my pool, reddit's top 200 books

August 4, 2010

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reddit’s top 200 books

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. (UP:1443 | WS:2210 | Total:3653)
1984 by George Orwell. (UP:1447 | WS:2090 | Total:3537)
Dune by Frank Herbert. (UP:1122 | WS:2140 | Total:3262)
Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. (UP:967 | WS:1750 | Total:2717)
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. (UP:931 | WS:1680 | Total:2611)
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. (UP:1031 | WS:1530 | Total:2561)
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. (UP:907 | WS:1320 | Total:2227)
The Bible by Various. (UP:810 | WS:1230 | Total:2040)
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. (UP:603 | WS:1220 | Total:1823)
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling. (UP:1169 | WS:560 | Total:1729)
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein. (UP:610 | WS:1090 | Total:1700)
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman. (UP:483 | WS:1130 | Total:1613)
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. (UP:473 | WS:1070 | Total:1543)
The Foundation Saga by Isaac Asimov. (UP:519 | WS:960 | Total:1479)
Neuromancer by William Gibson. (UP:449 | WS:960 | Total:1409)
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. (UP:664 | WS:710 | Total:1374)
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. (UP:455 | WS:870 | Total:1325)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. (UP:402 | WS:880 | Total:1282)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig. (UP:388 | WS:890 | Total:1278)
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. (UP:466 | WS:790 | Total:1256)
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. (UP:403 | WS:830 | Total:1233)
Godel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid by Douglas Hofstadter. (UP:400 | WS:790 | Total:1190)
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tse. (UP:334 | WS:770 | Total:1104)
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (UP:347 | WS:720 | Total:1067)
The Giver by Lois Lowry. (UP:429 | WS:630 | Total:1059)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. (UP:264 | WS:680 | Total:944)
Animal Farm by George Orwell. (UP:367 | WS:550 | Total:917)
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. (UP:266 | WS:580 | Total:846)
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. (UP:254 | WS:550 | Total:804)
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. (UP:265 | WS:520 | Total:785)
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. (UP:264 | WS:520 | Total:784)
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. (UP:249 | WS:530 | Total:779)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. (UP:212 | WS:560 | Total:772)
His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman. (UP:194 | WS:560 | Total:754)
The Stranger by Albert Camus. (UP:197 | WS:550 | Total:747)
Various by Dr. Seuss. (UP:235 | WS:500 | Total:735)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy. (UP:157 | WS:570 | Total:727)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding. (UP:247 | WS:470 | Total:717)
The Monster At The End Of This Book by Jon Stone and Michael Smollin. (UP:277 | WS:430 | Total:707)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson. (UP:224 | WS:480 | Total:704)
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. (UP:241 | WS:460 | Total:701)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phillip K. Dick. (UP:270 | WS:390 | Total:660)
A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (UP:169 | WS:460 | Total:629)
The Art of War by Sun Tzu. (UP:199 | WS:430 | Total:629)
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. (UP:228 | WS:390 | Total:618)
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes. (UP:140 | WS:460 | Total:600)
The Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. (UP:251 | WS:340 | Total:591)
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. (UP:108 | WS:450 | Total:558)
The Declaration of Independence, The US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights by Various. (UP:178 | WS:370 | Total:548)
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. (UP:194 | WS:340 | Total:534)
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (UP:169 | WS:340 | Total:509)
Odyssey by Homer. (UP:153 | WS:310 | Total:463)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. (UP:173 | WS:280 | Total:453)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. (UP:147 | WS:290 | Total:437)
A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin. (UP:167 | WS:270 | Total:437)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. (UP:103 | WS:320 | Total:423)
Ringworld by Larry Niven. (UP:193 | WS:220 | Total:413)
A Game of Thrones by George RR Martin. (UP:82 | WS:330 | Total:412)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry. (UP:84 | WS:320 | Total:404)
The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick. (UP:74 | WS:330 | Total:404)
Freakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt. (UP:126 | WS:270 | Total:396)
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein. (UP:155 | WS:240 | Total:395)
The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. (UP:106 | WS:280 | Total:386)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. (UP:143 | WS:230 | Total:373)
