A place for all my reviews of the books on PBS’s Great American Reads list to live in one place. You can find my post about the list and why I wanted to try to read all of it here.
100 – Dona Barbara : Rómulo Gallegos
99 – The Intuitionist : Coloson Whitehead
98- The Coldest Winter Ever : Sister Souljah
97 – Ghost : Jason Reynolds
96 – White Teeth : Zadie Smith
95 – Mind Invaders : Dave Hunt
94 – Swan Song : Robert McCammon
93 – The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao : Junot Díaz
92- Bless Me, Ultima : Rudolfo Anaya
91- Looking for Alaska : John Green
90 – Another Country : James Baldwin
89 – Americanah : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
88 – This Present Darkness : Frank Peretti
87 – The Sirens of Titan : Kurt Vonnegut
86 – 50 Shades of Grey (series) : EL James
85 – Flowers in the Attic : VC Andrews
84 – Gilead : Marilynne Robinson
83 – Heart of Darkness : Joseph Conrad
82 – Things Fall Apart : Chinua Achebe
81 – Alex Cross (series) : James Patterson
80 – The Pilgrim’s Progress : Jon Bunyan
79 – Watchers : Dean Koontz
78 – Gone Girl :Gillian Flynn
77 – Left Behind (series) : Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
76 – Ready Player One : Ernest Cline
75 – Gulliver’s Travels : Jonathan Swift
74 – Tales of the City (Series) : Armisted Maupin
73 – Twilight (Series) : Stephenie Meyer
72 – The Invisible Man : Ralph Ellison
71 – Hatchet (Series) : Gary Paulsen
70 – The Alchemist : Paulo Coelho
69 – The Lovely Bones : Alice Sebold
68 – Don Quixote : Miguel de Cervantes
67 – A Separate Peace : John Knowles
66 – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time : Mark Haddon
65 – The Sun Also Rises : Ernest Hemmingway
64 – Crime and Punishment : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
63 – Siddhartha : Hermann Hesse
62 – The Wheel of Time (series) : Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
61 – The Martian : Andy Weir
60 – Beloved : Toni Morrison
59 – The Hunt For Red October : Tom Clancy
58 – A Confederacy of Dunces : John Kennedy Toole
57 – The Shack : William Young
56 – The Notebook : Nicholas Sparks
55 – The Picture of Dorian Gray : Oscar Wilde
54 – One Hundred Years of Solitude : Gabriel García Márquez
53 – The Godfather : Mario Puzo
52 – Jurassic Park : Michael Crichton
51 – Their Eyes Were Watching God
50 – War and Peace : Leo Tolstoy
49 – Foundation (Series) : Isaac Asimov
48 – Game of Thrones (Series) : George RR Martin
47 – Catch-22 : Joseph Heller
46 – Moby Dick : Herman Melville
45 – Memoirs of a Geisha : Arthur Golden
44 – The Giver : Lois Lowry
43 – Frankenstein : Mary Shelly
42 – The Joy Luck Club : Amy Tan
41 – The Count of Monte Cristo : Alexandre Dumas
40 – The Hunger Games (Series) : Suzanne Collins
39 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy : Douglas Adams
38 – The Clan of the Cave Bear : Jean M Auel
37 – The Call of the Wild : Jack London
36 – The Little Prince : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
35 – Dune : Frank Herbert
34 – The Handmaid’s Tale : Margaret Atwood
33 – The Da Vinci Code : Dan Brown
32 – The Outsiders : SE Hinton
31 – Where the Red Fern Grows : Wilson Rawls
30 – The Catcher in the Rye : JD Salinger
29- Great Expectations : Charles Dickens
28 – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland : Lewis Carrol
27 – The Color Purple : Alice Walker
26 – A Prayer for Owen Meany : John Irving
25 – Rebecca : Daphne du Maurier
24 – The Stand : Stephen King
23 – The Pillars of the Earth : Ken Follett
22 – Lonesome Dove : Larry McMurty
21 – Wuthering Heights : Emily Brontë
20 – Atlas Shrugged : Ayn Rand
19 – And Then There Were None : Agatha Christie
18 – 1984 : George Orwell
17 – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer : Mark Twain
16 – The Help : Kathryn Sockett
15 – The Great Gatsby : F. Scott Fitzgerald
14 – The Book Thief : Markus Zusak
13 – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn : Betty Smith
12 – The Grapes of Wrath : John Steinbeck
11 – Anne of Green Gables : Lucy Maud Montgomery
10 – Jane Eyre : Charlotte Brontë
9 – The Chronicles of Narnia (series) : CS Lewis
8 – Little Women : Louisa May Alcott
7 – Charlotte’s Web : EB White
6 – Gone With the Wind : Margaret Mitchell
5 – Lord of the Rings (series) : JRR Tolkien
4 – Pride and Prejudice : Jane Austin
3 – Harry Potter (series) : JK Rowling
2 – Outlander (series) : Diana Gabaldon
1 – To Kill a Mockingbird : Harper Lee
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