I asked 1,000 people what their favourite book is

Hello, my name is Emma, ​​welcome back to my channel. I'm so glad you found your way here. Well, are you okay? Did you find your way here? Okay, now it's time to let you know that you may have been unknowingly participating in a study that I've been studying that I've been doing for a year um this video has been in the works for a whole entire year. I was going to let the study continue a little longer, but I figured that's how it would be. It will be fun to do a whole year of results running the files reviewing the tests cleaning the machines greasing the gears mixing the test tubes burning my eyebrows with the Bunsen burners until the results finally come out and here are your favorite

book

s so I have here the machine that has done it all for us, given us the results, tells us

what

your 20 favorite

book

s are and that machine is my macbook, the sample size is in no way like a random general public if you are into statistics , I'm so sorry, I probably just messed up all the rules for creating a good statistic or creating a good quiz anyway, all these results have been compiled by you beautiful

people

who sent me friend requests on goodreads and if you send me a friend request on Goodreads.

My similar question that you have to answer is

what

is your favorite book or books. I put it in plural because I know you can't decide and neither can I. Then I created a very advanced top of the line premium. optimize the Excel spreadsheet to keep track of all the different books, how many

people

selected those books, what books they are and then organize those books, of course, which ones are the most popular and which books people wrote as

their

favorite book according to my question. In total I got results of 1268, the title says 1000 because it seems a little flashier and more compact, but 1260, what did I say? 1,268 of you participated in the study, so thank you very much, you may be surprised by the results.

Of these, I have the most that I've read, I think I haven't read maybe four or six of the books on this list, but regardless of whether we're going to read all 20, I'm going to stop. the results let's see what they are and I thought this was a very interesting video honestly I would love to do more videos like this and I would love to do more videos like including you guys and getting the things you want and things you say and think about books and stuff like that, I think it's fascinating, so this was just one that I was able to gradually compile like little grains of sand over a whole year, so without further ado, let's get into it, I guess.

I should also give you some other stats from the 1268 people I

asked

, we have 509 unique responses so we have 509 different books, of course a lot of people have voted for the top 20 books, there are a lot of votes there and I'll tell you how. I'm guessing that many votes for each book were one, so we'll start at the bottom of the list and count up to number one, whatever that is. I'm really excited let's do it right so okay number 20 it's the bell jar it's the bell jar by sylvia plath I don't know if we're going to do that little trick every time because it scares me a little bit um I don't want to break the plates Okay, so the bell jar this is the favorite book of 11 people out of those 1268.

I can't say I'm surprised, I actually read the bell jar. I read it. I read it in high school. I haven't read it since high school, so I definitely owe it. to read it again, but this book is extremely popular, extremely famous, it's about a girl named Esther Greenwood and her life, she's growing up, she's writing, she's dealing with a lot of things in her life, she gets sent to different places, she interacts with different People, writing is incredibly difficult. -hitting from what I remember and being so affected by it in high school. I have heard that many people love sylvia place writing what makes them feel, the different ways she achieves that feeling within them and of course following the plight of esther and her journey and especially her analysis of the 1950s and its social attitudes towards female behavior and younger women in particular, is an unflinching depiction of a young person's experience of emotional and psychological distress, so if you haven't read this book, 11 people suggest you do so and I also. yeah okay let's start with chapter one maybe I'll read you the first sentence of each because I think that'll give you a good idea and this one just let me read it chapter one was a weird and sexy summer the summer I Electrocuted the Rosenbergs and I didn't know what I was doing in New York, so that's the bell jar, there's number one.

Okay, let's move on to number 19. Number 19 is Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami. This is a bit. Honestly, I'm surprised this one also has 11 votes. Let me double check. Yes. 11 people also listed it as

their

favorite book of all time. Norwegian wood. I also read this one in high school. I think I actually like the first three. here's something I read in high school and haven't read since I can remember enjoying Norwegian wood. It is also an extremely disturbing and extremely hard-hitting read. We're set in Japan and we follow this man named Toru and his two friends.

There's a lot. From what I remember, there are probably a lot of trigger warnings for this book, so if you want to read it, do your research on it because it was an extremely dense forest, a Norwegian forest to go through if you want, and there's a lot here about relationships. we have toru's friend who he is falling in love with, but they are both affected by the death of his other friend and the man that toru's friend had a relationship with in the past, so you just follow these people and their lives and what is happening at that moment a magnificent combination of the music, mood and spirit of the 60s with the romantic coming of age story of a college student, brilliantly captures the heroic and desperate first love of a young and the first sentence of this I was 37 years old and then I strapped myself into my seat as the huge 747 plunged through a dense layer of clouds as it approached Hamburg airport.

