We Asked People 'What's Your Favorite Novel?'

PBS did a survey where they asked people 'What is your favorite book?' According to what they found, America's favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee which to us sounded like B.S. So to test that theory out we thought it would be fun to do a poll of our own. We went out and asked people 'What is your favorite novel?' and this is how that went.
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We Asked People 'What's Your Favorite Novel?'
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[@acledfloyd]

I was feeling all superior but then I remembered I’m just watching KZbin videos right now instead of reading

[@chanakyadevil]

Get to work

[@caitlinroseblaney226]

It’s not like you have to be reading right now, just as long as you do read 🤗

[@antoniolozano9029]

Youre rigth i gona star whit Terry Pratchett

[@EduardoOlidenJr]

Just do what I do: Watch while you cook; Read while you commute. ...unless you drive...that would be problematic.

[@acledfloyd]

Good Omens is my favorite for sure.

[@theoryaction]

This would be better if you guys didn't edit out the smart people. I'm sure one person in LA has read a novel.

[@dudicorn6503]

Exactly, and thank you.

[@Mr35diamonds]

I mean the notion that there are such people is slightly disconcerting anyway.

[@OppoRancisis]

You’d be surprised

[@danielsavin4627]

Doubt that ngl

[@HoldenNY22]

theoryaction- That is what I think. But as Howard K Beale- "The I"m as Mad as Hell Newscaster from the great Movie= "Network"- "Less than 5 % of you read books." I am not sure if that less than 5% figure is accurate.

[@eduardovargas1133]

I feel like the question should’ve been “can you read?”

[@fares.b1301]

Hahahaha

[@rafizsadique4299]

*enter Tywin Lannister*

[@abigailr1128]

Lol! Yes!

[@amantedelmondo1787]

At least say freaking Harry Potter or something for crying out loud!...

[@waqqas_the_wicked]

That's what I was waiting to hear

[@CT-um7zq]

Or twilight. I mean, just Breaking Dawn was nearly 900 pages.

[@holisticcritic9267]

Harry Potter billboard is in the background lol

[@igot5onit423]

As much as I hate to admit it other than school work... the only books I've ever read are Goosebump books when I was a little kid and the Harry potter series

[@phantommagnolia]

I'd rather say nothing than Harry Potter

[@conniecrawford5231]

As a former lit professor , this breaks my heart. Our schools need to teach students how to spell and proper grammar and how to enjoy a great novel!

so what is your favorite novel? :)

[@wunderbarmutti5221]

I teach and must say schools aren’t fully to blame. Teachers have to teach a test which sucks any fun and enjoyment out of learning especially reading. Students read long random passages now and answer questions about it. I would also hate to read if that was my exposure to literature.

[@NARKISDUDE]

are you still lit?

[@conniecrawford5231]

Linnet Husi My consolation is that they edit these lips to use only the uninformed people. Hopefully, there were a lot of people questioned who got "cut" because the COULD name a novel!

[@shryoder]

@@NARKISDUDE lmao.

[@oussamatouhami1409]

I've always wondered whether they edit this out in order to only show the dumb ones! cause these can't be the only ones they interview

[@sammack1890]

Yeah, I live in Los Angeles and I've been asked about "Can you name a country". I'm pretty good at geography and named a lot, but I wasn't featured.

[@hidof9598]

@@sammack1890 , they want to control public perception

[@do9138]

Of COURSE they edit it! They are trying to make a point, so they use what supports that point. You were taught to do the same thing when you were taught to write research papers.

[@gaynormainwaring1853]

I’ve thought that too - pick out the people who will generate the most reaction.

[@wcwright44]

….but, still

[@FreeTheDonbas]

"Name a novel" "the Bible" -an answer so dumb it was unintentionally smart.

[@baluki2]

embarrasing...

[@slaughterhouse5309]

How is this possible?

[@Rougarou99]

‘Merica.

