A “Consensus Cloud” of Novels Everyone Should Read

Do Top 100 Books polls and charts agree on a set of classics? To find out, David McCandless scraped the results of more than a dozen notable book polls, readers surveys, and top 100 lists. He then used a simple frequency analysis on the gathered titles to create a ‘consensus cloud’ visualisation of the most mentioned books titles across the polls.

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