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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.
feb 22 2012 ∞
feb 24 2012 +