Harry Potter leads poll of best books to pass on

London ,HARRY POTTER series by British writer J.K. Rowling is the literature from the noughties that Britons want to pass on to the next generation. The seven-book Harry Potter series topped a poll of books commissioned by the organisers of World Book Day. Britain is celebrating the World Book Day on Thursday.
The list of 10 books that the British public wants to preserve for posterity includes American author Dan Brown’s bestseller The Da Vinci Code at the second place, Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight on fifth spot, and Khaled Hosseini’s Kite Runner at the sixth spot.

Interestingly, all the other books in the list are non-fiction ones: A collection of scientific conundrums, named Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? And 114 Other Questions, took the third spot on the list, followed by Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Everything at the fourth place. “The 9/11 Commission Report by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States” was surprisingly on the list chosen by 1,000 people aged between 16 to 64 years who took part in the survey in Britain. The report took the seventh spot on the list. You Are What You Eat: The Plan That Will Change Your Life by Scottish diet guru Gillian McKeith was at No. 8, above British scientist Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion. The Top 10 list closed with US President Barack Obama’s autobiography Dreams From My Father, the only memoir to make the list.

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