The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit come third and fourth, respectively, in a list of Facebook users favourite books.
Researchers Lada Adamic and Pinkesh Patel analysed the data from a meme that has circulated on Facebook for the last year asking people to list the top ten books that have “stayed with [them] in some way”. From the 130,000 responses Adamic and Patel found Harry Potter topped the list, being mentioned in almost 22% of lists. The Lord of the Rings was in third place with 13.86% and The Hobbit in fourth (7.48%) reports The Telegraph.
Respondents were mainly from the US (63.7%), India (9.3%) and the UK (6.3%): two thirds were women: the average age was 37 years.
Here is the Top Ten:
1 Harry Potter series, JK Rowling (named in 21.08 per cent of lists)
2 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (14.48%)
3 The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien (13.86%)
4 The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien (7.48%)
5 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (7.28%)
6 The Holy Bible (named in 7.21% of lists)
7 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (5.97%)
8 The Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins (5.82%)
9 The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger (5.7%)
10 The Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis (5.63%)
