{"id":321,"date":"2007-11-10T13:58:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T18:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/10\/uk-poll-which-books-do-you-revisit\/"},"modified":"2007-11-10T13:58:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-10T18:58:43","slug":"uk-poll-which-books-do-you-revisit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"UK Poll: Which books do you revisit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

London, 9th November 2007: New research released today by Costa, the UK’s fastest growing coffee chain, reveals that 77% of UK readers have enjoyed a book* so much the first time that they’ve gone back to read it again. {Full article here<\/a>.}<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll post the top twenty reread books, as listed in the article quoted above, but first I have to say: Coffee chain? What, do you suppose, would prompt a coffee chain to poll this sort of thing? And how was it done? Informal conversation? A survey? A long essay which had to be filled out before your low fat no whip double mocha latte would be passed over the counter? But anyway, here, as promised, is that top twenty:<\/p>\n

The Top 20 Revisited Reads:<\/p>\n

1. The Harry Potter Series by J.K Rowling<\/p>\n

2. The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien<\/p>\n

3. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen<\/p>\n

4. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien<\/p>\n

5. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte<\/p>\n

6. 1984 by George Orwell<\/p>\n

7. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown<\/p>\n

8. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis<\/p>\n

9. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte<\/p>\n

10. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller<\/p>\n

11. Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson<\/p>\n

12. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee<\/p>\n

13. Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews<\/p>\n

14. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell<\/p>\n

15. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett<\/p>\n

16. The Bible<\/p>\n

17. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams<\/p>\n

18. Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding<\/p>\n

19. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell<\/p>\n

20. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens<\/p>\n

So, if you do revisit certain books, did you see yours on the list? If not, what are some titles you find yourself going back to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London, 9th November 2007: New research released today by Costa, the UK’s fastest growing coffee chain, reveals that 77% of UK readers have enjoyed a book* so much the first time that they’ve gone back to read it again. {Full article here.} I’ll post the top twenty reread books, as listed in the article quoted…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-literary-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-5b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}