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.
The most-mentioned books on r/Economics
| Basic Economics | 20 users |
| Economics in One Lesson | 20 users |
| The Creature From Jekyll Island | 17 users |
| This Time Is Different | 15 users |
| The Two-Income Trap | 13 users |
| Nudge | 11 users |
| Dow 36,000 | 11 users |
| The Big Short | 10 users |
| The Mystery of Capital | 10 users |
| The Worldly Philosophers | 10 users |
| The Black Swan | 10 users |
| Meltdown | 10 users |
| Principles of Economics | 9 users |
| The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money | 8 users |
| Debt | 8 users |
| "Dow, 30,000 by 2008" Why It's Different This Time | 8 users |
| Freakonomics | 7 users |
| Free to Choose | 7 users |
| Microeconomic Theory | 7 users |
| Why Nations Fail | 7 users |
| Capital In The Twenty-First Century | 7 users |
| Dow 100,000 | 7 users |
| The Millionaire Next Door | 7 users |
| The Shock Doctrine | 6 users |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | 6 users |
| A Random Walk down Wall Street | 6 users |
| The Race between Education and Technology | 6 users |
| A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 | 6 users |
| A Farewell to Alms | 6 users |
| Animal Spirits | 6 users |
| Predictably Irrational | 5 users |
| The Ascent of Money | 5 users |
| Money Mischief | 5 users |
| The Road to Serfdom | 5 users |
| How to Lie with Statistics | 5 users |
| Naked Economics | 5 users |
| Intermediate Microeconomics | 5 users |
| End the Fed | 5 users |
| How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes | 5 users |
| Manias, Panics, and Crashes | 5 users |
| Principles of Macroeconomics | 5 users |
| Capital in the Twenty First Century | 5 users |
| Bad Samaritans | 5 users |
| The spirit level | 5 users |
| The High Cost of Free Parking | 5 users |
| Predictably Irrational, Revised and | 4 users |
| Dow 40,000 | 4 users |
| The Four Pillars of Investing | 4 users |
| Macroeconomics | 4 users |
| Lords of Finance | 4 users |
| Too Big to Fail | 4 users |
| A Brief History of Neoliberalism | 4 users |
| The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One | 4 users |
| Traffic | 4 users |
| 13 bankers | 4 users |
| Coming Apart | 4 users |
| When Genius Failed | 4 users |
| Prisoner's Dilemma | 4 users |
| Why the Real Estate Boom Will Not Bust | 4 users |
| The Return of Depression Economics | 4 users |
| The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 | 4 users |
| Confessions of an Economic Hit Man | 4 users |
| Mostly Harmless Econometrics | 4 users |
| The Myth of the Rational Voter | 4 users |
| The Son Also Rises | 4 users |
| Macroeconomics | 4 users |
| Why Men Earn More | 4 users |
| Economics for real people | 4 users |
| Democracy in Chains | 4 users |
| Macroeconomics | 4 users |
| The Spirit Level | 4 users |
| Debunking Economics | 4 users |
| The Rational Optimist | 3 users |
| End of the World Is Just the Beginning | 3 users |
| Economics 19e | 3 users |
| International Economics | 3 users |
| Economics Without Illusions | 3 users |
| The Undercover Economist | 3 users |
| The Second Machine Age | 3 users |
| Keynes Hayek | 3 users |
| Microfoundations and Macroeconomics | 3 users |
| Devil Take the Hindmost | 3 users |
| The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy | 3 users |
| The Coming Collapse of China | 3 users |
| The End of Work | 3 users |
| What Has Government Done to Our Money? and The Case for a 100 Perce... | 3 users |
| A Guide to Econometrics | 3 users |
| The Conservative Nanny State | 3 users |
| The Origin of Wealth | 3 users |
| Money, banking, and financial markets | 3 users |
| The Prize | 3 users |
| The Forgotten Depression | 3 users |
| Where does money come from? | 3 users |
| And the Money Kept Rolling In | 3 users |
| The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New... | 3 users |
| Good Money | 3 users |
| Human Action | 3 users |
| The Color of Law | 3 users |
| Kicking Away the Ladder | 3 users |
| The Economic Growth Engine | 3 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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