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PBS's 'The Great American Read' Project of 2018

logo for 'BBC Top 100 Books'          Before and after the Millennium, various publications chose 'Best of' lists of all kinds. This list showed up in 2018, and is about the favorite novel of American readers; while skewed toward recent bestsellers, the list still includes "Don Quixote" and other classic European works. After watching the two-hour television special (included just below), readers were invited to vote online for their personal favorites - plural votes are allowed! Voting was available May 22 thru October 18. The full 8-part series of "The Great American Read" launched on 11 September 2018, along with toll-free phone numbers for each book.
Results of the voting were shown on the final episode of that series on October 23.

"PBS's 'The Great American Read' Project of 2018" [P.B.S. May-Oct 2018]
'The Great American Read' 2018 TV series  8-episode P.B.S. series hosted by actress Meredith Vieira,
written & produced by Kate Chumley
no credits yet at IMDb (7/2018) • official series website
watch 5/2018 official promo [0:30] online at P.B.S.

'Evolution of Science Fiction' short from P.B.S.  "The Evolution of Science Fiction" short [P.B.S. Studios July 2018]
Fast-paced animated short that mentions "Frankenstein", Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Robert A. Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, George Orwell, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, Frank Herbert, Orson Scott Card, Michael Crichton, and Octavia E. Butler
Produced by Amanda Fox; directed & animated by Andrew Matthews; written by Lindsay Ellis & Angelina Meehan; narrated by Lindsay Ellis
not listed at IMDb • watch 7/2018 full short [6:09] online at YouTube

official series website
official Facebook homepage

Episode 1 / 4 Sept 2018 "Launch Special"
credits at IMDb
watch 5/2018 full launch episode [1:51:35] online at P.B.S.

Episode 2 / 11 Sept 2018 "Fall Kick-Off"
credits at IMDb
watch 9/2018 full episode [55:32] online at P.B.S.

Episode 3 / 18 Sept 2018 "Who Am I?"
credits at IMDb
watch 9/2018 full episode [53:52] online at P.B.S.

Episode 4 / 25 Sept 2018 "Heroes"
credits at IMDb
watch 9/2018 full episode [53:53] online at P.B.S.

Episode 5 / 2 Oct 2018 "Villains and Monsters"
credits at IMDb
watch 10/2018 full episode [53:52] online at P.B.S.

Episode 6 / 9 Oct 2018 "What We Do for Love"
credits at IMDb
watch 10/2018 official promo [0:30] online at P.B.S.
watch 10/2018 full episode [53:52] online at P.B.S.

Episode 7 / 16 Oct 2018 "Other Worlds"
credits at IMDb
watch 10/2018 official promo [0:30] online at P.B.S.
watch 10/2018 full episode [56:47] online at P.B.S.

Episode 8 / 23 Oct 2018 "Grand Finale"
credits at IMDb
watch 10/2018 official promo [0:30] online at YouTube
watch 10/2018 full episode [56:13] online at P.B.S.

Announced 23 October 2018: Voting countdown on TV revealed these top ten best-loved novels in USA:
1. "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee [1926-2016]
2. The "Outlander" series by Diana Gabaldon
3. The "Harry Potter" series by J.K. Rowling
4. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen [1775-1817]
5. "Lord of The Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien [1892-1973]
6. "Gone With The Wind" by Margaret Mitchell [1900-49]
7. "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White [1899-1985]
8. "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott [1832-88]
9. "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis [1898-1963]
10. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë [1816-55]

"The Great American Read" full voting results list

100  Selected  Novels & Series,  A to Z
Quick quantitative analysis: Of the 100 entries, 13 are series; beyond that, none of the 100 authors have more than one entry here.