[@Anon54387]

That guy from Boston must be lying. How does one get out of school without reading a novel? Of course the difference is that those who are into books are the ones who watched the Great American Read which is far different from asking random pedestrians on the street in front of his studio. These are two entirely different groups of people who don't overlap.

[@franciscopinto6394]

@@slaughterhouse5309 Well, to answer your questions, I confess I identify with these people in a sense. I too don't read books when information and other forms of media are more readily available. It's fun to shame these people, but let's not make the mistake of assuming a certain intellectual superiority because of it.

[@smiller2044]

@@franciscopinto6394 well one guy said he's reading Fear and the show wanted a non-fiction title. Literacy is not the only form of intelligence, but those asked didn't seem promising bunch.

[@ethansutton2522]

Jesus 😂😂 how have you never read a book

[@pnut3844able]

ethan sutton she's young. Kids don't do hard copy these days

[@vandeolkon]

My kids do! They love to read!! And my son is low vision so he switches from book to an iPad so his eyes don’t hurt.

[@ethansutton2522]

vandeolkon so do I. I love reading books by 8th grade I was reading Stephen king books. My favourite novel has to be Mr. Mercedes by him

[@teamworkformyfrainds]

i've never read a book and im a doctor

[@AlanHope2013]

@jmarks881 You wouldn't be saying that if you'd ever read one voluntarily. So having given away the fact you never have, your opinion becomes worthless.

[@vampireshawn2671]

Bible 😭😭😭

[@worf7271]

Is that the one where they have to destroy a ring on Mount Doom?

[@floorbrown]

most bullshit,harmful book ever

[@EricaShady10171972]

Well...it is fiction.

[@doleo_metal]

Close enough lol

[@sweetboo1022]

Well it is the oldest fiction book in history

[@eco_seasons2002]

I honestly thought that someone was going to say HARRY FREAKING POTTER!!!

[@LaurenWM7]

I weep for humanity.

[@bigdaddybaltimore]

I actually read a lot but I'd be stumped if you asked me this randomly on the street.

[@amnajaved6894]

I do that too. In am interview someone asked me this question and I started to get blank in my mind.

[@samuelburleigh3550]

@@amnajaved6894 With so many famous novels, you can´t think on the top of your head.. War and Peace, The Great Gatsby, Catch-22 etc.?

[@amnajaved6894]

@@samuelburleigh3550 for some odd reason no. It's like the words and names disappear.

[@leonardshevlin7260]

I drew a blank when asked to name as many varieties of apples as I could. I am certain that being on a quiz show would be a greater challenge than coming up with the answers from my couch.

[@NightOwlUtopia]

That just means your mind is badly fragmented.

[@pEAcEgrL81596]

Omg this is such a good one hahahah. I hope the world doesn't think this represents all Americans though :(

[@brandondriver99]

I hope so as well... I think probably 60% of the USA still reads books

[@brandondriver99]

@Tim Dev not necessarily true. There's always 2020

[@bluelambo5]

Yup we all think u can't read now cuz of a segment on a talk show where they clearly cut anybody that read because it disturbed the feel they were going for. Sure.

[@blabhblaja]

Well... Not specifically from this video but...

[@brandondriver99]

@@bluelambo5 hey man, spread good vibes. No need for unnecessary sarcasm

[@worf7271]

Reading is unamerican

[@tonyofarrell2775]

So is thinking

[@Nullifidian]

Damn! I hope they don't take away my passport. Of course, having a passport is un-American too, since it means going to foreign places and having contact with other peoples and cultures.

[@lapislazuli06]

@@LenniL-ob4ll oh man...😂😭

[@grantlinenberger9222]

My favorite novel is youtube comments.

[@dutchgala7492]

Awesome! Read many books a day, yes?

[@Kevin-uz9ik]

My favorite novel is 1984 by George Orwell.

[@isabelerhart9523]

Yes! That's probably my favorite too.

