Funny trivia discovery: Australia's (as a nation) favourite books, as posted on ABCnet.au.
The list is pretty predictable, I'd say, for any "Western" English-speaking country.
It is as follows...
1. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. The Bible (Various Contributors)
4. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
6. Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (Book 5) by J. K. Rowling
7. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
8. The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
9. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown and Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
10. A Fortunate Life by A.B. Facey
My personal list of top ten ... if I had to go on personal favourites. (Disclaimer: I love reading and this is not a definitive list simply out of the fact it's next to impossible for me to limit my
1. Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
2. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
3. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
4. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
5. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
6. A Taste of Honey (a play), by Shelagh Delaney
7. Generation X, Douglas Coupland
8. Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
9. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
10. The Alchemist, Paolo Coelho
OH ... and 11: Famous Five (series), Enid Blyton
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