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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