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. (UP:148 | WS:210 | Total:358)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. (UP:148 | WS:190 | Total:338)
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. (UP:77 | WS:260 | Total:337)
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen. (UP:97 | WS:240 | Total:337)
Everybody Poops by Tarō Gomi. (UP:118 | WS:200 | Total:318)
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. (UP:118 | WS:190 | Total:308)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with Alex Haley. (UP:105 | WS:200 | Total:305)
John Dies at the End by David Wong. (UP:59 | WS:240 | Total:299)
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. (UP:117 | WS:180 | Total:297)
Contact by Carl Sagan. (UP:104 | WS:190 | Total:294)
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. (UP:116 | WS:170 | Total:286)
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli. (UP:121 | WS:160 | Total:281)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. (UP:92 | WS:180 | Total:272)
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. (UP:119 | WS:150 | Total:269)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. (UP:55 | WS:210 | Total:265)
The Stand by Stephen King. (UP:83 | WS:180 | Total:263)
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac. (UP:80 | WS:180 | Total:260)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. (UP:48 | WS:210 | Total:258)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville. (UP:55 | WS:200 | Total:255)
Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer. (UP:75 | WS:180 | Total:255)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. (UP:75 | WS:180 | Total:255)
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky. (UP:129 | WS:120 | Total:249)
Asimov’s Guide to the Bible by Isaac Asimov. (UP:58 | WS:180 | Total:238)
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. (UP:104 | WS:130 | Total:234)
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. (UP:53 | WS:180 | Total:233)
Collapse by Jared Diamond. (UP:53 | WS:180 | Total:233)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. (UP:112 | WS:120 | Total:232)
Chaos by James Gleick. (UP:58 | WS:170 | Total:228)
American Gods by Neil Gaiman. (UP:46 | WS:180 | Total:226)
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein. (UP:103 | WS:120 | Total:223)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime by Mark Haddon. (UP:52 | WS:170 | Total:222)
You Can Choose to Be Happy by Tom G. Stevens. (UP:70 | WS:150 | Total:220)
The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler. (UP:58 | WS:160 | Total:218)
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. (UP:73 | WS:130 | Total:203)
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. (UP:62 | WS:140 | Total:202)
Candide by Voltaire. (UP:102 | WS:100 | Total:202)
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. (UP:62 | WS:140 | Total:202)
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. (UP:50 | WS:150 | Total:200)
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan. (UP:49 | WS:150 | Total:199)
The Dark Tower by Stephen King. (UP:67 | WS:130 | Total:197)
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. (UP:62 | WS:130 | Total:192)
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins. (UP:58 | WS:130 | Total:188)
The Making of a Radical by Scott Nearing. (UP:48 | WS:140 | Total:188)
The Turner Diaries by Andrew MacDonald. (UP:45 | WS:140 | Total:185)
The Scar by China Mieville. (UP:24 | WS:160 | Total:184)
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse. (UP:58 | WS:120 | Total:178)
Going Rogue by Sarah Palin. (UP:51 | WS:120 | Total:171)
120 Days of Sodom by Marquis De Sade. (UP:40 | WS:130 | Total:170)
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke. (UP:87 | WS:80 | Total:167)
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. (UP:33 | WS:130 | Total:163)
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche. (UP:50 | WS:110 | Total:160)
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. (UP:37 | WS:120 | Total:157)
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs. (UP:25 | WS:130 | Total:155)
Childhood’s End by Arthur C Clarke. (UP:44 | WS:110 | Total:154)
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. (UP:34 | WS:120 | Total:154)
The Book of Ler by MA Foster. (UP:57 | WS:90 | Total:147)
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan. (UP:57 | WS:90 | Total:147)
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. (UP:35 | WS:110 | Total:145)
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. (UP:24 | WS:120 | Total:144)
Watership Down by Richard Adams. (UP:32 | WS:110 | Total:142)
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. (UP:29 | WS:110 | Total:139)
Civilization and Capitalism by Fernand Braudel. (UP:28 | WS:110 | Total:138)
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman. (UP:48 | WS:90 | Total:138)
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. (UP:97 | WS:40 | Total:137)
The Saga of Seven Suns by Kevin J Anderson. (UP:57 | WS:80 | Total:137)
The Grapes of Wrath by The Grapes of Wrath. (UP:86 | WS:50 | Total:136)
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. (UP:30 | WS:100 | Total:130)
