---
title: "Facebook research: The 100 most influential books of all time"
description: Thanks to Facebook, we now know what the 100 most influential books of our generation are. Facebook collected the data by asking users to comment with 10 books that have 'stayed with them in some way'
---

[Page Lizard Blog](https://emails.reptile.app)

# [Facebook research: The 100 most influential books of all time](https://emails.reptile.app/100-influential-books-time-according-facebook)

 Written by [Kara Godfrey](https://emails.reptile.app/author/kara-godfrey) | Sep 16, 2014 11:36:38 AM

*Thanks to Facebook, we now know what the 100 most influential books of our generation are. Facebook collected the data by asking users to comment with 10 books that have 'stayed with them in some way'. That's my reading list for the next year sorted...*

## 1. J.K Rowling: The Harry Potter Books

## 2. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

## 3. JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings Books

## 4. JRR Tolkien: The Hobbit

## 5. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

## 6. The Holy Bible

## 7. Douglas Adams: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

## 8. Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games Series

## 9. J.D. Salinger: Catcher in the Rye

## 10 C.S. Lewis: Chronicles of Narnia

 

**11. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald**

**12. 1984 by George Orwell**

**13. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott**

**14. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte**

**15. The Stand by Stephen King**

**16. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell**

**17. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle**

**18. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood**

**19. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis**

**20. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho**

**21. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery**

**22. The Giver by Lois Lowry**

**23. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini**

**24. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card**

**25. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver**

**26. Lord of the Flies by William Golding**

**27. The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan**

**28. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak**

**29. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte**

**30. Hamlet by William Shakespeare**

**31. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery**

**32. Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle**

**33. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury**

**34. Animal Farm by George Orwell**

**35. The Book of Mormon**

**36. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank**

**37. Dune by Frank Herbert**

**38. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez**

**39. The Autobiography of Malcolm X**

**40. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck**

**41. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein**

**42. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green**

**43. On the Road by Jack Kerouac**

**44. Lamb by Christopher Moore**

**45. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut**

**46. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving**

**47. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett**

**48. The Help by Kathryn Stockett**

**49. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton**

**50. American Gods by Neil Gaiman**

*Which book has influenced you the most? *

[View full post](https://emails.reptile.app/100-influential-books-time-according-facebook)

```json
{
  "@context" : "http://schema.org",
  "@type" : "BlogPosting",
  "author" : {
    "@type" : "Person",
    "name" : "Kara Godfrey"
  },
  "dateModified" : "2018-01-17T22:31:59.014Z",
  "datePublished" : "2014-09-16T11:36:38Z",
  "headline" : "Facebook research: The 100 most influential books of all time",
  "image" : {
    "@type" : "ImageObject",
    "height" : 60,
    "url" : "/hs/hsstatic/content_shared_assets/static-1.4092/img/default-amp-logo.png",
    "width" : 60
  },
  "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://emails.reptile.app/100-influential-books-time-according-facebook",
  "publisher" : {
    "@type" : "Organization",
    "logo" : {
      "@type" : "ImageObject",
      "height" : 60,
      "url" : "/hs/hsstatic/content_shared_assets/static-1.4092/img/default-amp-logo.png",
      "width" : 60
    },
    "name" : "What's new?"
  }
}
```