[@jsmith7888]

Read more then

[@homoabsurdus9758]

My man. Love that book as well

[@nikkimoon1533]

Well, nowadays you get the live-in experience. 😆

[@smellydonut5088]

As a bookworm this video sincerely took years off my life lmao

[@dutchgala7492]

Let's make Orwell's *1984* Fiction again

[@anonymousperson3491]

This is less 1984 and more Fahrenheit 451

[@bluepeng8895]

What’s an Orwell?

[@user-wv7vu3ns9v]

Im reading 1984 at the moment!!

[@dutchgala7492]

@@user-wv7vu3ns9v That's great. Certainly have the time. *Everyone Stay Safe. Please.*

[@kimtaekook9965]

I thought u were talking abt captain jeon twt au 😅 Ngl it's one of masterpiece i hv ever read

[@fieke5170]

Can you guys please make a compilation of all the smart people with smart answers who you leave out of the videos? Just so we can all feel a bit better...

[@rjazmine10]

I regret clicking on this video.😒

[@gedihel1]

fahrenheit 451

[@Bidoofus]

GARY HILL That's a really good one

[@bobbykilroy860]

nice! classic

[@47and28]

just off the top of my head: tom sawyer lord of the flies jaws american psycho adventures of Huckleberry Finn catcher in the rye brave new world bram stoker's dracula Mary shelly's frankenstein the exorcist

[@lucasrios9249]

I couldn't get halfway through that book. I don't see how people enjoy reading.

[@bobbykilroy860]

Lucas Rios ending is fire

[@NewMessage]

And we now live in a time when if you asked that question to the President, he'd answer "Ivanka's... She has the cutest belly button ever."

[@bluelambo5]

Ivankas novel? I don't get it

[@bluelambo5]

@@oneduality ah, I didn't know your belly button is called a navel. Probably would have got it if I knew that lol and lmao "if she wasn't my daughter, perhaps I'd date her" lmfao who says that 😂😂😂

[@bluelambo5]

Also you're from Canada, why u stating him as "the president"

[@Bidoofus]

SirVixIsVexed You have no evidence that they are liberals.

[@donb6897]

He's a troll. Don't feed him.

[@aishaniacharya9578]

Stephen King is my all-time favourite author and when I heard that guy say that "Pet Sematary" was his favourite novel, I was low-key excited and then he said that he has seen the movie, but not read the book because it's thick. I was a bit disappointed. Pet Sematary is one of his shorter works. Try reading IT if you don't believe me!(it's an awesome book but took me some time)

[@krasius7019]

The stand is even thicker I guess

[@tropicalday88]

Ouch, well people, you really don't know what you are missing.. Literally. It does explain a lot though. You will learn a lot more about the world reading a novel that you will anything on facebook. If you find the thickness of the book intimidating, give audio books a try. They should of followed up with, do you ever watch PBS... The answers would have been the same.

[@keys2467]

This is just sad. No wonder the rest of the world thinks we're stupid here in America

[@derekviveiros2145]

*Know lmao

[@andreamiller3578]

They'd be running to get away from me. I'd break it down by genre and then start rearranging the ranking depending on mood.

[@manojprabhakar9111]

Robinson Crusoe. I remember day dreaming about it during class and running home after school to pick it up.

[@bahmani00]

The Brothers Karamazov By Fyodor Dostoevsky

[@radeknaprstek3886]

How aproachable is it for a normal reader? I have some respect for Dostoevsky and I fear I will have a tough time to get to his work. I read mostly fantasy, scifi and books about WW2 but I also really enjoyed classical writers like Steinbeck, Salinger, Orwell, Hemingway, Remarque and some others but I never read anything from a Russian author.

[@MoonLaceyButterfly]

Radek Náprstek very much so. Dostoevsky is well known for being the first to write psychological thriller types of novels. Although I haven’t read “The Brothers Karamazov ”, “Crime and Punishment” was a great read and actually a bit laughable in some areas (forgive me if my humor seems a bit crass here).

[@tynakatroberts5117]

Daniel B That's a good one!!

[@Moamanly]

@@radeknaprstek3886 Try Solzhenitsyn's 'One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovitch' or 'August 1914' for size.

