It’s not just “Harry Potter”: Russians top New Year’s books and movie adaptations

The electronic and audiobook service “Liters” has announced the results of a survey of more than 500 Russians, most often about New Year’s books and their film adaptations.

First place – no, not “Harry Potter”, but another classic – went to the book “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by German author Ernst Hoffmann. The second line is taken from the story “Twelve Months” by Samuil Marshak, and the third line is taken from the story “The Night Before Christmas” by Nikolai Gogol.

Also, the top 10 New Year’s books included:

• JK Rowling’s long-awaited series of Harry Potter novels;
• fairy tale “Winter in Prostokvashino” by Eduard Uspensky;
• fairy tale “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Andersen;
• the fairy tale “Cinderella” by Charles Perrault;
• the play tale “The Snow Maiden” by Alexander Ostrovsky;
• O. Henry’s Christmas novel “The Gift of the Magi”;
• the story-tale “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens;
• The Chronicles of Narnia series of seven stories by Clive Staples Lewis.

In the film adaptations, Harry Potter and all the films about him rightly took the first place, while the film adaptation of the Russian folk tale Morozko took the second place. The third position was taken by the Soviet musical comedy “Sorcerers”.

Here are some New Year’s movie adaptations that are still in the top 10:

• film adaptation of Gogol’s collection “Evenings on a farm near Dikanka”;
• two-part adaptation of Marshak’s fairy tale “Twelve Months”;
• cartoon “Winter in Prostokvashino”;
• the film “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by Andrei Konchalovsky;
• Dr. Adaptation from the fairy tale “The Grinch” by Seuss;
• Adaptation from the short story “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens;
• Adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.