American Favorites
Below is a list of the 63 books by American authors found on the PBS Great American Read list of 100 most-loved books in 2018.
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The Great American Read
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
Alex Cross Mysteries (series)
James Patterson
Another Country
James Baldwin
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya
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 Clan of the Cave Bear
Jean M. Auel
The Coldest Winter Ever
Sister Souljah
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Dune
Frank Herbert
Flowers in the Attic
V.C. Andrews
Foundation (series)
Isaac Asimov
A Game of Thrones (series)
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
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hatchet (series)
Gary Paulsen
The Help
Kathryn Stockett
The Hunger Games (series)
Suzanne Collins
The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
Left Behind (series)
Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Looking for Alaska
John Green
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
Outlander (series)
Diana Gabaldon
The Outsiders
S.E. Hinton
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
The Sirens of Titan
Kurt Vonnegut
The Stand
Stephen King
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
Swan Song
Robert R. McCammon
Tales of the City (series)
Armistead Maupin
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
This Present Darkness
Frank E. Peretti
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The Twilight Saga (series)
Stephenie Meyer
Watchers
Dean Koontz
The Wheel of Time (series)
Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls