{"id":159,"date":"2018-08-13T16:20:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T14:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/readerwitch.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2018-08-13T16:20:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T14:20:40","slug":"readers-best-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/08\/13\/readers-best-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Best books according to readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Would you choose the same books?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Continuing <a href=\"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/08\/13\/best-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my talk on the best books ever<\/a> here\u2019s a new piece of information. After Book Depository had posted their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookdepository.com\/bestbooksever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list of best books of all time<\/a> many readers wrote to the site team accusing them of wrong choices and offering their variants instead. Book Depository reacted by publishing a separate list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookdepository.com\/yourbestbooksever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best books ever according to the readers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The list is quite peculiar. As my husband noticed, <em>\u201cthey are movies, not books\u201d<\/em>. It does feel that way. A big part of those books were made into movies. I wonder if the movies made people pay attention to the books or books with a bigger cinematographic potential originally draw more readers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I\u2019ve read only three books from this list, out of which only one was my personal choice. That book was <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2P5MXfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Anna Karenina<\/em><\/a>, and although I\u2019m not sure it would end up on my best books ever list, it is definitely a very good book with believable well-crafted characters. Two other books, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KNCP7A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>War and Peace<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2MHme7f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em><\/a> were on the list for required reading at my school and university which means I can\u2019t judge them until the poison of required reading wears off. It\u2019s been decades but this hasn\u2019t happened yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Do you see the books that you like in that list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More information on the best books ever. Readers sent their own lists to Book Depository. Here are the books they chose. Would you choose the same books? <a href=\"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/2018\/08\/13\/readers-best-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best books according to readers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[98,153,235,336,356,488,498,526,643],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/screen-shot-2018-08-13-at-16-11-31-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readerwitch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}