Favorite books among society today

I figured the next best way to go with this research would be to go back to Facebook and ask my “friends” what their favorite books are. I asked them to reply with their favorite book, a parent’s favorite book, and a grandparent’s favorite book.

Much to my surprise, a vast majority of the people who replied chose “classics” as their favorites, like myself. Among the most popular were:

• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

And of course there were more recent books such as:

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• 50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James
• The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

 I was pleasantly surprised to find that most people favor classic books as opposed to the books that are “hot off the press”. I think that shows a lot about the character of today’s society- that while books with intense fight scenes, loaded sex scenes and witchcraft may be what’s popular in the media today, the classic tales written centuries of years ago are still highly coveted forms of literature.

Toodles!

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