The Great Reddit Reading List

This list was compiled from multiple posts in Reddit’s /r/books subreddit, which can be found here, here, and here. Please visit the original posts for further information. Credit goes to the original posters as named in the above links.

Some individual books on this list may also be represented in the series to which they pertain. This is not in error; in most cases, individual books received a high number of votes, as did the series as a whole.

As each entry is reviewed, I will link to the review via the title below.

Reddit’s Favorite Books – Checklist
Compiled from multiple posts on /r/books
Title	Author	Owned?	Read?
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams	Yes	Yes
1984	George Orwell	Yes	Yes
Dune	Frank Herbert	Yes	Yes
Slaughterhouse 5	Kurt Vonnegut	Yes	Yes
Ender’s Game	Orson Scott Card	Yes	Yes
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	Yes	Yes
The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	Yes	Yes
The Bible	—	Yes	Yes
Snow Crash	Neal Stephenson	Yes	Yes
Harry Potter (series, 6 books)	J.K. Rowling	Yes	Yes
Stranger in a Strange Land	Robert A. Heinlein	Yes	Yes
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!	Richard P. Feynman	Yes	Yes
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	Yes	Yes
The Foundation Saga (series, 7 books)	Isaac Asimov	Yes	Yes
Neuromancer	William Gibson	Yes	Yes
Calvin and Hobbes	Bill Watterson	Yes	Yes
Guns, Germs, and Steel	Jared Diamond	Yes	Yes
Catch-22	Joseph Heller	Yes	Yes
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	Robert M. Pirsig	Yes	Yes
Siddhartha	Herman Hesse	Yes	Yes
The Selfish Gene	Richard Dawkins	Yes	Yes
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid	Douglas Hofstadter	Yes	No
Tao Te Ching	Lao Tse	Yes	Yes
House of Leaves	Mark Z. Danielewski	Yes	No
The Giver	Lois Lowry	Yes	Yes
Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	Yes	Yes
Animal Farm	George Orwell	Yes	No
A People’s History of the United States	Howard Zinn	Yes	No
The Lord of the Rings (series, 3 books)	J.R.R. Tolkien	Yes	Yes
Ishmael	Daniel Quinn	Yes	Yes
A Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking	Yes	No
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	Yes	No
The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas	Yes	No
His Dark Materials (series, 3 books)	Philip Pullman	Yes	No
The Stranger	Albert Camus	Yes	Yes
<Various Works>	Dr. Seuss	Yes	Yes
The Road	Cormac McCarthy	Yes	Yes
Lord of the Flies	William Golding	Yes	Yes
The Monster at the End of This Book	Jon Stone, Michael Smollin	Yes	Yes
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Hunter S. Thompson	Yes	No
A Short History of Nearly Everything	Bill Bryson	Yes	Yes
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?	Phillip K. Dick	Yes	Yes
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	Yes	No
The Art of War	Sun Tzu	Yes	No
How to Win Friends and Influence People	Dale Carnegie	Yes	No
Flowers for Algernon	Daniel Keyes	Yes	Yes
The Hyperion Cantos	Dan Simmons	Yes	No
A Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy Toole	Yes	No
U.S. Dec. of Independence, Constitution, B. of R.	Various	Yes	Yes
Cat’s Cradle	Kurt Vonnegut	Yes	No
A Canticle for Leibowitz	Walter M. Miller, Jr.	Yes	Yes
The Odyssey	Homer	Yes	Yes
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	Yes	Yes
A Song of Ice and Fire (series, 5 books currently)	George R. R. Martin	Yes	No
The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald	Yes	Yes
The Brothers Karamazov	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	Yes	Yes
Ringworld	Larry Niven	Yes	Yes
A Game of Thrones	George R. R. Martin	Yes	No
The Art of Deception	Kevin Mitnick	Yes	No
The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupery	Yes	No
Freakonomics	Stephen Dubner, Steven Levitt	Yes	No
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress	Robert A. Heinlein	Yes	Yes
The Omnivore’s Dilemma	Michael Pollan	Yes	Yes
Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad	Yes	No
The Forever War	Joe Haldeman	Yes	No
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	Yes	Yes
Lies My Teacher Told Me	James Loewen	Yes	Yes
Notes from Underground	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	Yes	No
Everybody Poops	Taro Gomi	Yes	No
On the Origin of Species	Charles Darwin	Yes	No
The Autobiography of Malcolm X	Malcolm X, Alex Haley	Yes	Yes
John Dies at the End	David Wong	Yes	Yes