The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. (UP:40 | WS:90 | Total:130)
The Chomsky Reader by Noam Chomsky. (UP:28 | WS:100 | Total:128)
The Panda’s Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould. (UP:17 | WS:110 | Total:127)
Flatland by Edwin Abbot. (UP:36 | WS:90 | Total:126)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac . (UP:36 | WS:90 | Total:126)
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. (UP:44 | WS:80 | Total:124)
The Classical Style by Charles Rosen. (UP:28 | WS:90 | Total:118)
Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman. (UP:17 | WS:100 | Total:117)
An American Life by Ronald Reagan. (UP:16 | WS:100 | Total:116)
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan. (UP:36 | WS:80 | Total:116)
The Little Schemer by Friedman & Felleisen. (UP:36 | WS:80 | Total:116)
Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau. (UP:24 | WS:90 | Total:114)
Black Lamb, Grey Falcon by Rebecca West. (UP:28 | WS:80 | Total:108)
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche. (UP:48 | WS:60 | Total:108)
Sandman by Neil Gaiman. (UP:17 | WS:90 | Total:107)
The Game by Neil Strauss. (UP:36 | WS:70 | Total:106)
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman. (UP:15 | WS:90 | Total:105)
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis. (UP:34 | WS:70 | Total:104)
Walden by Henry David Thoreau. (UP:24 | WS:80 | Total:104)
The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter. (UP:10 | WS:90 | Total:100)
Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft. (UP:19 | WS:80 | Total:99)
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. (UP:39 | WS:60 | Total:99)
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. (UP:26 | WS:70 | Total:96)
The Prince of Nothing by R. Scott Bakker. (UP:45 | WS:50 | Total:95)
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. (UP:14 | WS:80 | Total:94)
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. (UP:33 | WS:60 | Total:93)
The Wasteland by TS Elliot. (UP:19 | WS:70 | Total:89)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. (UP:38 | WS:50 | Total:88)
Pi to 5 million places by [kick books]. (UP:26 | WS:60 | Total:86)
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker. (UP:36 | WS:50 | Total:86)
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. (UP:33 | WS:50 | Total:83)
Guts by Chuck Palahniuk. (UP:21 | WS:60 | Total:81)
fear and trembling by Søren Kierkegaard. (UP:20 | WS:60 | Total:80)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. (UP:70 | WS:10 | Total:80)
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. (UP:19 | WS:60 | Total:79)
Ulysses by James Joyce. (UP:29 | WS:50 | Total:79)
Macbeth by Shakespeare. (UP:38 | WS:40 | Total:78)
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell. (UP:27 | WS:50 | Total:77)
Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith. (UP:36 | WS:40 | Total:76)
The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood. (UP:16 | WS:60 | Total:76)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. (UP:25 | WS:50 | Total:75)
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder. (UP:13 | WS:60 | Total:73)
Women by Charles Bukowski. (UP:13 | WS:60 | Total:73)
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. (UP:32 | WS:40 | Total:72)
We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver. (UP:20 | WS:50 | Total:70)
How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland. (UP:19 | WS:50 | Total:69)
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein. (UP:19 | WS:50 | Total:69)
The singularity is near by Ray Kurzweil. (UP:17 | WS:50 | Total:67)
The Day of the Trifids by John Wyndham. (UP:16 | WS:50 | Total:66)
The Long Walk by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman). (UP:36 | WS:30 | Total:66)
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. (UP:18 | WS:40 | Total:58)
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts. (UP:17 | WS:40 | Total:57)
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. (UP:37 | WS:20 | Total:57)
The Elegant Universe by Brian Green. (UP:16 | WS:40 | Total:56)
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth. (UP:13 | WS:40 | Total:53)
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. (UP:13 | WS:40 | Total:53)
King Lear by Shakespeare. (UP:29 | WS:20 | Total:49)
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell. (UP:28 | WS:20 | Total:48)
The Voyage of Argo: The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes. (UP:8 | WS:40 | Total:48)
The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. (UP:37 | WS:10 | Total:47)
Nichomachean ethics by Aristotle. (UP:16 | WS:30 | Total:46)
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandlla. (UP:15 | WS:30 | Total:45)
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. (UP:4 | WS:40 | Total:44)
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. (UP:13 | WS:30 | Total:43)
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham. (UP:12 | WS:30 | Total:42)
The Occult by Colin Wilson. (UP:12 | WS:30 | Total:42)
Cosmos by Carl Sagan. (UP:21 | WS:20 | Total:41)
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. (UP:31 | WS:10 | Total:41)
Hamlet by Shakespeare. (UP:29 | WS:10 | Total:39)

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