Book Recommendations and Reviews | BOOK RIOT » Forum http://bookriot.com Mon, 03 Aug 2015 15:27:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 How Do You Track Your Reading? http://bookriot.com/2015/07/28/how-do-you-track-your-reading/ http://bookriot.com/2015/07/28/how-do-you-track-your-reading/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2015 10:37:12 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=82629 We’re all about the stats here at the Riot, so many of us keep track of the books we read and record all kinds of information about them. And we’re wondering if you do the same! In this month’s reader poll, … Continued

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We’re all about the stats here at the Riot, so many of us keep track of the books we read and record all kinds of information about them. And we’re wondering if you do the same! In this month’s reader poll, we want to know if you track your reading, and if so, how.

Complete the form below by Tuesday August 4th to have your responses recorded in the final tally. We’ll crunch the numbers and report back about Riot readers’ book-tracking habits.

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The 10 Scariest Books You’ve Read http://bookriot.com/2015/07/16/10-scariest-books-youve-read/ http://bookriot.com/2015/07/16/10-scariest-books-youve-read/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:41:14 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=82081 The hot weather has had us in the mood for chilling thrills, so in our latest reader poll, we asked about the scariest books you’ve ever read. We know it’s tough to choose, so we allowed each reader to choose up … Continued

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The hot weather has had us in the mood for chilling thrills, so in our latest reader poll, we asked about the scariest books you’ve ever read. We know it’s tough to choose, so we allowed each reader to choose up to three books. 931 intrepid souls took the survey, sharing 507 unique titles (see the full data set here). One thing’s for sure: y’all sure do love Stephen King.

Without further ado, the top 10 books that will make you sleep with all the lights on.

  1. The Shining by Stephen King (199 votes)
  2. It by Stephen King (176)
  3. Salem’s Lot by Stephen King (102)
  4. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty (99)
  5. Pet Sematary by Stephen King (94)
  6. House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski (78)
  7. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (74)
  8. The Stand by Stephen King (41)
  9. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (39)
  10. Bird Box by Joshua Malerman (36)

Coupla thoughts on the results: Stephen King is a powerhouse prolific writer with several decades under his belt, a proven track record, and oodles of marketing dollars behind him. That he dominates here is no surprise. Bird Box is a relatively new release, but it’s a house favorite that we crowed about (see what I did there) over and over last year, so it’s fun to see that readers were listening and getting super creeped out with us. If there was going to be just one woman on this list, it was bound to be Shirley Jackson, but ohhhhh how I wish she weren’t alone.

If the results of this poll are any indication, those of us who love scary stories would do well to diversify the authors we choose. Know of great horror stories by women, people of color, or queer writers? Share your recs in the comments!

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Check out other Riot polls:

Book Riot Readers’ 50 Favorite Novels

The 25 Most-Hated Books (by Book Riot Readers)

19 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read FOREVER

20 Books You Pretend to Have Read

Top 10 Books You’re Embarrassed to Admit You’ve Read

20 Most-Loved Literary Characters

Are These the 13 Most Underrated Books?

20 Books You Love to Give as Gifts

Your 25 Favorite Authors of Color

The Book Riot 2013 Reading Habits Survey

The Great TBR Poll: Results

The Top 17 Books That Make You Feel Dumb

The Great Book Budget Poll

The 35 Most Powerful Books You’ve Read

The Great Audiobook Survey

Your 25 Favorite Books from Assigned Reading

Do You Read Comics?

Your 10 Favorite Movies Based on Books

The Great 2014 Reading Habits Survey Results

Where Did You Get the Last Book You Read?

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What better way to cope with the summer heat than read something truly chilling? In this month’s Riot reader poll, we want to know about the scariest books you’ve ever read. You know, the ones that kept you up all night with the lights on.

Share up to 3 favorite freaky reads in the form below by Wednesday, June 24th, and we’ll tally up the top picks.

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Where Did You Get the Last Book You Read? : Reader Poll Results http://bookriot.com/2015/05/20/get-last-book-read-reader-poll-results/ http://bookriot.com/2015/05/20/get-last-book-read-reader-poll-results/#comments Wed, 20 May 2015 10:36:55 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=79338 We’ve talked big-picture reading habits a lot around here, so in our latest reader poll, we decided to get specific and ask, simply, where did you get the last book you read? Over a two-week period, 1,953 Riot readers shared the … Continued

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We’ve talked big-picture reading habits a lot around here, so in our latest reader poll, we decided to get specific and ask, simply, where did you get the last book you read?

