Join The Great American Read
Join The Great American Read
On May 22, 2018, I watched the two-hour launch of “The Great
American Read” documentary TV special hosted by Meredith Vieira. PBS had
conducted a poll in which over 7,000 Americans named their most beloved
novels. In the two-hour premiere that aired
in May, the top 100 best-loved novels were introduced by celebrities, authors,
and other notable people urging the audience to vote for their favorite book on
the list. The books are not necessarily novels
written by Americans, just novels Americans voted for. This is an eight-part
series which will continue throughout the summer, with the winner of the best-loved novel
that the public elects to be revealed in October.
For more information visit their website https://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/home/
1984 by George
Orwell
A
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John
Irving
A Separate
Peace by John Knowles
A Tree
Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Alex Cross Mysteries (series) by
James Patterson
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by
Lewis Carroll
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie
Another Country by James Baldwin
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Call of
the Wild by Jack London
The Catcher
in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Charlotte’s
Web by E.B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia Series by
C.S. Lewis
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M.
Auel
Coldest Winter Ever by Sister
Souljah
The Color
Purple by Alice Walker
The Count
of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor
Dostoyevsky
The Da
Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Don Quiote by Miguel de Cervantes
Doña Bárbára by Rómulo Gallegos
Dune by Frank Herbert
Fifty Shades of Grey Series by E.L.
James
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews
Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
Game of Thrones Series by R.R. Martin
Ghost by Jason Reynolds
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – Click to read review
The Grapes of Wrath by John
Steinbeck
Great Expectations by Charles
Dickens
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Handmaid’s Tale by
Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Hatchet Series by Gary Paulsen
Heart of Darkness by Joseph
Conrad
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by
Douglas Adams
The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne
Collins
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Left Behind Series by Tim LaHaye and
Jerry B. Jenkins
The Little Prince by Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry
Little Women by Louisa May
Alcott
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Lord of the Rings Series by J.R.R.
Tolkien
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur
Golden
The Mind Invaders by Dave Hunt
The Notebook by Nicholas
Sparks
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel
García Márquez
Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Pride and Prejudice by Jane
Austen
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Shack by William P. Young
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
The Sirens of the Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Stand by Stephen King
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
Tales of the City Series by Armistead
Maupin
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora
Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti
To Kill a Mockingbird by
Harper Lee
The Twilight Saga Series by Stephenie
Meyer
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Watchers by Dean Koontz
The Wheel of Time Series by Robert
Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Where the Red Fern Grows by
Wilson Rawls
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Join the fun! Join
The Great American Read!
Happy Reading!
Annette
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