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Huge pop-culture hits such as the Harry Potter series and The Hunger Games top the list by book review website goodreads.com of the most popular books people have been re-reading in recent years. Some of the others titles nominated include:

• The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins: From the train she catches each morning, Rachel watches people, envying their perfect lives, until one day she witnesses a murder.

• The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Beloved French children’s classic translated into English about a prince who visits various planets, including Earth.

• The Fault in Our Stars, John Green. Young adult novel about what happens when terminal teen cancer patient Hazel meets fellow patient Augustus and love blossoms.

• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez: Bestselling book in the ‘magical realism’ genre about the tension between wanting to be alone and the need for love.

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson: A tattooed prodigy and a journalist seek the truth behind the disappearance of a member of a wealthy Swedish family.

• The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini: The story of a friendship between a rich boy and the family servant’s son, set in Afghanistan and the US.

• The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern: A fierce duel between two young magicians in a circus leaves the lives of patrons and performers hanging in the balance.