Over a two-week period, 1,953 Riot readers shared the origin of their most recent read. The question was open-ended–readers could write in anything–so I went through all the responses and grouped them into the most common categories. Bear in mind these results can’t be used to tell us anything about ALL Book Riot readers’ habits, or about these particular readers’ broader preferences. This is a one-day snapshot of this group’s book sources in the two-week period the poll was open, and we shouldn’t attempt to generalize the results.

Okay. Those are the caveats. Now here’s the breakdown!

last book results

Having fun’s not hard when you’ve got a library card, and there’s no doubt Riot readers know that song–a whopping 923 of the 1,953 respondents got their last book at the library. The big A slides in a distant second with 261 respondents, followed by indie bookstores with 177.

127 readers said they got the last book they read from a chain bookstore (Barnes and Noble, Waterstones, and Chapters were the most common), and an additional 25 readers specifically mentioned getting their books from a chain bookstore’s website or online platform (i.e. Nook). And speaking of digital platforms, 30 readers’ most recent reads came from an ebook subscription service like Scribd or Oyster.

After the big names came a whole bunch of smaller ones, as 116 readers reported getting their latest book through various online retail sources, and 111 from used bookstores.

For 75 readers, the last book they read was a gift or was borrowed/shared from family or friends. Of the 61 readers who got their books straight from the publisher or author, many indicated receiving digital galleys and participating in early reviewer programs, while only 3 stated that they purchased their book directly from the publisher.

The “miscellaneous retail” category encapsulates the 47 readers who got books at non-book-focused retail outlets like Target, Costco, and Tesco.

I’m interested in and excited by the results, particularly by the strong showing for libraries, which does seem consistent with the large number of readers who told us that they bought relatively few of the books they read in 2014 in this other poll (and who, I must note, could be totally different people than the ones who responded this month). What are your thoughts and questions? Any surprises?
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Where Did You Get the Last Book You Read? http://bookriot.com/2015/05/05/get-last-book-read/ http://bookriot.com/2015/05/05/get-last-book-read/#comments Tue, 05 May 2015 10:35:55 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=78668 This month’s reader poll is as straight-forward as it looks. All we want to know is: where did you get the last book you read? Share your answer in the form below by 11:59pm, Sunday, May 17th to be included … Continued

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This month’s reader poll is as straight-forward as it looks. All we want to know is: where did you get the last book you read?

Share your answer in the form below by 11:59pm, Sunday, May 17th to be included in the final tally.

To help us get the most accurate info possible, please be as specific as you can. If you purchased the last book you read from a bookstore, please indicate whether it was a chain store (and if so, which one) or an indie or a used bookstore, etc. If you purchased online, please indicate where.

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The Great 2014 Reading Habits Survey: The Results http://bookriot.com/2015/03/26/great-2014-reading-habits-survey-results/ http://bookriot.com/2015/03/26/great-2014-reading-habits-survey-results/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:36:48 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=75876 In our first reader poll of 2015, we got all kinds of curious about your reading habits last year. 2511 awesome Riot readers responded, and it took us a while to dig through all the juicy data. And we’re still going! This post presents the reading … Continued

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In our first reader poll of 2015, we got all kinds of curious about your reading habits last year. 2511 awesome Riot readers responded, and it took us a while to dig through all the juicy data. And we’re still going! This post presents the reading and spending habits of the Riot readers who responded to the survey.

Before we dig in, it’s important to know that we have no way of knowing how representative (or not) the readers who opted in to this survey are of the general Book Riot audience, and no way of verifying these self-report numbers. But we trust our readers and have no reason to think they would lie in an anonymous survey, so. Let’s do this!

How many books did you read in 2014?

2014 reading habits

2486 usable responses

Range: 1-805

Mean: 69.93 (rounded up to 70)

Median: 55

Mode: 30

So, more readers reported reading 30 books than any other quantity, and the readers right in the middle of the group reported 55. The average was driven up by some outliers.

Check out the full distribution:

how many books read 2014

You get the general idea above, but here’s a look at what happens when we remove the 86 readers who reported reading more than 200 books last year. This makes it much easier to see the spike at 30 and the clustering around other round numbers, as well as how the number of readers reporting a quantity tends to decrease as the quantity of books increases.

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Now let’s talk about format!

Did you read any ebooks in 2014?

