We Asked People 'What's Your Favorite Novel?'

PBS did a survey where they asked people 'What is your favorite book?' According to what they found, America's favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Harper Lee which to us sounded like B.S. So to test that theory out we thought it would be fun to do a poll of our own. We went out and asked people 'What is your favorite novel?' and this is how that went.




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We Asked People 'What's Your Favorite Novel?'

[eduardovargas]

I feel like the question should’ve been “can you read?”

[acledfloyd]

I was feeling all superior but then I remembered I’m just watching YouTube videos right now instead of reading

[conniecrawford]

As a former lit professor, this breaks my heart. Our schools need to teach students how to spell and proper grammar and how to enjoy a great novel!

[theoryaction]

This would be better if you guys didn't edit out the smart people. I'm sure one person in LA has read a novel.

[oussamatouhami]

I've always wondered whether they edit this out in order to only show the dumb ones! cause these can't be the only ones they interview

[amantedelmondo]

At least say freaking Harry Potter or something for crying out loud!...

[FreeTheDonbas]

"Name a novel" "the Bible" –an answer so dumb it was unintentionally smart.

[eco_seasons]

I honestly thought that someone was going to say HARRY FREAKING POTTER!!!

[ethansutton]

Jesus 😂😂 how have you never read a book

[bigdaddybaltimore]

I actually read a lot but I'd be stumped if you asked me this randomly on the street.

[grantlinenberger]

My favorite novel is youtube comments.

[smellydonut]

As a bookworm this video sincerely took years off my life lmao

[dutchgala]

Let's make Orwell's *1984*
Fiction again

[NewMessage]

And we now live in a time when if you asked that question to the President, he'd answer "Ivanka's... She has the cutest belly button ever."

[Kevin-uzik]

My favorite novel is 1984 by George Orwell.

[manojprabhakar]

Robinson Crusoe. I remember day dreaming about it during class and running home after school to pick it up.

[pEAcEgrL]

Omg this is such a good one hahahah. I hope the world doesn't think this represents all Americans though :(

[aishaniacharya]

Stephen King is my all-time favourite author and when I heard that guy say that "Pet Sematary" was his favourite novel, I was low-key excited and then he said that he has seen the movie, but not read the book because it's thick. I was a bit disappointed. Pet Sematary is one of his shorter works. Try reading IT if you don't believe me!(it's an awesome book but took me some time)

[fieke]

Can you guys please make a compilation of all the smart people with smart answers who you leave out of the videos? Just so we can all feel a bit better...

[andreamiller]

They'd be running to get away from me. I'd break it down by genre and then start rearranging the ranking depending on mood.