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# ''[[The Little Prince]]'' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
# ''[[The Little Prince]]'' by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
# ''[[The Call of the Wild]]'' by Jack London
# ''[[The Call of the Wild]]'' by Jack London
# ''[[The Clan of the Cave Bear]]'' by Jean M. Auel
# ''[[Earth's Children|The Clan of the Cave Bear]]'' by Jean M. Auel
# ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy]]'' by Douglas Adams
# ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' by Douglas Adams
# ''[[The Hunger Games (series)]]'' by Suzanne Collins
# ''[[The Hunger Games (novel)|The Hunger Games]]'' (series) by Suzanne Collins
# ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' by Alexandre Dumas
# ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' by Alexandre Dumas
# ''[[The Joy Luck Club]]'' by Amy Tan
# ''[[The Joy Luck Club]]'' by Amy Tan
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# ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' by Herman Melville
# ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' by Herman Melville
# ''[[Catch-22]]'' by Joseph Heller
# ''[[Catch-22]]'' by Joseph Heller
# ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire (series)]]'' by George R.R. Martin
# ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' (series) by George R.R. Martin
# ''[[Foundation (series)]]'' by Isaac Asimov
# ''[[Foundation]]'' (series) by Isaac Asimov
# ''[[War and Peace]]'' by Leo Tolstoy
# ''[[War and Peace]]'' by Leo Tolstoy
# ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]'' by Zora Neale Hurston
# ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]'' by Zora Neale Hurston
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# ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' by Oscar Wilde
# ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' by Oscar Wilde
# ''[[The Notebook]]'' by Nicholas Sparks
# ''[[The Notebook]]'' by Nicholas Sparks
# ''[[The Shack]]'' by William P. Young
# ''[[The Shack]]'' by [[William P. Young]]
# ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]'' by John Kennedy Toole
# ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]'' by John Kennedy Toole
# ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'' by Tom Clancy
# ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'' by Tom Clancy
# ''[[Beloved]]'' by Toni Morrison
# ''[[Beloved]]'' by Toni Morrison
# ''[[The Martian]]'' by Andy Weir
# ''[[The Martian]]'' by [[Andy Weir]]
# ''[[The Wheel of Time (series)]]'' by James Oliver Rigney
# ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' (series) by James Oliver Rigney
# ''[[Siddhartha]]'' by Hermann Hesse
# ''[[Siddhartha]]'' by [[Hermann Hesse]]
# ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'' by Fyodor Dostoevsky
# ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'' by Fyodor Dostoevsky
# ''[[The Sun Also Rises]]'' by Ernest Hemingway
# ''[[The Sun Also Rises]]'' by Ernest Hemingway
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# ''[[The Lovely Bones]]'' by Alice Sebold
# ''[[The Lovely Bones]]'' by Alice Sebold
# ''[[The Alchemist]]'' by Paulo Coelho
# ''[[The Alchemist]]'' by Paulo Coelho
# ''[[Hatchet (series)]]'' by Gary Paulsen
# ''[[Brian's Saga|Hatchet]]'' (series) by Gary Paulsen
# ''[[Invisible Man]]'' by Ralph Ellison
# ''[[Invisible Man]]'' by Ralph Ellison
# ''[[Twilight (series)]]'' by Stephenie Meyer
# ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' (series) by Stephenie Meyer
# ''[[Tales of the City (series)]]'' by Armistead Maupin
# ''[[Tales of the City]]'' (series) by Armistead Maupin
# ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' by Jonathan Swift
# ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' by Jonathan Swift
# ''[[Ready Player One]]'' by Ernest Cline
# ''[[Ready Player One]]'' by Ernest Cline
# ''[[Left Behind (series)]]'' by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
# ''[[Left Behind]]'' (series) by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
# ''[[Gone Girl]]'' by Gillian Flynn
# ''[[Gone Girl]]'' by [[Gillian Flynn]]
# ''[[Watchers]]'' by Dean R. Koontz
# ''[[Watchers]]'' by [[Dean R. Koontz]]
# ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress]]'' by John Bunyan
# ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress]]'' by John Bunyan
# ''[[Alex Cross (series)]]'' by James Patterson
# ''[[Alex Cross]]'' (series) by [[James Patterson]]
# ''[[Things Fall Apart]]'' by Chinua Achebe
# ''[[Things Fall Apart]]'' by Chinua Achebe
# ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' by Joseph Conrad
# ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' by Joseph Conrad
# ''[[Gilead]]'' by Marilynne Robinson
# ''[[Gilead]]'' by [[Marilynne Robinson]]
# ''[[Flowers in the Attic]]'' by V. C. Andrews
# ''[[Flowers in the Attic]]'' by V. C. Andrews
# ''[[Fifty Shades of Grey]]'' by E.L. James
# ''[[Fifty Shades of Grey]]'' by E.L. James
# ''[[The Sirens of Titan]]'' by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
# ''[[The Sirens of Titan]]'' by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
# ''[[This Present Darkness]]'' by Frank E. Peretti
# ''[[This Present Darkness]]'' by [[Frank E. Peretti]]
# ''[[Americanah]]'' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
# ''[[Americanah]]'' by [[Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie]]
# ''[[Another Country]]'' by James Baldwin
# ''[[Another Country]]'' by James Baldwin
# ''[[Bless Me, Ultima]]'' by Rudolfo Anaya
# ''[[Bless Me, Ultima]]'' by Rudolfo Anaya
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# ''[[The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao]]'' by Junot Díaz
# ''[[The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao]]'' by Junot Díaz
# ''[[Swan Song]]'' by Robert R. McCammon
# ''[[Swan Song]]'' by Robert R. McCammon
# ''[[Mind Invaders]]'' by Dave Hunt
# ''[[Mind Invaders]]'' by [[Dave Hunt]]
# ''[[White Teeth]]'' by Zadie Smith
# ''[[White Teeth]]'' by Zadie Smith
# ''[[Ghost]]'' by Jason Reynolds
# ''[[Ghost]]'' by Jason Reynolds
# ''[[The Coldest Winter Ever]]'' by Sister Souljah
# ''[[The Coldest Winter Ever]]'' by [[Sister Souljah]]
# ''[[The Intuitionist]]'' by Colson Whitehead
# ''[[The Intuitionist]]'' by [[Colson Whitehead]]
# ''[[Doña Bárbára]]'' by Rómulo Gallegos
# ''[[Doña Bárbára]]'' by [[Rómulo Gallegos]]


