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Your Top 5 Books - The Results!
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Thanks ajc.com readers! We asked you for your top 5 books, and you were all too happy to tell us here on Check It Out. We even took the question on the road with us to the AJC Decatur Book Festival this past weekend, and received even more response from people on the street.
As our favorite in-house self-proclaimed sociologist stated, “A theory called the Wisdom of Crowds contends that many voices together speak more clearly than the voice of a single ‘expert’.” Basically, what he means is that out of the 414 people who answered the ‘Top 5 Books’ call, a surprising number of you are fans of the same books. So, without further ado, your top books were:
- “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
- Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
- “Gone With The Wind” by Margaret Mitchell
- “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini
- “Pride & Prejudice” by Jane Austen
Rounding out the top 10 were the Bible, Lord of the Rings trilogy, “The Great Gatsby”, “Jane Eyre” and “The Catcher In The Rye”. What do you think? Did any (or all) of your picks make it to the top 10? Were you inspired to read something new from this list?
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What are your top 5 books? Tell us now!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The AJC Decatur Book Festival is coming up! To celebrate, we’re asking our readers about their favorite books.
Whether you’re a bibliophile, or you only pick up a book once in a blue moon, everyone has a few favorite titles. These might range from murder mysteries to comic books; romance novels to cookbooks; dictionaries to how-to books. Maybe it’s a book you read in high school or a book you’re reading to your kids right now. It might be a book you picked up at the airport duty-free shop to keep you busy on the long flight to Phoenix. Or maybe you’ve been swept up into the Harry Potter or “Twilight” series fads (we certainly have!).
Whatever the case may be, we want to hear your top 5 books of all time. The most popular top 5 mentioned in the comments below will be revealed in the AJC booth at the AJC Decatur Book Festival on August 29-31. This is a free event, so come check out which books Atlanta chose as their top 5!
To get you started, here are some of ours:
Will Johnston
- Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”
- J. K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince”
- Steve Berry’s “The Templar Legacy”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”
- Richard Wright’s “Native Son”
Rebecca Merchant
- “Stitch ‘N Bitch: The Knitter’s Handbook” by Debbie Stoller
- “Penguin Dreams” by Vivian Walsh and J.otto Seibold
- “Gone With the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell
- “Skinny Legs and All” by Tom Robbins
- “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” by Hunter S. Thompson
Ryan Paul
- “Every Hand Revealed” - Gus Hansen
- “American Psycho” - Bret Easton Ellis
- “Crime and Punishment” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “Fight Club” - Chuck Palahniuk
- “1984” - George Orwell
Okay, your turn! Give us your top 5 below - we want to hear what you think! We’ll be taking entries for the Book Fair through August 26.
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Dinner Dare from eveningedge.com: Celebrity chef. Great meal. 30 minutes.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Celebrity chef Virginia Willis serves up fish fillets on deadline
eveningedge.com, the daily answer to your dinner dilemma, brings you a new monthly feature called Dinner Dare. You serve dinner on the fly every day, so we asked a professional Atlanta chef to try it your way. The challenge: Whip up a complete family-friendly dinner, with local ingredients, in 30 minutes. Our star chef’s answer: Herb-Crusted Fish Fillets, sauteed summer squash and Classic Rice Pilaf in 30 minutes.
- Get the recipes: Herb-Crusted Fish Fillets, with two sides
- Ask the chef: Post a comment or question for Virginia Willis
- Get the picture: Photo gallery | Video
In the next few months, we’ll be challenging Scott Peacock (Watershed) and Anne Quatrano (Bacchanalia) to the Dinner Dare. What local celebrity chefs would you like to see featured? Are there ingredients that you’re dying to cook with, but want ideas on how to work with them? Let us know!
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A better search on accessAtlanta.com
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
We hope you like the new features in the redesigned accessAtlanta search. The new search design lets you browse or search from thousands of entries in our comprehensive database. The search is also better organized so that you can find what you want easily. Browse event topics, restaurants, movies or by neighborhoods. A keyword search lets you refine your search parameters and see all related entries. So take a look and let us know if you have any problems or suggestions. Thanks.
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Did you know… ajc.com has a Facebook page?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
That’s right! ajc.com has jumped into the world of social media and joined Facebook. Do you have a Facebook profile? If so, become a fan of ajc.com by clicking on the “Become a fan” link on the top right side of the page. This page is updated several times a week with select Mike Luckovich cartoons and photo galleries. You can view and comment on videos from our LOL feature, which are short clips of local comedians performing at local venues. We will also be asking a discussion topic from time-to-time, so stay tuned.
As part of our Facebook introduction, we have also built several applications that you can put into your own Facebook profile profile page. We are working on more applications all the time, but you should check these out:
* ajc.com Popular Stories
* Braves updates
* Peach Buzz
These applications live within your Facebook profile page (and don’t send any of your personal information back to the AJC, by the way) so that you and your friends can get the latest Breaking News, Braves, and Peach Buzz updates instantly where you live, on Facebook.
We are working on this fan page continually, so make sure to check back. And, as always, let us know if you have anything you’d like to see!
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