{"id":1161,"date":"2015-10-26T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spreeder.com\/blog\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2015-10-26T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T08:00:01","slug":"the-most-popular-books-by-country-according-to-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spreeder.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/26\/the-most-popular-books-by-country-according-to-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Popular Books By Country, According To Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the summer of 2014, Facebook conducted a fun literature experiment. Facebook asked people to list the top ten books that have moved them in some way.<\/p>\n

The status game was popular and the results were quite revealing. The 100 books that Facebook users loved and were most affected by were Harry Potter (with a 21.08% appearance rate in Facebook statuses) and second-place To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, which had a 14.48% appearance rate.<\/p>\n

Facebook decided to aggregate data from other non-English speaking countries too, and so the results<\/a> now reflect what people in other countries and other languages most appreciate in the realm of literature – no matter the translation.<\/p>\n

Italy<\/b><\/p>\n

The Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling<\/p>\n

Cent’anni di solitudine – Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/p>\n

Il ritratto di Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n

Orgoglio e pregiudizio – Jane Austen<\/p>\n

Il signore degli anelli – J.R.R. Tolkien<\/p>\n

France<\/b><\/p>\n

The Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling<\/p>\n

Le petit prince – Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry<\/p>\n

\u00c7a – Stephen King<\/p>\n

Le seigneur des anneaux – J.R.R. Tolkien<\/p>\n

Les fleurs du mal – Charles Baudelaire<\/p>\n

India<\/b><\/p>\n

The Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling<\/p>\n

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho<\/p>\n

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini<\/p>\n

A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini<\/p>\n

The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown<\/p>\n

Mexico<\/b><\/p>\n

Cien a\u00f1os de soledad – Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez<\/p>\n

El principito – Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry<\/p>\n

Harry Potter – J.K. Rowling<\/p>\n

El perfume – Patrick S\u00fcskind<\/p>\n

Aura – Carlos Fuentes<\/p>\n

Facebook Statuses and Literary Predilections<\/p>\n

J. K. Rowling\u2019s Harry Potter series dominate other countries\u2019 lists besides the American and British readerships. It’s an epic series that has and continues to have a universal, sweeping appeal across the globe irrespective of the readers\u2019 age, occupation, gender, and social status. \u00a0Even if some people tried to stick a\u201dYoung Adult\u201d genre label to it, this didn\u2019t stop it from inspiring millions of readers of all ages.<\/p>\n

The \u00a0Facebook list also reflects the extensive popularity of authors like Jane Austen, George Orwell, J. R. R. Tolkien, F. Scott Fitgerald, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Stephen King.<\/p>\n

Books are a very personal matter. They help us unearth new worlds and explore imaginary kingdoms, they are our companions, our teachers, our friends and our supporters. Books move, surprise and make us wiser. They also stay with us forever. We never forget our favorite heroes. Instead, we pay a visit to them every now and then by re-reading their story and re-living it with them as an homage.<\/p>\n

Have any of these books listed above moved you in one way or another? Which books would you add to your top 5 list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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