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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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