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[[PBSPublic Broadcasting Service]] television ran a miniseries called '''''The Great American Read''''' during 2018, in which [[Catch Phrase|viewersViewers likeLike youYou]] were invited to vote for their favorite works of [[literature]]. On October 23, 2018, they announced that these were the works that were voted the 100 best-loved books or book series in the USA.<ref>As reported by [https://www.cbc.ca/books/harper-lee-s-to-kill-a-mockingbird-tops-list-of-100-of-america-s-best-loved-novels-1.4876114 CBC Books].</ref>
 
Note that these are best-loved works, not seminal or most influential. They're also works beloved by readers in the USA, not necessarily works written in the USA.
 
 
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# ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' by Harper Lee
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# ''[[The Help]]'' by Kathryn Stockett
# ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'' by [[Mark Twain]]
# ''[[1984Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' by [[George Orwell]]
# ''[[And Then There Were None]]'' by [[Agatha Christie]]
# ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' by [[Ayn Rand]]
# ''[[Wuthering Heights (novel)|Wuthering Heights]]'' by [[Emily Brontë]]
# ''[[Lonesome Dove]]'' by Larry McMurtry
# ''[[The Pillars of the Earth]]'' by Ken Follett
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# ''[[The Shack]]'' by [[William P. Young]]
# ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]'' by John Kennedy Toole
# ''[[The Hunt for Red October (novel)|The Hunt for Red October]]'' by [[Tom Clancy]]
# ''[[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]]'' by [[Toni Morrison]]
# ''[[The Martian]]'' by [[Andy Weir]]
# ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' (series) by James Oliver Rigney
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# ''[[Alex Cross]]'' (series) by [[James Patterson]]
# ''[[Things Fall Apart]]'' by Chinua Achebe
# ''[[Heart of Darkness (novel)|Heart of Darkness]]'' by [[Joseph Conrad]]
# ''[[Gilead]]'' by [[Marilynne Robinson]]
# ''[[Flowers in the Attic]]'' by [[V. C. Andrews]]
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