reddit's favorite books

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Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- 394 upvotes, 87 downvotes
George Orwell - 1984 -- 372 upvotes, 66 downvotes
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five -- 330 upvotes, 50 downvotes
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game -- 273 upvotes, 62 downvotes
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World -- 268 upvotes, 39 downvotes
George R R Martin - A Game of thrones -- 265 upvotes, 48 downvotes
JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit -- 255 upvotes, 47 downvotes
Joseph Heller - Catch 22 -- 210 upvotes, 38 downvotes
George Orwell - Animal Farm -- 200 upvotes, 44 downvotes
Frank Herbert - Dune -- 189 upvotes, 33 downvotes
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee -- 186 upvotes, 30 downvotes
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby -- 185 upvotes, 28 downvotes
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone -- 183 upvotes, 60 downvotes
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita -- 179 upvotes, 23 downvotes
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut -- 175 upvotes, 29 downvotes
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 -- 167 upvotes, 22 downvotes
Albert Camus - The Stranger -- 159 upvotes, 14 downvotes
Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass -- 152 upvotes, 24 downvotes
Cormac McCarthy - The Road -- 148 upvotes, 31 downvotes
George R R Martin - A Storm of Swords -- 140 upvotes, 25 downvotes
Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo -- 129 upvotes, 12 downvotes
Bill Watterson - The Complete Calvin and Hobbes -- 128 upvotes, 19 downvotes
Isaac Asimov - Foundation -- 125 upvotes, 12 downvotes
Neil Gaiman - American Gods -- 124 upvotes, 24 downvotes
David Foster Wallace -- *Infinite Jest* -- 118 upvotes, 15 downvotes
Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- 114 upvotes, 13 downvotes
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- *One Hundered Years of Solitude* -- 113 upvotes, 11 downvotes
Haruki Murakami - The Wind Up Bird Chronicle -- 110 upvotes, 14 downvotes
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - *Crime and Punishment* -- 106 upvotes, 10 downvotes
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett - Good Omens -- 106 upvotes, 21 downvotes
Bill Bryson - A Short History Of Nearly Everything -- 104 upvotes, 11 downvotes
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- 103 upvotes, 27 downvotes
Max Brooks - World War Z -- 99 upvotes, 17 downvotes
George R R Martin - A Clash of Kings -- 95 upvotes, 23 downvotes
Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay -- 92 upvotes, 14 downvotes
Stephen King - The Stand  -- 89 upvotes, 17 downvotes
The Princess Bride - William Goldman -- 88 upvotes, 10 downvotes
JRR Tolkien - The Return of the King  -- 88 upvotes, 9 downvotes
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov -- 87 upvotes, 9 downvotes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Complete Sherlock Holmes -- 87 upvotes, 14 downvotes
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -- 87 upvotes, 24 downvotes
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash -- 85 upvotes, 12 downvotes
Edgar Allan Poe - Collected Short Stories -- 83 upvotes, 10 downvotes
Candide - Voltaire -- 83 upvotes, 8 downvotes
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski -- 79 upvotes, 13 downvotes
Of Mice And Men -  John Steinbeck -- 78 upvotes, 12 downvotes
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson -- 77 upvotes, 12 downvotes
William Golding - Lord Of The Flies -- 77 upvotes, 4 downvotes
William Gibson - Neuromancer -- 76 upvotes, 18 downvotes
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian -- 76 upvotes, 15 downvotes
Richard P. Feynman - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! -- 76 upvotes, 3 downvotes
Jorge Luis Borges - Fictions -- 75 upvotes, 7 downvotes
William Shakespeare - Hamlet -- 73 upvotes, 6 downvotes
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games -- 69 upvotes, 16 downvotes
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore -- 68 upvotes, 9 downvotes
Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha -- 67 upvotes, 7 downvotes
Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss -- 64 upvotes, 13 downvotes
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -- 64 upvotes, 5 downvotes
Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park -- 58 upvotes, 19 downvotes
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon -- 58 upvotes, 9 downvotes
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions -- 57 upvotes, 9 downvotes
Alan Moore - The Watchmen -- 57 upvotes, 9 downvotes
Richard Dawkins  - The God Delusion -- 57 upvotes, 16 downvotes
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina  -- 56 upvotes, 7 downvotes
Lois Lowry - The Giver -- 55 upvotes, 12 downvotes
Anthony Burgess- A Clockwork Orange -- 55 upvotes, 8 downvotes
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Le Petite Prince / The Little Prince -- 54 upvotes, 3 downvotes
John Steinbeck - East of Eden -- 53 upvotes, 7 downvotes
CS Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- 52 upvotes, 11 downvotes
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice -- 51 upvotes, 5 downvotes
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea -- 51 upvotes, 3 downvotes
Kurt Vonnegut - *The Sirens of Titan* -- 50 upvotes, 11 downvotes
Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club -- 50 upvotes, 13 downvotes
Herman Melville - Moby Dick -- 49 upvotes, 4 downvotes
William Shakespeare - Macbeth -- 49 upvotes, 4 downvotes
Douglas Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid -- 48 upvotes, 8 downvotes
Carl Sagan - Cosmos -- 47 upvotes, 3 downvotes
Stephen King - The Gunslinger -- 45 upvotes, 8 downvotes
Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood -- 44 upvotes, 6 downvotes
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck -- 43 upvotes, 3 downvotes
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. -- 41 upvotes, 2 downvotes
Terry Pratchett - Small Gods -- 40 upvotes, 4 downvotes
Joyce - Ulysses. -- 40 upvotes, 9 downvotes
Neal Stephenson- Diamond Age -- 40 upvotes, 9 downvotes
C. S. Lewis - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe -- 40 upvotes, 11 downvotes
Lewis Carrol - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- 38 upvotes, 6 downvotes
Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell -- 37 upvotes, 5 downvotes
H.P. Lovecraft - Call of Cthulhu -- 37 upvotes, 4 downvotes
Margaret Atwood - Handmaid's Tale -- 36 upvotes, 5 downvotes
Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex -- 36 upvotes, 5 downvotes
James Joyce - Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man -- 35 upvotes, 3 downvotes
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar -- 35 upvotes, 3 downvotes
Brian Jacques - Mossflower -- 35 upvotes, 9 downvotes
Dan Simmons - Hyperion -- 35 upvotes, 10 downvotes
Bram Stoker - Dracula -- 35 upvotes, 7 downvotes
Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time -- 35 upvotes, 5 downvotes
Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita -- 34 upvotes, 4 downvotes
Thomas Pynchon — Gravity's Rainbow -- 34 upvotes, 7 downvotes
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein -- 34 upvotes, 6 downvotes
Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth -- 33 upvotes, 7 downvotes
Franz Kafka - The Trial -- 32 upvotes, 4 downvotes
Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time -- 31 upvotes, 2 downvotes
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel -- 31 upvotes, 5 downvotes
Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49 -- 30 upvotes, 5 downvotes
Stephen Chbosky - The Perks of Being a Wallflower -- 29 upvotes, 3 downvotes
Juster Norton - The Phantom Tollbooth -- 29 upvotes, 3 downvotes
Carl Sagan - The Demon Haunted World -- 29 upvotes, 6 downvotes
Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn: The Final Empire -- 28 upvotes, 8 downvotes
Jose Saramago - Blindness -- 28 upvotes, 4 downvotes
Umberto Eco - The Name Of The Rose -- 28 upvotes, 3 downvotes
Louis Sachar - Holes -- 27 upvotes, 5 downvotes
Cervantes - Don Quixote -- 27 upvotes, 2 downvotes
Don DeLillo - White Noise -- 25 upvotes, 3 downvotes
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces -- 25 upvotes, 3 downvotes
Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried -- 25 upvotes, 4 downvotes
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting -- 25 upvotes, 5 downvotes
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief -- 25 upvotes, 3 downvotes
one flew over the cuckoo's nest -- 24 upvotes, 0 downvotes
JD Salinger - Franny and Zooey -- 24 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly -- 23 upvotes, 5 downvotes
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children -- 23 upvotes, 2 downvotes
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace -- 23 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls -- 23 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Italo Calvino -- *Invisible Cities* -- 22 upvotes, 1 downvotes
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner -- 22 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Jon Krakauer - Into the wild -- 22 upvotes, 3 downvotes
Iain M. Banks - Use of Weapons -- 21 upvotes, 2 downvotes
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go -- 21 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Rant - Chuck Palahniuk -- 20 upvotes, 4 downvotes
Terry Pratchett - Hogfather  -- 19 upvotes, 4 downvotes
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich -- 19 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Haruki Murakami - Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World -- 19 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Freakonomics - Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner -- 19 upvotes, 3 downvotes
The Divine Comedy, Dante. -- 18 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Margaret Atwood - Oryx & Crake -- 18 upvotes, 0 downvotes
William Shakespeare - King Lear -- 17 upvotes, 2 downvotes
Umberto Eco - Foucault's Pendulum -- 17 upvotes, 3 downvotes
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde -- 17 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Ray Bradbury - Something Wicked This Way Comes -- 17 upvotes, 2 downvotes
Stanislaw Lem - Solaris -- 17 upvotes, 0 downvotes
James Joyce - Dubliners -- 17 upvotes, 3 downvotes
Cormac McCarthy — Suttree -- 16 upvotes, 2 downvotes
Arthur Miller - The Crucible -- 16 upvotes, 1 downvotes
No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy -- 16 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Richard Adams - Watership Down. -- 16 upvotes, 1 downvotes
The Iliad - Homer -- 15 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Franz Kafka - The Castle -- 15 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Roberto Bolaño - 2666 -- 15 upvotes, 2 downvotes
Robert Heinlein - *The Moon is a Harsh Mistress* -- 14 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows -- 14 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Arthur C. Clarke - *Rendezvous with Rama* -- 14 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet On The Western Front -- 14 upvotes, 1 downvotes
William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience -- 13 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Franz Kafka - In the Penal Colony -- 13 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Charlotte Broente - Jane Eyre  -- 13 upvotes, 2 downvotes
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men -- 13 upvotes, 2 downvotes
Richard Matheson - I am Legend -- 13 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections -- 13 upvotes, 2 downvotes
Philip K. Dick - *VALIS* -- 12 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Virgil - The Aeneid -- 11 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind -- 10 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Roald Dahl- The Witches -- 9 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein  -- 9 upvotes, 1 downvotes
William Faulkner - Light in August  -- 9 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels -- 9 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut -- 8 upvotes, 0 downvotes
China Miéville - Perdido Street Station -- 8 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora -- 8 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses -- 8 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass -- 8 upvotes, 1 downvotes
Shantaram,  by Gregory David Roberts -- 8 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Roger Zelazny - The Great Book of Amber (the chronicles of Amber 1-10) -- 7 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett -- 7 upvotes, 0 downvotes
James Joyce - Ulysses -- 7 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from Underground -- 7 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis -- 6 upvotes, 1 downvotes
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin -- 6 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood -- 6 upvotes, 0 downvotes
Dead Souls -- Nikolai Gogol -- 6 upvotes, 0 downvotes
C. S. Lewis - Space Trilogy (particularly *That Hideous Strength*) -- 5 upvotes, 1 downvotes