Oh, you basically follow him as he dives into memories of him, takes a trip as he takes a trip through the sky and comes back. to the '60s and stuff like that and Norwegian Wood is of course also a Beatles song, it's a great song, you should check it out if these were some of your favorite book picks, of course this study was completely anonymous, I will not leave. Does anyone say their favorite author is Dan Brown? Are you OK? Feel free to share in the comments if any of these were your favorite books of all time.

Why do you love them so much? Maybe why they weren't your favorite book of all time. You didn't choose these and yes, I think it will be fun to find those people in the comments, so if that's you or any of these, thank you very much and tell us why because I'm sure everyone else would be very interested to know also, okay, number 18 on people's favorite books of all time okay, we don't have enough data to calculate this one, i guess not, it's call me by your name by andre ossiman. I just don't have it, I'm so sorry, so there it is.

I read it too. Call me by your name. I read it in 2020. I actually wasn't the biggest fan of this book at all. I think I gave it. Three generous three stars, this one just didn't work for me, so I'm really excited to find out why it worked for you. 11 people also voted, call me by name, so this is 11 people's favorite book and I do. I really see the appeal. This is also something I call tragic. It is a love story. It's a story about relationships. We are set in Italy. Also, I don't remember what year, but at some point maybe it's also the 1970s, honestly, or the 1980s.

We're following this teenager and every summer he and his family get some sort of exchange student or someone who comes to live with them for a while and this summer a man from America came to stay with them and we follow The relationship between these two men during this summer is more or less later events in their lives. I think a lot of people are just speaking from what they've heard. Not so much from personal experience. They love writing. They love forcefulness again. the way it tugs at your heartstrings takes you right to the heart, of course the movie is probably beautiful, the trailer looks beautiful, I have yet to watch it, I know, this one, for many reasons, didn't work for me . but I know a lot of people love this and find me.

The sequel also appeared on this list several times, but not enough to appear here, so call me by your name. Book number 17 on this list is also one. I've read it and that's The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, so I read this one in high school too. There is definitely a trend here. I need to re-read them because I would appreciate them so much more now. I love the night circus when Read it, I know this one is quite polarizing. I think people seem to either really adore and love the night circus or really hate it.

Finding aimless wandering, too flowery for its own good. Honestly, I don't know which side I would choose. Go ahead and go back and read it now because, like I said, when I read it, I adored it. The Night Circus is about a circus. It appears without warning, suddenly it is there when it was not there before, as you can imagine. This is an extremely magical book. Also, in the background we have a competition between two magicians, Celia and Marco, who are being trained to fight each other and essentially this night circus is a kind of battlefield and there is a lot more going on. of subplots in this book, I remember loving the writing, of course, it's very descriptive and evolves with each scene.

She just takes the utmost care and attention from what I remember to describe everything that you're seeing in this extremely magical world um to me. I just remember it's such a cozy and comforting favorite and of course there's romance too, there's mystery, there's intrigue, there's a lot of suspense, there's a lot of magic, whimsy of course, so that's the night circus and we turned it up a little bit because 12 People mentioned The Night Circus as their favorite book, which is really interesting and the first sentence of The Night Circus begins. The circus comes unannounced so from what I remember I would highly recommend it but I need to re-read it or maybe listen to the audiobook because I think that would be quite an experience too but that's the 16th night circus it's also the book 12 people's favorite and okay, well, it's Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby.

This one I completely get, honestly, I was just skimming. this last night because I haven't read it again in years and I just looked through some of the pages and saw some of the sentences that appeared. Absolutely amazing, this was required reading for me in high school my senior year of high school. in my English class and I liked it back then, but again, if I do it again now, I would be absolutely blown away. The Great Gatsby is about this man named Jay Gatsby and he has recently come into a lot of money, we just had the war and now he is throwing these parties with the sole intention of having a woman named Daisy attend one of these parties.

This is such a beautiful world of the jazz age and everything that's happening right now. story of a fundamentally innocent man drawn to his own destruction through a crush on a girl named Daisy whose voice is full of money um yeah, I'd really love to get my hands on this again. It's quite short. The first sentence begins when I am younger and older. vulnerable years, my dad gave me some advice that I've been mulling over in my mind ever since, so, yes, I highly recommend this one. Number 15 is a book I haven't read or own and that's Daphne's Rebecca. du maurier um yeah so rebecca is number 15 and for rebecca this is 13 people's favorite book which is pretty surprising to me since I know people love daphne du maurier.