[@clothilde1623]

There’s a lot of judgment, intellectual snobbery and one-upmanship on this page. Millions of people don’t enjoy reading and there’s a broad range of reasons why that may be. Some find it difficult due to conditions like dyslexia and ADHD. Some have poor imaginations and prefer mediums such as film where worlds and stories are visualised for them. Many people are made to read books in school that they do not understand or enjoy and it puts them off for life. And many simply prefer different activities. I have always loved reading and am thankful I can appreciate novels the way I do, but others do not and that doesn’t make them stupid or lesser beings.

[@nialapin]

Ugh thank you! I had to scroll down too far to see a comment like this, the people here seriously think they're intellectually superior just because they read some novels. I'd also like to add that some people in the autism spectrum have difficulty reading fiction but may do well reading non-fiction. A lot of people may just lack motivation. Personally I have a lot of trouble following fiction, I can read, but reading and simultaneously trying to imagine what I'm reading can be a bit difficult so it's not enjoyable... also as a child books and reading were a punishment for me so I just don't have anything positive to associate with it to begin with. I'll do somewhat adequately reading something about something I'm interested in but I, for some reason, just cannot get into fiction... I've tried. I have read visual novels in the past though... that was easier for me to get into though they are a bit cumbersome for me to consistently engage in. I don't enjoy reading comic books at all though oddly enough, even with pictures I find them difficult to follow.

[@FounderofGoogle]

My favorite Novel is The Hobbit, read it in HS when the movie was barely being announced

[@darcyliz9993]

Bro.....I never read any Tolkien books (because apparently his books are not available in my place) but with the help of the movies and some loyal and huge Tolkien fans, he became one of my favourite writers.

[@girlfriday9939]

Pick up a book once in a while!!!!!!

[@miguelalejandroquezadamora5764]

1.Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoievski 2. Ulysses James Joyce. 3. Chevengur. Andrei Platonov 4. War and peace. Lev Tolstoy 5. The sound and fury. William Faulkner 6. Blood meridian. Cormac McCarthy 7. Tale of two cities. Charles Dickens 8. Germinal. Emile Zola 9. Life and fate. Vassili Grossman 10. A confederacy of dunces. John Kennedy Toole.

[@AlanHope2013]

This looks like a list of the books you'd like people to think are your favourites. Ulysses? Come on. That wasn't even Joyce's favourite.

[@infiniteee762]

2 mins silence for those... Who thought theyd find their favorite novel here... Ps. Me too😀

[@shrijitahalder]

My favourite novel is Little Women Second favourite is A Christmas Carol Third Favourite is Oliver Twist. I love reading classics!!

[@martinez112820]

Glad I've read books! My favorite novel is The Wizard Of Oz.

[@sirreadsalot786]

Imagine admitting that you don’t read and laughing. How embarrassing and depressing.

[@MiguelGarayStarty]

One hundred years of solitude

[@CT-um7zq]

Yeah, pretty much everything from Garcia Marquez. That guy is a genius.

[@luiserenner7147]

O yes!

[@JoseGranny]

Excellent read. I was 16 when I first read that book. I still remember the colorful images it painted.

[@somekidsmom07]

Absolutely!

[@amnajaved6894]

Ohmg. Yes.

[@ipod9771]

It's upsetting to see how little people read now a days. I'm 24, I just started picking up books again around 2 to 3 years ago. People always give me obnoxious looks and passive aggressive jokes when I'm seen reading or talk about a book I read, as if I'm attempting to act prestigious or something lol. Nothing that truly hurts my feelings or upsets me, I just find it humorous how obsolete people perceive books. Nothing can compare to immersing yourself into the right book for you. There's a story out there for everybody.

[@Phineas1626]

Really appreciate your thoughtful comment. I actually still read a print newspaper and it’s such a novelty I actually have gotten several free cups of coffee from servers.

[@darkale658]

It's happening more than ever that good books get picked up and turned into movies and tv shows. I think reading will become cool again when people start to realize you can read the source material months or years before the tv version comes out.