Great American Read Book of Books from P.B.S  "The Great American Read: The Book of Books - Explore
America's 100 Best-Loved Novels" [2018]
Foreword by Meredith Vieira
Kindle Edition from Black Dog & Leventhal/Hachette [8/2018] for $16.99
Black Dog & Leventhal 10½x8½ hardcover [8/2018] for $23.99
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
— Joseph Brodsky [1940-96]

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "A Confederacy of Dunces" [1980] by John Kennedy Toole [1937-69]
book won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Confederacy_of_Dunces

listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "A Prayer For Owen Meany" [1989] by John Irving
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Prayer_for_Owen_Meany

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "A Separate Peace" [1959] by John Knowles [1926-2001]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Separate_Peace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Separate_Peace_(film)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" [1943] by Betty Smith [1896-1972]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tree_Grows_In_Brooklyn_(film) 1945
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tree_Grows_in_Brooklyn_(musical) 1951

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" [1876] by Mark Twain [1835-1910]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Alchemist {O Alquimista}" [1988/1993] by Paulo Coelho
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_(novel)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Alex Cross Mysteries" Novel Series [since 1993] by James Patterson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Cross_(novel_series)

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    listed #1 on American Mensa mini-survey to choose the Top Ten Favorite Children's Books (8/2014)  BLUE CHECK: listed #78 on U.K. Telegraph Best 100 Novels (8/2014)  PURPLE CHECK: listed on Amazon Editors '100 Children's Books To Read In A Lifetime' in August 2014  GREEN CHECK: listed #54 on Goodread Readers Picks '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  BLACK CHECK: listed on Amazon's '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  "Alice In Wonderland" [1865] by Lewis Carroll [1832-98]

Spirit of America Bookstore's
"Alice In Wonderland" Novel & Movies Page

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listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Americanah" [2013] by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanah

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "And Then There Were None" [1939] by Agatha Christie [1890-1976]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018            "Anne of Green Gables" Series
by L.M. {Lucy Maud} Montgomery [1874-1942] of Canada

Spirit of America Bookstore's
"Anne of Green Gables" Novels & Stories Page

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listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Another Country" [1962] by James Baldwin [1924-87]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Country_(novel)

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listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Atlas Shrugged" [1957] by Ayn Rand [1905-82]

Maison d'Être Bookstore's
"Atlas Shrugged" [1957 novel] by Ayn Rand Page

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listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Beloved" [1987] by Toni Morrison
book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(1998_film)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Bless Me, Ultima" [1972] by New Mexico author Rudolfo Anaya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bless_Me,_Ultima
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bless_Me,_Ultima_(film)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Book Thief" [2005] by Markus Zusak of Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_Thief
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_Thief_(film)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" [2007] by Junot Díaz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Call of The Wild" [1903] by Jack London [1876-1916]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_the_Wild

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    BLUE CHECK: listed #77 on U.K. Telegraph Best 100 Novels (8/2014)  RED CHECK: listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005)  GREEN CHECK: listed on Goodread Readers Picks '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  BLACK CHECK: listed on Amazon's '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  GOLD STAR: listed on Business Insider's The 35 Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once In Their Lifetime, 9/2013  "Catch-22" [1961 bestseller] by Joseph Heller [1923-99]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

Catch-22 book  Captain Yossarian tries desperately to get grounded so he will not have to fly any more bombing missions over Hitler's Europe: anyone who goes to war is crazy, but if he asks to be grounded for being crazy, then he's not crazy anymore and he has to keep flying – 'catch 22'. A gut-wrenching satire.
Kindle Edition from Simon & Schuster Digital Sales [10/2010] for $8.80
S&S 8½x5¾ pb [4/2011] for $9.32
Everyman's Library 8½x5¼ hardcover [10/99] for $18.30
Catch-22 video  "Catch-22" feature film [Filmways/Paramount June 1970]
Directed by Mike Nichols; screenplay by Buck Henry; all-star cast, including Alan Arkin,
Buck Henry & Orson Welles
Paramount widescreen color DVD [5/2013 for $5.97>
Paramount widescreen color DVD [5/2001] for $11.99
Paramount color VHS [8/2001] for $9.95
full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia
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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    listed by Amazon Editors on '100 Young Adult Books to Read in a Lifetime' (9/2015)  BLUE CHECK: listed #52 on U.K. Telegraph Best 100 Novels (8/2014)  RED CHECK: listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005)  GREEN CHECK: listed on Goodread Readers Picks '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  BLACK CHECK: listed on Amazon's '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  "The Catcher In The Rye" [1951] by J.D. Salinger [1919-2010]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "Charlotte's Web" [1952] by E.B. White [1899-1985]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte%27s_Web