I'm someone who has never read Daphne du Maurier, which is very surprising because I think I would absolutely love his work. I know Rebecca is about a woman named Rebecca. It was recently made into a movie, I think, on Netflix and it's about disturbing relationships, presence through absence, relationships, how other relationships haunt those new relationships and just a really chilling story, I think it's gothic, I believe in a story that I'm dying to get my hands on, so if this was your favorite book, please tell me why I'd love to know and yes, that's number 15. Number 14 has 14. upvote this one Favorite book of 14 people I

asked

I just want to ask are you okay?

If this is your favorite book, are you okay? because that book is Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky crime and punishment is your favorite book wow that's amazing um I read Crime and Punishment last year in 2020. It's my firstDostoevsky. I think it was a great starting point for him. It was actually super accessible and I would really like to read it again if you're not familiar with it. mammoth from a super famous super awesome classic, we are following this very poor and ruined young student named raskolnikov and he is meditating on crime and punishment, on who can commit a crime, on the ways, opportunities and moments when it is more beneficial to commit a crime than perhaps restrain yourself.

Returning from it and under the pretext of these meditations also under the pretext of believing himself superior and somewhat above the moral law due to the extreme poverty in which he finds himself, he goes out, commits a crime and the rest of the novel continues. the waves and the consequences of this crime that raskolnikov has committed, so this is one of the books that I sort of like, only there are so many parts that it really turned my stomach and put me in a kind of anxious mood and agitated that definitely put a damper on my mood the whole week I was reading this, so, yeah, just keep that in mind, I guess, because Dostoevsky is miserable, but I guess in the best way possible, so the first sentence of chapter one is early one night during an exceptional night. heat wave in early july a young man came out into the street from the closet type room he was renting robbed arnie's place number 13 has 14 votes um this one also surprised me honestly because it's 1984 by george orwell once again a book i I have not read it and it does not belong to me.

A lot of people have read 1984 and I know they love it, but I didn't think it was a book that, as I know, a lot of people love, but I don't. I think it was going to be a lot of people's favorite book of all time, which is why I was so surprised. 1984, Orwell's famous dystopian about the year 1984 and much of society is controlled. People are very deceived. There are so many things happening. There are very totalitarian governments and regimes and we just follow the consequences of that and what's happening in that society, so that's pretty much all I know about it, the only one or while oh no, I've read Animal Farm, that is. a lie, animal farm was nice here too, but 1984 definitely took the cake, so 14 people apparently absolutely love 1984 with all your heart, so I'm very intrigued and waiting to find out why, well, number 12 too has 14 votes. going for it um IMHO I think this should be the best I think this should be number one um I think this should take the number one spot but okay okay number 12 is 100 Years of Solitude by Gabrielle garcia marquez a round of applause, honestly this is the best book I have ever read in my life, I know I say it all the time, but honestly if you dig into it and read it I hope you discover why it is just Incredible, awesome , spectacular, phenomenal.

Honestly, there is nothing better on earth that I haven't found yet. So 100 years of loneliness. I don't really want to say anything about this book. I came in knowing almost nothing. It was the best possible experience. So very briefly, we just follow the Buendia family, they live in the mythical city of Makondo and around them things are changing, they are not really changing, there are many things, this book is a lot, I just want to say that, I really do. you've done. To commit to this book, you must take your time. I think it requires your utmost concentration, attention and care because not only are there so many characters, but many of them share the same name or variations of the same name, so that part is a little complicated, but I think once you get the hang of it and a family tree is provided which is very useful and which i definitely came back to again and again when i read it, but marquez is writing his conception of time and history and the people in colombia is something out of this world um, it's beautiful, The first sentence of 100 Years of Solitude is absolutely brilliant, but many years later, when Irelian colonel Windia faced the firing squad, he remembered that distant afternoon when his father took him away. to discover the ice, okay, number 11 is little women by louisa may elcott you definitely have a big jump here because little women is 18 people's favorite book 18 different people who love little women i have never read little women or i have read louisa may Alcott then, from what I understand, is such a cozy, wonderful, comforting novel about sisters. um, of course, we have the four March sisters and their different activities, what they want in life, from painting to family to writing to music and things like that, we just follow them. them as they go about their lives um, I have no idea what Louisa May Alcott's writings are like, but I suppose they are beautiful, very homely, very wonderful, very magical, probably in a very mundane way, which is so necessary for many. time so little women are now in the top 10 and this is 19 people's favorite book and it's the song of Achilles it's a song of Achilles by Madeline Miller um I've read this one and I understand it's definitely not one of the All-time favorites for me, but I can totally understand why so many people love this book.

