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Ben Blatt is a former staff writer for Slate and The Harvard Lampoon who has taken his fun approach to data journalism to topics such as Seinfeld, mapmaking, The Beatles, and Jeopardy!. Blatt’s work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and Deadspin.

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	Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing 3.83 avg rating — 2,067 ratings — published 2017 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Don't Care if We Never Get Back: 30 Games in 30 Days on the Best Worst Baseball Road Trip Ever by Ben Blatt, Eric Brewster 3.79 avg rating — 771 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ashes of the Dragon Empire (Dragon Riders Book 1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“England and America are two countries divided by a common language. —GEORGE BERNARD SHAW”
― Ben Blatt, Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing

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“The result is 15 consensus “great” authors with a total bibliographyI of 167 fiction books, of which 37 books were considered “great” by virtue of being on multiple top-100 lists. Here, I’ve listed those 37 “great books.”
― Ben Blatt, Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing

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“In his novel Chance, Joseph Conrad wrote, “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Ben Blatt, Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing

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The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett

67 votes, 34.2%

Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

54 votes, 27.6%

The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks

25 votes, 12.8%

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba

18 votes, 9.2%

Bizarre Books by Russell Ash

13 votes, 6.6%

How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): How the Silver Fox Became a Dog by Lee Alan Dugatkin

10 votes, 5.1%

Nabokov's Favourite Word Is Mauve: The literary quirks and oddities of our most-loved authors by Ben Blatt

9 votes, 4.6%

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