[@r.22r]

Reading had really fallen out of fashion about ten to fifteen years ago. Thanks to harry potter though, a lot of people got back into reading. Now with booktok ( tiktok book community) a lot of young people are reading (Sad but atleast its promoting a good habit).

[@Leonnie13]

There are too many. That’s why I carry 900 books on my Kobo. Authors I love include Dumas, Sanderson, Shakespeare, Austen, Tolkien, Lewis, Bradbury, Card, and so many more. I can’t name a favorite. Fantasy = Lord of the Rings and the Stormlight series Classic = Pride & Prejudice, As You Like It, The Once and Future King (and anything about King Arthur) and the Count of Monte Cristo Science Fiction: Dune and the Enders Quintet Children: Greta the Strong, and the Hero and the Crown YA: Skyward If I could only read the one book for the rest of my life: The Holy Bible (KJV)

[@नामसंगीति]

crime and punishment by Dostoevsky

[@miguelalejandroquezadamora5764]

Brothers Karamazov is his absolute greatest work. For me is the greatest novel of all time.

[@angelasinger2953]

@@miguelalejandroquezadamora5764 and The Idiot

[@elizabethgutierez5614]

Ouch! The book worm in me felt this like a stab in the heart! My favorite novel would have to be either Pride and Prejudice (I’ve read it 3x) or any of the seven Harry Potter books (read all of them 3x & will probably read them all for a 4th time)

[@darcyliz9993]

I love Jane Austen and P&P is my favourite novel of hers.

[@lilianaohara]

Mine is jane Eyre, and the throne of glass series, and the cruel prince and all the ones you just mentioned

[@elaroden1636]

omg i love pride and predjudice, my favourite by jane austen would be northanger abbey :) and i love the maze runner series and any grishaverse book, especially six of crows

[@addie-eileenpaige6460]

I would've said Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows if this was me.

[@dkrom]

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

[@daniela13]

People, say at least Harry Potter, Twilight, Fifty Shades, The Hunger Games, anything at all!

[@akshaymanta55]

Crime and punishment by Doestovesky

[@PhilMante]

Out of all the novels I've read, probably the outsiders or holes would be my favorite. But the one novel I would highly recommend is Nineteen-eighty-four, that novel is the only one I've ever read front to back that wasn't part of a school curriculum. And as I get older, I can see why education systems don't allow classes to read that one.

[@fairy6430]

Omg same I loveeee the outsiders!

[@Topbottoms]

NOBODY said Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Or even some YA Hunger Games type stuff? Damn...

[@albertandrews130]

good book, Martian Chronicles even better, Foundation better still

[@umbergames8376]

Come on guys y’all know they edit only the stupid answers into the video. If they had a video full of people saying “Norwegian Wood” and “Oh, I’m not into novels but I love ‘Hell is Other People’” that wouldn’t be funny, now would it?

[@AlanHope2013]

What you say is true, but at the same time, it's pretty damning that it's even possible to make an edit like this in one day. How could they get so many idiots who were prepared to stop and be filmed, then sign a release? One guy could think of one title, and he hadn't read it. The rest -- nada. No Harry Potter, no Fifty Shades, no Stephen King, no romance novels, no Hunger Games, no Twilight. Not even the lowest of the low. Nothing. The point is not that a lot of people gave good answers but got cut; the point is that a dozen people couldn't give an answer at all. That's what's shocking.

[@amnajaved6894]

There was a time in my life when I'd read two books per week. Some I don't even remember the names of but I know their stories. It's been two months and I have not read fiction.

[@nikkimoon1533]

Bruh. Harry Potter! 🙄 How come no one mentioned Harry Potter, yet whenever you ask someone who doesn't actually read what their favourite novel is, they say, "The first Harry Potter." 🤣 personally, Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon is my favourite book. That book was action, love story, and so heartbreaking it made my freaking tears cry. 🥺 Very well written.

[@WriterusAeternus]

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

[@ahamedularefin9426]

Mine too

[@zeeblue1220]

Fantastic book, I think that might be my favorite, too.

