![]() ![]() ![]() The researchers also found that women preferred old, well-thumbed paperbacks, whereas men had a slight fixation with the stiff covers of hardback books. Ideas touching on isolation and "aloneness" were strong among the men's "milestone" books. "The men's list was all angst and Orwell. "They read novels a bit like they read photography manuals." Women readers used much-loved books to support them through difficult times and emotional turbulence, and tended to employ them as metaphorical guides to behaviour, or as support and inspiration. "We found that men do not regard books as a constant companion to their life's journey, as consolers or guides, as women do," said Prof Jardine. There was a much broader mix between contemporary and classic works and between male and female authors. They also named a "much richer and more diverse" set of novels than men, according to Prof Jardine. Women, by contrast, most frequently cited works by Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Margaret Atwood, George Eliot and Jane Austen. ![]() On the whole, men preferred books by dead white men: only one book by a woman, Harper Lee, appears in the list of the top 20 novels with which men most identify. ![]() The results are strikingly different, with almost no overlap between men's and women's taste. ![]()
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