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "The Chronicles of Narnia" series by C.S. Lewis [1898-1963]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia

          "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" [Narnia #1 = 1950 novel]
book entry at Wikipedia

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listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Clan of The Cave Bear" [5/1980] by Jean M. Auel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clan_of_the_Cave_Bear
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clan_of_the_Cave_Bear_(film)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Coldest Winter Ever" [4/1999] by Sister Souljah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coldest_Winter_Ever

listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "The Colour Purple" [1982 epistolary novel] by Alice Walker
book won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Purple
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_Purple_(film)

listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "The Count of Monte Cristo" [1844 novel] by Alexandre Dumas (père) [1802-70] of France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo

listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "Crime and Punishment" [1866 novel] by Fyodor Dostoyevsky [1821-81] of Russia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_and_Punishment

listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-Time" [2003] by Mark Haddon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curious_Incident_of_the_Dog_in_the_Night-Time

listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "The Da Vinci Code" [2004] by Dan Brown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Don Quixote" [1605 & 1612] by Miguel de Cervantes [1547?-1616]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Doña Bárbára" [1929] by Rómulo Gallegos [1984-1969] of Venezuela
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do%C3%B1a_B%C3%A1rbara

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "Dune" sci-fi novel [1965] by Frank Herbert [1920-86]

Spirit of America Bookstore's
"Dune" Novels and Movies Page

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listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Fifty Shades of Grey" novel trilogy [] by E.L. James
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_Shades_(novel_series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifty_Shades_(film_series)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Flowers In The Attic" Gothic novel [1979] by V.C. Andrews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_in_the_Attic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_in_the_Attic_(1987_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_in_the_Attic_(2014_film)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Foundation" novel series [1942-93] by Isaac Asimov [1920-92]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Frankenstein" [1818 & 1831] by British author Mary Shelley [1797-1851]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein%27s_monster

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listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Game of Thrones" novel series [] by George R.R. Martin of Santa Fe, New Mexico

Spirit of America Bookstore's
"Game of Thrones" Novels & TV Page

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listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Ghost" [2016] by Jason Reynolds
http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Track-Jason-Reynolds/dp/1481450166/

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Gilead" [2004] by Marilynne Robinson
book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilead_(novel)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Giver" [1993 bestseller] by Lois Lowry
book won the 1994 Newbery Medal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver_Quartet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver_(film)

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listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Godfather" [1969 bestseller] by Mario Puzo

'The Godfather Saga' Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

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listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Gone Girl" [6/2012 bestseller] by Gillian Flynn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_Girl_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_Girl_(film)

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018        "Gone With The Wind" [1936 bestseller] by Margaret Mitchell [1900-49]

"Gone With The Wind" Novel & Movie Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    listed by Amazon Editors on '100 Young Adult Books to Read in a Lifetime' (9/2015)  BLUE CHECK: listed #49 on U.K. Telegraph Best 100 Novels (8/2014)  RED CHECK: listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005)  GREEN CHECK: listed #18 on Goodread Readers Picks '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  "The Grapes of Wrath" [Viking 1939] by John Steinbeck [1902-68]
book won the Pulitzer Prize for The Novel

"The Grapes of Wrath" Novel & Movie Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    GREEN CHECK: listed on Goodread Readers Picks '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  BLACK CHECK: listed on Amazon's '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  "Great Expectations" [1861 novel] by Charles Dickens [1812-70]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486415864/

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018        listed #46 on 'The 100 Books of the Century' poll conducted by France's Le Monde newspaper in 1999  BLUE CHECK: listed #38 on U.K. Telegraph Best 100 Novels (8/2014)  RED CHECK: listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005)  GREEN CHECK: listed on Goodread Readers Picks '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  BLACK CHECK: listed on Amazon's '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  "The Great Gatsby" [Scribner's 1925]
by F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

Spirit of America Bookstore's
"The Great Gatsby" 1925 Novel & Movies Page

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listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Gulliver's Travels" [1726] by Jonathan Swift [1667-1745]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels

listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "The Handmaid's Tale" [1985 dystopian novel] by Margaret Atwood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale_(film) 1990
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale_(opera) 2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale_(TV_series) 2017-2018

