r/booksuggestions · 2024

Most-mentioned books in r/booksuggestions during 2024

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/booksuggestions within the published source unit for 2024. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

163

Books ranked

32,455

Tracked mentions in 2024

Sort by upvotes = sum of comment scores on recognized mentions

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.

989 in 2024

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.

836 in 2024

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.

626 in 2024

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry

Two retired Texas Rangers drive a stolen cattle herd from the Rio Grande to Montana, and half of them don't make it back.

612 in 2024

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.

609 in 2024

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.

585 in 2024

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.

576 in 2024

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.

531 in 2024

The Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan

A twelve-year-old with ADHD and dyslexia finds out both are demigod traits, then gets ten days to stop a war between Greek gods he didn't know were real.

513 in 2024

#10

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.

491 in 2024

#11

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.

489 in 2024

#12

Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

Charlie Gordon's IQ triples after experimental brain surgery, then the same surgery begins failing, and he narrates his own decline in real time.

482 in 2024

#13

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

A California farming family reenacts Cain and Abel across two generations, and Reddit keeps calling it the classic that isn't actually a slog.

472 in 2024

#14

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

A man alone in an endless house of statues and tides slowly realizes he used to have a different name.

469 in 2024

#15

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman

A man in boxer shorts and his ex-girlfriend's cat fight for survival when Earth is turned into an alien reality show.

467 in 2024

#16

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.

462 in 2024

#17

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

Four college friends move to New York to build lives together, and one of them never stops paying for what happened to him before the book began.

454 in 2024

#18

11/22/63

Stephen King

A substitute teacher steps through a diner's storeroom into 1958 with one job: stop Lee Harvey Oswald before Dallas.

431 in 2024

#19

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.

402 in 2024

#20

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.

395 in 2024

#21

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

A girl in Nazi Germany steals books while Death narrates, and it's become r/suggestmeabook's default answer to almost any request for something sad.

374 in 2024

#22

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.

370 in 2024

#23

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.

363 in 2024

#24

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.

361 in 2024

#25

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.

354 in 2024