Bible Remains America's Favorite Book

The Bible Remains America's Favorite Book

Gone with the Wind and the Harry Potter series are 2nd and 3rd favorites

Harris Interactive: 4.29.2014

There's always one. It might be something you remember fondly from when you were a child. Or, it could be one that just resonated with you years after your first experienced it. For some, it could the one that surprised them the most. That "one" is a favorite book, and with people reading in so many different ways today, it's interesting to see what America's favorite book is. This year, same as in 2008 when The Harris Poll last asked this question, the number one book is The Bible, followed by Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. Moving up one spot on the list to number three is J.K. Rowling's tales of the young wizard in the Harry Potter series. Rounding out the top five favorite books are another series - J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which drops one spot to number four - and Harper Lee's coming of age classic To Kill a Mockingbird, which moves up two spots to number five.

These are some of the results of The Harris Poll® of 2,234 U.S. adults surveyed online between March 12 and 17, 2014.

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Different Second Favorites

Across all the various demographic groups, The Bible is the number one book, but there are definitely differences in the second favorite. Men go to fantasy, with The Lord of the Rings series being their second favorite, while for women it's all about the Southern charm in Gone with the Wind. There is also a generational difference, with Millennials' second favorite being the Harry Potter series while for Gen Xers it's The Lord of the Rings series. Both Baby Boomers' and Matures' second favorite is Gone with the Wind.  READ MORE !

	2008	2014
The Bible	1	1
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell	2	2
Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling	4	3
The Lord of the Rings (series) by J.R.R. Tolkien	3	4
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee	7	5
Moby Dick by Herman Melville	*	6
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger	10	7
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott	*	8
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck	*	9
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald	*	10