JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings turned out to be the most popular book in Bulgaria, research by the Helikon bookstores showed.

Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling followed in the ranking, netinfo.bg reported.

Bulgarian Dimitar Dimov’s novel Tyutyun (Tobacco) was the best-ranked Bulgarian literary work. It landed seventh place.

Dimitar Talev’s Zhelezniyat Svetilnik (The Iron Candlestick) ranked eighth.

John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Little Prince, Dan Brown’s The Leonardo Code, Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita and Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 are other titles, high in the ranking.

The research was done at the occasion of Helikon’s 15th anniversary. Nearly 28 000 people took part in the research. More than 400 books were suggested for the ranking.