Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird won The Great American Read voting. The result was announced on the PBS series grand finale aired October 23.
SFF was strongly represented at the top of the poll, with the other top-five finishers (in order of votes) being Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series; J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels; Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
However, To Kill a Mockingbird seized the lead from the very first week and held it for the entire five months of voting. It also topped the list of votes in every state except North Carolina (who went for Outlander) and Wyoming (who preferred Lord of The Rings).
The PBS program asked the public to vote its preference from a 100-book list chosen by a survey of 7,000 Americans. An advisory panel helped organize the list. Books had to have been published in English but not written in the language, and one book or series per author was allowed.
The full results follow the jump.
Full Results
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Outlander (Series)
- Harry Potter (Series)
- Pride and Prejudice
- Lord of the Rings
- Gone with the Wind
- Charlotte’s Web
- Little Women
- Chronicles of Narnia
- Jane Eyre
- Anne of Green Gables
- Grapes of Wrath
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Book Thief
- Great Gatsby
- The Help
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- 1984
- And Then There Were None
- Atlas Shrugged
- Wuthering Heights
- Lonesome Dove
- Pillars of the Earth
- Stand
- Rebecca
- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Color Purple
- Alice in Wonderland
- Great Expectations
- Catcher in the Rye
- Where the Red Fern Grows
- Outsiders
- The Da Vinci Code
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Dune
- The Little Prince
- Call of the Wild
- The Clan of the Cave Bear
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy
- The Hunger Games
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Joy Luck Club
- Frankenstein
- The Giver
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Moby Dick
- Catch 22
- Game of Thrones (series)
- Foundation (series)
- War and Peace
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Jurassic Park
- The Godfather
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Notebook
- The Shack
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- The Hunt for Red October
- Beloved
- The Martian
- The Wheel of Time (series)
- Siddhartha
- Crime and Punishment
- The Sun Also Rises
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
- A Separate Peace
- Don Quixote
- The Lovely Bones
- The Alchemist
- Hatchet (series)
- Invisible Man
- The Twilight Saga (series)
- Tales of the City (series)
- Gulliver’s Travels
- Ready Player One
- Left Behind (series)
- Gone Girl
- Watchers
- The Pilgrim’s Progress
- Alex Cross Mysteries (series)
- Things Fall Apart
- Heart of Darkness
- Gilead
- Flowers in the Attic
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- The Sirens of Titan
- This Present Darkness
- Americanah
- Another Country
- Bless Me, Ultima
- Looking for Alaska
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Swan Song
- Mind Invaders
- White Teeth
- Ghost
- The Coldest Winter Ever
- The Intuitionist
- Doña Bárbára
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