In case you missed it, as I certainly did, Wired magazine is having a “One Book, One Twitter” contest. Jeff Howe reports here on the findings, “I spent a good share of last week poring over election results for the One Book, One Twitter (#1b1t) project. I don’t think anyone will be surprised to hear that American Gods, a Hugo Award winning novel, won handily with an aggregate of 431 votes.”

Neil Gaiman’s American Gods was in a close race though, with Ray Bradbury‘s Fahrenheit 451
in a close second, and George Orwell’s 1984 in third. According to Howe, “These three books dominated the leaderboard, as they had from almost the first minutes we opened voting.”

Things might have been a little skewed by the voting process, as Howe explains, “a considerable advantage goes to those books nominated early in the process.” And he promises that, “The mechanics behind the final round of voting next week won’t have this bias.”

Books that came in fourth and fifth place were Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller’s Catch 22.

“The One Book, One Twitter board will be adding four more titles to this list to make a slate of ten finalists,” according to Howe, “We’ll be voting on these books for a few weeks starting on April 12. Whatever book wins that is the book we’ll read. Woo Hoo!”

So hurry up and place your bets, Ladies and Gentlemen.