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Read the 100

Below is the list of America’s 100 most-loved books brought to you by The Great American Read. Explore the book list and visit the book pages to learn more.

1984 cover

1984

George Orwell
A Confederacy of Dunces cover

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole
A Prayer for Owen Meany cover

A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving
A Separate Peace cover

A Separate Peace

John Knowles
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn cover

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer cover

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain
The Alchemist cover

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho
Alex Cross Mysteries cover

Alex Cross Mysteries (series)

James Patterson

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland cover

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll
Americanah cover

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
And Then There Were None cover

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie
Anne of Green Gables cover

Anne of Green Gables

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Another Country cover

Another Country

James Baldwin
Atlas Shrugged cover

Atlas Shrugged

Ayn Rand
Beloved cover

Beloved

Toni Morrison
Bless Me, Ultima cover

Bless Me, Ultima

Rudolfo Anaya
The Book Thief cover

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao cover

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz
The Call of the Wild cover

The Call of the Wild

Jack London
Catch-22 cover

Catch-22

Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye cover

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger
Charlotte's Web cover

Charlotte's Web

E.B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia cover

The Chronicles of Narnia (series)

C.S. Lewis
The Clan of the Cave Bear cover

The Clan of the Cave Bear

Jean M. Auel
The Coldest Winter Ever cover

The Coldest Winter Ever

Sister Souljah
The Color Purple cover

The Color Purple

Alice Walker
The Count of Monte Cristo cover

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment cover

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time cover

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon
The Da Vinci Code cover

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown
Don Quixote cover

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes
Doña Bárbára cover

Doña Bárbara

Rómulo Gallegos
Dune cover

Dune

Frank Herbert
Fifty Shades of Grey cover

Fifty Shades of Grey (series)

E.L. James
Flowers in the Attic cover

Flowers in the Attic

V.C. Andrews
Foundation cover

Foundation (series)

Isaac Asimov
Frankenstein cover

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley
Game of Thrones cover

Game of Thrones (series)

George R.R. Martin
Ghost cover

Ghost

Jason Reynolds
Gilead cover

Gilead

Marilynne Robinson
The Giver cover

The Giver

Lois Lowry
The Godfather cover

The Godfather

Mario Puzo
Gone Girl cover

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn
Gone with the Wind cover

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath cover

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck
Great Expectations cover

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby cover

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver's Travels cover

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift
The Handmaid's Tale cover

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter cover

Harry Potter (series)

J.K. Rowling
Hatchet cover

Hatchet (series)

Gary Paulsen
Heart of Darkness cover

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad
The Help cover

The Help

Kathryn Stockett
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy cover

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams
The Hunger Games cover

The Hunger Games (series)

Suzanne Collins
The Hunt for Red October cover

The Hunt for Red October

Tom Clancy
The Intuitionist cover

The Intuitionist

Colson Whitehead
Invisible Man cover

Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre cover

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë
The Joy Luck Club cover

The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan
Jurassic Park cover

Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton
Left Behind cover

Left Behind (series)

Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
The Little Prince cover

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Little Women cover

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott
Lonesome Dove cover

Lonesome Dove

Larry McMurtry
Looking for Alaska cover

Looking for Alaska

John Green
The Lord of the Rings cover

The Lord of the Rings (series)

J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lovely Bones cover

The Lovely Bones

Alice Sebold
The Martian cover

The Martian

Andy Weir
Memoirs of a Geisha cover

Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden
Mind Invaders cover

Mind Invaders

Dave Hunt
Moby Dick cover

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville
The Notebook cover

The Notebook

Nicholas Sparks
One Hundred Years of Solitude cover

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez
Outlander cover

Outlander (series)

Diana Gabaldon
The Outsiders cover

The Outsiders

S.E. Hinton
The Picture of Dorian Gray cover

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
The Pilgrim's Progress cover

The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan
The Pillars of the Earth cover

The Pillars of the Earth

Ken Follett
Pride and Prejudice cover

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen
Ready Player One cover

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline
Rebecca cover

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier
The Shack cover

The Shack

William P. Young
Siddhartha cover

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse
The Sirens of Titan cover

The Sirens of Titan

Kurt Vonnegut
The Stand cover

The Stand

Stephen King
The Sun Also Rises cover

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway
Swan Song cover

Swan Song

Robert R. McCammon
Tales of the City cover

Tales of the City (series)

Armistead Maupin
Their Eyes Were Watching God cover

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart cover

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe
This Present Darkness cover

This Present Darkness

Frank E. Peretti
To Kill a Mockingbird cover

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee
The Twilight Saga cover

The Twilight Saga (series)

Stephenie Meyer
War and Peace cover

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy
Watchers cover

Watchers

Dean Koontz
The Wheel of Time cover

The Wheel of Time (series)

Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
Where the Red Fern Grows cover

Where the Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls
White Teeth cover

White Teeth

Zadie Smith
Wuthering Heights cover

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë