BOOKS LISTED ON “THE GREAT AMERICAN READ” LIST
Books listed on “The Great American Read” list
- 1984, George Orwell
- A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
- A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
- A Separate Peace, John Knowles
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
- The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
- Alex Cross Mysteries, James Patterson
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- Americanah, Chimanmanda Ngozi Adichie
- And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie
- Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Another Country, James Baldwin
- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya
- The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
- The Call of the Wild, Jack London
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
- Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White
- The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis
- The Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel
- The Coldest Winter Ever, Sister Souljah
- The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyvesky
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon
- The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
- Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes
- Dona Barbara, Romulo Gallegos
- Dune, Frank Herbert
- Fifty Shades of Grey, E. L. James
- Foundation, Isaac Asimov
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
- A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin
- Ghost, Jason Reynolds
- Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
- The Giver, Lois Lowry
- The Godfather, Mario Puzo
- Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
- Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Gulliver’s Travels, Johnathan Swift
- The Handmaids’ Tale, Margaret Atwood
- Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling
- Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- The Help, Kathryn Stockett
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
- The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy
- The Intuitionist, Colson Whitehead
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
- Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
- Left Behind, Tim La Haye
- The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
- Looking For Alaska, John Green
- The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkein
- The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
- The Martian, Andy Weir
- Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
- Mind Invaders, Dave Hunt
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville
- The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Outlander, Diana Gabaldon
- The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
- The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- The Shack, William P. YOung
- Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
- The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut
- The Stand, Stephen King
- The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
- Swan Song, Robert McCammon
- Tales of the City, Armistead Maupin
- Their Eyes WEre Watching God, Zora Hurston
- Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
- This Present Darkness, Frank Peretti
- To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- The Twilight Saga, Stephenie Meyer
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
- Watchers, Dean Koontz
- The Wheel of Time, Robert Jordan
- Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
- White Teeth, Zadie Smith
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
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