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.
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| Marked | # | Named by | Author | Title | Look up · source | Save to my list | |
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| 001 | 9× | Cormac McCarthy | Blood Meridian | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 002 | 7× | Larry McMurtry | Lonesome Dove | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 003 | 7× | Gabriel García Márquez | One Hundred Years of Solitude | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 004 | 7× | John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 005 | 6× | John Steinbeck | East of Eden | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 006 | 6× | J. R. R. Tolkien | The Lord of the Rings | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 007 | 6× | Victor Hugo | Les Misérables | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 008 | 5× | Stephen King | 11/22/63 | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 009 | 5× | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 010 | 5× | John Williams | Stoner | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 011 | 5× | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 012 | 5× | Kurt Vonnegut | Slaughterhouse-Five | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 013 | 5× | Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 014 | 4× | Alexandre Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 015 | 4× | George Orwell | 1984 | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 016 | 4× | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 017 | 4× | Susanna Clarke | Piranesi | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 018 | 4× | Herman Melville | Moby-Dick | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 019 | 4× | Joseph Heller | Catch-22 | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 020 | 4× | F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 021 | 4× | Hermann Hesse | Siddhartha | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 022 | 4× | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 023 | 4× | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 024 | 3× | Bram Stoker | Dracula | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 025 | 3× | Ray Bradbury | Fahrenheit 451 | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 026 | 3× | Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 027 | 3× | Frank Herbert | Dune | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 028 | 3× | J. D. Salinger | The Catcher in the Rye | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 029 | 3× | James Joyce | Ulysses | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 030 | 3× | Patrick Süskind | Perfume | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 031 | 3× | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 032 | 3× | Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 033 | 3× | John Kennedy Toole | A Confederacy of Dunces | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 034 | 3× | Gene Wolfe | The Book of the New Sun | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 035 | 3× | Jeff VanderMeer | Annihilation | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 036 | 3× | Cormac McCarthy | The Road | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 037 | 2× | Alfred Lansing | Endurance | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 038 | 2× | Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 039 | 2× | Shirley Jackson | The Haunting of Hill House | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 040 | 2× | Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 041 | 2× | Stanisław Lem | Solaris | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 042 | 2× | Ernest Hemingway | For Whom the Bell Tolls | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 043 | 2× | Richard Adams | Watership Down | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 044 | 2× | Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 045 | 2× | Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 046 | 2× | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 047 | 2× | Patrick O'Brian | The Aubrey–Maturin series | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 048 | 2× | Cormac McCarthy | Suttree | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 049 | 2× | J. R. R. Tolkien | The Hobbit | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 050 | 2× | Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 051 | 2× | David Foster Wallace | Infinite Jest | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 052 | 2× | Karl Marlantes | Matterhorn | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 053 | 2× | Thomas Pynchon | Gravity's Rainbow | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 054 | 2× | Italo Calvino | If on a Winter's Night a Traveler | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 055 | 2× | Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 056 | 2× | Suzanne Collins | The Hunger Games | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 057 | 2× | Marlen Haushofer | The Wall | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 058 | 2× | George R. R. Martin | A Storm of Swords | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 059 | 2× | Mark Z. Danielewski | House of Leaves | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 060 | 2× | Cormac McCarthy | No Country for Old Men | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 061 | 2× | Juan Rulfo | Pedro Páramo | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 062 | 2× | Arkady & Boris Strugatsky | Roadside Picnic | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 063 | 2× | James Clavell | Shōgun | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 064 | 2× | Various | The Bible | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 065 | 2× | Thomas Mann | The Magic Mountain | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 066 | 2× | Hilary Mantel | Wolf Hall | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 067 | 2× | William Faulkner | Absalom, Absalom! | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 068 | 2× | Neal Stephenson | Anathem | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 069 | 1× | Amor Towles | A Gentleman in Moscow | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 070 | 1× | Ray Bradbury | Dandelion Wine | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 071 | 1× | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 072 | 1× | Belinda Bauer | Rubbernecker | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 073 | 1× | Philip K. Dick | Ubik | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 074 | 1× | Don Carpenter | Hard Rain Falling | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 075 | 1× | Sylvia Plath | The Bell Jar | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 076 | 1× | J. R. R. Tolkien | The Silmarillion | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 077 | 1× | Kazuo Ishiguro | A Pale View of Hills | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 078 | 1× | Annie Proulx | Accordion Crimes | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 079 | 1× | Susan Cooper | The Dark Is Rising sequence | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 080 | 1× | Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 081 | 1× | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 082 | 1× | Louise Erdrich | The Plague of Doves | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 083 | 1× | Louise Erdrich | The Round House | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 084 | 1× | Bette Bao Lord | Spring Moon | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 085 | 1× | Richard Powers | The Overstory | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 086 | 1× | Olaf Stapledon | Star Maker | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 087 | 1× | Amadou Hampâté Bâ | The Fortunes of Wangrin | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 088 | 1× | Jaroslav Hašek | The Good Soldier Švejk | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 089 | 1× | Murasaki Shikibu | The Tale of Genji | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 090 | 1× | Jack Black | You Can't Win | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 091 | 1× | Alexander Pushkin | Eugene Onegin | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 092 | 1× | Douglas Hofstadter | Gödel, Escher, Bach | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 093 | 1× | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 094 | 1× | Min Jin Lee | Pachinko | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 095 | 1× | Guy Sajer | The Forgotten Soldier | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 096 | 1× | Donna Tartt | The Goldfinch | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 097 | 1× | Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 098 | 1× | Douglas Adams | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 099 | 1× | Donna Tartt | The Little Friend | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 100 | 1× | Norton Juster | The Phantom Tollbooth | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 101 | 1× | William L. Shirer | The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 102 | 1× | Donna Tartt | The Secret History | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 103 | 1× | Madeline Miller | The Song of Achilles | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 104 | 1× | Roberto Bolaño | 2666 | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 105 | 1× | James Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 106 | 1× | Mark Twain | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 107 | 1× | bell hooks | All About Love | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 108 | 1× | James Ellroy | American Tabloid | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 109 | 1× | Toni Morrison | Beloved | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 110 | 1× | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 111 | 1× | Evelyn Waugh | Brideshead Revisited | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 112 | 1× | John Steinbeck | Cannery Row | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 113 | 1× | Carl Sagan | Contact | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 114 | 1× | Hermann Hesse | Demian | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 115 | 1× | Saul Bellow | Henderson the Rain King | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 116 | 1× | Lois McMaster Bujold | Mirror Dance | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 117 | 1× | Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 118 | 1× | Robert Fisk | The Great War for Civilisation | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 119 | 1× | Kim Stanley Robinson | The Mars Trilogy | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 120 | 1× | George Turner | The Sea and Summer | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 121 | 1× | M. L. Wang | The Sword of Kaigen | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 122 | 1× | Malcolm Lowry | Under the Volcano | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 123 | 1× | David Lindsay | A Voyage to Arcturus | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 124 | 1× | George Orwell | Animal Farm | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 125 | 1× | Dan Simmons | Hyperion | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 126 | 1× | Tom Robbins | Jitterbug Perfume | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 127 | 1× | David Wong | John Dies at the End | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 128 | 1× | Viktor Frankl | Man's Search for Meaning | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 129 | 1× | Hermann Hesse | Narcissus and Goldmund | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 130 | 1× | Theodore Dreiser | Sister Carrie | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 131 | 1× | Johan Huizinga | The Autumn of the Middle Ages | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 132 | 1× | Jack London | The Call of the Wild | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 133 | 1× | Howard Andrew Jones | The Desert of Souls | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 134 | 1× | Vyasa | The Mahabharata | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 135 | 1× | Stephen King | The Shining | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 136 | 1× | Albert Camus | The Stranger | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 137 | 1× | C. V. Wedgwood | The Thirty Years War | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 138 | 1× | Mervyn Peake | Titus Groan | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 139 | 1× | Don DeLillo | Underworld | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 140 | 1× | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 141 | 1× | Robert Penn Warren | All the King's Men | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 142 | 1× | Frank McCourt | Angela's Ashes | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 143 | 1× | Kurt Vonnegut | Breakfast of Champions | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 144 | 1× | Thomas Mann | Buddenbrooks | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 145 | 1× | John Williams | Butcher's Crossing | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 146 | 1× | Madeline Miller | Circe | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 147 | 1× | Anthony Doerr | Cloud Cuckoo Land | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 148 | 1× | Stephen King | Cujo | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 149 | 1× | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 150 | 1× | Nikolai Gogol | Dead Souls | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 151 | 1× | Barbara Kingsolver | Demon Copperhead | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 152 | 1× | Gilles Deleuze | Difference and Repetition | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 153 | 1× | Robert Silverberg | Downward to the Earth | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 154 | 1× | Thomas McGuane | Driving on the Rim | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 155 | 1× | Matt Dinniman | Dungeon Crawler