The Great American Read 63 books by Deb Nance

Their Eyes Were Watching God

ByZora Neale Hurston

1937 • 392 Readers • 260 pages • 3.9

#1 of 10 in Tales of the City

I racconti di San Francisco

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

1978 • 57 Readers • 480 pages • 4.2

A Prayer for Owen Meany

ByJohn Irving

237 Readers • 4.1

A Confederacy of Dunces

ByJohn Kennedy Toole

1980 • 371 Readers • 417 pages • 3.9

1984

ByGeorge Orwell

7 • 3,460 Readers • 352 pages • 4.2

#1 of 4 in Adventures of Tom and Huck

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

ByMark Twain

1876 • 594 Readers • 400 pages • 3.7

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

ByBetty Smith

1943 • 275 Readers • 496 pages • 4.1

The Alchemist

ByPaulo Coelho,Alan R. Clarke(Translator)

1988 • 1,440 Readers • 208 pages • 3.5

#10

#1 of 2 in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

ByLewis Carroll

1864 • 586 Readers • 206 pages • 3.9

#11

Americanah

ByChimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2013 • 411 Readers • 608 pages • 4.3

#12

#1 of 9 in Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables

ByL.M. Montgomery

1908 • 470 Readers • 384 pages • 4.3

#13

#3 of 2 in Atlas shrugged

Atlas Shrugged

ByAyn Rand

2019 • 445 Readers • 946 pages • 3

#14

And Then There Were None

ByAgatha Christie

1939 • 1,239 Readers • 276 pages • 4.2

#15

#1 of 2 in Beloved Trilogy

Beloved

ByToni Morrison

1987 • 568 Readers • 362 pages • 3.9

#16

Bless Me, Ultima

ByRudolfo Anaya

1972 • 39 Readers • 55 pages • 3.8

#17

The Call of the Wild

ByJack London

1903 • 379 Readers • 142 pages • 3.6

#18

#1 of 2 in Catch-22

Catch-22

ByJoseph Heller

1961 • 1,049 Readers • 466 pages • 4

#19

Charlotte's Web

ByE.B. White

1952 • 592 Readers • 184 pages • 3.9

#20

#1 of 2 in The Color Purple Collection

The Color Purple

ByAlice Walker

1976 • 611 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 • 610 Readers • 1,023 pages • 3.8