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    The 'Harry Potter' Novels [1997-2007] by J.K. Rowling

author J.K. Rowling Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
J.K. Rowling Quotations Page at Working Minds Philosophy website

The 'Harry Potter' Books & Movies Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

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listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Hatchet" novel series [1987] by Gary Paulsen
book won a 1987 Newbery Honor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatchet_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cry_in_the_Wild

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    BLUE CHECK: listed #5 on U.K. Telegraph Best 100 Novels (8/2014)  "Heart of Darkness" [1899 novella] by Joseph Conrad [1857-1924]

famously adapted by Francis Ford Coppola as the feature film "Apocalypse Now" [1979]

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listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Help" [2009] by Kathryn Stockett
spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Help
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Help_(film)

listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" [radio 1978, novel 1979]
by Douglas Adams [1952-2001]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(TV_series) 1981
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(film) 2005

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Hunger Games" novel trilogy [2008-2010] by Suzanne Collins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games_(film_series)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Hunt For Red October" [1984] by Tom Clancy [1947-2013]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_for_Red_October
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_for_Red_October_(film)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Intuitionist" [1999] by Colson Whitehead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intuitionist

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Invisible Man" [1952] by Ralph Ellison [1913-94]
won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1953
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Man

listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    BLUE CHECK: listed #7 on U.K. Telegraph Best 100 Novels (8/2014)  GREEN CHECK: listed #12 on Goodread Readers Picks '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography" [1847] by Charlotte Brontë [1816-55]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Joy Luck Club" [1989] by Amy Tan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_Luck_Club_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_Luck_Club_(film) 1993

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Jurassic Park" [1990] by Michael Crichton [1942-2008]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Left Behind" 16-book novel series [1995-2007] by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind
http://www.leftbehind.com/

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince)" [1943]
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry [1900-44] of France

Spirit of America Bookstore's
"The Little Prince" Novel & Movies Page

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    GREEN CHECK: listed #9 on Goodread Readers Picks '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  "Little Women" [1868-69] by Louisa May Alcott [1832-88]
author entry at Wikipedia • book entry at Wikipedia

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Lonesome Dove" [1985] by Larry McMurtry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonesome_Dove_series

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Looking For Alaska" [3/2005] by John Green
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_for_Alaska

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    BLUE CHECK: listed #100 on U.K. Telegraph Best 100 Novels (8/2014)  RED CHECK: listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005)  GREEN CHECK: listed #6 on Goodread Readers Picks '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  BLACK CHECK: listed on Amazon's '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  "The Lord of The Rings" Trilogy [1954-55] by J.R.R. Tolkien [1892–1973]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

'Lord of The Rings' & 'The Hobbit' Novels & Movies Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "The Lovely Bones" [2002 bestseller] by Alice Sebold
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovely_Bones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovely_Bones_(film) 2009

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Martian" [2011] by Andy Weir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(Weir_novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film) 2015

listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "Memoirs of A Geisha" [1997 bestseller] by Arthur Golden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_a_Geisha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_a_Geisha_(film) 2005

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Mind Invaders" aka "The Archon Conspiracy" [1989] by Dave Hunt [1926-2013]
http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Invaders-Dave-Hunt/dp/1565078314/

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    BLUE CHECK: listed #2 on U.K. Telegraph Best 100 Novels (8/2014)  "Moby-Dick: or, The Whale" epic novel [1851] by Herman Melville [1819-91]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_Beast 1926 silent starring John Barrymore [1882-1942]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Dick_(1956_film) directed by John Huston [1906-87]

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    listed #22 on 'The 100 Books of the Century' poll conducted by France's Le Monde newspaper in 1999  BLUE CHECK: listed #21 on U.K. Telegraph Best 100 Novels (8/2014)  RED CHECK: listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005)  GREEN CHECK: listed #4 on Goodread Readers Picks '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  BLACK CHECK: listed on Amazon's '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  GOLD STAR: listed on Business Insider's The 35 Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once In Their Lifetime, 9/2013  "Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel" [1949 dystopian classic]
by George Orwell [1903-50]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia

