The Great American Read: All 100 Best-Loved Novels!

The Great American Read is a PBS series that explores and celebrates the power of reading as the core of an ambitious digital, educational, and community outreach campaign designed to get the country reading and passionately talking about books. One hundred books, to be exact, so happy reading!

Each title has a hashtag, so you can vote for your favorite book on social media or via SMS. You can also vote on the PBS website, or skip voting altogether and let ThriftBooks help you build a "100 Most-Loved Books" collection.

1. 1984 by George Orwell — #VOTE1984
2. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole — #VOTEDuncesBook
3. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving — #VOTEOwenMeany
4. A Separate Peace by John Knowles — #VOTEPeaceBook
5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith — #VOTEBrooklyn
6. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain — #VOTESawyer
7. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho — #VOTEAlchemist
8. Alex Cross Mysteries (series) by James Patterson — #VOTEAlexCross
9. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll — #VOTEAlice
10. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — #VOTEAmericanah
11. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie — #VOTEAndThen
12. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery — #VOTEGables
13. Another Country by James Baldwin — #VOTECountryBook
14. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand — #VOTEAtlas
15. Beloved by Toni Morrison — #VOTEBeloved
16. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya — #VOTEUltima
17. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak — #VOTEBookThief
18. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz — #VOTEOscarWao
19. The Call of the Wild by Jack London — #VOTECallWild
20. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller — #VOTECatch22
21. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger — #VOTECatcherRye
22. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White — #VOTECharlotte
23. The Chronicles of Narnia (series) by C.S. Lewis — #VOTENarnia
24. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel — #VOTECaveBear
25. The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah — #VOTEWinterBook
26. The Color Purple by Alice Walker — #VOTEColorPurple
27. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas — #VOTEMonteCristo
28. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky — #VOTECrimeBook
29. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon — #VOTECurious
30. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown — #VOTEDaVinci
31. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes — #VOTEQuixote
32. Doña Barbara by Rómulo Gallegos — #VOTEBarbara
33. Dune by Frank Herbert — #VOTEDune
34. Fifty Shades of Grey (series) by E.L. James — #VOTE50Shades
35. Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews — #VOTEFlowers
36. Foundation (series) by Isaac Asimov — #VOTEFoundation
37. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley — #VOTEFrankenstein
38. A Game of Thrones (series) by George R.R. Martin — #VOTEGOT
39. Ghost by Jason Reynolds — #VOTEGhost
40. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson — #VOTEGilead
41. The Giver by Lois Lowry — #VOTETheGiver
42. The Godfather by Mario Puzo — #VOTEGodfather
43. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn — #VOTEGoneGirl
44. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell — #VOTEGoneWind
45. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck — #VOTEGrapesWrath
46. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens — #VOTEGreatExpect
47. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald — #VOTEGatsby
48. Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift — #VOTEGulliver
49. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood — #VOTEHandmaid
50. Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling — #VOTEPotter
51. Hatchet (series), by Gary Paulsen — #VOTEHatchet
52. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad — #VOTEHeartDark
53. The Help by Kathryn Stockett — #VOTETheHelp
54. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams — #VOTEGalaxy
55. The Hunger Games (series) by Suzanne Collins — #VOTEHungerGames
56. The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy — #VOTERedOctober
57. The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead — #VOTEIntuition
58. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison — #VOTEInvisible
59. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë — #VOTEJaneEyre
60. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan — #VOTEJoyLuck
61. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton — #VOTEJurassic
62. Left Behind (series) by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins — #VOTELeftBehind
63. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — #VOTEPrinceBook
64. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott — #VOTELittleWomen
65. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry — #VOTELonesome
66. Looking for Alaska by John Green — #VOTEAlaska
67. The Lord of the Rings (series) by J.R.R. Tolkien — #VOTELOTR
68. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold — #VOTELovelyBones
69. The Martian by Andy Weir — #VOTEMartian
70. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden — #VOTEGeisha
71. Mind Invaders (also know as The Archon Conspiracy) by Dave Hunt — #VOTEInvaders
72. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville — #VOTEMobyDick
73. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks — #VOTENotebook
74. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez — #VOTE100Years
75. Outlander (series) by Diana Gabaldon — #VOTEOutlander
76. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton — #VOTEOutsiders
77. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde — #VOTEDorian
78. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan — #VOTEPilgrims
79. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett — #VOTEPillars
80. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen — #VOTEPridePrej
81. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline — #VOTEPlayer1
82. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier — #VOTERebecca
83. The Shack by William P. Young — #VOTETheShack
84. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse — #VOTESidd
85. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut — #VOTESirens
86. The Stand by Stephen King — #VOTETheStand
87. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway — #VOTESunRises
88. Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon — #VOTESwanSong
89. Tales of the City (series) by Armistead Maupin — #VOTETalesCity
90. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston — #VOTEWatchingGod
91. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe — #VOTEFallApart
92. This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti – #VOTEDarkness
93. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee — #VOTEMockingbird
94. The Twilight Saga (series) by Stephenie Meyer — #VOTETwilight
95. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy — #VOTEWarPeace
96. Watchers by Dean Koontz — #VOTEWatchers
97. The Wheel of Time (series) by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson — #VOTEWheelTime
98. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls — #VOTERedFern
99. White Teeth by Zadie Smith — #VOTEWhiteTeeth
100. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë — #VOTEWuthering

Keep an eye out for #TheGreatAmericanRead updates, including an "America's Most-Loved Novel" winner announcement following the grand finale episode, which airs on Tuesday, October 23.

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