Seveneves: A Novel
Neal Stephenson
- Historical score
- 4,839
- Recorded book links
- 2
- Recorded upvotes
- 4,289
- Gold awards
- 2
Historical archive · selected records
BooksReddit in 2016
A glimpse of the original BooksReddit: 20 selected book records from the 250 products in its “Best of 2016” list. The titles and historical scores come from a WordPress content export dated June 13, 2017.
How to read this selection
The rows below are sorted by the score stored in the old export. This is a reviewed selection, not the full list or a reconstruction of its original numbered ranking. The score combines recorded upvotes, book links and Reddit Gold awards:
Historical score = upvotes + 75 × book links + 200 × Gold awards
A link or an upvote can reflect praise, criticism, a joke or an incidental reference. The export does not preserve enough source detail to establish recommendation consensus, complete Reddit coverage or when its vote totals were captured. “2016” is the old list’s year, not each book’s publication year. These figures are separate from today’s mention counts.
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Dan Koeppel
- Historical score
- 2,949
- Recorded book links
- 2
- Recorded upvotes
- 2,599
- Gold awards
- 1
Codex Seraphinianus
Luigi Serafini
- Historical score
- 2,816
- Recorded book links
- 3
- Recorded upvotes
- 2,591
- Gold awards
- 0
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Robert C. Martin
- Historical score
- 1,900
- Recorded book links
- 19
- Recorded upvotes
- 475
- Gold awards
- 0
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
Douglas Stone · Sheila Heen
- Historical score
- 1,695
- Recorded book links
- 1
- Recorded upvotes
- 1,420
- Gold awards
- 1
The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books)
Frank O'Brien
- Historical score
- 1,642
- Recorded book links
- 1
- Recorded upvotes
- 1,367
- Gold awards
- 1
Tales from the Loop
Simon Stålenhag
- Historical score
- 1,207
- Recorded book links
- 6
- Recorded upvotes
- 757
- Gold awards
- 0
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
J. Kenji López-Alt
- Historical score
- 1,151
- Recorded book links
- 9
- Recorded upvotes
- 476
- Gold awards
- 0
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Charles Petzold
- Historical score
- 950
- Recorded book links
- 10
- Recorded upvotes
- 200
- Gold awards
- 0
The History of the Snowman
Bob Eckstein
- Historical score
- 846
- Recorded book links
- 1
- Recorded upvotes
- 771
- Gold awards
- 0
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners
Al Sweigart
- Historical score
- 813
- Recorded book links
- 6
- Recorded upvotes
- 163
- Gold awards
- 1
Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
Gayle Laakmann McDowell
- Historical score
- 779
- Recorded book links
- 7
- Recorded upvotes
- 254
- Gold awards
- 0
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Carl Sagan
- Historical score
- 753
- Recorded book links
- 8
- Recorded upvotes
- 153
- Gold awards
- 0
The C Programming Language
Brian W. Kernighan · Dennis M. Ritchie
- Historical score
- 623
- Recorded book links
- 4
- Recorded upvotes
- 323
- Gold awards
- 0
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking
Michael Ruhlman
- Historical score
- 572
- Recorded book links
- 5
- Recorded upvotes
- 197
- Gold awards
- 0
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
David Kushner
- Historical score
- 568
- Recorded book links
- 5
- Recorded upvotes
- 193
- Gold awards
- 0
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Harold McGee
- Historical score
- 530
- Recorded book links
- 6
- Recorded upvotes
- 80
- Gold awards
- 0
How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition
Daniel J. Velleman
- Historical score
- 518
- Recorded book links
- 6
- Recorded upvotes
- 68
- Gold awards
- 0
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
- Historical score
- 495
- Recorded book links
- 5
- Recorded upvotes
- 120
- Gold awards
- 0
The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction
William E. Shotts Jr.
- Historical score
- 415
- Recorded book links
- 2
- Recorded upvotes
- 65
- Gold awards
- 1
Recovery and provenance
This selection was reviewed on October 7, 2026. It preserves bibliographic metadata and score components; old quotations, descriptions, prices and tracking links are excluded. Bibliographic records were cross-checked where available, and omitted coauthors were restored for Thanks for the Feedback and The C Programming Language. The private export remains the source snapshot; a sanitized reviewed copy powers this page.
Source snapshot SHA-256: f4e34303609685e032b0e164141e8f1d354c6a2f470890d8899cf3b62e0dd952.
Read about the current methodology
or browse the current dataset.