1984
The most popular book in Merseyside was revealed today as the results of the Liverpool Daily Post's LiveRead online vote were counted.
The winning novel is George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, which achieved 22 per cent of the vote.
Readers from around the North-West and beyond voted in our poll to try to establish the identity of the preferred read among Liverpudilian bookworms.
Local celebrities such as hairdresser Andrew Collinge and Richard Baker of the Ranger Interpretation Service at Croxteth Country Park are among those who favoured the Orwellian novel, which was published in 1949 and focuses on the nightmare of living in a fictitious Big Brother society.
Other popular choices included Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Joseph Heller's satirical work Catch-22 and what many consider to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby.
