Reddit Books

The most-mentioned books on r/grammar

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/grammar

Elements of Style17 users
Eats, Shoots and Leaves10 users
Woe is I8 users
Garner's Modern American Usage7 users
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language7 users
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage6 users
Style5 users
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire4 users
Practical English Usage3 users
The Oxford dictionary of American usage and style3 users
Style3 users
A Student's Introduction to English Grammar3 users
The Columbia guide to standard American English3 users
English Grammar for Students of German3 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.