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Reddit's Favourite books Sat May 2 15:58:31 2015 No.6485634 [DELETED]

Reddit's favourite books
1 - 100 (Part 1
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. Danielwelski. (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)

Reddit's Favourite books Sat May 2 15:59:52 2015 No.6485643

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)

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 16:00:41 2015 No.6485652 mebbe you could have posted a link

Reddit's Favourite books Sat May 2 16:01:16 2015 No.6485653

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. (UP:173 | WS:280 | Total:453)
A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin. (UP:167 | WS:270 | Total:437)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. (UP:147 | WS:290 | 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 Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick. (UP:74 | WS:330 | Total:404)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry. (UP:84 | WS:320 | 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)
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen. (UP:97 | WS:240 | Total:337)
Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. (UP:77 | WS:260 | Total:337)

Reddit's Favourite books Sat May 2 16:02:16 2015 No.6485659

>>6485652
Maybe I should have, sorry fucker.

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)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. (UP:75 | WS:180 | Total:255)
Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer. (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)
Collapse by Jared Diamond. (UP:53 | WS:180 | Total:233)
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallave. (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)
Candide by Voltaire. (UP:102 | WS:100 | Total:202)
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. (UP:62 | WS:140 | Total:202)

WIthout shitposting, do you find anything interesting in this list? Does it provide any insight into today's readers or into the subculture of Reddit?

For extra credit, shitpost the following:

David Foster Wallave > David Foster Wallace

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 16:03:37 2015 No.6485663 WHOOOOOOO THE FUCK CAAAAAAARES

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 16:04:02 2015 No.6485665 File: 23 KB, 288x365, tom-mix.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Where'd you get your thread? The garbage store?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 16:05:13 2015 No.6485669 Ok

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 16:07:41 2015 No.6485677 >>6485663 >>6485663 >>6485663 >>6485663 >>6485663 >>6485663

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 16:09:42 2015 No.6485681 http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/34m5n6/reddit_what_are_some_must_read_books/

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 16:11:48 2015 No.6485686 Oh no, they don't like what you like, call the cops! Fuck off, no one here cares about Reddit you fucking idiot.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 16:21:14 2015 No.6485717 Why are reddit fags so obsessed with 1984?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 16:22:48 2015 No.6485724 >>6485659 At least they had the sense to include Mein Kampf 1/100 list

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 16:23:20 2015 No.6485726 >>6485717 It's trendy? And carries the social status of being quasi intellectual in todays western society.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 16:23:28 2015 No.6485729 >>6485717 plebs love dystopian fiction, they consider it 'deep'

Anonymous Sat May 2 16:31:09 2015 No.6485762

>>6485717
It's an easy read that's commonly given in High School(so a lot of them are familiar with it) that doesn't require much thought to understand the main theme. The content of the book is also one that easily resonates with a lot of people(after all, fuk da police).

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 16:39:43 2015 No.6485792 what other people like shouldn't influence what you like except lame suburban white kids that like Eminem

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 16:41:11 2015 No.6485803 >>6485717 babby's first unhappy ending (representative of the average redditor's life)

Anonymous Sat May 2 16:53:55 2015 No.6485842
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>>6485634

A lot of Reddit are children. I don't mean that as an insult. The vast majority of these books are either assigned high school reading, written to appeal to children, have popular movie adaptions, or are religious texts.

I've met several people who have at someone point told me that their favorite book was Hitchhiker's. They were all insufferable.

I never want to think about Reddit ever again. Please go back and never return.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 17:32:22 2015 No.6486000 >>6485842 xd

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 17:44:46 2015 No.6486044 they probably just mentioned and voted for the only books they ever read

Anonymous Sat May 2 17:47:29 2015 No.6486060

Did anyone else dislike Neuromancer? I've tried reading it twice now and I can't never get more than 20 pages in.

The prose comes across as a book for fedoras whom like cyberpunk too. Don't usually pull the fedora meme, but it's very applicable to Neuromancer IMO.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 18:00:22 2015 No.6486126 >>6485717 its the only book most people read, they are forced to in high school

Anonymous Sat May 2 18:03:16 2015 No.6486138

>>6486060
It certainly hasn't aged well at all... and the prose lacks a certain rhythm, though his descriptions are very atmospheric

>Now he slept in the cheapest coffins, the ones nearest the port, beneath the quartz-halogen floods that lit the docks all night like vast stages; where you couldn't see the lights of Tokyo for the glare of the television sky, not even the towering hologram logo of the Fuji Electric Company, and the Tokyo Bay was a black expanse where gulls wheeled above drifting shoals of white styrofoam. Behind the port lay the city, factory domes dominated by the vast cubes of corporate arcologies. Port and city were divided by a narrow borderland of older streets, an area with no official name. Night City, with Ninsei its heart. By day, the bars down Ninsei were shuttered and featureless, the neon dead, the holograms inert, waiting, under the poisoned silver sky.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 19:00:58 2015 No.6486386 >>6485634 >hitchhiker's guide is a book and not a radio fiction transcription It could be worse, anyways. Please remember that reddit is frequented by children.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 19:30:43 2015 No.6486534 >all that sci fi shit