2467 responses

read any ebooks 2014

The proportion of Book Riot readers who read any ebooks is up over 2013’s 74.9% response. Both are remarkably higher than the 28% rate for the general American adult population (per the Pew Research Center’s 2013 study).

Did you listen to any audiobooks in 2014?

2449 responses

2014 audiobook listening

What percentage of your 2014 reading was in print? Ebooks? Audiobooks?

2393 responses

2014 reading formats

On average the Book Riot readers in this survey did 64.17% of their reading in print, 27.83% in ebooks, and 7.55% with audiobooks.

Also interesting: 348 readers (14.5%) reported reading exclusively in print; 45 readers (1.8%) reported reading exclusively ebooks; and 4 readers (0.17%) reported reading exclusively with audiobooks. So, only 16.47% of these Book Riot readers read exclusively in one format, and the vast majority use some combination of print, ebooks, and audiobooks.

Of all the books you read in 2014, what percent did you buy or pay for in some way (i.e. through a subscription service)?

 

2014 books bought pie2366 usable responses

Range: 0-100%

Mean: 47.76%

The largest pieces of the pie come from readers who bought very few (0-9%) of the books they read last year (512) and readers who bought almost all (90-99%) or all (100%) of the books they read last year (281 and 274, respectively, for a total of 555). A look at the distribution shows how pronounced the spikes at each end of the spectrum are.

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Okay, now let’s talk cash.

How much did you spend on books in 2014?

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2261 usable responses

Mean: $428.98

Median: $200

Mode: $200

Here’s the whole distribution, which is so affected by a few outliers that it’s basically useless to us.

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We can get a better look at what’s going on by removing the 19 readers who reported spending more than $2,000.

2014 book spend no outliers

Exactly 100 readers reported spending $0 on books in 2014. From there, we can see the spike at $200 (the mode, reported by 223 readers) and other round numbers. In self-report surveys like this, we often see clustered responses at round numbers, which I suspect comes from readers who do not track their spending down to the dollar estimating instead. (For instance, 2 readers reported spending $49; 143 readers reported spending $50.)

Any thoughts or questions? Where do your habits fall in relation to these averages?

Stay tuned for the next installment of survey results, in which we’ll look at where Riot readers get their books!
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The 2014 Reading Habits Survey http://bookriot.com/2015/01/19/2014-reading-habits-survey/ http://bookriot.com/2015/01/19/2014-reading-habits-survey/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:35:43 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=74173 It’s that time again, friends! Dig out your reading journal, your Goodreads account, your bank statements, and your Spidey senses, and tell us about what your 2014 reading life was like. Complete the form below by Sunday, January 25th to have your responses … Continued

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It’s that time again, friends! Dig out your reading journal, your Goodreads account, your bank statements, and your Spidey senses, and tell us about what your 2014 reading life was like.

Complete the form below by Sunday, January 25th to have your responses included in the final tally. We’ll crunch the numbers and come back with a big, delicious look at the data.

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Book Riot Readers Name the Best Books of 2014 http://bookriot.com/2014/12/15/book-riot-readers-best-books-of-2014/ http://bookriot.com/2014/12/15/book-riot-readers-best-books-of-2014/#comments Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:36:50 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=73071 This month’s poll is sponsored by Kobo. Kobo has over 4 million eBooks in dozens of categories – from bestsellers to indie breakouts, plus world-class eMagazines and over 100,000 kids’ titles. And with the free Kobo App, you can read right on … Continued

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Team Riot shared our great big list of favorite books of 2014 a few weeks ago, and now we get to reveal the results from our reader poll!

554 Riot readers submitted their picks for best books of 2014, naming 416 unique titles. (We allowed each reader up to three selections because let’s be real, who can ever pick just one?) You can see the full list here. After narrowing it down to books that got at least 20 votes, we came up with this set of 12. Here we go!

1. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (110 votes)

2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (77)

3. The Martian by Andy Weir (76)

4. An Untamed State by Roxane Gay (37)

5. (tie) The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell and Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (33 votes)

7. Yes Please by Amy Poehler (31)

8. (tie) The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin and We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (27)

10. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay (26)

11. The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer (24)

12.Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson (21)

What do you think? Did your favorites make it? Any surprises?

