{"id":33546,"date":"2018-11-26T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=33546"},"modified":"2018-11-07T10:00:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T16:00:29","slug":"davenports-favorite-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/davenports-favorite-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Davenport’s Favorite Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The votes are in!<\/p>\n

According to the PBS Great American Read<\/a>, America’s\u00a0all-time favorite novel is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee!<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> If you read my first blog post about the Great American Read, you know that To Kill a Mockingbird is also my personal favorite. I was thrilled when I learned the results in the Grand Finale episode<\/a>. Host Meredith Vieira shared that it started out in the number one spot since the day voting began, and it never wavered.<\/p>\n

You may now be wondering\u00a0what is Davenport’s favorite book? \u00a0Ever since PBS kicked off the first episode of The Great American Read on\u00a0May 22, 2018, we’ve had a display featuring these books at each of our three Davenport Public\u00a0Libraries. We put out a ballot box, asking for your favorites. I also took votes in the form of responses to my blog posts about the Great American Read<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0In all, 124\u00a0votes were submitted. The favorite book among Davenport Public Library users is (drumroll, please)…<\/p>\n

Harry Potter<\/strong><\/em><\/a>! Earning just shy of 13% of all votes,\u00a0the bestselling series by J.K. Rowling\u00a0was the top pick of voters at Main, Eastern and on the blog. (Fairmount showed no\u00a0clear favorite,\u00a0but submitted 26 votes for 23 different books.)\u00a0Second favorite overall was Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander<\/a><\/strong><\/em> series, with almost 9% of the votes. In third place was Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Douglas Adams, with a solid 6% of votes. Pride and Prejudice<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Jane Austen took fourth place with almost 5% of votes. We had a four-way tie for 5th place – Anne of Green Gables<\/a>, Charlotte’s Web<\/a>, Memoirs of a Geisha\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/strong>and To Kill a Mockingbird<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

If you’re wondering about any titles from the Great American Read list that was not mentioned here, I have tagged to this blog each book title that received at least one vote from our wonderful Davenport Public Library patrons.<\/p>\n

Thanks for voting and keep reading through the list<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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The votes are in! According to the PBS Great American Read, America’s\u00a0all-time favorite novel is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee!\u00a0 If you read my first blog post about the Great American Read, you know that To Kill a Mockingbird is also my personal favorite. I was thrilled when[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,10,15,1,8,6],"tags":[4713,4714,4715,4716,4717,4718,4719,4720,3598,4721,4722,4723,4724,3121,2907,4725,4563,4726,4727,673,4728,4729,4730,4731,4732,4733,4747,4735,2628,4736,3590,2507,1777,4737,4738,715,4739,4740,4741,4742,4743,4744,3341,4745,2831,4746,1127,1257],"class_list":["post-33546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-books","category-library-displays","category-reference","category-staff-picks","category-websites","tag-4713","tag-alchemist","tag-anne-of-green-gables","tag-beloved","tag-book-thief","tag-catch-22","tag-catcher-in-the-rye","tag-charlottes-web","tag-chronicles-of-narnia","tag-confederacy-of-dunces","tag-da-vinci-code","tag-flowers-in-the-attic","tag-foundation","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-gone-with-the-wind","tag-grapes-of-wrath","tag-great-american-read","tag-great-gatsby","tag-handmaids-tale","tag-harry-potter","tag-hatchet","tag-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy","tag-hunger-games","tag-hunt-for-red-october","tag-jane-eyre","tag-jurassic-park","tag-little-women","tag-looking-for-alaska","tag-lord-of-the-rings","tag-memoirs-of-a-geisha","tag-outlander","tag-outsiders","tag-pbs","tag-pillars-of-the-earth","tag-prayer-for-owen-meany","tag-pride-and-prejudice","tag-ready-player-one","tag-shack","tag-siddhartha","tag-stand","tag-sun-also-rises","tag-swan-song","tag-the-martian","tag-things-fall-apart","tag-to-kill-a-mockingbird","tag-tree-grows-in-brooklyn","tag-twilight","tag-wuthering-heights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-8J4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33546"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33589,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546\/revisions\/33589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}