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Cool project. However, the 2nd highest rated book is incorrectly picking up two different books.

Steven King's On Writing

Zinsser's On Writing Well

Also, some of the posts are recommending one book instead of another book, but being counted as a recommendation for the book that's not being recommended.

For example, someone recommended the Algorithm Design Manual as an alternative to Introduction to Algorithms, but its counted for the latter.

Mildly interesting that they are basically all self-help books. On that entire first page, I can only see one fiction book (about sixty down) - and of course, it is a comic book!

I think Zen is also a fiction and certainly doesn't read like a self help book.

Nice project! I remember a while back, someone made something like this for HN too.

It's funny how you think you may have an idea (opinion) about a community you so often visit, but when aggregate data like this emerges, you are surprised at the dissonance.

Gotta keep updating those priors :)

Wish you the best OP.

This would've been a better link:

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/reddit-top-200

Reddit's Favorite Books