Nineteen Eighty-Four novel  Winston Smith endures a squalid existence as a clerk in a bureaucracy
of the totalitarian superstate of Oceania, where everyone is under the
constant surveillance of the Thought Police.
Kindle Edition from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [9/2013] for $5.68
Signet/NAL mass pb [1961] for $5.98
Plume Centennial Edition 7¾x5¼ pb [5/2003] for $13.04
Plume 8x5¼ pb [4/83] for $9.04
Everyman's Library 8x5 hardcover [11/92] for $11.86

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listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Notebook" [1996] by Nicholas Sparks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Notebook_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Notebook 2004 film

listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "One Hundred Years of Solitude" [1967 novel]
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [1927-2014] of Colombia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Outlander"9-novel series [1991-2018] by Diana Gabaldon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlander_(franchise)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlander_(TV_series)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Outsiders" [1967] by S.E. [Susan] Hinton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsiders_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsiders_(film) 1983
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsiders_(U.S._TV_series) 1990

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Picture of Dorian Gray" [1890] by Oscar Wilde [1854-1900]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Pilgrim's Progress" [1678] by John Bunyan [1628-88]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim%27s_Progress

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Pillars of The Earth" [1989] by Ken Follett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillars_of_the_Earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillars_of_the_Earth_(miniseries) 2010

listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "Pride and Prejudice" [1813 novel] by Jane Austen [1775-1817]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Ready Player One" [8/2011] by Ernest Cline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_One
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_One_(film) 3/2018

listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "Rebecca" [1938 bestseller] by Daphne du Maurier [1907-89]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_(1940_film) directed by Alfred Hitchcock [1899-1980]

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Shack" [2007] by Wm. Paul Young of Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shack_(2017_film)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Siddhartha" [1922, USA 1951] by Hermann Hesse [1877-1962]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(1972_film)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Sirens of Titan" [1959] by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. [1922-2007]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sirens_of_Titan

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Stand" [1978 & 1990] by Stephen King
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand_(miniseries) 1994
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stand_(comics) 2008-2012

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Sun Also Rises" aka "Fiesta" [1926] by Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Also_Rises
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Also_Rises_(1957_film) 1956
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Also_Rises_(1984_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Also_Rises_(opera) 2000

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Swan Song" [1987] by Robert R. McCammon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Song_(McCammon_novel)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Tales of The City" 9-book series [1978-2014] by Armistead Maupin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_City
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_City_(1993_miniseries)
BBC Radio 4 series [2014-2018]BBC Radio 4 series [2014-2018]

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Their Eyes Were Watching God" [1937] by Zora Neale Hurston [1891-1960]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Their_Eyes_Were_Watching_God_(film) 2005

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Things Fall Apart" [1959] by Chinua Achebe of Nigeria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_Fall_Apart

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "This Present Darkness" [1986] by Frank E. Peretti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Present_Darkness

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listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    listed by Amazon Editors on '100 Young Adult Books to Read in a Lifetime' (9/2015)  BLUE CHECK: listed #99 on U.K. Telegraph Best 100 Novels (8/2014)  RED CHECK: listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005)  GREEN CHECK: listed #1 on Goodread Readers Picks '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  BLACK CHECK: listed on Amazon's '100 Books To Read In A Lifetime'  GOLD STAR: listed on Business Insider's The 35 Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once In Their Lifetime, 9/2013  "To Kill a Mockingbird" [1960 bestseller]
by (Nelle) Harper Lee [1926-2016]
author entry at Wikipedia • novel entry at Wikipedia
won 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

 To Kill A Mockingbird novel by Harper Lee  As described by his tomboy daughter, an idealistic white lawyer in 1932 Alabama agrees to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman, revealing the depths of local bigotry and racism
Kindle Edition from HarperCollins Publrs [7/2014] for $4.73
Grand Central Publng mass pb [10/88] for $4.98
Harper Perennial 7¾x5¼ pb [7/2005] for $8.46
Harper Perennial 8x5½ pb [5/2006] for $13.43
Heinemann 8x5¾ hardcover [11/99] out of prodn/100+ used
HarperCollins slipcover edition [10/2006] out of print/many used
HarperCollins 8½x5½ hardcover [9/95] out of print/70+ used
Caedmon UNABR audio CD read by Sissy Spacek [8/2006] out of prodn/40+ used

