Page 22 Daily Mail, Thursday, August 8, 20191 The Lion, The Witch and
the Wardrobe2 The Da Vinci Code3 Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone4 Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland5 Harry Potter and the
Chamber of Secrets6 Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire7 Harry Potter and the
Prisoner of Azkaban8 Harry Potter and the
Order of the Phoenix9 Nineteen Eighty-Four10 Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince11 Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows12 Treasure Island13 The Wind in the Willows14 The Hobbit15 The Girl on the Train16 Jane Eyre17 The Lord of the Rings18 Lord of the Flies19 Wuthering Heights20 Bridget Jones’s Diary21 The Catcher in the Rye22 A Tale of Two Cities23 Gone Girl24 Fifty Shades of Grey25 The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes26 The Girl with the
Dragon Tattoo27 The Hitchhiker’s Guide
to the Galaxy28 The Lovely Bones29 Tales of Huckleberry Finn30 Murder on the
Orient Express31 The Curious Incident of
the Dog in the Night-time32 The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas33 The Hunger Games34 Anne of Green Gables35 The Time Traveller’s Wife36 The Wizard of Oz37 Jamaica Inn38 PS. I Love You39 Twilight40 Brighton Rock41 Life of Pi42 The Girl Who Kicked
the Hornet’s Nest43 The Kite Runner44 Memoirs of a Geisha45 American Psycho46 The Handmaid’s Tale47 My Sister’s Keeper48 Me Before You49 One Day50 Jack Reacher: Killing FloorFROM HOBBITS TO HANDMAIDS, OUR TOP 50
four children, a magical
world frozen in perpetual win-
ter, an evil sorceress... it’s a
tale that has filled us with
(Turkish) delight for decades.
And it seems we still love getting
lost in the icy wastes of Narnia.
for children’s fantasy novel The
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is
Britain’s most popular book, a poll
reveals. CS Lewis’s classic story of sib-
lings who accidentally discover a land
in the grip of the evil White Witch tops
a list of 50 most-read books, with 33
per cent of adults enjoying the tale.
The novel, first published in 1950, is
closely followed by Dan Brown’s mys-
tery thriller The Da Vinci Code on 30
per cent. Harry Potter and the Philos-
opher’s Stone came in third on 29 per
cent – and was one of six books about
the boy wizard in the top ten.
Author of the series – JK rowling –
was our top writer, on 26 per cent.
Master of horror fiction Stephen
King was picked by 24 per cent of
those questioned, while Charles Dick-
ens was chosen by 18 per cent.
The results emerged in a survey of
2,000 adults by onePoll for eBay uK,
which also found that British book-
worms will immerse themselves in 696books over a lifetime. The poll sug-
gests there is a clear divide between
the sexes. Women’s favourites are gen-
erally more ‘modern’ classics, includ-
ing Girl on the Train (34 per cent),
Bridget Jones’s Diary (30 per cent),
fifty Shades of Grey (28 per cent) and
Gone Girl (26 per cent).
But men’s top reads were older titles
such as Nineteen Eighty-four (28 per
cent), Treasure Island (28 per cent)
and Lord of the flies (23 per cent).
The average adult will get through
11 books a year. Crime is the most
popular genre (42 per cent) along with
thrillers (38 per cent) and drama (35
per cent). But the poll found 42 per
cent of Britons are ‘too busy’ to read
as much as they would like – and the
average adult owns at least ten books
they haven’t yet finished.
unsurprisingly, the holiday season
gives us the best chance to get lost in
a gripping tale – when we get through
at least two novels in a week. rob
Johnson of Wordery, eBay uK’s online
bookstore, said: ‘It is really heart-
warming to see that reading books is
still a hobby Brits love to take part in,
especially in the days of box sets and
instant viewing.’Our best-read books
Lion, Witch and Wardrobe is
the UK favourite... and Harry
Potter has six of top 10 places
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