/lit/ Top 100 Lists

In 2014 and 2015, polls of posters' favorite books were conducted on /lit/. In 2015, the poll asked for a list of both the responder's three favorite books and three favorite authors. The responses to these polls generated the below infographics.

Facts about the similarities and differences between the 2014 poll results and the 2015 poll results are as follows:

69% of the books from the 2014 list made it onto the 2015 list.

The highest placing new additions to the 2015 list are:

1. Confederacy of Dunces (26)

2. Book of the New Sun (27)

3. Les Miserables (35)

4. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (50)

5. For Whom the Bell Tolls (53)

The highest placing books to drop off the 2014 list are:

1. The Plague (35)

2. The Silmarillion (42)

3. Leaves of Grass (53)

4. Harry Potter series (54)

5. A Clockwork Orange (55)

Of the books that stayed on the list, the greatest gains were made by:

1. The Iliad (94 to 18)

2. The Old Man and the Sea (97 to 34)

<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">3. Paradise Lost (98 to 37)

<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">4. Portrait of the Artist (67 to 12)

<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">5. Steppenwolf (93 to 42)

<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">The greatest losses were:

<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">1. Dune (29 to 83)

<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">2. The Picture of Dorian Gray (16 to 64)

<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">3. A Farewell to Arms (46 to 93)

<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">4. Journey to the End of the Night (10 to 52)

<span style="color:rgb(0,34,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-weight:normal;line-height:normal;">5. Invisible Cities (22 to 57)