[@shrukers7057]

I searched for it at so many book store but it's always sold out. So I searched at books even and guess what? It's already out of stock, I wonder if I ever going to get a chance to read it 😔

[@AmbiguousAdventurer]

Interviewer: What's a novel? Woman: A book. Interviewer: So...name a novel? Woman: Umm...the BIBLE? Killed me

[@theagresticreader]

The international book club that I am a part of in Goodreads has the biggest population of readers from America.

[@MaioParlato]

I knew that was coming. But it still hurt. Ouch.

[@kryss187]

I know they selected the few people that don't read to make a joke, but I would be interested in what people they found on the streets did like as their favorite novel

[@neen42]

East of Eden

[@sweiland75]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit which I read when I was a child.

[@peerlessbreton7182]

Yaaay!

[@darcyliz9993]

Yeah....I'm a huge fan of Tolkien too.

[@lindsey5365]

This was a waste of time. I buy 2 novels every month. I read a lot, from Sarah Dessen's great works to Jenny Colgan and her creative and fun cafe novels. Let me never ever forget Mitch Albom and Tuesdays with Morrie because it makes me cry!!!

[@clince-rx2be]

FAVOURITE NOVEL "THE BIBLE".........LOL.ONLY IN AMERICA '

[@12137Marth]

I don't know what saddens me more, that such fellow Americans exist or that television chooses to showcase them as a representation of us 😔

[@237schibe_]

My favorite novel is Catcher in the Rye or The Outsiders

[@MoonLaceyButterfly]

Surprised I haven’t seen a comment for this yet but, “The Great Gatsby” by Fitzgerald.

[@brynn7064]

So many people do not read :( So sad

[@blabhblaja]

I feel so sad for people who don´t read. I enjoy it as much or even more as watching a great movie or watching a riveting Netflix show.

[@derekviveiros2145]

I feel so bad for people who read too much. Their socially awkward

[@blabhblaja]

Not really

[@intimi28]

At least people who read know the difference between their and they're and how to use punctuation. You know, the things that come in handy when writing job application letters, work reports, KZbin comments, etc. Other than that books are great for critical thinking skills, for comprehensive reading skills and for imagination skills, since a reader needs to imagine the story in his mind rather than have it easily presented to them like with movies.

[@cei9514]

@@derekviveiros2145 you know, people who read can usually tell the difference between 'there' and 'their'.

[@derekviveiros2145]

@@cei9514 Tru story lol

[@kaythereader]

I have too many favorites to name, but I loved “The Book of Harlan” and “Sugar” by Bernice L. McFadden.

[@edwardd652]

In Europe we spend all of high school years by reading novels

[@MrBoondock1]

Everybody poops is mine

[@adhhxgxhhg]

I hear its about a big whale.

[@aiai-j7i]

The Gas We Pass

[@dutchgala7492]

@@aiai-j7i "Everyone Boofs"

[@hamishah7816]

The few novels that I have read: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. The lost symbol by Dan Brown. The name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe. I am not an avid fictional reader but I read non-fiction a lot. Philosophy, religion and history are my favourites. It is very sad to see that people are not reading at all.

[@nikkimoon1533]

Oooooh! Some of those are really good (I only know a couple of them). Digital Fortress is my favourite Dan Brown book. I absolutely loved that one. Haven't read The Lost Symbol yet, but I will definitely add these to my tbr pile. I haven't finished The Richest Man In Babylon. Sometimes a book has too many lessons to get through in one sitting and needs time and attention.

[@hamishah7816]

@@nikkimoon1533 Read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown and A case of exploding mangoes by Muhammad Hanif. These two novels, especially the one by Hanif are amazingly written.

[@adityachede8075]

Stephan king 'it '

[@Nullifidian]

Since people are chiming in with their favorite novels, I'll give mine: _The Decameron_ by Giovanni Boccaccio. It's a bit of an anomaly, because it consists of a hundred stories told over ten days by a _brigata_ of seven women and three men, but that frame narrative gives it just enough of an overarching structure for it to be considered a novel. If anyone is interested in checking it out, I highly recommend the Guido Waldman translation published by Oxford World's Classics. The translation is superb and the extensive endnotes are very useful for orienting oneself in Boccaccio's late medieval/early Renaissance world.