 

 

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What Are the Best Books of 2014? http://bookriot.com/2014/12/03/best-books-2014/ http://bookriot.com/2014/12/03/best-books-2014/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:35:00 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=72523 This month’s poll is sponsored by Kobo. Kobo has over 4 million eBooks in dozens of categories – from bestsellers to indie breakouts, plus world-class eMagazines and over 100,000 kids’ titles. And with the free Kobo App, you can read right on … Continued

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It’s that time of year, Riot readers! We’re hard at work on our 2014 favorites here at HQ, and we want to hear from you as well. It was another rad year in reading, so we’re giving you up to 3 picks each. Submit your selections by Wednesday, December 10th to have them included in the final count.

A few guidelines:

  1. The book must have been first published in 2014.
  2. There is no restriction on genres, publishers, formats, etc.
  3. Enter each title only once. Repeat entries by the same user will be deleted and only the first entry will be counted.
  4. Play by the honor code. This isn’t a promotional opportunity; please don’t attempt to use it as one.

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Your 10 Favorite Movies Based on Books http://bookriot.com/2014/12/01/10-favorite-movies-based-books/ http://bookriot.com/2014/12/01/10-favorite-movies-based-books/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:34:05 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=72408 This month’s poll is sponsored by Kobo. Kobo has over 4 million eBooks in dozens of categories – from bestsellers to indie breakouts, plus world-class eMagazines and over 100,000 kids’ titles. And with the free Kobo App, you can read right on … Continued

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Tis the season of big book-to-movie adaptations, so in our latest reader poll, we asked about your favorite adaptations. 715 Riot readers answered the call and listed 421 movies. For purposes of clarity, all mentions of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings were grouped together, as many readers did not specify whether they were referring to the whole series or a specific film within it. Check out the top 10 below, and see the full response count here.

Did your favorites make it? Any surprises?

1. The Harry Potter series (134 votes)

2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (111)

3. To Kill a Mockingbird (98)

4. The Princess Bride (87)

5. Gone With the Wind (58)

6. The Shawshank Redemption (54)

7. The Hunger Games (43)

8. Pride and Prejudice (respondents did not specify which version) (39)*

9. The Godfather (38)

10. Fight Club (36)

*There were 21 votes specifically for the 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice and 7 votes for the 1995 version.

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Check out other Riot polls:

Book Riot Readers’ 50 Favorite Novels

The 25 Most-Hated Books (by Book Riot Readers)

19 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read FOREVER

20 Books You Pretend to Have Read

Top 10 Books You’re Embarrassed to Admit You’ve Read

20 Most-Loved Literary Characters

Are These the 13 Most Underrated Books?

20 Books You Love to Give as Gifts

Your 25 Favorite Authors of Color

The Book Riot 2013 Reading Habits Survey

The Great TBR Poll: Results

The Top 17 Books That Make You Feel Dumb

The Great Book Budget Poll

The 35 Most Powerful Books You’ve Read

The Great Audiobook Survey

Your 25 Favorite Books from Assigned Reading

Do You Read Comics?

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What’s Your Favorite Movie Based on a Book? http://bookriot.com/2014/11/17/whats-favorite-movie-based-book/ http://bookriot.com/2014/11/17/whats-favorite-movie-based-book/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:36:05 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=71990 This month’s poll is sponsored by Kobo. Kobo has over 4 million eBooks in dozens of categories – from bestsellers to indie breakouts, plus world-class eMagazines and over 100,000 kids’ titles. And with the free Kobo App, you can read right on … Continued

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The season of Big Awards–for both books and movies–is quickly approaching, so we thought we’d combine them for this month’s reader poll. This time around, we want to know about your favorite movies based on books. These can be direct adaptations, loose “inspired by” interpretations, or, really, just about anything. If it’s a movie with any pieces that were first a book or short story, it’s fair game. It’s a tough question, so we’ll let you pick up to 3.

Submit your answers in the form below by Monday, November 24th. We’ll tally the results and share them soon.

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Do You Read Comics?: Poll Results http://bookriot.com/2014/10/30/read-comics-poll-results/ http://bookriot.com/2014/10/30/read-comics-poll-results/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2014 10:34:44 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=71295 This month’s poll is sponsored by Kobo. Kobo has over 4 million eBooks in dozens of categories – from bestsellers to indie breakouts, plus world-class eMagazines and over 100,000 kids’ titles. And with the free Kobo App, you can read right on … Continued

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Comics are having something of a moment. There are a floppity jillion comic book adaptations on the slate; people who have never read comics before are giving them a shot; and there’s been a real shift in the cultural conversation around the medium. We’re excited about it (which is why, you know, we recently launched a comics site called Panels), so we got curious about how many Riot readers are into comics as well.

