The Great American Read 63 books by Deb Nance

Their Eyes Were Watching God

ByZora Neale Hurston

1937 • 536 Readers • 260 pages • 4

#1 of 10 in Tales of the City

I racconti di San Francisco

ByArmistead Maupin,Valentina Guani(Translator),+1 more

1978 • 87 Readers • 480 pages • 4.3

A Prayer for Owen Meany

ByJohn Irving

1989 • 336 Readers • 636 pages • 4.1

A Confederacy of Dunces

ByJohn Kennedy Toole

1980 • 532 Readers • 374 pages • 3.9

1984

ByGeorge Orwell

1949 • 5,215 Readers • 352 pages • 4.2

#1 of 4 in Adventures of Tom and Huck

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

ByMark Twain

1876 • 860 Readers • 400 pages • 3.7

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

ByBetty Smith

1943 • 397 Readers • 496 pages • 4.1

The Alchemist

ByPaulo Coelho

1988 • 2,171 Readers • 181 pages • 3.5

#10

#1 of 2 in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

ByLewis Carroll

1864 • 825 Readers • 132 pages • 3.9

#11

Americanah

ByChimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2013 • 605 Readers • 608 pages • 4.2

#12

#1 of 9 in Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables

ByL.M. Montgomery

1908 • 673 Readers • 384 pages • 4.3

#13

Atlas Shrugged

ByAyn Rand

30 • 625 Readers • 946 pages • 3.2

#14

#3 of 6 in Agatha Christie Graphic Novels

And Then There Were None

ByAgatha Christie

1939 • 1,719 Readers • 116 pages • 4.2

#15

#1 of 2 in Beloved Trilogy

Beloved

ByToni Morrison

1987 • 800 Readers • 362 pages • 3.9

#16

Bless Me, Ultima

ByRudolfo Anaya

1972 • 50 Readers • 55 pages • 3.8

#17

The Call of the Wild

ByJack London

1903 • 521 Readers • 142 pages • 3.6

#18

#1 of 2 in Catch-22

Catch-22

ByJoseph Heller

1961 • 1,474 Readers • 466 pages • 4

#19

Charlotte's Web

ByE.B. White

823 Readers • 3.9

#20

#1 of 3 in The Color Purple Collection

The Color Purple

ByAlice Walker

1976 • 866 Readers • 288 pages • 4.1

#21

#1 of 2 in Don Quijote de la Mancha

The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha

ByMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra,John Rutherford(Translator)

