For anyone who missed it: Reddit's book survey results!

[Simeon]

Reddit's scifi books survey results after 1500 redditors cast their votes.

Here are the Top Rated, and Most Read

And this reddit thread.

Also, a few days ago I created a similar survey for fantasy books. After about 500 people voted (from r/fantasy and r/books combined), here were those results as well.

I actually separated the r/fantasy and r/books scores because I suspected there would be large differences, and there are a few.

[[deleted user]]

I voted in the scifi poll, but completely missed the fantasy one.

Nice work, though :)

[Simeon]

Ala wrote: "I voted in the scifi poll, but completely missed the fantasy one.

Nice work, though :)"

Thank you, and for voting as well. What were your favorites? I'd only read about 20 books on that list, and it's no secret that my favorites are: the Vorkosigan Saga, HG2G, Armor, Brave New World, Never Let Me Go, The Time Traveller's Wife (last place? wtf people!), Hyperion, etc.

What about you?

[[deleted user]]

IIRC: HG2G, Hyperion, Armor, Altered Carbon, Snow Crash. I think.

There were so few I'd actually read that it made it pretty easy to vote :P

Time Travelers Wife? I'd heard bad things about it so never bothered. Was it really good?

[Simeon]

Ala wrote: "IIRC: HG2G, Hyperion, Armor, Altered Carbon, Snow Crash. I think.

There were so few I'd actually read that it made it pretty easy to vote :P

Time Travelers Wife? I'd heard bad things about it so ..."

It's more of a time-travelling romance than hardboiled scifi, so I knew reddit wouldn't react well to seeing it on the survey. (And not in the least because 85% of the respondents were male with very serious views of what does and does not belong. Lol.)

[[deleted user]]

I'm surprised it got any votes at all, to be honest. Not that it's some horrible twilighty type of book, just that it doesn't seem like a Reddit kind of thing.

[Simeon]

Ala wrote: "I'm surprised it got any votes at all, to be honest. Not that it's some horrible twilighty type of book, just that it doesn't seem like a Reddit kind of thing."

Exactly. I included it because... idk. It was my survey so fuck it. Lol. In any case, it would be nice to have a definitive compilation of reddit's all-time favorite books. I hope everyone isn't too sick of taking 2 minutes out of their day to vote, because it would be grand to have the results.

[[deleted user]]

Historical Fiction might be nice. Could use some rec's there.

Maybe Life Changer books too, since it would be interesting what the hivemind thought of that.

Or Urban Fantasy, since I would love some rec's there as well.

[Geoff]

I think I've read, like, two of these books. Got some work to do!

[Jillian]

I didn't see the # read the first time through, good to see those numbers too! I guess I need to read Hitchhikers guide to be cool!

[[deleted user]]

You haven't read it yet?

GET THE TORCHES

[whimsicalmeerkat]

Don't you mean tar & feathers? Torches & pitchforks are too mundane for this job.

[[deleted user]]

Well, we could start with the tar and feathers, then progress to pitchforks and torches.

We just haven't had a good pitchfork and torches mob in a while...

[Apatt]

I didn't miss it in Reddit but glad to find it here. Is there a text version of the survey result? I would like to convert it into a reference book for my Kindle.

[whimsicalmeerkat]

Ooh, that is a good idea.

[Vlad]

GET THE TORCHES"
Yeth pleathe. Thith is traditional.

[Ljubica]

Late post is late... but.. I'm surprised to see that The Last Unicorn is not very popular on the "most read" chart. It's a classic. Sigh!