[@lacasadipavlov]

Excellent choice!!!

[@danceluver2090]

Mine is The Girl on the Train!

[@olciaszwarc]

Emily Hyland that was literally the worst book I ever read

[@danceluver2090]

Ola Szwarc hahaha I liked it 😂

[@JornBjerregaard]

My favorite will always be Catcher in the Rye. Dont know why. There's just something about that story...

[@conniecrawford5231]

Jørn Bjerregaard it' about teenage angst and is popular for some of the same reasons ""Rebel Without A Cause" is such a compelling movie ( that and James Dean's amazing performance). Coming of age stories are always going to speak to our young people from "Tom Sawyer" to "Mockingbird" ( I shortened the full titles for effect). It's what music does, also.

[@Araf28666]

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

[@SammieMousie]

Still haven't read The Catcher in the Rye but my favorite is East of Eden. I know a lot of people say The Grapes of Wrath is the better of the two novels from Steinbeck but I love East of Eden so much more. Although, I will say this every American should read The Grapes of Wrath. I can't stress enough how relevant that book is to this day and it was written in 1939.

[@stevepseudonym445]

Sometimes I'm not at all bothered to be getting older and closer to the sweet release of death. As we get closer and closer to a full blown real life Idiocracy at least I'll only suffer through the first stages of it.

[@jessika333]

Started thinking to myself I should pick up a freaking book and read once in a while .. Jesus it's sad no one really reads books anymore

[@mariamann8292]

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and the Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

[@sourpatchkid20]

Easy For whom the bell tolls

[@GabyTk10]

I'm in college specializing in communication and literature... I just can't believe it!! The Bible as a novel!? 😤😤 What is a novel? "A book" whaaat!? They could have said something like The Lord of the Rings, The Chronics of Narnia or half of the Hollywood movies that exist now... even 50 Shades of Gray would be valid!!!! So frustrating!!

[@NightOwlUtopia]

Na people like to be stupid... stupid is easier. People prefer to get “fed” facts and literature through television or the internet so they don’t have to do the work and think for themselves.

[@allysonbrucieizard9545]

As a high school English teacher, I have read large portions, if not whole books to my classes, because they do NOT read anything but texts on their phones.

[@intimi28]

You probably shouldn't. How are they ever going to learn if you facilitate them? Why don't you have them read a book and do a test on it that counts for their grade? Part of my high school exam grade was reading 16 books from my own language (Dutch), 12 books for English (mandatory 2nd language), 10 books for French and also 10 for German (the latter two only if you were graduating in these languages). My nephew just told me it's still part of high school exams 22 years later here in the Netherlands.

[@JaneDoe-ci3gj]

I think being read to can be a great introduction to reading.

[@intimi28]

@@JaneDoe-ci3gj, I agree, but more for kids in lower school. Kids in high school should have enough reading skills to read themselves.

[@Xarfax321]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Mostly because I read it as a kid and I get all nostalgic from reading it.

[@loved012one]

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien!

[@mdevres]

This is the same all around the world, ignorance is what unites us..

[@lottiereads]

can we get booktubers to react to this? :D

[@LisaLisa-rl3pm]

It must have taken several takes to find all these geniuses... I mean really!

[@tarzzamz2067]

There's a book for everyone 😊

[@freeloader69]

Slaughterhouse Five

[@captaincaptain2128]

Bram Stoker ' s Dracula

[@patrick247two]

I read 25 novels, more or less, every year. I used to read more, but internet. My favorite novel would be The Algebraist, by Iain M. Banks.

[@OdonataKraft]

Nobody asked me but here's my answer anyway : The Silence of the Lambs. And in German The Perfume.

[@intimi28]

In German: Schachnovelle by Stephan Zweig. It was simple and intricate at the same time.

