Reddit Books

The most-mentioned books on r/ExperiencedDevs

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/ExperiencedDevs

Designing Data-Intensive Applications24 users
The Manager's Path20 users
Accelerate14 users
Working Effectively with Legacy Code12 users
Domain-Driven Design8 users
Cracking the Coding Interview6 users
The Algorithm Design Manual6 users
Clean Code5 users
Clean Architecture5 users
Design Patterns5 users
The Mythical Man-Month5 users
Code Complete5 users
Peopleware5 users
A Philosophy Of Software Design5 users
Effective Java4 users
How to Win Friends and Influence People4 users
The Phoenix Project4 users
The First 90 Days4 users
Managing Humans4 users
Fundamentals of Software Architecture4 users
Soft Skills4 users
Righting Software3 users
The Clean Coder3 users
The Pragmatic Programmer3 users
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture3 users
Test Driven Development3 users
Implementing Domain-Driven Design3 users
Thinking, Fast and Slow3 users
The Making of a Manager3 users
Software Estimation3 users
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team3 users
The Goal3 users
Becoming a Technical Leader3 users
Software engineering at Google3 users
The DevOps Handbook3 users

Our methodology

Book mentions are found by checking every reddit comment for links to Amazon, Goodreads, Google Books, and O'Rielly 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.

 

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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.