Best of Book Riot: Book Riot Readers’ Top 50 Favorite Novels
To celebrate the end of the year, we’re running some of our favorite posts from the last six months. We’ll be back with all-new stuff on January 7th.
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A couple weeks ago, Rioter in Chief Jeff challenged you to name your favorite novel. He knew it wouldn’t be easy, especially because he refused to define favorite for you (“genre, era, quality: it’s up to you to decide what ‘favorite’ means”), so he gave you a little slack and the space to name not one but three favorites. 1,311 of you answered the call, nominating more than 1,200 different books. After many gloriously nerdy hours rolling around in the data, we’ve tallied up the Top 50. Check ’em out below, and look for a discussion post with more stats soon.
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (126 votes)
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Did your favorite makes the finals?