The Communist Manifesto	Karl Marx	Yes	No
Contact	Carl Sagan	Yes	No
A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess	Yes	Yes
The Prince	Niccolo Macchiavelli	Yes	Yes
Atlas Shrugged	Ayn Rand	Yes	Yes
The Diamond Age	Neal Stephenson	Yes	No
War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy	Yes	No
The Stand	Stephen King	Yes	Yes
The Dharma Bums	Jack Kerouac	Yes	No
The Hobbit	J.R.R. Tolkien	Yes	Yes
Moby Dick	Herman Melville	Yes	No
The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Milan Kundera	Yes	No
Why People Believe Weird Things	Michael Shermer	Yes	No
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media	Edward Herman, Noam Chomsky	Yes	No
Asimov’s Guide to the Bible	Isaac Asimov	Yes	No
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	Yes	Yes
Collapse	Jared Diamond	Yes	No
Infinite Jest	David Foster Wallace	Yes	No
Don Quixote	Miguel de Cervantes	Yes	No
Chaos	James Gleick	Yes	No
American Gods	Neil Gaiman	Yes	Yes
Starship Troopers	Robert A. Heinlein	Yes	No
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Mark Haddon	Yes	Yes
You Can Choose to be Happy	Tom G. Stevens	Yes	No
The Geography of Nowhere	James Howard Kunstler	Yes	No
All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	Yes	No
Candide	Voltaire	Yes	Yes
Mein Kampf	Adolf Hitler	Yes	No
The Girl Next Door	Jack Ketchum	Yes	No
In Defense of Food	Michael Pollan	Yes	No
The Dark Tower (series, 8 books)	Stephen King	Yes	Yes
Fight Club	Chuck Palahniuk	Yes	Yes
The Greatest Show on Earth	Richard Dawkins	Yes	No
The Making of a Radical	Scott Nearing	Yes	No
The Turner Diaries	Andrew McDonald	Yes	No
The Scar	China Mieville	Yes	Yes
Steppenwolf	Herman Hesse	Yes	No
Going Rogue	Sarah Palin	Yes	No
120 Days of Sodom	Marquis de Sade	Yes	Yes
Rendezvous with Rama	Arthur C. Clarke	Yes	Yes
Oryx and Crake	Margaret Atwood	Yes	Yes
Beyond Good and Evil	Friedrich Nietszche	Yes	No
Gravity’s Rainbow	Thomas Pinchon	Yes	No
Naked Lunch	William Burroughs	Yes	Yes
Childhood’s End	Arthur C. Clarke	Yes	Yes
Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	Yes	No
The Book of Ler	M.A. Foster	Yes	No
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark	Carl Sagan	Yes	No
Johnny Got His Gun	Dalton Trumbo	Yes	No
Cryptonomicon	Neal Stephenson	Yes	No
Watership Down	Richard Adams	Yes	Yes
Breakfast of Champions	Kurt Vonnegut	Yes	Yes
Civilization and Capitalism	Fernand Braudel	Yes	No
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs	Chuck Klosterman	Yes	No
A Fire Upon the Deep	Vernor Vinge	Yes	No
The Saga of Seven Suns (series, 7 books)	Kevin J. Anderson	Yes	No
American Psycho	Bret Easton Ellis	Yes	No
The Mote in God’s Eye	Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle	Yes	No
The Chomsky Reader	Noam Chomsky	Yes	No
The Panda’s Thumb	Stephen Jay Gould	Yes	No
Flatland	Edwin Abbot	Yes	No
On the Road	Jack Kerouac	Yes	Yes
The God Delusion	Richard Dawkins	Yes	No
The Classical Style	Charles Rosen	Yes	No
Here Be Dragons	Sharon Kay Penman	Yes	No
An American Life	Ronald Reagan	Yes	No
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space	Carl Sagan	Yes	No
The Little Schemer	Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen	Yes	No
Life in the Woods	Henry David Thoreau	Yes	No
Black Lamb, Grey Falcon	Rebecca West	Yes	No
Thus Spake Zarathustra	Friedrich Nietszche	Yes	No
Sandman	Neil Gaiman	Yes	No
The Game	Neil Strauss	Yes	No
Good Omens	Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman	Yes	No
Mere Christianity	C.S. Lewis	Yes	Yes
Walden	Henry David Thoreau	Yes	No
The Collapse of Complex Societies	Joseph Tainter	Yes	No
The Cthulhu Mythos (series, varying accountings)	H.P. Lovecraft	Yes	No
The Stars My Destination	Alfred Bester	Yes	Yes
The Pillars of Earth	Ken Follett	Yes	No
The Prince of Nothing	R. Scott Bakker	Yes	No
Perdido Street Station	China Mieville	Yes	Yes
Man’s Search for Meaning	Viktor Frankl	Yes	No
The Wasteland	T.S. Eliot	Yes	Yes
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	Yes	Yes
Pi to 5 Million Places	—	Yes	No
The Blank Slate	Steven Pinker	Yes	No
The Dispossessed	Ursula K. Le Guin	Yes	Yes
Guts	Chuck Pahlaniuk	Yes	No
Fear and Trembling	Søren Kierkegaard	Yes	No
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Ken Kesey	Yes	No
Kafka on the Shore	Haruki Murakami	Yes	No
Ulysses	James Joyce	Yes	No
Macbeth	William Shakespeare	Yes	Yes
Basic Economics	Thomas Sowell	Yes	No
Atheism: The Case Against God	George H. Smith	Yes	No
The Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood	Yes	Yes
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway	Yes	No
Sophie’s World	Jostein Gaarder	Yes	No
Women	Charles Bukowski	Yes	No
Red Mars	Kim Stanley Robinson	Yes	Yes
We Need to Talk About Kevin	Lionel Shriver	Yes	No
How We Die	Sherwin B. Nuland	Yes	No
Philosophical Investigations	Ludwig Wittgenstein	Yes	No
The Singularity is Near	Ray Kurzweil	Yes	No
The Day of the Triffids	John Wyndham	Yes	No
The Long Walk	Stephen King as Richard Bachman	Yes	Yes
Blood Meridian	Cormac McCarthy	Yes	No
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are	Alan Watts	Yes	No
The Wheel of Time (series, 15 books)	Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson	Yes	Yes
The Elegant Universe	Brian Green	Yes	No
A Suitable Boy	Vikram Seth	Yes	No
Book of the New Sun	Gene Wolfe	Yes	No
King Lear	William Shakespeare	Yes	Yes
The Power of Myth	Joseph Campbell	Yes	No
The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica	Apollonius of Rhodes	Yes	No
The Baroque Cycle	Neal Stephenson	Yes	No
Nichomachean Ethics	Aristotle	Yes	No
Long Walk to Freedom	Nelson Mandela	Yes	No
Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell	Yes	No
The Master and Margarita	Mikhail Bulgakov	Yes	No
The Chrysalids	John Wyndham	Yes	No
The Occult	Colin Wilson	Yes	No
Cosmos	Carl Sagan	Yes	No
The Fountainhead	Ayn Rand	Yes	No
Hamlet	William Shakespeare	Yes	Yes
The Hero with a Thousand Faces	Joseph Campbell	Yes	No
The Name of the Wind	Patrick Rothfuss	No	No
Speaker for the Dead	Orson Scott Card	No	No
The Fault in Our Stars	John Green	No	No
The Sirens of Titan	Kurt Vonnegut	No	No
The Sun Also Rises	Ernest Hemingway	No	No
The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	No	Yes
The Way of Kings	Brandon Sanderson	Yes	Yes
Never Let Me Go	Kazuo Ishiguro	No	No
The Perks of Being a Wallflower	Stephen Chbosky	No	No
A Farewell to Arms	Ernest Hemingway	No	No
East of Eden	John Steinbeck	No	No
A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens	No	No
The Things They Carried	Tim O’Brien	No	No
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo	Stieg Larsson	Yes	No
The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner	No	No
Alive	Piers Paul Read	No	No
The Chronicles of Narnia (series, 7 books)	C.S. Lewis	No	Yes
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle	Haruki Murakami	No	No
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L’Engle	No	Yes
The Dresden Files (series, 15 books currently)	Jim Butcher	No	No
The Shining	Stephen King	No	Yes
The Wise Man’s Fear	Patrick Rothfuss	No	No
Where the Red Fern Grows	Wilson Rawls	No	Yes
The Martian	Andy Weir	No	No
The Lies of Locke Lamora	Scott Lynch	Yes	No
No Country for Old Men	Cormac McCarthy	No	No
Neverwhere	Neil Gaiman	No	No
The Crying of Lot 49	Thomas Pynchon	No	No
Ready Player One	Ernest Cline	No	No
The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	No	Yes
As I Lay Dying	William Faulkner	No	No
Fifty Shades of Grey	E.L. James	No	No
The Left Hand of Darkness	Ursula K. Le Guin	No	No
The Time Traveller’s Wife	Audrey Niffeneger	No	No
The Devil in the White City	Erik Larson	No	No
The Ocean at the End of the Lane	Neil Gaiman	No	No
11/22/63	Stephen King	No	Yes
Great Expectations	Charles Dickens	No	No
Looking for Alaska	John Green	No	No
The Man in the High Castle	Phillip K. Dick	No	No
The Name of the Rose	Umberto Eco	No	No
Children of the Mind	Orson Scott Card	No	No
Gone with the Wind	Margaret Mitchell	No	No
The Once and Future King	T.H. White	No	Yes
Love in the Time of Cholera	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	No	No
The Colour of Magic	Terry Pratchett	No	No
Anathem	Neil Gaiman	No	No
The Book Thief	Markus Zusak	No	No
Salem’s Lot	Stephen King	No	Yes
Norwegian Wood	Haruki Murakami	No	No
The Shadow of the Wind	Carlos Ruiz Zafon	Yes	Yes
Wanted	Patricia Potter	No	No
Anna Karenina	Leo Tolstoy	No	No
A Prayer for Owen Meany	John Irving	No	No
1Q84	Haruki Murakami	No	No
Stardust	Neil Gaiman	No	No
All the Pretty Horses	Cormac McCarthy	No	No
The Night Angel Trilogy	Brent Weeks	Yes	No
Night	Elie Weisel	No	No
Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	No	No
A Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Hosseini	No	Yes
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler	Italo Calvino	No	No
Under the Dome	Stephen King	No	Yes
Old Man’s War	John Scalzi	No	Yes
The Trial	Franz Kafka	No	No