Reddit Books

The most-mentioned books on r/AskProgramming

Reddit is a social media and news aggregation website that ranks content based on a voting system. People worldwide post content (usually links, but also original content), and other users can “upvote” or “downvote” posts, pushing the most interesting content to the top. 

It’s a place where you can find groups of like-minded people. Reddit calls these groups subreddits, and they cover different topics, including niche interests, politics, hobbies, and thousands of other topics people want to talk about.

Since its launch in 2005, the site has become one of the most popular social media sites with millions of monthly active users. 

We've processed billions of comments to find the books most mentioned on Reddit. 

 

Table of Contents

 

The most-mentioned books on r/AskProgramming

Clean Code16 users
Code14 users
Design Patterns9 users
Introduction to Algorithms7 users
Head First Design Patterns7 users
Working Effectively with Legacy Code6 users
Code Complete6 users
C Programming Language5 users
Domain-Driven Design5 users
Cracking the Coding Interview5 users
Refactoring3 users
The Pragmatic Programmer3 users
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs3 users
Effective Java3 users
Compilers3 users
Designing Data-Intensive Applications3 users
Think Like a Programmer3 users
Python Crash Course3 users

 

Our methodology

Book mentions are found by checking every reddit comment for links to Amazon, Goodreads, Google Books, and O'Reilly Media. Non-link mentions are too tricky to parse in an unbiased way: books with short, simple titles like The Road get massively under- or over-counted.

When a user mentions the same book multiple times in the same subreddit, we only count the top-voted comment. This curbs users shilling a particular book, and gives a more representative feel for an entire subreddit.

 

Who are we

Find accountability partners, and study online courses & books with other learners. Moocable helps you find your next course/book/problem set, and lets you find study partners.

Junaid Khan

Junaid Khan

Junaid Khan is the founder of Moocable - the platform to help learner find their next MOOC, and study partners. A passionate learner, he struggled with self-learning.