Thanks to everyone who participated in our 360° of Books campaign. We made it! 360+ of you have told us your favorite books. Over 240 individual book titles were nominated as favorites. Looking for something to do over Winter Break? Well, start reading some of these UWGB favorites!
For a quick look, here are the Top 20 Favorite Books:
The Top 20 range from classic books you read in school (To Kill A Mockingbird), childrens’ & parents’ favorites (Good Night Moon), to more recent contemporary books (Harry Potter, The Hunger Games), and even “hot off the shelf” (Fifty Shades of Grey). Publication dates of the Top 20 run from 1813 to 2011.
On the full list of books, we noticed author trends. Many authors had more than one book nominated–as an example, George Orwell had two books in the Top 20. Here’s a list of authors that had more than one book nominated. In parentheses is the number of books:
(4) John Green
(4) John Steinbeck
(3) Neil Gaiman
(3) Jodi Picoult
(3) Philip Roth
(3) David Sedaris
(3) Dr. Seuss
(3) William Shakespeare
(2) Willa Cather
(2) Jeffrey Eugenides
(2) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(2) Cormac McCarthy
(2) Stephenie Meyer
(2) Toni Morrison
(2) Barack Obama
(2) George Orwell
(2) Ayn Rand
(2) J.D. Salinger
(2) Nicholas Sparks
(2) J.R.R. Tolkien
(2) Mark Twain
(2) Kurt Vonnegut
(2) David Foster Wallce
A couple of other interesting notes about the authors: two are sisters: Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre) and Emily Bronte (Wuthering Heights), and two are brother and sister: David Sedaris (Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, Holidays on Ice, Me Talk Pretty One Day) and Amy Sedaris (I Like You).
Want to know more? Here’s the full list of books that were nominated for 360° of Books:
Full List of Books (alphabetical order)
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2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
After the Dancing Days – Margaret I. Rostkowski
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
All My Friends are Dead – Avery Monsen & Jory John
All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
American Gods – Neil Gaiman
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
The Angel’s Game – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – Barbara Kingsolver
Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne
Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama
The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X
B
Beauty – Robin McKinley
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Berserk – Kentaro Miura
Better Not Get Wet, Jesse Bear – Nancy White Carlstrom
Bhagavad Gita
The Bible
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Bitten – Kelly Armstrong
Blankets – Craig Thompson
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
The Boxcar Children – Gertrude C. Warner
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut
Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown
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Candide – Voltaire
The Cat in the Hat – Dr. Seuss
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom – Bill Martin, Jr. & John Archambault
A Child Called It – Dave Pelzer
The Children of Sanchez – Oscar Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
Clockwork Angel – Cassandra Clare
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Coldest Winter Ever – Sister Souljah
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
Consider the Lobster – David Foster Wallace
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
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Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
Divergent – Veronica Roth
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance – Barack Obama
The Dresden Files – Jim Butcher
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim – David Sedaris
Dune – Frank Herbert
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East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Ella Enchanted – Gail Carson Levine
Elsewhere – Gabrielle Zevin
Enders Game – Orson Scott Card
Eragon – Christopher Paolini
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
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Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser
The Fault in our Stars – John Green
Faust – Goethe
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
Fifty Shades of Grey – E L James
Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Franny & Zooey – J.D. Salinger
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A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
The Giver – Lois Lowry
The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
Gomorrah – Roberto Saviano
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Green Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss
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Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
Hildilid’s Night – Chelie Duran Ryan
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
His Dark Materials triology – Philip Putnam
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Holes – Louis Sachar
Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris
Homeland – R.A. Salvatore
The Host – Stephenie Meyer
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
House Rules – Jodi Picoult
Human Stain – Philip Roth
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
Hush, Hush – Becca Fitzpatrick
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
I Like You – Amy Sedaris
Identical – Ellen Hopkins
Ill Fares the Land – Tony Judt
The Incredible Journey – Sheila Burnford
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin – Erik Larson
The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
J
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
John Donne’s poetry
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke
Journey to the West
K
The Kama Sutra
The Keys of the Kingdom – A.J. Cronin
Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City – Kirsten Miller
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
L
Left to Tell – Immaculee Ilibaziga
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Lewis Barnavelt Series – John Bellairs
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Life on the Color Line – Gregory H. Williams
A Light in the Attic – Shel Silverstein
The Little Engine That Could
Looking for Alaska – John Green
The Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love You Forever – Robert Munsch
M
Maniac Magee – Jerry Spinelli
Martin & Malcolm & America – James H. Cone
Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
The Maze Runner – James Dashner
Message in a Bottle – Nicholas Sparks
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
A Million Little Pieces – James Frey
My Antonia – Willa Cather
My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
Monkeewrench – P.J. Tracy
A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
N
Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
The Namesake – Juhmpa Lahiri
Netherland – Joseph O’Neill
Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult
The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks
O
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Oh, The Places You’ll Go – Dr. Seuss
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
Othello – William Shakespeare
P
A Painted House – John Grisham
Paper Towns – John Green
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
La Peste (The Plague) – Albert Camus
A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Playing for Keeps – multiple book titles
The Polar Express – Chris Van Allsburg
PostSecret books – Frank Warren
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Prince – Machiavelli
The Princess Bride – William Goldman
The Prophet – Khalil Gibran
Puddle Duck – Louis Ross
Q
R
Rain Fall – Barry Eisler
Rayuela – Julio Cortazar
The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
Running with Scissors – Augusten Burroughs
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The Sandman – Neil Gaiman
Saving June – Hannah Harrington
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Life of Lobsters – Trevor Corson
See, I Told You So – Rush Limbaugh
Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work – Matthew B. Crawford
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Smashed: The Story of a Drunken Girlhood – Koren Zailckas
Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
The Southern Vampire Mysteries (aka The True Blood series) – Charlaine Harris
The Starman – James Robinson
Still Alice – Lisa Genova
The Story of My Life – Helen Keller
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A, Heinlein
Stuff White People Like – Christian Lander
Swamplandia! – Karen Russell
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The Tao of Wu – the RZA
Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
The Thornbirds – Colleen McCullough
Three Comrades – Erich Maria Remarque
The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Travels with Charley: In Search of America – John Steinbeck
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
Tree of Smoke – Denis Johnson
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel: A Novel of War and Survival – Louise Murphy
The Truth About Forever – Sarah Dessen
Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle – Clamp
Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
The Twenty-One Balloons – William Pene du Bois
Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
U
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption – Laura Hillenbrand
Under the Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes
V
The Vampire Diaries series – L.J. Smith
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
W
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
Will Grayson, Will Grayson – John Green & David Levithan
Wind, Sand, and Stars – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The World is Round – Gertrude Stein
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
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Z
Z for Zacharia – Robert C. O’Brient
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig