r/suggestmeabook · 2025

Most-mentioned books in r/suggestmeabook during 2025

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/suggestmeabook within the published source unit for 2025. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

160

Books ranked

85,533

Tracked mentions in 2025

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.

3,070 in 2025

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.

2,945 in 2025

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.

2,164 in 2025

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.

2,104 in 2025

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.

1,781 in 2025

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver

A West Virginia foster kid narrates his own life through the opioid crisis, the way Dickens once narrated an orphan through Victorian London.

1,770 in 2025

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

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

1,756 in 2025

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.

1,505 in 2025

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.

1,461 in 2025

#10

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.

1,396 in 2025

#11

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.

1,295 in 2025

#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.

1,227 in 2025

#13

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.

1,204 in 2025

#14

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.

1,194 in 2025

#15

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.

1,135 in 2025

#16

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.

1,128 in 2025

#17

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.

1,113 in 2025

#18

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Shelby Van Pelt

A widowed aquarium janitor and a giant Pacific octopus separately work out what happened to her son thirty years ago.

1,065 in 2025

#19

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.

1,060 in 2025

#20

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

A plain, broke governess tells off the man she loves in one paragraph, and Reddit has been rereading that paragraph at every age since.

1,007 in 2025

#21

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.

960 in 2025