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1 to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 2 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Top 25 Books Title and author Number of Votes%of votes 1 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 42 30.7 2 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 28 20.4 3 Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling 28 20.4 4 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 27 19.7 5 Charlotte's Web by EB White 23 16.8 6 A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 23 16.8 7 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 21 15.3 8 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 19 13.9 9 The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown 17 12.4 10 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 15 10.9 11 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens 15 10.9 12 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 14 10.2 13 The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood 13 9.5 14 A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 13 9.5 15 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 12 8.8 16 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 12 8.8 17 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 11 8 18 Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. 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