This is a retelling of the Iliad and a reimagining of the Trojan War, mostly through the eyes of Achilles and Patroclus, their relationship, and what happens for them. writing is absolutely beautiful, it's just phenomenal. I highly recommend this book. It's also heartbreaking. It's just beautiful. Honestly, chapter one is my father was a king and the son of kings number nine. Now we are really telling this. 25 people's favorite book. I'm actually quite surprised because, well, you'll see later, but it's Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. I totally understand this one too. I think it is a beautiful, wonderful and surprising book.

I really understand that I haven't. I also read it in years, so I need to reread it and finish it cover to cover, but as the back says, it is a novel of naked emotional power, it is the story of a defiant, fiercely intelligent woman, who refuses to Accept the place you have been assigned. in society and instead finds love on her own terms, there is also so much more in this book of course, we have the gothic mystery, we have so much nature, the descriptions of so many different people and just the beautiful beautiful writing of Charlotte Brontë , so chapter one is there.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day entering number eight, what is number eight? this is also 25 people's favorite book it's the book thief by marcus zusak um i haven't read this one i know it's been on my shelf for a long time really a long time i don't even know where i got this book from. I think maybe it's in my family, but I've never read it, but as you can imagine, it's historical fiction about the Holocaust, World War II, and Liesel picking up a book partially hidden in the snow, which is her first act of theft of books and thus begins a love story with books and words.

Well, the first sentence is just first the colors and then move on to the humans, which they usually are. How I see things or at least how I try here is one small fact: you're going to die, so I really need to address this. I'm not sure if I should listen to the audiobook because I think I might be able to get it. in a copy, but I'm not sure if this is one I want to read myself or what, but anyway it's definitely high up on this list and I was definitely expecting it, honestly, I know a lot of people throw away this book, so that's it the book thief okay number seven is frankenstein is frankenstein by mary shelley i love this book i'm so glad it appeared here frankenstein is 27 people's favorite book i don't think i have to say much about this i think we all know the gist of this story, but if you haven't read it honestly, I think this is a great excuse, a good time, a great sign to pick it up again because it's just beautiful, it's a really, really good book, there's a lot. there, um, I read this last time or yeah, I read it last time in college because we were studying it and it was just phenomenal, crazy, wonderful, brilliant, um, I would die for Mary Jelly Letter One.

You'll be glad to know that no disaster has accompanied the beginning of a company that you have considered with such bad forebodings, so here we go, number six, this one does not surprise me, but it is definitely not a book that would be on my favorite shelf, which I think is really interesting and therefore what is so The list was also very interesting, but it is the secret history of Donna Tartt. This book seems to be loved by everyone. Love. I love this book. I read it a few years ago. I definitely need to read it again, but at the time it was very.

I think there was a lot of hype for me and it didn't really live up to what I wanted. The writing of um donna tartt some of it really captivated me, but the overall story and also how long the secret story is actually left me feeling a little bit. a little boring a little dry a little meandering um but a lot of people love this book this is a book about his dark academia is the dark academia but more than that we're following this man named Richard and he goes to a college in New England yeah and he gets involved with this group of people, they're all just studying ancient greek with their only teacher, jillian, and so richard eventually gets carried away into doing the same thing and then we follow the disastrous accompaniments of too much arrogance, too much arrogance.

Academia influences people's lives by making them think they are superior to others and what follows these feelings. The first sentence is that the snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we realized the seriousness of our situation. Next up is a bit surprising, we are now at number five and this book is 30 people's favorite book of all time. Apparently this is also, I think, the last one on this list that I haven't read, but it's on my list. shelf clearly and I don't know, do you have any guesses, I just didn't expect it, I didn't think, I don't know, here it is, it's a little life by hanya yanigahara, this is the book that everyone says it just hurts so much it hurts like no other book has heard before has it hurt or will it ever hurt again um I really don't know what to expect.

I've tried to avoid much of the discussion around this book because I think this is one I want to know very little about before getting into it. What I do know is that we are continuing. I think four college students broke up and encouraged each other just because of friendship and ambition. And at the center of it all is a man named. Jude, I think he's the one we're mainly following, so we just follow what happens with them. I know this book is about so much trauma that many people have told me very kindly and kindly to be careful with this and I would advise you to do the same because what I have heard so far I haven't addressed yet, it really can be a lot to understand depending on what I've heard, so that's all I know, but 30 people loved it enough to say it was their favorite book of all time, so it must be life-changing.

