Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89

Harper Lee, whose first novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 40 million copies and became one of the most beloved and most taught works of fiction ever written by an American, died on Friday in Monroeville, Ala., where she lived.

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Quote of the Day

By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.

-William Shakespeare

Happy Halloween! Stage lore has it that Shakespeare's witchy tragedy, Macbeth, is cursed. Thespians refuse to utter the title inside a theater, calling it instead, "the Scottish play." What's your favorite spooky story?


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Quote of the Day

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet. 

Jack London

Do Top 100 Books polls and charts agree on a set of classics?

Some guy 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?