(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].)
(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].)

Revision as of 16:56, 25 October 2018

The PBS television miniseries The Great American Read announced on October 23, 2018 that these were voted the 100 best-loved books or book series in the USA.

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  2. Outlander (series) by Diana Gabalon
  3. Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling
  4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  5. The Lord of the Rings (series) by J.R.R. Tolkien
  6. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  7. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
  8. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  9. The Chronicles of Narnia (series) by C.S. Lewis
  10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
  11. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
  12. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  13. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  14. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  15. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  16. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
  17. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  18. 1984 by George Orwell
  19. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
  20. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  21. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
  22. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
  23. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  24. The Stand by Stephen King
  25. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  26. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  27. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  28. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  29. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  30. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  31. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
  32. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
  33. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  34. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  35. Dune by Frank Herbert
  36. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  37. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  38. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
  39. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  40. The Hunger Games (series) by Suzanne Collins
  41. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  42. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  43. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
  44. The Giver by Lois Lowry
  45. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  46. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
  47. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  48. A Song of Ice and Fire (series) by George R.R. Martin
  49. Foundation (series) by Isaac Asimov
  50. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  51. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  52. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
  53. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
  54. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  55. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  56. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
  57. The Shack by William P. Young
  58. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  59. The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
  60. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  61. The Martian by Andy Weir
  62. The Wheel of Time (series) by James Oliver Rigney
  63. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  64. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  65. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  66. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
  67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  68. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  69. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  70. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  71. Hatchet (series) by Gary Paulsen
  72. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  73. Twilight (series) by Stephenie Meyer
  74. Tales of the City (series) by Armistead Maupin
  75. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  76. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
  77. Left Behind (series) by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
  78. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  79. Watchers by Dean R. Koontz
  80. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
  81. Alex Cross (series) by James Patterson
  82. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  83. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  84. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
  85. Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
  86. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
  87. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  88. This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti
  89. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  90. Another Country by James Baldwin
  91. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
  92. Looking for Alaska by John Green
  93. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
  94. Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
  95. Mind Invaders by Dave Hunt
  96. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  97. Ghost by Jason Reynolds
  98. The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
  99. The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
  100. Doña Bárbára by Rómulo Gallegos

(As reported by CBC Books.)

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