Reading books will never be the same in today’s Internet age. Everybody wants things fast, fast and new, new.
But sometimes a book captures the world’s imagination, and everybody upon everybody feels the need to go out and buy it (or borrow it from the local library), curl up in a cozy sofa, and escape into a fantasy world.
And over time, a few books emerge ahead of the pack – books that absolutely everyone has read, should read, is forced to read at some point in their lives. Web Watch asks: how many of the following MOST POPULAR BOOKS OF ALL TIME have you read (presented in no particular order)?
- The Odyssey
- The Qur’an
- Romeo and Juliet
- Don Quixote
- Robinson Crusoe
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
- The Lord of the Rings
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- 1984
- Pride and Prejudice
- Dream of the Red Chamber
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
- Catcher in the Rye
- Quotations from Chairman Mao
- Harry Potter
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- The Hobbit
- The Little Prince
- And Then There Were None
- Dracula
- Gone with the Wind
- She: A History of Adventure
- The Great Gatsby
- Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
- Andersen’s Fairy Tales
- Watership Down
and of course… the King James Bible