530 Riot readers responded to the poll. Let’s have a look! And remember: the data are most likely not representative of all Riot readers. Folks who are into comics are more likely to opt into a survey of this nature, and a whole host of other factors could also affect responses.

Have you ever read a comic?

523 responses

ever read a comic

Yes: 505

No: 18

Have you read any comics this year?

522 responses

read comics 2014

Yes: 488

No: 34

How many comics/series do you read regularly?

508 responses

Range: 0-75

Mean: 5.3

Median: 3

Mode: 0

comics reading habits

This is where it gets interesting. Most readers report that they have read at least one comic this year, but more than 22% (116) reported that they don’t read any comics regularly. Of readers who do keep up with some comics/series, most read 20 or fewer comics regularly. Is that a lot? A little? Are these readers who make casual forays into comics? I have questions! It’ll be fascinating to see how this stacks up with the survey we’ll do of Panels readers someday.

Here’s a closer look at the spread without the outliers who reported keeping up with 21 or more comics on a regular basis. It’s interesting to see the little spikes at 10 and 15, and I wonder how much of that has to do with readers guesstimating and rounding.

comics habits without outliers

In which format(s) do you read comics?

This was an open-ended item that allowed readers to enter any and all formats in their own words. Rather than providing pre-selected formats for readers to choose from, we identified the most common responses and divided the data into the groups you see below.

503 responses.

comics formats

Print: 453

Digital: 237

Webcomics: 15

Readers reporting multiple formats: 195

Print comics–both issues and trade paperbacks (which were grouped together for this poll because we did not ask readers to specify preference)–are clearly the dominant format, but digital gets a good amount of love too, and it’s interesting that so many readers (38.7%) read in multiple formats. Slightly more Riot readers consume digital comics than read ebooks, at least according to our 2013 reading habits survey. This could be a real difference (maybe people who are new to comics feel more comfortable downloading than going into a comics shop?), or there could be systematic differences between the populations who responded to the surveys, or an artifact of the time and developments in digital reading since the last survey.

Any thoughts? How does this stack up with your experience of reading comics?

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Check out other Riot polls:

Book Riot Readers’ 50 Favorite Novels

The 25 Most-Hated Books (by Book Riot Readers)

19 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read FOREVER

20 Books You Pretend to Have Read

Top 10 Books You’re Embarrassed to Admit You’ve Read

20 Most-Loved Literary Characters

Are These the 13 Most Underrated Books?

20 Books You Love to Give as Gifts

Your 25 Favorite Authors of Color

The Book Riot 2013 Reading Habits Survey

The Great TBR Poll: Results

The Top 17 Books That Make You Feel Dumb

The Great Book Budget Poll

The 35 Most Powerful Books You’ve Read

The Great Audiobook Survey

Your 25 Favorite Books from Assigned Reading

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Do You Read Comics? http://bookriot.com/2014/10/15/read-comics/ http://bookriot.com/2014/10/15/read-comics/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:36:29 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=70790 This month’s poll is sponsored by Kobo. Kobo has over 4 million eBooks in dozens of categories – from bestsellers to indie breakouts, plus world-class eMagazines and over 100,000 kids’ titles. And with the free Kobo App, you can read right on … Continued

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This month’s poll is sponsored by KoboKobo has over 4 million eBooks in dozens of categories – from bestsellers to indie breakouts, plus world-class eMagazines and over 100,000 kids’ titles. And with the free Kobo App, you can read right on your smartphone, tablet or computer – and switch between devices without losing your spot. Plus, purchases through Kobo can support your local independent bookstore.

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By now, I hope you’ve heard that we here at the Riot recently launched a site devoted to comics. Panels is off to a grand start, and since we have comics on the brain lately, we thought we’d dedicate this month’s reader poll to talking about them. We’re curious folks, you know, and we’re interested in how many Book People are also Comics People.

Complete the form below by 11:59pm Eastern, next Wednesday, October 22nd. We’ll crunch the numbers and report back with a summary of findings in a few weeks!

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Your 25 Favorite Books From Assigned Reading http://bookriot.com/2014/09/29/25-favorite-books-assigned-reading/ http://bookriot.com/2014/09/29/25-favorite-books-assigned-reading/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:36:02 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=70131 In our latest reader poll, we asked you to tell about your favorite books from assigned school reading. There were no rules or restrictions, no genre requirements, no statements about which years of school counted or didn’t: just your favorite books from school reading, … Continued

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In our latest reader poll, we asked you to tell about your favorite books from assigned school reading. There were no rules or restrictions, no genre requirements, no statements about which years of school counted or didn’t: just your favorite books from school reading, period.

