Reddit's Top 200 Books

Strike out means I've read. Italic'd meant tried, but couldn't finish. They shall hopefully be re-attempted.

When series are involved, I'm just counting the first book.

032/200

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
• 1984 by George Orwell.
• Dune by Frank Herbert.
• Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut.
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. read in 2011
• The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger.
• _The Bible by Various.
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. read in 2011
• Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling.
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein.
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman.
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
• The Foundation Saga by Isaac Asimov.
• Neuromancer by William Gibson.
• Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson.
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond.
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig.
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.
• Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid by Douglas Hofstadter.
• Tao Te Ching by Lao Tse.
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielwelski.
• The Giver by Lois Lowry.
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
• Animal Farm by George Orwell.
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
• Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking.
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.
• His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman.
• The Stranger by Albert Camus.
• Various by Dr. Seuss.
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
• The Monster At The End Of This Book by Jon Stone and Michael Smollin.
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.
• A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson.
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick.
• A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.
• Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes.
• The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons.
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
• The Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights by Various.
• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut.
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• Odyssey by Homer.
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
• A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin.
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
• Ringworld by Larry Niven.
• A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin.
• The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick.
• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry.
• Freakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt.
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein.
• The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan.
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
• Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen.
• Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
• Everybody Poops by Tarō Gomi.
• On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with Alex Haley.
• John Dies at the End by David Wong.
• The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.
• Contact by Carl Sagan.
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli.
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
• The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.
• _The Stand by Stephen King.
• The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac.
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien.
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.
• Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer.
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward Herman and * Noam Chomsky.
• Asimov's Guide to the Bible by Isaac Asimov.
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
• Collapse by Jared Diamond.
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallave.
• Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
• Chaos by James Gleick.
• _American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
• Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein.
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime by Mark Haddon.
• You Can Choose to Be Happy by Tom G. Stevens.
• The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler.
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
• Candide by Voltaire.
• Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler.
• The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum.
• In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.
• _The Dark Tower by Stephen King.
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk.
• The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins.
• The Making of a Radical by Scott Nearing.
• The Turner Diaries by Andrew MacDonald.
• The Scar by China Mieville.
• Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse.
• Going Rogue by Sarah Palin.
• 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis De Sade.
• Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke.
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.
• Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.
• Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.
• Naked Lunch by William Burroughs.
• Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke.
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
• The Book of Ler by MA Foster.
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan.
• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson.
• Watership Down by Richard Adams.
• Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut.
• Civilization and Capitalism by Fernand Braudel.
• Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman.
• A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge.
• The Saga of Seven Suns by Kevin J Anderson.
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck .
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
• The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
• The Chomsky Reader by Noam Chomsky.
• The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould.
• Flatland by Edwin Abbot.
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac .
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins.
• The Classical Style by Charles Rosen.
• Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman.
• An American Life by Ronald Reagan.
• Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan.
• The Little Schemer by Friedman & Felleisen.
• Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.
• Black Lamb, Grey Falcon by Rebecca West.
• Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche.
• Sandman by Neil Gaiman.
• The Game by Neil Strauss.
• _Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman.
• Mere Christianity by CS Lewis.
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau.
• The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter.
• Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft.
• The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.
• The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett.
• The Prince of Nothing by R. Scott Bakker.
• Perdido Street Station by China Mieville.
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
• The Wasteland by TS Elliot.
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
• Pi to 5 million places by [kick books].
• The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker.
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin.
• Guts by Chuck Palahniuk.
• Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard.
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami.
• Ulysses by James Joyce.
• Macbeth by Shakespeare.
• Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.
• Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith.
• The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood.
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.
• Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder.
• Women by Charles Bukowski.
• Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson.
• We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.
• How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland.
• Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein.
• The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil.
• The Day of the Trifids by John Wyndham.
• The Long Walk by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman).
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
• The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts.
• The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.
• The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene.
• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth.
• Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe.
• King Lear by Shakespeare.
• The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.
• The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes.
• The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson.
• Nichomachean ethics by Aristotle.
• Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandlla.
• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell.
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
• The Chrysalids by John Wyndham.
• The Occult by Colin Wilson.
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan.
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
• Hamlet by Shakespeare.
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell.