r/booksuggestions · 2022
Most-mentioned books in r/booksuggestions during 2022
This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/booksuggestions within the published source unit for 2022. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.
#1 Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
A dying astronaut wakes up alone on a spaceship with amnesia, two corpses for company, and Earth's one shot at survival riding on him.
#2 All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries)
Martha Wells
A security android with no interest in gender, romance, or heroics just wants to watch its shows, and ends up saving its clients from a conspiracy anyway.
#3 Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
A street thief who can swallow metal and burn it for power gets recruited into a heist crew whose actual target is the immortal emperor who's ruled for a thousand years.
#4 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J. K. Rowling
An eleven-year-old orphan gets a letter, a train platform that shouldn't exist, and a scar that makes him famous for something he can't remember.
#5 The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune
A caseworker is sent to inspect an orphanage of six dangerous magical children, one of them the literal Antichrist, and has to decide whether to file the report that shuts it down.
#6 The Lord of the Rings
J. R. R. Tolkien
A gardener and three friends carry a cursed ring across a continent at war, because the only way to destroy it is to walk it into the volcano that forged it.
#7 The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
A hobbit who has never left his own pantry gets recruited by thirteen dwarves and a wizard to steal treasure back from a dragon.
#8 The Martian
Andy Weir
A botanist gets left for dead on Mars after a dust storm and has to grow his own food to survive until the next mission arrives, years later.
#9 The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
A bridgeman slave carries spears through a warzone he's not allowed to fight in, until he decides to become the soldier no one will follow.
#10 Circe
Madeline Miller
Exiled to an empty island for turning a rival into a monster, a minor goddess spends immortality perfecting the one power the gods never bothered to master.
#11 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Earth gets demolished to build a hyperspace bypass, and the last man alive escapes only because an alien researching a galactic encyclopedia needed an assistant.
#12 The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
Patroclus, exiled and overlooked, grows up shadowing Achilles and follows him to Troy already knowing how the war ends for them.
#13 The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
A falsely imprisoned sailor spends fourteen years in a fortress, learns of a hidden fortune, and returns to make sure everyone who wronged him pays for it.
#14 The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
A teenage girl volunteers to fight to the death on live television in place of her younger sister, then spends three books resisting everyone who wants to make her a symbol.
#15 The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
A legendary hero narrates his own rise from orphaned street kid to feared arcanist over three days, except Rothfuss never wrote day three.
#16 Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
A man alone in an endless house of statues and tides slowly realizes he used to have a different name.
#17 The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
An orogene comes home to find her son beaten to death and her daughter gone, the same day a continent starts splitting apart.
#18 A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
A proud boy on a poor island learns real magic, casts one spell out of arrogance, and spends the rest of the book hunted by what it let loose.
#19 The Blade Itself
Joe Abercrombie
A crippled torturer, a vain swordsman, and a berserker haunted by his own alter ego get pulled into a war none of them understand yet.
#20 Dune
Frank Herbert
Paul Atreides survives his family's massacre on a desert planet and becomes the messiah the empire engineered him to be, then has to live with it.
#21 Red Rising
Pierce Brown
A low-caste miner surgically altered to pass as the ruling elite infiltrates the academy that killed his wife, planning to burn the system down from inside.
#22 The Eye of the World
Robert Jordan
Trollocs burn a village hunting for one of three farm boys, so an Aes Sedai spirits all three out before anyone learns which.
#23 The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
A woman between life and death gets a library of every alternate version of her life and has to pick one before dawn or die for real.
#24 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
A ragtag crew tunnels a hole through space for a living, and the alien passenger they're ferrying turns the trip into a slow-burn found-family story.
#25 Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
A child prodigy recruited into Battle School at six ends up commanding real war fleets, believing until the end that it's all just a simulation.