There is a notorious chain-post going around on Facebook, inspiring (seemingly) everyone to join in and list books that have stayed with or influenced them. The unofficial mechanics follow: “List 10 books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take more than a few minutes, and don’t think too hard. They do not have to be the ‘right’ books or great works of literature, just ones that have affected you in some way.”
Generating enough data from postings of latter-half August (over 130,000), research service page Facebook Data Science has conducted an ‘anonymized, aggregated data’ analysis and have come up with a list of 100 books most mentioned. A majority of said data came from the west but is in fact technically aggregated from all over the world. And as if it is news, J.K. Rowling’s wizard saga has trumped on The Holy Bible, which then trumped on The Book of Mormon, among other titles.
Harry Potter appears loved universally, as it should. But you know, stay in school; and read your Bible too.
Ahead is the first twenty-five books from the list, which is really just as good as bookstores bestsellers list. You can read the whole report and list, in full, here.
- The Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling (21.08%)
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (14.48%)
- The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien (13.86%)
- The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien (7.48%)
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (7.28%)
- The Holy Bible (7.21%)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (5.97%)
- The Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins (5.82%)
- The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger (5.70%)
- The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis (5.63%)
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (5.61%)
- 1984, George Orwell (5.37%)
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (5.26%)
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (5.23%)
- The Stand, Stephen King (5.11%)
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (4.95%)
- A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle (4.38%)
- The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (4.27%)
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis (4.05%)
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho (4.01%)
- Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery (3.95%)
- The Giver, Lois Lowry (3.53%)
- The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (3.67%)
- Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card (3.53%)
- The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (3.39%)
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