Top Ten Favorite Teen Books from the UK

A World Book Day survey find that teens rate Harry Potter, Douglas Adams, George Orwell...and Dan Brown. What's in your top 10?

 

Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter in the film version of the books which, according to a World Book Day survey, are top of the teen charts. Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/WARNER BROS.

 

The World Book Day people have been out and about surveying teens. One of the questions they asked the 505 13-18-year-olds was about favourite books, and used the answers to come up with the top 10 favourite books of teenagers today. Here they are:

1. The Harry Potter series, by JK Rowling: 30.5%
2. The Twilight series, by Stephenie Meyer: 14.1%
3. The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien: 9.1%
4. The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown: 5.1%
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams: 4.6%
6. The Curious Incident of the dog in the night-time, by Mark Haddon: 4.0%
7. Noughts & Crosses, by Malorie Blackman: 3.8%
8. The Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank: 3.2%
9. 1984, by George Orwell: 2.2%
9. The His Dark Materials trilogy, by Phillip Pullman: 2.2%

Surprised to see The Da Vinci Code so high up there? How many of these are in your own top ten?

~Kiki