Reddit's Favorite 200 Books


1. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (36 votes)
2. 1984 by George Orwell (35 votes)
3. Dune by Frank Herbert (32 votes)
4. Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut (27 votes)
5. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (26 votes)
6. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (25 votes)
7. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (22 votes)
8. The Bible by Various (20 votes)
9. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (18 votes)
10. Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling (17 votes)
11. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (17 votes)
12. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman (16 votes)
13. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (15 votes)
14. The Foundation Saga by Isaac Asimov (14 votes)
15. Neuromancer by William Gibson (14 votes)
16. Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (13 votes)
17. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (13 votes)
18. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (12 votes)
19. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig (12 votes)
20. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (12 votes)
21. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (12 votes)
22. Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid by Douglas Hofstadter (11 votes)
23. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tse (11 votes)
24. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielwelski (10 votes)
25. The Giver by Lois Lowry (10 votes)
26. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (94 votes)
27. Animal Farm by George Orwell (91 votes)
28. A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (84 votes)
29. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (80 votes)
30. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (78 votes)
31. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (78 votes)
32. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (77 votes)
33. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (77 votes)
34. His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman (75 votes)
35. The Stranger by Albert Camus (74 votes)
36. Various by Dr. Seuss (73 votes)
37. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (72 votes)
38. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (71 votes)
39. The Monster At The End Of This Book by Jon Stone and Michael Smollin (70 votes)
40. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (70 votes)
41. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (70 votes)
42. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick (66 votes)
43. A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (62 votes)
44. The Art of War by Sun Tzu (62 votes)
45. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (61 votes)
46. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes (60 votes)
47. The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons (59 votes)
48. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (55 votes)
49. The Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights by Various (54 votes)
50. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (53 votes)
51. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr (50 votes)
52. Odyssey by Homer (46 votes)
53. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (45 votes)
54. A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin (43 votes)
55. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (43 votes)
56. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (42 votes)
57. Ringworld by Larry Niven (41 votes)
58. A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin (41 votes)
59. The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick (40 votes)
60. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry (40 votes)
61. Freakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt (39 votes)
62. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (39 votes)
63. The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan (38 votes)
64. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (37 votes)
65. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (35 votes)
66. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (33 votes)
67. Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen (33 votes)
68. Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (33 votes)
69. Everybody Poops by Tarō Gomi (31 votes)
70. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (30 votes)
71. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with Alex Haley (30 votes)
72. John Dies at the End by David Wong (29 votes)
73. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (29 votes)
74. Contact by Carl Sagan (29 votes)
75. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (28 votes)
76. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (28 votes)
77. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (27 votes)
78. The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (26 votes)
79. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (26 votes)
80. The Stand by Stephen King (26 votes)
81. The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac (26 votes)
82. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (25 votes)
83. Moby Dick by Herman Melville (25 votes)
84. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (25 votes)
85. Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer (25 votes)
86. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky (24 votes)
87. Asimov's Guide to the Bible by Isaac Asimov (23 votes)
88. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (23 votes)
89. Collapse by Jared Diamond (23 votes)
90. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallave (23 votes)
91. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (23 votes)
92. Chaos by James Gleick (22 votes)
93. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (22 votes)
94. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (22 votes)
95. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime by Mark Haddon (22 votes)
96. You Can Choose to Be Happy by Tom G. Stevens (22 votes)
97. The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler (21 votes)
98. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (20 votes)
99. Candide by Voltaire (20 votes)
100. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (20 votes)
101. The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum (20 votes)
102. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (19 votes)
103. The Dark Tower by Stephen King (19 votes)
104. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (19 votes)
105. The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins (18 votes)
106. The Making of a Radical by Scott Nearing (18 votes)
107. The Turner Diaries by Andrew MacDonald (18 votes)
108. The Scar by China Mieville (18 votes)
109. Steppenwolf ** by Hermann Hesse (17 votes)
110. Going Rogue by Sarah Palin.**Going Rogue by Sarah Palin (17 votes)
111. 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis De Sade (17 votes)
112. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke (16 votes)
113. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (16 votes)
114. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche (16 votes)
115. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (15 votes)
116. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs (15 votes)
117. Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke (15 votes)
118. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (15 votes)
119. The Book of Ler by MA Foster (14 votes)
120. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan (14 votes)
121. Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo (14 votes)
122. Cryptonomicon ** by Neal Stephenson (14 votes)
123. Watership Down by Richard Adams.**Watership Down by Richard Adams (14 votes)
124. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (13 votes)
125. Civilization and Capitalism by Fernand Braudel (13 votes)
126. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman (13 votes)
127. A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (13 votes)
128. The Saga of Seven Suns by Kevin J Anderson (13 votes)
129. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (13 votes)
130. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (13 votes)
131. The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (13 votes)
132. The Chomsky Reader by Noam Chomsky (12 votes)
133. The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould (12 votes)
134. Flatland ** by Edwin Abbot (12 votes)
135. On the Road by Jack Kerouac .**On the Road by Jack Kerouac (12 votes)
136. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (12 votes)
137. The Classical Style by Charles Rosen (11 votes)
138. Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman (11 votes)
139. An American Life by Ronald Reagan (11 votes)
140. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan (11 votes)
141. The Little Schemer by Friedman & Felleisen (11 votes)
142. Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (11 votes)
143. Black Lamb, Grey Falcon by Rebecca West (10 votes)
144. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (10 votes)
145. Sandman by Neil Gaiman (10 votes)
146. The Game by Neil Strauss (10 votes)
147. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (10 votes)
148. Mere Christianity by CS Lewis (10 votes)
149. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (10 votes)
150. The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter (10 votes)
151. Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft (99 votes)
152. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester (99 votes)
153. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (96 votes)
154. The Prince of Nothing ** by R. Scott Bakker (95 votes)
155. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville.**Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (94 votes)
156. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (93 votes)
157. The Wasteland by TS Elliot (89 votes)
158. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (88 votes)
159. Pi to 5 million places by [kick books] (86 votes)
160. The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker (86 votes)
161. The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (83 votes)
162. Guts by Chuck Palahniuk (81 votes)
163. fear and trembling by Søren Kierkegaard (80 votes)
164. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (80 votes)
165. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami (79 votes)
166. Ulysses ** by James Joyce (79 votes)
167. Macbeth by Shakespeare.**Macbeth by Shakespeare (78 votes)
168. Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell (77 votes)
169. Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith (76 votes)
170. The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood (76 votes)
171. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (75 votes)
172. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (73 votes)
173. Women by Charles Bukowski (73 votes)
174. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (72 votes)
175. We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (70 votes)
176. How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland (69 votes)
177. Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein (69 votes)
178. The singularity is near by Ray Kurzweil (67 votes)
179. The Day of the Trifids by John Wyndham (66 votes)
180. The Long Walk by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman) (66 votes)
181. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (58 votes)
182. The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts (57 votes)
183. The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan (57 votes)
184. The Elegant Universe by Brian Green (56 votes)
185. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (53 votes)
186. Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe (53 votes)
187. King Lear by Shakespeare (49 votes)
188. The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell (48 votes)
189. The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes (48 votes)
190. The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson (47 votes)
191. Nichomachean ethics by Aristotle (46 votes)
192. Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandlla (45 votes)
193. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (44 votes)
194. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (43 votes)
195. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (42 votes)
196. The Occult by Colin Wilson (42 votes)
197. Cosmos by Carl Sagan (41 votes)
198. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (41 votes)
199. Hamlet by Shakespeare (39 votes)
200. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (38 votes)