1142 Riot readers answered the call, sharing 660 unique titles. (Participants were allowed to nominate up to 3 books.) Here are the top 25 selections. Any surprises? Do these square with your favorites? If you’re in the mood for a deeper dive, here’s the full data set.

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (281 votes)
  2. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (165)
  3. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (83)
  4. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (79)
  5. 1984 by George Orwell (73)
  6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (70)
  7. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (62)
  8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (60)
  9. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (58)
  10. The Giver by Lois Lowry (56)
  11. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (48)
  12. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (47)
  13. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (47)
  14. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (44)
  15. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (43)
  16. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (40)
  17. Animal Farm by George Orwell (37)
  18. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (37)
  19. A Separate Peace by John Knowles (37)
  20. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (36)
  21. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (33)
  22. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (33)
  23. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (31)
  24. Macbeth by William Shakespeare (29)
  25. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (26)

It’s no surprise to see Harper Lee in first place here, as To Kill a Mockingbird is by far the most common (and has become the most expected) response to almost any survey about favorite books/characters/authors we conduct. Interesting to see that 8 of the 20 writers mentioned here are women. That’s a better gender balance than I would have expected given dead white guys’ popularity on syllabi. It’s disappointing but also not terribly surprising, given the popularity of dead white guys, to see only one book by a person of color. I was happy to see some young adult titles make the list, including The Outsiders, which is arguably the first modern young adult novel, and The Giver.

Here’s how these favorite assigned books overlap with Riot readers’ favorite novels, most-hated books, and the ones we just pretend to have read.

Assigned and Favorite Assigned and Hated Assigned and Pretend

 

What are your thoughts and questions and theories about these results?

Check out other Riot polls:

Book Riot Readers’ 50 Favorite Novels

The 25 Most-Hated Books (by Book Riot Readers)

19 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read FOREVER

20 Books You Pretend to Have Read

Top 10 Books You’re Embarrassed to Admit You’ve Read

20 Most-Loved Literary Characters

Are These the 13 Most Underrated Books?

20 Books You Love to Give as Gifts

Your 25 Favorite Authors of Color

The Book Riot 2013 Reading Habits Survey

The Great TBR Poll: Results

The Top 17 Books That Make You Feel Dumb

The Great Book Budget Poll

The 35 Most Powerful Books You’ve Read

The Great Audiobook Survey

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What Are Your Favorite Books From Assigned School Reading? http://bookriot.com/2014/09/04/favorite-books-assigned-school-reading/ http://bookriot.com/2014/09/04/favorite-books-assigned-school-reading/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2014 10:36:40 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=69262 Whether the back-to-school season has you longing for the days of Trapper Keepers and fresh new textbooks or sighing in gratitude for your grown-up-ness, chances are good (at least, I hope they are!) that you had a few memorable reading experiences … Continued

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Whether the back-to-school season has you longing for the days of Trapper Keepers and fresh new textbooks or sighing in gratitude for your grown-up-ness, chances are good (at least, I hope they are!) that you had a few memorable reading experiences in school. So in this month’s Riot reader poll, we want to know about your favorite books from assigned school reading.

Enter up to 3 titles in the form below by 11:59pm Eastern, Thursday, September 11. We’ll tally up the favorites and share the results in a few weeks.

A few formatting requests to make processing the responses more efficient:

  • Begin your entry with the book’s title, not the author’s name. Entries like “Austen – Pride and Prejudice” make things a little hairier.
  • Do NOT put quotation marks around book titles.
  • Do not enter additional information into the form. It’s great if you have a fun story about how or why you loved the book, but we can’t include it in the data analysis.

Thanks!

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The 35 Most Powerful Books You’ve Read http://bookriot.com/2014/07/10/35-powerful-books-youve-read/ http://bookriot.com/2014/07/10/35-powerful-books-youve-read/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:33:30 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=66973 In our latest reader poll, we asked about the most powerful books you’ve read. Not necessarily your favorites, or the ones that gave you the most enjoyable reading experiences, but the books that left a lasting impression on you and maybe even changed your … Continued

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In our latest reader poll, we asked about the most powerful books you’ve read. Not necessarily your favorites, or the ones that gave you the most enjoyable reading experiences, but the books that left a lasting impression on you and maybe even changed your life.

