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GinnyX
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PostPosted: June 20, 2008 12:15 pm    Post subject: Poll the People Reply with quote
People were polled and they chose DH as their favorite book ever. The poll is for people all around the world.
The list has the top 500 books....

How HBP made both 15 and 75, I have no idea... maybe hardcover vs paperback?

Top 100
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1 HARRY POTTER & THE DEATHLY HALLOWS (J.K. Rowling)
2 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Jane Austen)
3 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Harper Lee)
4 THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (J.D. Salinger)
5 1984 (George Orwell)
6 WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Emily Bronte)
7 MY TAKE (Gary Barlow)
8 THE LORD OF THE RINGS (J R R Tolkien)
9 HIS DARK MATERIALS TRILOGY (Philip Pullman)
10 JANE EYRE (Charlotte Bronte)
11 ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
12 THE DA VINCI CODE (Dan Brown)
13 ON THE ROAD (Jack Kerouac)
14 THE TIME TRAVELERS WIFE (Audrey Niffenegger)
15 HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (J.K. Rowling)
16 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (Arthur Golden)
17 ATONEMENT (Ian McEwan)
18 CATCH 22 (Joseph Heller)
19 AMERICAN PSYCHO (Bret Easton Ellis)
20 HIGH FIDELITY (Nick Hornby)
21 THE ALCHEMIST (Paulo Coelho)
22 TWILIGHT (Stephenie Meyer)
23 BIRDSONG: A NOVEL OF LOVE AND WAR (Sebastian Faulks)
24 ANGELS & DEMONS (Dan Brown)
25 HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (J.K. Rowling)
26 LORD OF THE FLIES (William Golding)
27 THE GREAT GATSBY (F Scott Fitzgerald)
28 THE MASTER AND MARGARITA (Mikhail Bulgakov)
29 TRAINSPOTTING (Irvine Welsh)
30 PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER (Patrick Suskind)
31 THE ULTIMATE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE: FIVE COMPLETE NOVELS AND ONE STORY (Douglas Adams)
32 CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, THE (Mark Haddon)
33 BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY (Helen Fielding)
34 GRAPES OF WRATH (John Steinbeck)
35 THE LOVELY BONES (Alice Sebold)
36 HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (J.K. Rowling)
37 GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Charles Dickens)
38 LOLITA (Vladimir Nabokov)
39 1984 (Orwell)
40 PS, I LOVE YOU (Cecelia Ahern)
41 THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING: A NOVEL (Milan Kundera)
42 THE STAND (Stephen King)
43 HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (J.K. Rowling)
44 OLD MAN AND THE SEA (Ernest Hemingway)
45 A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Anthony Burgess)
46 CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN (Louis De Bernieres)
47 MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN (Salman Rushdie)
48 THE OUTSIDER (Albert Camus)
49 THE WASP FACTORY: A NOVEL (Iain Banks)
50 YES MAN (Danny Wallace)
51 THE BELL JAR: A NOVEL (Sylvia Plath)
52 THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy)
53 BRAVE NEW WORLD (Aldous Huxley)
54 OF MICE & MEN (John Steinbeck)
55 ANNA KARENINA. (Tolstoy Leo.)
56 THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (Mark Haddon)
57 THE KITE RUNNER (Khaled Hosseini)
58 SECRET HISTORY (Donna Tartt)
59 THE NEW YORK TRILOGY (Paul Auster)
60 THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (Stephen Chbosky)
61 THE SHADOW OF THE WIND (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
62 THE BEACH (Alex Garland)
63 MY BOOKY WOOK (Russell Brand)
64 MISERY (Stephen King)
65 THE GIVER (Lois Lowry)
66 IT (Stephen King)
67 THE SHINING (Stephen King)
68 GONE WITH THE WIND, (Margaret Mitchell)
69 ECLIPSE (Stephenie Meyer)
70 HOLES (Louis Sachar)
71 SIDDHARTHA (Herman Hesse)
72 REBECCA BY DAPHNE DU MAURIER (Daphne Du Maurier)
73 A MILLION LITTLE PIECES (James Frey)
74 FEAR AND LOATHING IN AMERICA : THE BRUTAL ODYSSEY OF AN OUTLAW JOURNALIST (Hunter S. Thompson)
75 HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE (J.K Rowling)
76 THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY (Michael Chabon)
77 LE PETIT PRINCE (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
78 KAFKA ON THE SHORE (Haruki Murakami)
79 A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY (John Irving)
80 HARRY POTTER BOXSET BOOKS 1-7 (J. K. Rowling)
81 COMPLICITY (Iain M. Banks)
82 THE KITE RUNNER (Khaled Hosseini)
83 JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR NORRELL (Susanna Clarke)
84 THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE: A NOVEL (Haruki Murakami)
85 FIGHT CLUB: A NOVEL (Chuck Palahniuk)
86 MR NICE (Howard Marks)
87 THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH (Ken Follett)
88 THE CORRECTIONS: A NOVEL (Jonathan Franzen)
89 ANY HUMAN HEART (William Boyd)
90 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Dostoyevsky)
91 WHITE OLEANDER: A NOVEL (Janet Fitch)
92 STEPPENWOLF (Hermann Hesse)
93 PERSUASION (Jane Austen)
94 BLEAK HOUSE (Charles Dickens)
95 THE COLOR PURPLE: TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITON (Alice Walker)
96 THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY - LITERARY TOUCHSTONE (Oscar Wilde)
97 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE: AN OLD MAN, A YOUNG MAN, AND LIFE'S GREATEST LESSON (Mitch Albom)
98 THE SUN ALSO RISES (Ernest Hemingway)
99 INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (Anne Rice)
100 CHOKE (Chuck Palahniuk)






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PostPosted: June 20, 2008 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I like your icon! Is that Twilight? My second favortie set of books but, Harry Potter comes first!
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PostPosted: June 20, 2008 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
pixie4sparks wrote:
I like your icon! Is that Twilight? My second favortie set of books but, Harry Potter comes first!


Yup, that is Twilight... I like it, not as much as Harry Potter, of course. Come join our Twilight thread here...
http://www.potterforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=12090
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PostPosted: June 20, 2008 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
ooo yay le petit prince is on there! and lots of other good books. but who polled who where when why?
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PostPosted: June 20, 2008 1:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Arabella wrote:
ooo yay le petit prince is on there! and lots of other good books. but who polled who where when why?


It's a website where people go and just take polls, basically. The website is open to everyone around the world. I gave the website at the bottom of the original post if you want to look around.
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PostPosted: June 20, 2008 5:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Great choices of books, I was so happy to see Twilight up there at 22 and surprised to see one of my favourite triologies, His Dark Materials up there at 9! Shocked
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PostPosted: June 22, 2008 12:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Well, in all fairness to the other books DH is still fresh in our minds. Wait 50 years like TKM has and see if DH is still in the top 3.
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PostPosted: June 22, 2008 12:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
King818 wrote:
Well, in all fairness to the other books DH is still fresh in our minds. Wait 50 years like TKM has and see if DH is still in the top 3.


Well, look at all the other books that came out decades ago that are still on that list. And there are books on that list that have come out since DH did. So although I'm sure the list will shift around throughout the years, I wouldn't doubt that HP would remain on that list somehow.
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