1605 • 817 Readers • 1,023 pages • 3.8

#22

#1 of 8 in Dune

Dune

ByFrank Herbert

1965 • 4,279 Readers • 704 pages • 4.3

#23

Frankenstein

ByMary Shelley

181 • 2,340 Readers • 353 pages • 3.8

#24

#1 of 7 in A Song of Ice and Fire

A Game of Thrones

ByGeorge R.R. Martin

1996 • 2,995 Readers • 819 pages • 4.4

#25

#1 of 4 in Track

Ghost

ByJason Reynolds

2016 • 56 Readers • 181 pages • 4.4

#26

#1 of 4 in Gilead

Gilead

ByMarilynne Robinson

2004 • 254 Readers • 289 pages • 4

#27

#1 of 4 in The Giver

The Giver

ByLois Lowry

1993 • 1,780 Readers • 202 pages • 4

#28

#1 of 2 in Gone with the Wind Split-Volume (2) Editions

Gone with the Wind

ByMargaret Mitchell

1936 • 643 Readers • 49h • 4

#29

Graffex

Great Expectations

ByCharles Dickens

1860 • 884 Readers • 548 pages • 3.6

#30

The Great Gatsby

ByF. Scott Fitzgerald

1920 • 2,937 Readers • 180 pages • 3.7

#31

Gulliver's Travels

ByJonathan Swift

198 • 397 Readers • 462 pages • 3.5

#32

#1 of 8 in Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

ByJ. K. Rowling

1936 • 4,922 Readers • 309 pages • 4.3

#33

#1 of 5 in Brian's Saga

Hatchet

ByGary Paulsen

1986 • 393 Readers • 214 pages • 3.6

#34

Heart of Darkness

ByJoseph Conrad

1899 • 894 Readers • 132 pages • 3.3

#35

The Help

ByKathryn Stockett

2009 • 879 Readers • 534 pages • 4.2

#36

#1 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

ByDouglas Adams

1979 • 3,308 Readers • 215 pages • 4.2

#37

Jane Eyre

ByCharlotte Brontë

1847 • 1,770 Readers • 580 pages • 4

#38

The Joy Luck Club

ByAmy Tan

1989 • 381 Readers • 120 pages • 3.8

#39

#1 of 12 in Left Behind

Left Behind

ByTim LaHaye,Jerry B. Jenkins

1995 • 113 Readers • 497 pages • 3.2

#40

The Little Prince

ByAntoine de Saint-Exupéry

1 • 1,761 Readers • 136 pages • 4.2

#41

#1 of 3 in Little Women

Little Women

ByLouisa May Alcott

1848 • 1,388 Readers • 449 pages • 3.9

#42

#1 of 4 in Lonesome Dove

Lonesome Dove

ByLarry McMurtry

1985 • 561 Readers • 858 pages • 4.6

#43

Looking for Alaska

ByJohn Green

2005 • 991 Readers • 263 pages • 3.7

#44

#1 of 3 in The Lord of the Rings

The Fellowship of the Ring

ByJ.R.R. Tolkien

1954 • 2,944 Readers • 398 pages • 4.4

#45

The Lovely Bones

ByAlice Sebold

2002 • 820 Readers • 352 pages • 3.6

#46

Memoirs of a Geisha

ByArthur Golden

1997 • 870 Readers • 435 pages • 3.9

#47

#1 of 2 in The Notebook

The Notebook

ByNicholas Sparks

1996 • 355 Readers • 213 pages • 3.6

#48

One Hundred Years of Solitude

ByGabriel García Márquez,Gregory Rabassa(Translator)

1967 • 1,604 Readers • 422 pages • 4.1

#49

#1 of 10 in Outlander

Outlander

ByDiana Gabaldon

1991 • 856 Readers • 627 pages • 3.9

#50

The Outsiders

ByS.E. Hinton

1967 • 968 Readers • 6 pages • 4

#51

The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

ByOscar Wilde

1890 • 1,823 Readers • 260 pages • 4

#52

#1 of 2 in The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress in Modern English

ByJohn Bunyan

1678 • 96 Readers • 522 pages • 3.6

#53

#1 of 4 in Kingsbridge

The Pillars of the Earth

ByKen Follett

1800 • 914 Readers • 1,008 pages • 4.1

#54

Cozy Classics

Pride and Prejudice

ByJane Austen

1811 • 2,499 Readers • 342 pages • 4.2

#55

Rebecca

ByDaphne du Maurier

250 Readers • 4.1

#56

The Sirens of Titan

ByKurt Vonnegut

1959 • 485 Readers • 322 pages • 4

#57

The Stand

ByStephen King

1978 • 1,432 Readers • 1,553 pages • 4.2

#58

The Sun Also Rises

ByErnest Hemingway

1926 • 620 Readers • 264 pages • 3.6

#59

#1 of 3 in The African Trilogy

Things Fall Apart

ByChinua Achebe

1958 • 619 Readers • 185 pages • 3.7

#60

To Kill a Mockingbird

ByHarper Lee

1960 • 3,320 Readers • 309 pages • 4.1

#61

#1 of 6 in The Twilight Saga

Twilight

ByStephenie Meyer

2005 • 1,769 Readers • 631 pages • 2.9

#62

Where the Red Fern Grows

ByWilson Rawls

1961 • 327 Readers • 272 pages • 4

#63

White Teeth

ByZadie Smith

2001 • 314 Readers • 448 pages • 3.9

#64

Wuthering Heights

ByEmily Brontë

197 • 1,555 Readers • 376 pages • 3.7

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