Reddit's Favourite Books

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1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

2. 1984 by George Orwell

3. Dune by Frank Herbert

4. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

5. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

6. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

7. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

8. The Bible by Various

9. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

10. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

11. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

12. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman

13. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

14. The Foundation Saga by Isaac Asimov

15. Neuromancer by William Gibson

16. Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

17. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

18. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

19. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

20. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

21. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

22. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

23. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tse

24. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielwelski

25. The Giver by Lois Lowry

26. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

27. Animal Farm by George Orwell

28. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

29. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

30. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

31. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

32. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

33. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

34. His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman

35. The Stranger by Albert Camus

36. Various by Dr. Seuss

37. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

38. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

39. The Monster at the End of This Book by Jon Stone and Michael Smollin

40. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

41. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

42. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick

43. A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

45. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

46. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

47. The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons

48. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

49. The Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights by Various

50. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

51. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr

52. Odyssey by Homer

53. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

54. A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin

55. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

56. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

57. Ringworld by Larry Niven

58. A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin

59. The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick

60. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry

61. Freakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt

62. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein

63. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

64. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

65. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

66. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

67. Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen

68. Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

69. Everybody Poops by Tarō Gomi

70. On the Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin

71. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with Alex Haley

72. John Dies at the End by David Wong

73. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

74. Contact by Carl Sagan

75. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

76. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

77. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

78. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

79. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

80. The Stand by Stephen King

81. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

82. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

83. Moby Dick by Herman Melville

84. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

85. Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer

86. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky

87. Asimov's Guide to the Bible by Isaac Asimov

88. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

89. Collapse by Jared Diamond

90. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallave

91. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

92. Chaos by James Gleick

93. American Gods by Neil Gaiman

94. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

95. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

96. You Can Choose to Be Happy by Tom G. Stevens

97. The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler

98. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

99. Candide by Voltaire

100. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

101. The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum

102. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

103. The Dark Tower by Stephen King

104. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

105. The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins

106. The Making of a Radical by Scott Nearing

107. The Turner Diaries by Andrew MacDonald

108. The Scar by China Mieville

109. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

110. Going Rogue by Sarah Palin

111. 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis De Sade

112. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke

113. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

114. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

115. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

116. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs

117. Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke

118. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

119. The Book of Ler by MA Foster

120. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

121. Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

122. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

123. Watership Down by Richard Adams

124. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

125. Civilization and Capitalism by Fernand Braudel

126. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

127. A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

128. The Saga of Seven Suns by Kevin J Anderson

129. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

130. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

131. The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

132. The Chomsky Reader by Noam Chomsky

133. The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould

134. Flatland by Edwin Abbot

135. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

136. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

137. The Classical Style by Charles Rosen

138. Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman

139. An American Life by Ronald Reagan

140. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan

141. The Little Schemer by Friedman & Felleisen

142. Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau

143. Black Lamb, Grey Falcon by Rebecca West

144. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

145. Sandman by Neil Gaiman

146. The Game by Neil Strauss

147. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

148. Mere Christianity by CS Lewis

149. Walden by Henry David Thoreau

150. The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter

151. Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft

152. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester

153. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

154. The Prince of Nothing by R. Scott Bakker

155. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville

156. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

157. The Wasteland by TS Elliot

158. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

159. Pi to 5 million places by kick books

160. The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

161. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

162. Guts by Chuck Palahniuk

163. Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard

164. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

165. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

166. Ulysses by James Joyce

167. Macbeth by Shakespeare

168. Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell

169. Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith

170. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

171. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

172. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

173. Women by Charles Bukowski

174. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

175. We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

176. How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland

177. Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein

178. The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil

179. The Day of the Trifids by John Wyndham

180. The Long Walk by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)

181. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

182. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts

183. The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

184. The Elegant Universe by Brian Green

185. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

186. Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe

187. King Lear by Shakespeare

188. The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell

189. The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes

190. The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson

191. Nichomachean ethics by Aristotle

192. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandlla

193. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

194. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

195. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

196. The Occult by Colin Wilson

197. Cosmos by Carl Sagan

198. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

199. Hamlet by Shakespeare

200. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Source
Reddit's Top 200 Favourite Books compiled by user Raerth (15 July 2010).

Google Book list compiled by user Pavel Panchekha.