If you recently participated in the recent Facebook meme asking you to list the ten books that stayed with you, chances are yours was one of 130,000 status updates that Facebook just put together to make a list of users’ top 100 books.
Facebook took a “a de-identified sample” of status updates with the phrase “ten books” or “10 books” which appeared in last two weeks of August 2014. Whose updates were chosen? Facebook says 63.7% of these users were in the US, followed by 9.3% in India, and 6.3% in the UK. Women outnumbered men by 3.1 to 1, and the average age was 37.
Here’s the list.
Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Holy Bible
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Hunger Games Trilogy – Suzanne Collins
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
1984 – George Orwell
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
The Stand – Stephen King
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
The Giver – Lois Lowry
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Eye of the World – Robert Jordan
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Hamlet – William Shakespeare
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Book of Mormon
The Diary of Anne Frank – Anne Frank
Dune – Frank Herbert
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Lamb – Christopher Moore
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
Good Omens – Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Night – Elie Wiesel
The Dark Tower Series – Stephen King
Outlander – Diana Gabaldon
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
The Art of War – Sun Tzu
Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Watership Down – Richard Adams
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
A Song of Ice and Fire – George R. R. Martin
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret – Judy Blume
Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
The Shack – William P. Young
Watchmen – Alan Moore
Interview with the Vampire – Anne Rice
The Odyssey – Homer
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
The Stranger – Albert Camus
Call of the Wild – Jack London
The Five People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Matilda – Roald Dahl
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
(Via Facebook Data Science.)
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