1037 Riot readers answered the call, each sharing up to three selections. After removing unusable entries (did you know that bookternet trolls like to write naughty words into surveys?) and a few authors’ obvious attempts to game the system (don’t do that, we’ll catch you), we wound up with 1158 unique titles. That is A LOT of unique titles, and even the top title was only mentioned by 11% of readers. This tells me that what makes a book powerful has a whole lot do with who we are as readers. But there were some far-and-away favorites. Check out the top 35 below, and click to see the full response set.

Did the most powerful books you’ve read make the list? Any surprised? What do you think?

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (123 votes)
  2. The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling (59)
  3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (54)
  4. 1984 by George Orwell (38)
  5. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (36)
  6. The Bible (33)
  7. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (30)
  8. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (30)
  9. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (28)
  10. Beloved by Toni Morrison (27)
  11. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (25)
  12. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (20)
  13. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (19)
  14. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (19)
  15. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (18)
  16. East of Eden by John Steinbeck (18)
  17. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (18)
  18. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (18)
  19. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (18)
  20. The Giver by Lois Lowry (17)
  21. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (17)
  22. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (16)
  23. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (16)
  24. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (16)
  25. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (15)
  26. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (15)
  27. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (14)
  28. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (14)
  29. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (14)
  30. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (14)
  31. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (14)
  32. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (14)
  33. Night by Elie Wiesel (14)
  34. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (13)
  35. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (13)

And here’s a look at how some of the most powerful books overlap with some of Book Riot readers’ 50 favorite novels. Thanks to fellow Rioter Minh Le for the graphic.

BR Favorites Powerful Poll

Check out other Riot polls:

Book Riot Readers’ 50 Favorite Novels

The 25 Most-Hated Books (by Book Riot Readers)

19 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read FOREVER

20 Books You Pretend to Have Read

Top 10 Books You’re Embarrassed to Admit You’ve Read

20 Most-Loved Literary Characters

Are These the 13 Most Underrated Books?

20 Books You Love to Give as Gifts

Your 25 Favorite Authors of Color

The Book Riot 2013 Reading Habits Survey

The Great TBR Poll: Results

The Top 17 Books That Make You Feel Dumb

The Great Book Budget Poll

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What Are the Most Powerful Books You’ve Read? http://bookriot.com/2014/06/17/powerful-books-youve-read/ http://bookriot.com/2014/06/17/powerful-books-youve-read/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:05:46 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=66179 This month’s reader poll is straight to the point. We want to know: what are the most powerful books you’ve read? They don’t have to be your favorite books, or the most enjoyable reading experiences you’ve had, but the most powerful–the ones that left a … Continued

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This month’s reader poll is straight to the point. We want to know: what are the most powerful books you’ve read? They don’t have to be your favorite books, or the most enjoyable reading experiences you’ve had, but the most powerful–the ones that left a lasting impression and that maybe even changed your life.

It’s a big question, and we know it’s too tough to choose just one, so we’re giving you three slots. Share your answers in this anonymous survey by Tuesday, June 24th, and we’ll round up the results the following week.

 

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What’s Your Annual Book Budget?: Poll Results http://bookriot.com/2014/06/11/book-budget-poll-results/ http://bookriot.com/2014/06/11/book-budget-poll-results/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:05:59 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=65881 In our latest community poll, we asked you to share your annual book buying budget. Ready to crunch some numbers? 534 Riot readers participated in the survey over a one-week period. As with all self-report surveys, the data is only … Continued

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In our latest community poll, we asked you to share your annual book buying budget. Ready to crunch some numbers?

534 Riot readers participated in the survey over a one-week period.

As with all self-report surveys, the data is only as accurate as the respondents are truthful and knowledgeable. We have no way to confirm the amount of money participants actually spend, and it’s reasonable to guess that some of the clustering around round-number responses (25, 50, 100, etc.) might be due to participants who do not track their spending closely making guesstimates about their totals instead.

Additionally, we should not assume that this sample is representative. The results here indicate book buying habits of Book Riot readers who saw the survey and chose to participate. These individuals may differ in some meaningful way(s) from readers who do not track their book spending, were not online when the survey was distributed, or opted not to participate. Therefore, we should not use this data to generalize to Book Riot’s community at large.

Here we go!

Question 1: Of all the books you read in a year, what percent do you buy or pay for in some fashion (i.e. through an ebook subscription service)?