Apartment number 11 had only one closet, but it had a sliding glass door that led to a small balcony where I could see a man. sitting across the road outdoors and just a t-shirt and shorts even though it was October smoking, this is the one I'm really happy with, it's so high up but I didn't expect it either, this is number four and 31 people They said this was their favorite book of all time and I really agree that it is Wuthering Heights. In fact, I'm surprised Wuthering Heights ranks above Jane Eyre. That's not what I expected. In fact, I thought a lot more people liked Jane Eyre than Wuthering Heights, but Regardless, the Brontë sisters are definitely here to steal everyone's hearts.

I love stormy heights. Really, really. I can't wait to read it again. Score this copy and fall in love with it all over again. It is the story of Catherine and Heathcliff. I just love it I love it so much the gothic the atmosphere the tragedy the creepy the ghost the pain the heartbreak it's just wonderful chapter one is 1801. I just got back from a visit to my landlord, the lonely neighbor I'll have problems with we're among the top three, these were what I expected, they didn't, regardless, number three has 41 votes for people's favorite book of all time, it's Harry Potter, Harry Potter, this is a book I haven't read with my my own hands in quite some time, of course, I have the entire series, they are at the top of my bookshelf right now, we are all having a pretty difficult time dealing with our love for this series at the moment, however be.

It's impossible to deny the impact the series has had on many of us, especially in our formative years. 41 people, this is your favorite book, probably the series in general too, not just harry potter and the philosopher's stone, but it's been so long since I picked these up again, I think what I'd really like to do next time reading them is really going into depth and I would really like to go into it and reallysee more of what's there and try it. I like to analyze Harry Potter like I would a classic novel of literature and things like that, and I think it would be really interesting, especially knowing now what we do and what we, unfortunately, have known for a while about the author of this book . this comes in at number three, it really doesn't surprise me, honestly, this book of course had such a huge effect on me and as I've grown up, it's been a constant source of comfort, magical strength, honestly, and it's just a huge amount from the people's happy place so that's harry potter number three okay number two number two to the 43 people this time they voted for this is pride and prejudice pride and prejudice by jane austen is the favorite book of 43 people this I understand that it is not my favorite shelf but like it's one of the most beloved classics, at least one of them, and I really understand, jane austen definitely falls back into that category of comfort, comfort, happiness and a happy place, pride and prejudice, I think It's my favorite of the Jane Austen novels that I've read, so I definitely get it and it's very funny, quite quirky, very charming, brilliant and the first sentence is, of course, it's a universal truth.

I recognized that a single man in possession of a great fortune he must be in need of a wife. Number two brings us to number one. Let me prepare this dramatic revelation for you. People's number one favorite book in this survey. 51 people. They've listed it as their favorite book 51 um, which is pretty surprising, I get it because this book is on my favorite shelf, okay, without further ado, let's do it. Can I have a can? Give me a drum roll. It's a photo of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. this is number one this is number one um with 51 people yeah I definitely agree this is one of my favorite books from last year one of my favorite books of all time I think this classic honestly lives up to them all Oscar Wilde's expectations I simply went places I had never seen anyone go before with their writing.

I cried through this book because of how beautiful the language was, it was such, oh my god, it was wonderful to watch it work and to like it. Look what he does in the picture of Dorian Gray. I highly recommend it if you have not yet had the opportunity to read this book in your life. I truly think do yourself a favor right now and get it if you can because it's absolutely gorgeous. simply wonderful chapter one the study was filled with the rich smell of roses and when the light summer wind stirred and admitted the trees of the garden, the heavy aroma of lilacs entered through the open door, the most delicate perfume of thorn pink in bloom, everything The book is like that, I promise you that the whole book is like that, he just takes a lot of care in every sentence for beauty and it's just beautiful, the most beautiful book, the most beautiful writing, I think that too and it's just beautiful, so that's number one. and here it is, thank you all very much for participating in this study.

If any of these are your favorite books, definitely let me know if they made the list. If they made it to the list. I think it was super fun. I would. I love doing more results videos because like I said, it took a long time and I have a lot of results. Like I said, there are 509 different workbooks compiled into this poor Excel spreadsheet, it's a mess, honestly I hope this is great. fun super interesting I'm going to go wash my plate now if you have any ideas of what you would like to see or what you would like me to do with the rest of the information and the rest of the data please let me know because I would love to have any ideas .

I hope it goes well for you and I hope you have some good book recommendations because these were your recommendations. I'll see you very soon in the next video, ciao.