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Top Ten Favorite Books of U.S. Adults

A 2008 Harris Initiative online poll of 2,513 U.S. adults revealed America's top ten favorite books:

  1. The Bible

  2. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

  3. Lord of the Rings (trilogy), by J. R. R. Tolkien

  4. Harry Potter (series), by J. K. Rowling

  5. The Stand, by Stephen King

  6. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown

  7. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

  8. Angels and Demons, by Dan Brown

  9. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand

  10. Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger

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