20 Of The Most Beloved Books According To Facebook
With data collected from the "List 10 books that have stayed with you in some way" Facebook meme.
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You might have seen a meme floating around your Facebook news feed in which your friends list "10 books that have stayed with them in some way." Maybe you even wrote a post yourself. As it turns out, there's now hard data based on nearly 13,000 status updates featuring the phrases "10 books" or "ten books," thanks to researchers Lada Adamic and Pinkesh Patel.
Here are the 20 most popular books listed in the Facebook meme:
20. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
19. The Alchemist by Paul Coelho
HarperOne / Via allthecovers.tumblr.com
18. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
HarperCollins / Via msmela.com
17. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Anchor Books / Via one-elevenbooks.com
16. A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Square Fish / Via en.wikipedia.org
15. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Scribner Book Company / Via blog.hexotica.com.au
14. The Stand by Stephen King
Anchor Books / Via toomuchhorrorfiction.blogspot.com
13. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Signet Classic / Via readwithstyle.blogspot.com
12. Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott
Via blogs.slj.com
11. 1984 by George Orwell
Debolsillo / Via bookcoverarchive.com
10. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charles Scribner's Sons / Via en.wikipedia.org
9. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Little, Brown and Company / Via huffingtonpost.com
8. The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
Scholastic Press / Via amsjournal.wordpress.com
7. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Random House / Via thealmightyguru.com
6. The Holy Bible
American Bible Society / Via tbcaustin.com
5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Penguin Books / Via heretishietishie.blogspot.com
4. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Via cutlerlibrary.blogspot.com
3. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Mariner Books / Via bestbooksforyoungadults.com
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Grand Central Publishing / Via 210teenlibrary.wordpress.com
1. The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Scholastic Books / Via en.wikipedia.org