Carl | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 156 | 1× | William T. Vollmann | Europe Central | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 157 | 1× | Hunter S. Thompson | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 158 | 1× | Chuck Palahniuk | Fight Club | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 159 | 1× | Sudhir Venkatesh | Gang Leader for a Day | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 160 | 1× | Marilynne Robinson | Gilead | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 161 | 1× | Catherine Gildiner | Good Morning, Monster | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 162 | 1× | Mervyn Peake | Gormenghast | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 163 | 1× | John Buchan | Greenmantle | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 164 | 1× | Knut Hamsun | Growth of the Soil | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 165 | 1× | Marisa Crane | I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 166 | 1× | Anna Kavan | Ice | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 167 | 1× | Marcel Proust | In Search of Lost Time | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 168 | 1× | Marcos Vázquez | Invicto | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 169 | 1× | Stephen King | It | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 170 | 1× | Richard Bach | Jonathan Livingston Seagull | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 171 | 1× | James Clavell | King Rat | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 172 | 1× | Jorge Luis Borges | Labyrinths | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 173 | 1× | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 174 | 1× | Raymond E. Feist | Magician | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 175 | 1× | Thomas Pynchon | Mason & Dixon | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 176 | 1× | Eiji Yoshikawa | Musashi | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 177 | 1× | Joseph Conrad | Nostromo | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 178 | 1× | John Steinbeck | Of Mice and Men | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 179 | 1× | Sing Shong | Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 180 | 1× | Ken Kesey | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 181 | 1× | M. T. Vasudevan Nair | Randamoozham | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 182 | 1× | Daphne du Maurier | Rebecca | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 183 | 1× | Terry Pratchett | Small Gods | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 184 | 1× | Saul Bellow | The Adventures of Augie March | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 185 | 1× | Paulo Coelho | The Alchemist | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 186 | 1× | Angela Carter | The Bloody Chamber | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 187 | 1× | Markus Zusak | The Book Thief | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 188 | 1× | Anthony Trollope | The Chronicles of Barsetshire | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 189 | 1× | Amy Hempel | The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 190 | 1× | Rick Rubin | The Creative Act | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 191 | 1× | Mark Haddon | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 192 | 1× | Jim Butcher | The Dresden Files | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 193 | 1× | Albert Camus | The Fall | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 194 | 1× | Stieg Larsson | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 195 | 1× | Joe Abercrombie | The Heroes | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 196 | 1× | Michael Cunningham | The Hours | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 197 | 1× | Rudyard Kipling | The Jungle Book | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 198 | 1× | Dashiell Hammett | The Maltese Falcon | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 199 | 1× | Franz Kafka | The Metamorphosis | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 200 | 1× | Nikolai Gogol | The Overcoat | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 201 | 1× | Ken Follett | The Pillars of the Earth | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 202 | 1× | Yukio Mishima | The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 203 | 1× | Tim O'Brien | The Things They Carried | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 204 | 1× | Stepan Chapman | The Troika | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 205 | 1× | H. G. Wells | The War of the Worlds | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 206 | 1× | Lois McMaster Bujold | The Warrior's Apprentice | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 207 | 1× | Brandon Sanderson | The Way of Kings | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 208 | 1× | Robert Jordan | The Wheel of Time | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 209 | 1× | Henry James | The Wings of the Dove | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 210 | 1× | John Steinbeck | The Winter of Our Discontent | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 211 | 1× | Kristin Hannah | The Women | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 212 | 1× | Denis Johnson | Train Dreams | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 213 | 1× | Hernan Diaz | Trust | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 214 | 1× | Graham Masterton | White Bones | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 215 | 1× | Robert M. Pirsig | Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 216 | 1× | J. K. Rowling | Harry Potter | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 217 | 1× | Katherine Dunn | Geek Love | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 218 | 1× | Stephen King | The Gunslinger | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 219 | 1× | Audrey Niffenegger | The Time Traveler's Wife | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 220 | 1× | Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons | Watchmen | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 221 | 1× | Kurt Vonnegut | God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 222 | 1× | Neal Stephenson | Snow Crash | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 223 | 1× | Kurt Vonnegut | The Sirens of Titan | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit | |||
| 224 | 1× | Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights | ★ Goodreads · r/AskReddit |
How this was counted. Counted by distinct redditor; where a comment named several books, each one counts, and upvotes on the naming comments break ties. One capture of the thread, sorted by top, replies stripped: 224 top-level answers. Left out: the asker's own list, answers naming only an author or a body of work (“All Charles Dickens”), books mentioned without being called a masterpiece, and the joke answers — a run of picture books, a Windows 95 manual, the Bluebook. Series stay as one row where they were answered as a series.