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An authored canon, four crowd tallies, and what they agree on.

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Agreed Across Crowds

Books that turned up in more than one of the 8 book tallies. Different crowds, different questions, same book — the closest thing here to a consensus.0 / 167 read0%Books

The Book That Slapped You

The asker banned the school-canon answers and asked for the ones you'd never have found alone. It shows: 76 books, and almost none of them are the usual ones.0 / 76 read0%Books

Must-Read Fiction of the Last 15 Years

One book each, and it had to be recent: what r/suggestmeabook named when asked for the single must-read novel of the last 10–15 years.0 / 54 read0%Books

Unputdownable

What r/classicliterature named when asked for the book that gripped them start to finish.0 / 146 read0%Books

Never Stop Recommending

One question, one book each: what r/booksuggestions answered when asked for the single book they'll never stop recommending.0 / 61 read0%Books

Books That Changed People

Not a canon — a tally. What Hacker News named when asked which books changed the way they think.0 / 110 read0%Books

Novels of the Modern Era

A starting sample of the fiction canon — thirty entries in, nowhere near finished.0 / 30 read0%Books

The Most Addictive Book

What r/AskReddit named when asked for the book that kept them thinking about it non-stop until they finished.0 / 237 read0%Books

Truly a Masterpiece

r/AskReddit, asked which books are truly masterpieces. McCarthy on top by head count; a Western about two old Texas Rangers on top by upvotes.0 / 224 read0%Books

Top Three Non-Fiction

r/nonfictionbooks, asked for their top three of all time: 179 books from 76 readers. Krakauer on Everest on top, and two authors — Krakauer and Robert Caro — all over it.0 / 179 read0%Yours

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