Gregory Peck won Oscar for Best Actor  Horton Foote won Oscar for Best Script Adaptation  won Oscar for Best Set Decoration    To Kill A Mockingbird open-book movie poster  
To Kill A Mockingbird brown movie poster  		"To Kill A Mockingbird" feature film [Universal Dec 1962]
Directed by Robert Mulligan; script by Horton Foote, based on the novel by Harper Lee; starring Gregory Peck, Robert Duvall, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Brock Peters, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary Murphy, Ruth White, Estelle Evans, Paul Fix, James Anderson, William Windom, Alice Ghostley & Kim Stanley; won Oscars for Best Actor (Peck), Best Script Adaptation & Best Set Decoration, nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress (MB), Best B&W Cinematography & Best Music Score; listed on the National Film Registry (1995), won WGA Award for Best Drama Script
Universal Legacy Series widescreen b&w DVD [9/2005] 2 disks for $23.24
Universal b&w DVD [4/98] out of prodn/80+ used
Universal widescreen b&w VHS [2/98] for $2.27 {sic}
Universal b&w VHS [3/92] for $1.59 {sic}
Varese Sarabande Elmer Bernstein soundtrack CD [7/97] for $11.88
full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia
11"x17" open-book poster from Amazon for $9.98
27"x40" brown poster from Amazon for $16.48
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listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Twilight Saga" (Series) [2005-2008] by Stephenie Meyer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_(novel_series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Saga_(film_series) 2008-2012

listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "War and Peace (Voyná i Mir)" epic masterpiece [1869]
by Leo Tolstoy [1828-1910] of Russia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace_(1956_film) directed by King Vidor [1894-1982]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace_(film_series) 1966-67 directed by Sergei Bondarchuk [1920-94]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace_(1972_TV_series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace_(2007_TV_miniseries)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_%26_Peace_(2016_TV_series)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Watchers" [1987] by Dean Koontz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchers_(novel)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "The Wheel of Time" 15-book novel series [1990-2013]
by Robert Jordan (James Oliver Rigney Jr.) [1948-2007] & Brandon Sanderson, 2009-2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "Where The Red Fern Grows" [1961] by Wilson Rawls [1913-84]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Red_Fern_Grows
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Red_Fern_Grows_(1974_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Red_Fern_Grows_(2003_film)

listed among the 100 books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018  "White Teeth" [2000] by Zadie Smith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Teeth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Teeth_(TV_serial) 2002

listed among the books of PBS's The Great American Read in 2018    "Wuthering Heights" [1847] by Emily Brontë [1818-48]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_(1939_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_(1953_film)
"Abismos de Pasión" [Mexico June 1954] /tt0046675/ co-written & directed by Luis Buñuel [1900-83]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_(1970_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurlevent 1985 French film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_(1988_film) by Yoshishige Yoshida of Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB%27s_Wuthering_Heights 1992
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_(2009_television_serial)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_(2011_film)

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"Animal Farm" Novel & Movies Page
"Atlas Shrugged" Novel and Movies Page at Maison d'Être Philosophy Bookstore
"Ben-Hur" Novel & Movies Page
"The Boxcar Children" Books & Movies Page at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
"Dune" Novels & Movies Page
"Game of Thrones" Novels & TV Page
"Gone With The Wind" Novel & Movie Page
"The Grapes of Wrath" Novel & Movie Page
"The Great Gatsby" Novel & Movies Page
"Ivanhoe" Novel & Movies Page
Kipling's "The Jungle Books" Stories & Movies Page
"The Last Tycoon" 1941/1993 Novel & Movies Page
"The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince)" Novel & Movies Page
"The Maltese Falcon" Novel & Movies Page at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
"Nineteen Eighty-Four (1 9 8 4)" Novel & Movies Page
"Peter Pan" Books, Stageplays & Movies Page
"Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" Books & Movies Page
'Tarzan' Movies & Fiction Pages
'The Thin Man' Movies Page at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
"To Kill A Mockingbird" Novel & Movie Page
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"Treasure Island" Books & Movies Page
'Uncle Remus' Tales by Joel Chandler Harris
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