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Oct 21, 2021 • 29 tweets • 9 min read • Read on X
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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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