**89**)

158. **The Kite Runner** by Khaled Hosseini. (UP:38 | WS:50 | Total:**88**)

159. **Pi to 5 million places** by [kick books]. (UP:26 | WS:60 | Total:**86**)

160. **The Blank Slate** by Steven Pinker. (UP:36 | WS:50 | Total:**86**)

161. **The Dispossessed** by Ursula K. Le Guin. (UP:33 | WS:50 | Total:**83**)

162. **Guts** by Chuck Palahniuk. (UP:21 | WS:60 | Total:**81**)

163. **fear and trembling** by Søren Kierkegaard. (UP:20 | WS:60 | Total:**80**)

164. **One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest** by Ken Kesey. (UP:70 | WS:10 | Total:**80**)

165. **Kafka on the Shore** by Haruki Murakami. (UP:19 | WS:60 | Total:**79**)

166. **Ulysses ** by James Joyce. (UP:29 | WS:50 | Total:**79**)

167. **Macbeth** by Shakespeare. (UP:38 | WS:40 | Total:**78**)

168. **Basic Economics** by Thomas Sowell. (UP:27 | WS:50 | Total:**77**)

169. **Atheism: The Case Against God** by George H. Smith. (UP:36 | WS:40 | Total:**76**)

170. **The Handmaids Tale** by Margaret Atwood. (UP:16 | WS:60 | Total:**76**)

171. **For Whom the Bell Tolls** by Ernest Hemingway. (UP:25 | WS:50 | Total:**75**)

172. **Sophie's World** by Jostein Gaarder. (UP:13 | WS:60 | Total:**73**)

173. **Women** by Charles Bukowski. (UP:13 | WS:60 | Total:**73**)

174. **Red Mars** by Kim Stanley Robinson. (UP:32 | WS:40 | Total:**72**)

175. **We Need To Talk About Kevin** by Lionel Shriver. (UP:20 | WS:50 | Total:**70**)

176. **How We Die** by Sherwin B. Nuland. (UP:19 | WS:50 | Total:**69**)

177. **Philosophical Investigations** by Ludwig Wittgenstein. (UP:19 | WS:50 | Total:**69**)

178. **The singularity is near** by Ray Kurzweil. (UP:17 | WS:50 | Total:**67**)

179. **The Day of the Trifids** by John Wyndham. (UP:16 | WS:50 | Total:**66**)

180. **The Long Walk** by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman). (UP:36 | WS:30 | Total:**66**)

181. **Blood Meridian** by Cormac McCarthy. (UP:18 | WS:40 | Total:**58**)

182. **The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are** by Alan Watts. (UP:17 | WS:40 | Total:**57**)

183. **The Wheel of Time** by Robert Jordan. (UP:37 | WS:20 | Total:**57**)

184. **The Elegant Universe** by Brian Green. (UP:16 | WS:40 | Total:**56**)

185. **A Suitable Boy** by Vikram Seth. (UP:13 | WS:40 | Total:**53**)

186. **Book of the New Sun** by Gene Wolfe. (UP:13 | WS:40 | Total:**53**)

187. **King Lear** by Shakespeare. (UP:29 | WS:20 | Total:**49**)

188. **The Power of Myth** by Joseph Campbell. (UP:28 | WS:20 | Total:**48**)

189. **The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica** by Apollonius of Rhodes. (UP:8 | WS:40 | Total:**48**)

190. **The Baroque Cycle** by Neal Stephenson. (UP:37 | WS:10 | Total:**47**)

191. **Nichomachean ethics** by Aristotle. (UP:16 | WS:30 | Total:**46**)

192. **Long Walk to Freedom** by Nelson Mandlla. (UP:15 | WS:30 | Total:**45**)

193. **Cloud Atlas** by David Mitchell. (UP:4 | WS:40 | Total:**44**)

194. **The Master and Margarita** by Mikhail Bulgakov. (UP:13 | WS:30 | Total:**43**)

195. **The Chrysalids** by John Wyndham. (UP:12 | WS:30 | Total:**42**)

196. **The Occult** by Colin Wilson. (UP:12 | WS:30 | Total:**42**)

197. **Cosmos** by Carl Sagan. (UP:21 | WS:20 | Total:**41**)

198. **The Fountainhead** by Ayn Rand. (UP:31 | WS:10 | Total:**41**)

199. **Hamlet** by Shakespeare. (UP:29 | WS:10 | Total:**39**)

200. **The Hero with a Thousand Faces** by Joseph Campbell. (UP:28 | WS:10 | Total:**38**)

Comment by [deleted] at 03/08/2010 at 23:06 UTC*

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Comment by StochasticOoze at 24/08/2010 at 17:22 UTC

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I've read exactly fifty of these. There are 29 I own but haven't gotten around to reading yet.

Incidentally, I'm astonished nobody's pointed this out, but #58, A Game of Thrones, is the first book in the series A Song of Ice and Fire, which is at #54.

Comment by obamahasaides at 16/10/2010 at 15:03 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Awesome list! The only thing I noticed is that #54 *A Song of Ice and Fire) and #58 (A Game of Thrones) are both the same series by George RR Martin.

Comment by boolean_ at 04/08/2010 at 00:02 UTC

8 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Oh lol, The Bible at 8th. You mad Reddit, you mad...

Comment by entropic at 03/08/2010 at 22:05 UTC

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Mockingbird is one word. Now make it again. :P

Comment by beetrixkiddo at 14/12/2010 at 05:48 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

no D Chopra... guess the science fiction cancels him out

Comment by spidremedia at 05/08/2010 at 13:18 UTC

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nice list

Comment by kgen at 05/08/2010 at 10:37 UTC

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Saved list of books!

Comment by Kavika at 18/10/2010 at 20:36 UTC

0 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I don't know if it matters much but #58 A game of thrones is the first book in a series which happens to be your #54 A song of Fire and Ice. Strikes me as a little repetative.