[@Nullifidian]

My favorite German work, although a novella, is _Der Tod in Venedig_ ( _Death in Venice_ ) by Thomas Mann. It blew me away when I first read it at the age of sixteen and it has lost none of its power in the many times I've reread it since then. _Der Prozeß_ ( _The Trial_ ) and _Das Schloß_ ( _The Castle_ ) by Franz Kafka are effectively tied with Mann's work. I'm especially obsessed with _Der Prozeß_ . Not only do I have the book in the German original and several English translations, but I also have two film versions of it (the one Orson Welles directed with Anthony Perkins in the lead role and the one scripted by Harold Pinter with Kyle MacLachlan in the lead role), a script of a theatrical adaptation by Jean-Louis Barrault and André Gide, an operatic adaptation by Gottfried von Einem, and I've traveled to Munich for the express purpose of seeing it performed at the Münchner Kammerspiele.

[@amnajaved6894]

The perfume is so simple and mind boggling

[@AlanHope2013]

@@intimi28 Zweig is a wonderful author who only wrote one full-length novel but tons of novellas and short stories. I think you must be the only person online or in real life I've ever come across who's even aware of his work, outside of the lit blogs.

[@intimi28]

@@AlanHope2013, I must admit I had to read it for my high school exam for German literature and I purposefully picked thin books for German (I also had to read 16 books for my native Dutch, 12 for English and 10 for French). I was pleasantly surprised by Schachnovelle and have reread it a couple of times in the 22 years since high school.

[@lynnturman8157]

It's a tie: Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

[@beckv8526]

Once I didn't watch TV for 5 yrs and I read lots of books but even my sister doesn't believe me. I've been a book lover since I was a little kid. My fav novels are "Count of Monte Cristo," and "Pride and Prejudice." Oh, and "Dracula."

[@nikkimoon1533]

Omg! Dracula was awesome! Took a while to pick up, but when it did... Hooooo boy! 👀 I could not put it down! Have you read Mary Shelly's Frankenstein? That book is a keeper. An absolutely delightful read. ❤️

[@beckv8526]

@@nikkimoon1533 I haven't, actually. I have the book. I guess now I will. Thanks. Have you read "The Alienist?" Awesome book. Historical fiction of New York.

[@S0mThNgRnDm]

Favorite book: Name of the wind - Patrick Rothfuss

[@keys2467]

that's a good one

[@emmacarazo]

greatt onee

[@BernieYohan]

I’m waiting for another from him.

[@JaskaranSingh-je7tg]

great book, loved the musical and romantic bits.

[@donb6897]

meh.

[@daultonbruner829]

“On the Road” Kerouac/Beat Generation >

[@SimonePhoenix]

Daulton Bruner YES!!! I LOVE that book, have read It countless times 👍🏽

[@jimmwang6050]

Exactly the same as mine. Thanks Daulton Bruner, I was holding a very little possibility scrolling down to see if anyone mentioned this great book.

[@JulianoHuerta]

Shout out to the guy that said Pet Sematary ! lol that's my favorite!

[@Unknown-wv6lg]

If that would have been me I would start giving out a list of novels to read plus rate them 😊😅 Lol

[@GUITARTIME2024]

catch 22, gone with the wind, desert solitaire, roots, david copperfield...

[@azndude963]

“White teeth” by zadie Smith was a Nobel I read repeatedly in college. In high school, “Beloved” confused, challenged, and surprisingly entertained. It was difficult but somehow rewarding to me as a high schooler. I hated anything Charles dickens...they made us read so much of him.

[@bleumarin1968]

I just started reading Swing Time. It's my first book from her.

[@r.fo.839]

I read books quite often but I’m not judging these people... some don’t have the time or are just simply not interested in reading. What’s so bad about that?

[@ishtank]

"I saw the movie. I saw the book too..."

[@meghnareddy7655]

This video wrecked my heart 💔

[@caribelflorentino4985]

I think the book thief. I just remember it moving me to tears and it was just so well written.