r/books

25,902,158 subscribers — This is a moderated subreddit. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres, or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Weekly Recommendation Thread, Suggested Reading page, or ask in r/suggestmeabook.

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Top posts this week

The 10 highest-scored posts from the last 7 days — ranking by real score over a week naturally filters out posts that got removed shortly after posting.

Post	Score	Posted
Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’	12982	6d ago
Singapore has become the first country to encourage its citizens to pick up a book for 15 minutes a day by paying them under a new five-year national programme to fight the rise of doomscrolling and strengthen the country’s reading culture	11279	3d ago
Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can	6736	4d ago
Reading for pleasure can improve health and wellbeing at any age and regardless of what you read, Cambridge study finds	3846	3d ago
People from outside the U.S., are you all dealing with a literary crisis among children as well?	1927	6d ago
A new study, conducted by the National Institute for Early Education Research finds that parents and other caregivers are reading less often to their preschool-aged children than before the pandemic	1555	5d ago
Annie Dillard, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, dies at 81	954	2d ago
Anyone get so jarred out of a book because of inaccuracies that they consider not continuing?	852	4d ago
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams reveals how truly dystopian things are	785	5d ago
What is your comfort book, and how do you experience it as a comfort?	458	7d ago

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