Что читают сегодня: rating of the best books. Most read books in Russia

After long years of oblivion, the book again becomes a fashionable attribute in the hands of a person who wants to be an intellectual. Of course, today's popularity of literature can not be compared with the reader boom of the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties, when children sometimes had to break away from the adventures of loved heroes, but there is a completely logical explanation. There were no tablets, laptops and other computer wonders, and there was something very interesting on the TV. The question of what is being read today in Russia and the world requires a detailed answer. Different books and target ... the audience can not be named, audio is when they listen. In general, the reader for different genres is different, but they are all good, except boring, as the classic said.

Classic

It is still popular, moreover, its scope has expanded considerably. In her category were those writers who, quite recently (in the historical sense, of course) were referred to fiction. Contemporaries of Jack London or Antoshi Chehonte, who lived in the early twentieth century, these wonderful storytellers and words seemed ordinary people, contemporaries, who successfully applied their talent (or even just the ability) to get a daily bread. AP Chekhov himself believed that reading and putting in the theater of his works will be at most a few years, and there will be forgotten. Fortunately, the classic was mistaken. His stories and novels enjoy success today, they are more popular than most creations of contemporary authors, those that are read today. The rating of classical literature is headed by him, not only in Russia, but also in many other countries (in Japan, for example), where, in addition to selling books, he often puts plays on his plays, interpreting them each time in a new way. The inhabitants of the planet are also not indifferent to Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Dreiser, London, Dickens, Bulgakov. A few more popular names are among the ten favorite writers, but in different countries they occupy different positions. Classics are read most often from paper carriers, so interesting.

Criteria

It is difficult to evaluate the most read books today. For this, different methods are used, the main one of which is circulation. This method of analysis has the greatest practical value, especially for publishers and printing houses, interested in the largest possible sales of their products. However, this approach has an approximate relation to the true state of affairs. The book in our time - a cheap thing, and today it can be safely attributed to a really "best gift", with which it is not a shame to come for a birthday or anniversary. Therefore, the printed edition often lends to friends and acquaintances who do not want to spend money on such an expensive thing, besides often one-time. Home libraries in our time are rare people, volumes occupy a valuable place in the home, and there is also the Internet, in which you can find almost everything, at least, what is read today. Rating is sought in the same place, in order not to get confused in the huge flow of modern and classical literature. So many people do, drive texts into tablets and read everywhere, in buses, trams and metro.

Frequency of readings

The circulation of the publication is determined by an official, called a publisher, often he makes a decision based on his own ideas about how successful the project will be.

Another criterion by which literary ratings and lists of the best books are compiled is a simple arithmetic addition of the number of hits to the author's page on the Internet, if there is one, of course. To do this, site creators install software counters that mark each visitor. The disadvantage of this method is the inferiority of information. It is not known whether the work was read completely, or simply glanced at it and immediately closed. In addition, it is impossible to count all the readers because she and the same story can be represented on different sites, sometimes, alas, without the author's knowledge, and not all of them have a cumulative count function. The number of downloads is also not always taken into account, and material rewards are very rare in this case.

What women read

A beautiful half of humanity is more likely than men to be friends with a book. What worries women, what are they addicted to and what are they reading today? A rating of a dozen works, most popular among ladies, is closed by Eduard Asadov, a true poet and writer, who sang true love. For half a century the number of fans of his talent has not diminished, but has increased. In the ninth place - a childlike book called "Little Princess, or The History of Sarah Crewe" by Francis Burnett. The narrative is naive only at first glance, and mothers, acquainting themselves with their daughters, themselves fall under the spell of the immediacy of the heroine. The detectives of Ustinova are a little more likely to buy, Cecilia Ahern and the author of the bestseller "The Devil Wears Prada" by Loren Weisberger are even higher. Further on the ladder of popularity go back to Joanna Lindsay, Tatiana Polyakova (again ladies' detectives) and Sophie Kinsella with her "Secret World of Shopaholic." Top positions are taken by Stephanie Meyer with a story about the love of a vampire ("Twilight") and the psychological novel "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. Perhaps the closing positions are specific for Russian literature lovers, but the upper ones repeat the rating of the most read books in the world among women.

And what do men like?

If we discard businessmen who are insane on money (who are more often characters of novels than their consumers) and representatives of the stronger sex who have an extremely low level of intelligence, then the rest of the not very numerous male brethren, too, are not averse to spending their free time leafing through pages. Which of the works for them are the most popular books and the most read? There are many books written on courageous subjects. These are J. London, and E. M. Remarque, and historical chronicles, and literature of a military-technical nature. The men read everything from Hemingway to Stephen King, but as a rule, they do not tolerate specific women's novels. However, there are exceptions. Women sometimes too, for the sake of justice, gladly enjoy themselves with some book that is considered exclusively male.

Children

Children, as already mentioned, do not read much today, and the author needs to make a lot of effort in conjunction with the talent in order to interest them in something. And in this case it does not matter how deep the thoughts of such a work, as well as what they read. Today the rating of teenage and literature is headed by Alexander Anderson's books "Alex and coins" and "All the most beloved fairy tales" by Grigory Oster. In addition to them, novels, novels and sagas in the fantasy style are popular (just like fiction in the past). Analyzing the reasons why life in a fictitious world to the younger generation is more interesting than the real one can be a long time, but this is the prose of life, and it must be reckoned with, which publishers who are interested in the profitability of their activities do. Some consolation is the decline in the popularity of "Harry Potter". And very much happy nostalgic return to eternal values, expressed in the "Archives of Murzilka", published in two volumes (from 1966 to 1974).

Humor

The literature that causes laughter is a complex genre. It is much easier to squeeze a tear from the reader than to make him smile at least. The modern bibliophile with pleasure reads Zhvanetsky, especially the early one, pays tribute to Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov and is interested in contemporary authors. Pleased with the book with an intriguing title "Plumber. Your knee "by author Slava (obviously a pseudonym). Previously, this material was published on popular blogs, and then came out "live". At the moment, these are the most read books in Russia of humorous themes, and how to place them on prize-winning levels is for the people to decide.

Proverbs

In our country, as well as abroad, a large number of fans of philosophical literature have formed. This is not about any serious scientific research (they are also in demand). These most read books in Russia in their genre are designed to induce a person to think about eternal values, distract from worldly vanity and, if possible, gain wisdom, consecrated for centuries. These include the "Prophet" Khalil Gibran, the fatherly morals of the holy elders, the instructive polemics of Kuraev and so on. The sales ratings do not give a real picture of the popularity of these publications. It is possible that someone buys them in order to put on the shelf in order to create an intellectual image of the person, in other cases they are read out literally to the holes. Presenting such a book as a gift, it should be remembered that only a thoughtful person inclined to abstract thinking will really rejoice to her .

Fashionable literature

There is such a capricious and windy lady, who is called fashion. Most often it is found in branded boutiques and car dealerships, but sometimes it occurs in bookstores. A number of authors, having created a certain work, aspire to scandalous glory, and achieve it by different methods. They generously saturate the speech of characters with profanity, trying to give originality to images, choose stories about cannibals, crazy, drug addicts and other unsightly people, trying to surprise rather than please. At some rather short time, sellers tell the buyer that they are the most read books in Russia. Today, these are some authors, tomorrow others, and their turn does not run out. It happens that the novels do have certain artistic merits, but masterpieces of fashion writers who keep their nose on the wind of the conjecture are rarely created.

The reader is left to assess his spiritual needs and choose his own among the boundless sea of literature.