The Great American Read
The PBS television miniseries The Great American Read announced these were voted the 100 best-loved books or book series in the USA as of October 23, 2018.
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Outlander (series) by Diana Gabalon
- Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Lord of the Rings (series) by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Chronicles of Narnia (series) by C.S. Lewis
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- 1984 by George Orwell
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Hunger Games (series) by Suzanne Collins
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- A Song of Ice and Fire (series) by George R.R. Martin
- Foundation (series) by Isaac Asimov
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
- The Shack by William P. Young
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- The Wheel of Time (series) by James Oliver Rigney
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- Hatchet (series) by Gary Paulsen
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Twilight (series) by Stephenie Meyer
- Tales of the City (series) by Armistead Maupin
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- Left Behind (series) by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Watchers by Dean R. Koontz
- The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
- Alex Cross (series) by James Patterson
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
- Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
- The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Another Country by James Baldwin
- Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
- Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
- Mind Invaders by Dave Hunt
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Ghost by Jason Reynolds
- The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
- The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
- Doña Bárbára by Rómulo Gallegos
(As reported by CBC Books.)