The Great American Read · the Book of Books by PBS -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Foreword Introduction The Books

Once Upon a Time The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Alchemist Alex Cross Mysteries Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Americanah And Then There Were None Talk the Talk

Anne of Green Gables Another Country Atlas Shrugged Beloved Bless Me, Ultima The Book Thief

All Personality

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Call of the Wild Catch-22 The Catcher in the Rye Charlotte’s Web The Chronicles of Narnia Series

Another Day, Another Dollar

The Clan of the Cave Bear The Coldest Winter Ever The Color Purple A Confederacy of Dunces The Count of Monte Cristo Crime and Punishment

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Da Vinci Code Don Quixote Doña Bárbara Dune Fifty Shades Series

“When It Is Finished, You Are Always Surprised”

Flowers in the Attic Foundation Series Frankenstein Ghost Gilead The Giver

From Page to Stage and Screen

The Godfather Gone Girl Gone with the Wind The Grapes of Wrath Great Expectations The Great Gatsby

Libraries to Long For

Gulliver’s Travels The Handmaid’s Tale Harry Potter Series Hatchet Series Heart of Darkness The Help

Predictive Text

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy The Hunger Games Trilogy The Hunt for Red October The Intuitionist Invisible Man Jane Eyre

“What’s the Use of a Book Without Pictures?”

The Joy Luck Club Jurassic Park Left Behind Series The Little Prince Little Women Lonesome Dove

If You Like…

Looking for Alaska The Lord of the Rings Series The Lovely Bones The Martian Memoirs of a Geisha Mind Invaders

Boring, Strange, and Just Not Good

Moby-Dick Nineteen Eighty-Four The Notebook One Hundred Years of Solitude Outlander Series The Outsiders

A Sense of Place

The Picture of Dorian Gray The Pilgrim’s Progress The Pillars of the Earth A Prayer for Owen Meany Pride and Prejudice Ready Player One

By Design

Rebecca A Separate Peace The Shack Siddhartha The Sirens of Titan A Song of Ice and Fire Series

In a Manner of Speaking

The Stand The Sun Also Rises Swan Song Tales of the City Their Eyes Were Watching God Things Fall Apart

Mothers, Lovers, and BFFs

This Present Darkness To Kill a Mockingbird A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Twilight Series War and Peace Watchers

“There Are Better Ways to Starve to Death”

The Wheel of Time Series Where the Red Fern Grows White Teeth Wuthering Heights

How to Read a Literary Text

Appendices

The Great American Read: 100 Books by Release Year The Great American Read: 100 Books by Genre

Resources for Readers

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