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Below is the list of America’s 100 most-loved books brought to you by The Great American Read.

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1984 cover A Confederacy of Dunces cover A Prayer for Owen Meany cover A Separate Peace cover A Tree Grows in Brooklyn cover
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer cover The Alchemist cover Alex Cross Mysteries (Series) cover Alice's Adventures in Wonderland cover Americanah cover
And Then There Were None cover Anne of Green Gables cover Another Country cover Atlas Shrugged cover Beloved cover
Bless Me, Ultima cover The Book Thief cover The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao cover The Call of the Wild cover Catch-22 cover
The Catcher in the Rye cover Charlotte's Web cover The Chronicles of Narnia (Series) cover The Clan of the Cave Bear cover The Coldest Winter Ever cover
The Color Purple cover The Count of Monte Cristo cover Crime and Punishment cover The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time cover The Da Vinci Code cover
Don Quixote cover Doña Bárbára cover Dune (Remembering Tomorrow) Cover Image Fifty Shades of Grey (Series) cover Flowers in the Attic cover
Foundation (Series) cover Frankenstein cover Game of Thrones (Series) cover Ghost cover Gilead cover
The Giver cover The Godfather cover Gone Girl cover Gone with the Wind cover The Grapes of Wrath cover
Great Expectations cover The Great Gatsby (Scribner Classics) Cover Image Gulliver's Travels cover The Handmaid's Tale cover Harry Potter (Series) cover
Hatchet (Series) cover Heart of Darkness cover The Help cover The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy cover The Hunger Games (Series) cover
The Hunt for Red October cover The Intuitionist cover Invisible Man cover Jane Eyre cover The Joy Luck Club cover
Jurassic Park cover Left Behind (Series) cover The Little Prince cover Little Women cover Lonesome Dove cover
Looking for Alaska cover The Lord of the Rings (Series) cover The Lovely Bones cover The Martian cover Memoirs of a Geisha cover
Mind Invaders cover Moby-Dick cover The Notebook cover One Hundred Years of Solitude cover Outlander (Series) cover
The Outsiders cover The Picture of Dorian Gray cover The Pilgrim's Progress cover The Pillars of the Earth cover Pride and Prejudice cover
Ready Player One cover Rebecca cover The Shack cover Siddhartha cover The Sirens of Titan cover
The Stand cover The Sun Also Rises cover Swan Song cover Tales of the City (Series) cover Their Eyes Were Watching God cover
Things Fall Apart cover This Present Darkness cover To Kill a Mockingbird cover The Twilight Saga (Series) cover War and Peace cover
Watchers cover The Wheel of Time (Series) cover Where the Red Fern Grows cover White Teeth (Vintage International) Cover Image Wuthering Heights cover