515 usable responses

Range: 0-100%

Mean: 53.4%

The mean is likely not the most informative measure here. Let’s examine how buying habits break down more closely.

book buying pie chart

The largest pieces of the pie come from readers who buy 0-9% of the books they read in a year (126) and readers who buy 90-99% of the books they read in a year (104).

When we look at distribution, we can see that responses cluster at the top and bottom of the scale.

Book Buying Habits chart

181 readers (35% of respondents) reported buying less than 20% of the books they read; 209 readers (40.5% of respondents) reported buying 80% or more of the books they read. This puts 75.7% of readers at the extremes, explaining the reverse bell curve-like pattern. This jibes with anecdotal data from the Book Riot community that tells us we have passionate library patrons and passionate book buyers. It’s interesting (and surprising, at least to me) that comparatiely few readers seem to do a mix of borrowing and buying. The data from this sample seems to indicate that readers tend to do one or the other.

Question 2: How much money do you spend on books in a year?

514 usable responses.

Range: $0 -$12,000

Mean: $718.73

Median: $400

Mode: $500

annual book budget graphic

Here’s what the full distribution looks like:

Book Budget Distribution

If we throw out the major outliers–the 8 readers who reported spending more than $3,000 per year on books–the mean budget decreases to $625.60, and variation within the distribution is more visible.

book budget modified

 

Without the outliers, it’s easier to see that most of these Book Riot readers spend $1,000 or less on books in a year. Indeed, 431 respondents (83.7%) reported an annual book budget of $1,000 or less.

Additional note of interest: When we conducted a poll about reading habits earlier this year, we found that Riot readers reported reading an average of 75 books per year. We can’t know what the overlap is between readers who completed that poll and readers who completed this one about book buying, but it makes sense on the face of it–if you read about 75 books a year and buy more than 80% of the books you read, a budget around $1,000 would work, especially with preferences for paperback and ebooks.

What do you make of these results? Anything unexpected here?

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Check out other Riot polls:

Book Riot Readers’ 50 Favorite Novels

The 25 Most-Hated Books (by Book Riot Readers)

19 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read FOREVER

20 Books You Pretend to Have Read

Top 10 Books You’re Embarrassed to Admit You’ve Read

20 Most-Loved Literary Characters

Are These the 13 Most Underrated Books?

20 Books You Love to Give as Gifts

Your 25 Favorite Authors of Color

The Book Riot 2013 Reading Habits Survey

The Great TBR Poll: Results

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What’s Your Annual Book Budget? http://bookriot.com/2014/05/28/whats-annual-book-budget/ http://bookriot.com/2014/05/28/whats-annual-book-budget/#comments Wed, 28 May 2014 11:04:27 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=65325 We readers love to talk about our favorite books, our shelving habits, where and how we get recommendations–all the fun aspects of the reading life–but we don’t talk about money very much. There’s pressure to support libraries, competing pressure to buy from indies, and oodles … Continued

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We readers love to talk about our favorite books, our shelving habits, where and how we get recommendations–all the fun aspects of the reading life–but we don’t talk about money very much. There’s pressure to support libraries, competing pressure to buy from indies, and oodles of choices for the book-loving consumer. So this month, we thought we’d bring our reader poll down to scratch. Complete this anonymous poll by next Wednesday, June 4th, and we’ll report the results!

Please answer in U.S. dollars. Here’s a currency converter if you need one.

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What Are the Books That Make You Feel Dumb? http://bookriot.com/2014/04/14/books-make-feel-dumb/ http://bookriot.com/2014/04/14/books-make-feel-dumb/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:04:34 +0000 http://bookriot.com/?p=63889 Rioter Swapna struck a nerve last week when she wrote about the perils of feeling dumb while reading. It’s a phenomenon every reader has experienced at some point–maybe you read something everyone else loves and you just don’t see the appeal; maybe … Continued

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Rioter Swapna struck a nerve last week when she wrote about the perils of feeling dumb while reading. It’s a phenomenon every reader has experienced at some point–maybe you read something everyone else loves and you just don’t see the appeal; maybe you read something everyone else loves and they actively make you feel like you’re dumb for not loving it; and maybe you read something that’s supposed to rock your world and you just plain don’t get it. Several commenters on that post mentioned specific titles, so we got to wondering: what are the books that make you feel dumb?

Share your answers in this poll by 11:59pm, Sunday, April 20th. We’ll tally the totals and come back with results in a few weeks. Maybe we’ll find out there are just some books that do this, and it’s not YOU, it’s them.

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