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2025-02-25 · 76 points · 52 comments · 19 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.

  1. 5

    Moby Dick

    Herman Melville

    5 here · 51 all-time · #82 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 16,756 ratings on Amazon
  2. 3

    Infinite Jest

    David Foster Wallace

    3 here · 75 all-time · #44 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 6,443 ratings on Amazon
  3. 3

    Lolita

    Vladimir Nabokov

    3 here · 20 all-time · #323 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 14,461 ratings on Amazon
  4. 3Critique of Pure Reason

    Critique of Pure Reason

    Immanuel Kant

    3 here · 16 all-time · #397 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 1,334 ratings on Amazon
  5. 1

    Ulysses

    James Joyce

    1 here · 55 all-time · #71 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 3,819 ratings on Amazon
  6. 1

    The Stormlight Archive

    Brandon Sanderson

    1 here · 55 all-time · #73 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 93,054 ratings on Amazon
  7. 1

    Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy

    1 here · 51 all-time · #83 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 13,344 ratings on Amazon
  8. 1

    War and Peace

    Leo Tolstoy

    1 here · 41 all-time · #117 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 3,710 ratings on Amazon
  9. 1

    Red Rising

    Pierce Brown

    1 here · 35 all-time · #147 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 111,087 ratings on Amazon
  10. 1Bhagavad Gita

    Bhagavad Gita

    C Radhakrishnan

    1 here · 33 all-time · #168 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 63 ratings on Amazon
  11. 1

    Gravity's Rainbow

    Thomas Pynchon

    1 here · 25 all-time · #229 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 2,472 ratings on Amazon
  12. 1

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    1 here · 24 all-time · #247 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 16,338 ratings on Amazon
  13. 1

    A Brief History of Time

    Stephen Hawking

    1 here · 23 all-time · #259 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 11,605 ratings on Amazon
  14. 1

    The Gulag Archipelago

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    1 here · 20 all-time · #313 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.8 out of 5, 5,474 ratings on Amazon
  15. 1Pale Fire

    Pale Fire

    Vladimir Nabokov

    1 here · 10 all-time · #671 overall

  16. 1Phenomenology of Spirit

    Phenomenology of Spirit

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

    1 here · 8 all-time · #853 overall

  17. 1My Struggle

    My Struggle

    Karl Ove Knausgård

    1 here · 8 all-time · #868 overall

    Buy on Amazon
  18. 1Finnegans Wake

    Finnegans Wake

    James Joyce

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1930 overall

  19. 1American Psycho

    American Psycho

    Bret Easton Ellis

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2451 overall