Theme

Fiction book communities on Reddit

Novels frequently mentioned in our r/Fantasy sample — from Sanderson and Le Guin to Steinbeck and Backman. More fiction communities will join this theme as their data is published.

Updated September 2026 — rankings refresh with each new data release.

Subreddits

221

Books indexed

1,165,324

Combined mentions

8.3M

Combined members

Subreddits in this theme

r/Fantasy

3.9M members

r/Fantasy is Reddit's largest fantasy fiction community, where readers recommend and debate epic, secondary-world, and grimdark fantasy series.

r/suggestmeabook

3.4M members

A general recommendation subreddit where readers describe what they're in the mood for and other users suggest specific titles across every genre.

r/horrorlit

608k members

r/horrorlit is Reddit's main subreddit for discussing and recommending horror literature - novels, novellas, and short fiction, as distinct from horror film.

r/printSF

360k members

r/printSF is a subreddit for discussing and recommending science fiction books, explicitly excluding film and TV adaptations.

r/booksuggestions

A high-volume book-recommendation community where readers describe a mood, genre, problem, or recent favorite and receive title suggestions across fiction and nonfiction.

r/RomanceBooks

A genre-focused recommendation and discussion community where readers specify trope, viewpoint, heat level, pairing, setting, and the exact emotional experience they want.

r/TrueLit

A discussion community for literary fiction, criticism, translation, close reading, and arguments about the canon beyond simple recommendation lists.

r/YAlit

A community discussing young adult books, publishing trends, age categories, adaptations, long-running fandoms, and the blurred border with middle grade and adult crossover fiction.

Hot recently in Fiction

Ranked by mentions in the latest six observed months for these subreddits.

Between Two Fires

Christopher Buehlman

A disgraced knight and a mute girl walk across a France gutted by plague and demons, looking for one town God hasn't given up on yet.

285 recent

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

A found manuscript describes a house whose hallway is bigger inside than the house itself, and its footnotes start unraveling the man reading them.

285 recent

The Troop

Nick Cutter

Four Boy Scouts and their troop leader get stranded on an island with a starving stranger carrying an engineered parasite.

243 recent

Pet Sematary

Stephen King

A father buries his toddler in an ancient burial ground that brings the dead back wrong, then digs him up anyway.

223 recent

The Fisherman

John Langan

Two grieving widowers go fishing at a spot locals call Dutchman's Creek, and find out exactly why nobody else fishes there.

204 recent

The Shining

Stephen King

A recovering alcoholic takes his family to caretake an empty hotel for the winter, and the hotel starts caretaking him back.

201 recent

The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty

A washed-up priest and an aging exorcist face down whatever has taken over a twelve-year-old girl in a Georgetown townhouse.

173 recent

The Terror

Dan Simmons

Franklin's crew abandons two ice-locked ships in the Arctic while something unseen in the dark hunts them one by one.

157 recent

Most-mentioned in Fiction

Combined mentions across all 8 subreddits in the theme. Showing the top 30 of 221 indexed.

Gardens of the Moon

Steven Erikson

A continent-spanning empire's mage-soldiers besiege a city that might already be doomed by gods playing a board game with human pieces.

28,776 in this theme

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.

28,457 in this theme

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.

28,426 in this theme

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.

27,179 in this theme

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.

26,415 in this theme

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.

24,850 in this theme

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.

21,217 in this theme

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.

20,837 in this theme

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas

Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, gets dragged into the faerie lands as payment, and spends five books choosing a court.

19,166 in this theme

#10

A Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin

Ned Stark's family gets pulled into a succession war for the Iron Throne while an unkillable winter creeps south.

19,019 in this theme

#11

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.

18,185 in this theme

#12

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.

17,390 in this theme

#13

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.

17,292 in this theme

#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.

16,478 in this theme

#15

Assassin's Apprentice

Robin Hobb

A royal bastard trains as the king's poisoner and assassin, and readers fifteen books later still call the ending emotionally devastating.

15,685 in this theme

#16

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.

15,666 in this theme

#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.

15,618 in this theme

#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.

15,338 in this theme

#19

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.

14,726 in this theme

#20

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.

14,006 in this theme

#21

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

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

13,652 in this theme

#22

Hyperion

Dan Simmons

Seven pilgrims travel together to a planet that kills, each one carrying the private story of why they volunteered to go.

12,885 in this theme

#23

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.

12,667 in this theme

#24

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.

12,663 in this theme

#25

Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo

Kaz Brekker recruits five other criminal teenagers for a heist inside a supposedly impenetrable ice fortress.

12,547 in this theme

#26

Storm Front (The Dresden Files)

Jim Butcher

Chicago's only professional wizard takes a case involving black magic and a mob boss, with a police captain who wants it solved fast or him gone.

12,452 in this theme

#27

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.

12,390 in this theme

#28

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.

11,155 in this theme

#29

Northern Lights

Philip Pullman

A girl crosses into other worlds with a truth-telling compass and a soul that lives outside her body as a shape-shifting animal.

11,094 in this theme

#30

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.

10,810 in this theme