Books Everyone Should Read

March 14, 2011

A “consensus-cloud” of most mentioned titles from various book polls & top 100 lists. For The Guardian.

An updated version from my book. Data and analysis here: http://bit.ly/BooksEveryone

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DESIGN: David McCandless
RESEARCH: Miriam Quick
ADDITIONAL DESIGN: Matt Hancock
SELECTED SOURCES: UK’s Most Borrowed Library Books, Pulitzer Prize Winners 1948+, AskMetafilter, World Book Day Poll, Man Booker Prize List, Oprah’s Book List.
DATA: http://bit.ly/BooksEveryonePosted in Guardian Datablog, InfoVisualisation, Literature, Tag cloud, Words.
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