I'm thinking someone might have gamed the system. Not sure who is eligible to vote, but an organization might be able to encourage it's members to participate in the poll?
7 top 10's shared between Ayn Rand and Hubbard, there's no question if someone gamed the system it's guaranteed.
The readers version of the non-fiction list is so bizarre it obviously isn't a random poll. Like 80% of the list are political and exceptionally odd choices too.
I'm not sure if it's because I'm not from the US, but I've never heard of most of the books on the list and I'm well red. The books I have heard of are the political ones, most of which people I know would never dream of touching. I just have serious disbelief that so many Americans would read books from Rand and Hubble, yet in the fiction list there's like two mentions of genuinely famous writers.
The Radcliffe's Rival 100 is what I expect to see from a public list where Rand's publications are somewhere in the list, not clustered at the top. I mean why are all the classics like in Radcliffe's list missing from the public list when these are books everybody has read. I read a lot of these books in school, and I know lots of them are taught in american schools so why aren't they on the list?
I mean for fucks sakes, honestly why isn't there a book like Winne-the-Pooh in the public list?
