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A Reddit user asked, "What are some MUST read books?

The post received 8,000+ replies.

Here are the top 25 books Reddit recommends reading:

1/

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

2/

1984

by George Orwell

3/

Dune

by @DuneAuthor

4/

Slaughterhouse 5

by Kurt Vonnegut

5/

Ender's Game

by @orsonscottcard

6/

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

7/

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

8/

The Bible

by Various

9/

Snow Crash

by @nealstephenson

10/

Harry Potter Series

by @jk_rowling

11/

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

12/

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

by @ProfFeynman

13/

To Kill A Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

14/

The Foundation Saga

by Isaac Asimov

15/

Neuromancer

by @GreatDismal

16/

Calvin and Hobbes

by Bill Watterson

17/

Guns, Germs, and Steel

by Jared Diamond

18/

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

19/

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

by Robert M. Pirsig

20/

Siddhartha

by Hermann Hesse

21/

The Selfish Gene

by @RichardDawkins

22/

Godel, Escher, Bach

by Douglas Hofstadter

23/

Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu

24/

House of Leaves

by @markdanielewski

25/

The Giver

by @LoisLowryWriter

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