Top 10 Most Searched Books

Love reading books? Maybe you also searched one of this popular and best-selling books. 
Here is the list of the most searched books in the internet this July 2013.

10. Divergent

A novel written by an American author Veronica Roth. She got the idea in writing the novel when she was studying in college.  On May 22, 2011, the novel debuted No.6, in New York Times Children's Chaprter Books Best Seller. It also won the Favorite Book of 2011 in Goodreads Choice Awards, No.1 in Teen's Top Ten Vote and won the Sakura Medal Contest. The novel was purchased by Summit Entertainment and this May 2013, they were on process making the movie with the same title.

9. Psalms

A Hebrew Bible also called the Book of Psalms. Its 150 poems "express virtually the full range of Israel's religious faith". In Greek, the word "psalms" is originally means "music of the lyre" or "songs sung to a harp". So, the common ways of the Jewish and Christian worshiping the Psalms is by singing and chanting, which is called "Psalmody".

8. Quran

The holy book of Muslims means "the recitation", which the Muslims believed "to be revelation from God" (Allah). They also believed that the Quran is the most important miracle of their prophet, Muhammad and said to be verbally revealed from Angel Gabriel. Quran is described itself as a book of guidance and only recited only in Arabic.

7. The Great Gatsby

A novel written by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. It explores  the themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval and excess. He was inspired to write the novel by the parties he had attended while he is in Long Island's north shore. The novel was became part of American High School curricula and considered to be a literally classic in American literature. The novel has number of film adaptations including this 2013, The Great Gatsby by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

6. The Lord of the Rings

Written by an English Philologist and Oxford Professor J. R. R. Tolkien. An epic fantasy novel was the second best-selling novel ever written with over 150million copies sold. The Lord of the Rings continue its popularity by inspiring many fans, music, films and video games. The novel was translated into 38 different languages.

5. Fifty Shades of Grey

Written by  the British Author E.L. James. An erotic romance novel that featuring the elements of sexual practices involving discipline, submission and masochism. It is also the topped best-seller lists around the world, including the United Kingdom and United States. It sold over 70millions of copies worldwide, surpassing the Harry Potter series. The release scheduled for its film adaption is on August1, 2014.

4. World War Z

A 2006 novel written by Max Brooks. This apocalyptic horror novel has its 2013 film adaptation of the same title directed by Marc Forster starring Brad Pitt. The World War Z was inspired by an oral history of World War II by Studs Terkel, The Good War. The audiobook version won an Audie Award in 2007. The Entertainment Weekly, Gilbert Cruz rated the novel "A".

3. The Hunger Games

Written by the American writer, Suzanne Collins. a 2008 science fiction novel, with 374 pages, that was praised from its storyline and character development, also received many and mostly positive feedbacks from reviewers and famous authors. It was published in hardcover on September 14, 2008, and sold a copies over 800,000 by February 2010. It was translated into 26 languages and also released in paperbacks and ebooks. 

2. Under the Dome 

Written by Stephen King, and published in November 2009. A science fiction novel has a limited copies of only 25,000 in Collector's Edition and only 1500 copies in Signed Edition. This editions was bind in different binding and printed in specialty paper. They developed a cable miniseries, a 13-episode based on the novel and announced on November 29, 2013.

1. The Bible 

A holy book of sacred canonical collection of text in Judaism and Christianity. The first part of the Christian Bibles is known as the Old Testament, which contains 24 books of Hebrew Bible and divided into 39 books. The second part is the New Testaments which contain 27 books including the 4 Canonical gospels, 21 Letters, Acts of the Apostles and the Book of Revelation. The Bible has estimated copies over 25million and where first printed in West that has been a great influence on literature and history.


To those who haven't read one of this books yet, try to read some, and I hope you find it interesting.

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Top 10 Most Searched Animals

They are cute and adorable. They are our pets and at the same time our friends. 

Here is the Top 10 Most Searched Animals in the Web.

10. Snake

Known as the Serpent in the Bible. A legless lizards covered with scales.
There are different types of snakes found  in different parts of our world. Some of them are poison-less and some of them are extremely dangerous.

9. Bear

 

A dog-like Carnivores which we found cute and adorable in some cartoons. Bears have excellent sense of smell, a great climbers and swimmers. There are different kinds of bear all over the world, and the most famous of them are the panda bear and the polar bear.

8. Sharks

Sharks are the sisters of Rays. Their are 470 diversified species of sharks. It is known that the sharks tooth shape is depends on its diet. They did not blink even though they have eyelids because this is the only way to protect their eyes.

7. Spiders

An Arthropods that has eight legs and fangs that inject venom. They can be found worldwide with their different species. They are 43,678 species of spider reported as of 2008. The female spiders weave silk egg-cases, which contains hundreds of eggs.
Some spiders are poison-less, but there are spiders which their venom is extremely dangerous to humans. But today, scientist made some researched on which the venom can be use in medicine and non-polluting pesticides.

6. Birds

We used to make this as our pets specially the parrot and the love birds. As some research says, birds emerged from theropod dinosaurs around 150 million years ago. but some birds can't fly, and one of them is the Penguins. Birds communicate with each other using visual signals, calls and songs.

5. Fish

A Cold-blooded creatures and a very important resource of humans worldwide, food. Some of us make it as pets and kept it in an aquarium, but some them are pest. There are still more different kinds of fish lived underwater that not yet discovered. Because some of them are in deep bottom of the ocean. There are 32,000 species of fish.

4. Chickens

Roosters and Hens, are two different kinds of chickens. This is one of the most common widespread domestic animals worldwide. As for us humans, we keep chickens as one of our food sources, because of their meat and eggs. Chickens life is almost five to ten years, depends of the breed. The world's oldest chicken was died from heart failure at the age of 16, according to Guinness.

3. Horses

Some of us kept horses as pets, some used to make money and some used it in communications. Female horses are called "Mares" and young horses are called "Foal". Horses are classified into three categories. The Hot bloods, the Cold Bloods and the Warm Bloods. Horse's lifespan is between 25-30 years old.

2. Cats

One of the very common animals we always saw inside the house or the house-cats. Some of us used cats to hunt household pest, such as rats or mouse and some treat cats us one of the family. Some cat-lovers willing to spend their money for the cat they loved. Cats are the most popular pet in the world according to Scientific American, because cats now found in most every place where us humans live. They have extreme sense of hearing and better sense of smell. Cat communicate by some vocalizations including meowing, purring, growling, etc.

1. Dogs

A man's best friend. The first domesticated animal and the most kept for working (military, assisting police), hunting (companion) and pet animal (household pet) in the human history. In some places and cultures, dogs are also source of food, their meat. Like cats, some people treat there dogs as member of their family, their friends and their savior. So, their willing to spend their money just to take good care of them. There are 400million dogs all over the world recorded in 2001.

You searched them as well, right?

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