Because of the World Book Day in Great Britain and Ireland, we started a reading survey in our school, the Gymnasium Ulricianum being interested in what our pupils read in their free time.

These are the results of the reading habit poll from year 7 to 10. It’s remarkable that throughout all grades, “Harry Potter” and “Lord of the Rings” seem to be extremely popular at the moment. But maybe that’s because the corresponding films have recently been in the cinemas all over Germany. In addition to that, one can see that students tend to read both books written by foreign and national authors, both German classics and recently written pieces of literature. The survey showed as well that our pupils prefer rather novels than non-fiction pieces.

11 years	12 years	13 years	14 years	15 years	16 years
Harry Potter (Joanne K. Rowling)	Harry Potter (Joanne K. Rowling)	Harry Potter (Joanne K. Rowling)	Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)	Harry Potter (Joanne K. Rowling)	Harry Potter (Joanne K. Rowling)
Anastasia (Lois Lowry)	Fear Street (R. L. Stine)	Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)	Harry Potter (Joanne K. Rowling)	Lord of the Rings (J.R.R.Tolkien)	Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)	Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)	Der Drachen-reiter (Cornelia Funke)	Die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Christiane F.)	Hannibal (Thomas Harris)	The Diary of a young Girl (Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank, Anne Frank)
Der kleine Kater Samson (Doreen Tovey)	Crazy (Benjamin Lebert)	Fear Street (R. L. Stine)	The Diary of a young Girl (Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank, Anne Frank)	Die Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Christiane F.)	The Green Mile (Stephen King)
Benjamin Blümchen (Gisela Fischer)	Voll ins Herz (Christian Bieniek)	Voll ins Herz (Christian Bieniek)	The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)	Der Spiegel des Schreckens (R.L. Stine)	The perks of being a wallflower (Vielleicht lieber morgen, Stephen Chbosky)