The books everyone must read

Which books should everyone read? Information is Beautiful’s David McCandless shows how graphics have the answer Do Top 100 Books polls and charts agree on a set of classics?  I scraped the results of over 15 notable book polls, readers surveys and top 100′s. Both popular and high-brow. They included all Pulitzer Prize winners, Desert Island Discs choices from recent years, Oprah’s Bookclub list, and, of course, The Guardian’s Top 100 Books of All Time. A  simple frequency analysis on the gathered titles gives us a neat ‘consensus cloud’ visualisation of the most mentioned books titles across the polls. Do you agree with the consensus? Check the data and analysis here: http://bit.ly/BooksEveryone Research: David McCandless & Miriam Quick Additional Design: Matt Hancock About Me I run InformationIsBeautiful.net , dedicated to visualising information, ideas, stories and data. Twitter @infobeautiful This an updated page from my book of infographic exploria, Information Is Beautiful . In the US, the book’s called The Visual Miscellaneum More data Data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian World government data • Search the world’s government data with our gateway Development and aid data • Search the world’s global development data with our gateway Can you do something with this data? • Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group • Contact us at data@guardian.co.uk • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter • Like us on Facebook David McCandless guardian.co.uk

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