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 19:34:23 2015 No.6486547 I'm really surprised that Terry Pratchett isn't in the top 10.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 20:07:56 2015 No.6486655 >>6485634 >no mention of Das Kapital Non-marxists confirmed for being reddit tier plebes.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 20:43:16 2015 No.6486742 Who cares? It's Reddit's FAVORITE. This isn't what Reddit considers the BEST. Also, who fucking cares about Reddit?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 20:55:47 2015 No.6486777 File: 37 KB, 600x600, 1415859788075.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I hate r/books so goddamn much

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 20:58:42 2015 No.6486782 >The Bible by Various. (UP:810 \| WS:1230 \| Total:2040) What the fuck? It's boring as shit.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 21:02:59 2015 No.6486790 I've read nearly every book on that list

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 21:22:04 2015 No.6486840 Nothing really worth reading in there besides The Bible and The Constitution

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 21:23:46 2015 No.6486848 >>6486782 Go away, tipper.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 21:33:55 2015 No.6486881 >no Fountainhead Egad!

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 21:34:52 2015 No.6486887 >>6486782 tips fedora

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 21:45:44 2015 No.6486917 Basically reddit is just a wider community, it would be like inviting /b/, /v/, /tv/, /s4s/ and /sp/ to our polls.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 21:47:57 2015 No.6486924 >>6486782 after all the backlash of /r/atheism people are pretending to respect Christianity again

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 21:51:05 2015 No.6486936 >>6486887 >>6486848 who would have thought that an action such as tipping a hat could become a derogatory term. I wonder if people who study the 2010s in the future will pick up on some of the slang used of today.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 23:53:00 2015 No.6487305 >>6485663 >>6485663 >>6485663 >>6485663 >>6485663 >>6485663 >>6485663

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 23:55:00 2015 No.6487309 >>6485677 >>6487305 samefag

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 23:56:01 2015 No.6487313 File: 200 KB, 725x325, fedora faggot.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6486848 >>6486887

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 23:56:05 2015 No.6487314 >>6486777 is /r/literature any better? I've only glanced at both.

Anonymous Sun May 3 00:01:12 2015 No.6487325

/lit/ is the girl in high school that was too cool for prom.

/lit/ is the girl in high school that started talking shit on prom freshman year and never let anyone forget how she was always too cool for prom.

/lit/ is the girl in high school that went on and on about how vapid and dumb all the popular girls like /r/books were for going to prom and how it was such a waste of money and high school relationships don't matter anyways

/lit/ is the girl in high school that cried herself to sleep on prom night wondering if things would be different if she had focused less time on hating /r/books and more time on herself.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 3 00:07:53 2015 No.6487335 >>6487325 #prayforlit #JeSuisLit

Anonymous Sun May 3 00:14:52 2015 No.6487352
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>>6487325
Accurate.

/lit/ dated one guy in high school and he was 35 years old and made her blow his coke dealer. He was one of those chronic underachievers who used ostentatious language interspersed with fucking vulgarity.

A Napoleon in rags.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 3 00:18:40 2015 No.6487365 >>6487314 Yeah it's alright but it's slow and you can't use dank memes

>>	Anonymous Sun May 3 00:25:54 2015 No.6487388 >>6487365 >'t use dank memes holy shit fuck off back to tumblr

>>	Anonymous Sun May 3 01:13:25 2015 No.6487481 >>6487388 what are you talking about /lit/ has always been memes like it or not

>>	Anonymous Sun May 3 02:21:01 2015 No.6487639 >>6487325 read "prom" as "porn" in this post and it was better

>>	Anonymous Sun May 3 03:32:29 2015 No.6487810 >>6486534 >all that shit sci-fi FTFY

>>	Anonymous Sun May 3 03:45:04 2015 No.6487842 >>6485717 because it totally predicted our modern society, man, Stephen King said so! but they forget that it was really just Orwell sperging over Stalin and the USSR.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 3 03:46:35 2015 No.6487844 File: 72 KB, 576x432, 1422823290036.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6487335 Jesus is lit or je suis lit?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 3 03:48:33 2015 No.6487849 File: 33 KB, 600x338, 1429290267187.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6485653 >A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin

>>	Anonymous Sun May 3 03:54:06 2015 No.6487856 >The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams I've never been to Reddit, but I'm starting to think it's the wasteland everyone on 4chan says it is.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 3 03:54:29 2015 No.6487858 >>6485717 It has terrible prose.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Sun May 3 03:54:37 2015 No.6487859 File: 771 KB, 540x720, I are a tree.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6487849

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