#22

#1 of 8 in Dune

Dune

ByFrank Herbert

1965 • 3,091 Readers • 704 pages • 4.3

#23

#16 of 15 in The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection

Frankenstein

ByMary Shelley,Michael Burgan

181 • 1,662 Readers • 63 pages • 3.8

#24

#1 of 7 in A Song of Ice and Fire

A Game of Thrones

ByGeorge R.R. Martin

1996 • 2,129 Readers • 694 pages • 4.4

#25

#1 of 5 in Track

Ghost

ByJason Reynolds

2016 • 37 Readers • 181 pages • 4.3

#26

#1 of 4 in Gilead

Gilead

ByMarilynne Robinson

2004 • 170 Readers • 289 pages • 4

#27

#1 of 4 in The Giver

The Giver

ByLois Lowry

1993 • 1,267 Readers • 202 pages • 4

#28

Gone with the Wind

ByMargaret Mitchell

459 Readers • 4.1

#29

Great Expectations

ByCharles Dickens

1860 • 648 Readers • 544 pages • 3.6

#30

The Great Gatsby

ByF. Scott Fitzgerald

1920 • 2,082 Readers • 180 pages • 3.7

#31

Gulliver's Travels

ByJonathan Swift,Joshua Hanft,+2 more

198 • 292 Readers • 240 pages • 3.5

#32

#1 of 8 in Harry Potter

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

ByJ. K. Rowling

1987 • 3,471 Readers • 320 pages • 4.3

#33

#1 of 5 in Brian's Saga

Hatchet

ByGary Paulsen

1986 • 274 Readers • 214 pages • 3.6

#34

Heart of Darkness

ByJoseph Conrad

1899 • 634 Readers • 132 pages • 3.2

#35

The Help

ByKathryn Stockett

2009 • 600 Readers • 4.2

#36

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

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

ByDouglas Adams

30 • 2,350 Readers • 215 pages • 4.2

#37

Jane Eyre

ByCharlotte Brontë

1847 • 1,205 Readers • 580 pages • 4

#38

The Joy Luck Club

ByAmy Tan

281 Readers • 3.8

#39

#1 of 12 in Left Behind

Left Behind

ByTim LaHaye,Jerry B. Jenkins

1995 • 87 Readers • 497 pages • 3.2

#40

The Little Prince

ByAntoine de Saint-Exupéry,Richard Howard(Translator)

1 • 1,217 Readers • 96 pages • 4.2

#41

#1 of 3 in Little Women

Little Women

ByLouisa May Alcott

1848 • 960 Readers • 449 pages • 3.9

#42

#1 of 4 in Lonesome Dove

Lonesome Dove

ByLarry McMurtry

1985 • 398 Readers • 858 pages • 4.7

#43

Looking for Alaska

ByJohn Green

2005 • 719 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 • 2,115 Readers • 398 pages • 4.4

#45

The Lovely Bones

ByAlice Sebold

2002 • 545 Readers • 372 pages • 3.6

#46

Memoirs of a Geisha

ByArthur Golden

1997 • 616 Readers • 435 pages • 3.9

#47

#1 of 2 in The Notebook

The Notebook

ByNicholas Sparks

1996 • 242 Readers • 213 pages • 3.6

#48

One Hundred Years of Solitude

ByGabriel García Márquez,Gregory Rabassa(Translator)

1967 • 1,130 Readers • 422 pages • 4.1

#49

#1 of 9 in Outlander

Outlander

ByDiana Gabaldon

1991 • 641 Readers • 627 pages • 3.9

#50

The Outsiders

ByS.E. Hinton

1967 • 674 Readers • 6 pages • 3.9

#51

The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

ByOscar Wilde

1890 • 1,305 Readers • 260 pages • 4

#52

#1 of 2 in The Pilgrim's Progress

The Pilgrim's Progress in Modern English

ByJohn Bunyan

1678 • 64 Readers • 522 pages • 3.6

#53

#1 of 4 in Kingsbridge

The Pillars of the Earth

ByKen Follett

1989 • 634 Readers • 1,008 pages • 4.1

#54

Jane Austen's Children's Collection

Pride and Prejudice

ByJane Austen

1811 • 1,760 Readers • 292 pages • 4.2

#55

Rebecca

ByDaphne du Maurier

1938 • 185 Readers • 376 pages • 4.1

#56

The Sirens of Titan

ByKurt Vonnegut

1959 • 362 Readers • 322 pages • 3.9

#57

#1 of 1 in The Stand (3 volumes)

The Stand

ByStephen King

1978 • 1,030 Readers • 1,553 pages • 4.2

#58

The Sun Also Rises

ByErnest Hemingway

1926 • 434 Readers • 264 pages • 3.6

#59

#1 of 3 in The African Trilogy

Things Fall Apart

ByChinua Achebe

1958 • 425 Readers • 185 pages • 3.6

#60

#1 of 2 in To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

ByHarper Lee

1915 • 2,293 Readers • 309 pages • 4.1

#61

#1 of 6 in The Twilight Saga

Twilight

ByStephenie Meyer

2005 • 1,244 Readers • 631 pages • 2.9

#62

Where the Red Fern Grows

ByWilson Rawls

1961 • 226 Readers • 272 pages • 4

#63

White Teeth

ByZadie Smith

2000 • 222 Readers • 448 pages • 3.9

#64

Wuthering Heights

ByEmily Brontë,Alison Booth

197 • 1,103 Readers • 432 pages • 3.6

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