The Great American Read Rankings

1st: To Kill a Mockingbird 6. The Silver Chair 39th: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the by Harper Lee 7. The Last Battle Galaxy 2nd: Outlander Series 10th: Jane Eyre by Douglas Adams by Diana Gabaldon by Charlotte Brontë 40th: The Hunger Games Series 1. Stitch (Outlander) 11th: Anne of Green Gables by Suzanne Collins 2. Dragonfly in Amber by Lucy Maud Montgomery 1. The Hunger Games 3. Voyager 12th: The Grapes of Wrath 2. Catching Fire 4. The Drums of Autumn by John Steinbeck 3. Mockingjay 5. The Fiery Cross 13th: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 41st: The Count of Monte Cristo 6. A Breath of Snow and by Betty Smith by Alexandre Dumas Ashes 14th: The Book Thief 42nd: The Joy Luck Club 7. An Echo in the Bone by Markus Zusak by Amy Tan 7.5 The Space Between 15th: The Great Gatsby 43rd: Frankenstein 8. Written in My Own Heart’s by F. Scott Fitzgerald by Mary Shelley Blood 16th: The Help 44th: The Giver 8.5 A Leaf on the Wind of All by Kathryn Stockett by Lois Lowry Hallows 17th: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 45th: Memoirs of a Geisha 3rd: Harry Potter Series by Mark Twain by Arthur Golden by J.K. Rowling 18th: 1984 46th: Moby Dick Harry Potter Prequel by George Orwell by Herman Melville 1. Harry Potter and the 19th: And Then There Were None 47th: Catch-22 Sorcerer’s Stone by Agatha Christie by Joseph Heller 2. Harry Potter and the 20th: Atlas Shrugged 48th: Game of Thrones Series Chamber of Secrets by Ayn Rand by George R.R. Martin 3. Harry Potter and the 21st: Wuthering Heights 1. Game of Thrones Prisoner of Azkaban by Emily Brontë 2. A Clash of Kings 4. Harry Potter and the 22nd: Lonesome Dove 3. A Storm of Swords Goblet of Fire by Larry McMurtry 4. A Feast for Crows 5. Harry Potter and the Order 23rd: The Pillars of the Earth 5. A Dance with Dragons of the Phoenix by Ken Follett 49th: Foundation Series 6. Harry Potter and the Half- 24th: The Stand by Isaac Asimov Blood Prince by Stephen King 1. Prelude to Foundation 7. Harry Potter and the 25th: Rebecca 2. Forward the Foundation Deathly Hallows by Daphne du Maurier 3. Foundation 8. Harry Potter and the 26th: A Prayer for Owen Meany 4. Foundation and Empire Cursed Child, Parts 1 by John Irving 5. Second Foundation and 2 27th: The Color Purple 6. Foundation’s Edge 4th: Pride and Prejudice by Alice Walker 7. Foundation and Earth by Jane Austen 28th: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 50th: War and Peace 5th: The Lord of the Rings Series by Lewis Carroll by Leo Tolstoy by J.R.R. Tolkien 29th: Great Expectations 51st: Their Eyes Were Watching God The Hobbit by Charles Dickens by Zora Neale Hurston 1. The Fellowship of the Ring 30th: The Catcher in the Rye 52nd: Jurassic Park 2. The Two Towers by J. D. Salinger by Michael Crichton 3. The Return of the King 31st: Where the Red Fern Grows 53rd: The Godfather 6th: Gone with the Wind by Wilson Rawls by Mario Puzo by Margaret Mitchell 32nd: The Outsiders 54th: One Hundred Years of Solitude 7th: Charlotte’s Web by S.E. Hinton by Gabriel García Márquez by E.B. White 33rd: The Da Vinci Code 55th: The Picture of Dorian Gray 8th: Little Women by Dan Brown by Oscar Wilde by Louisa May Alcott 34th: The Handmaid’s Tale 56th: The Notebook 9th: The Chronicles of Narnia Series by Margaret Atwood by Nicholas Sparks by C.S. Lewis 35th: Dune 57th: The Shack 1. The Magician’s Nephew by Frank Herbert by William P. Young 2. The Lion, the Witch and 36th: The Little Prince 58th: A Confederacy of Dunces the Wardrobe by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry by John Kennedy Toole 3. The Horse and His Boy 37th: The Call of the Wild 59th: The Hunt for Red October 4. Prince Caspian by Jack London by Tom Clancy 5. The Voyage of the Dawn 38th: The Clan of the Cave Bear 60th: Beloved Treader by Jean M. Auel by Toni Morrison

1 ** The Fort Smith Public Library does not currently have the books in italics.** The Great American Read Rankings

61st: The Martian 4. Baby Cakes 23. by Andy Weir 5. Significant Others 24.Cross the Line 62nd: Series 6. Sure of You 25. Cross Kill by and Brandon 7. Michael Tolliver Lives 26.Detective Cross Sanderson 8. Mary Ann in Autumn 27. The People Vs. Alex Cross New Spring 9. The Days of Anna Madrigal 28. Target: Alex Cross 1. 75th: Gulliver’s Travels 29.Criss Cross 2. The Great Hunt by Jonathan Swift 30.Deadly Cross (2020) 3. The Dragon Reborn 76th: Ready Player One 82nd: Things Fall Apart 4. The Shadow Rising by Ernest Cline by Chinua Achebe 5. The Fires of Heaven 77th: Left Behind Series 83rd: Heart of Darkness 6. by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. by Joseph Conrad 7. A Crown of Swords Jenkins 84th: Gilead 8. The Path of Daggers 1. Left Behind by Merilynne Robinson 8.5 Snow 2. Tribulation Force 85th: Flowers in the Attic 9. Winter’s Heart 3. Nicolae by V.C. Andrews 10. Crossroads of Twilight 4. Soul Harvest 86th: Fifty Shades of Grey Series 11. Knife of Dreams 5. Apollyon by E.L. James 12. The Gathering Storm 6. Assassins 1. Fifty Shades of Grey 13. Towers of Midnight 7. The Indwelling 2. Fifty Shades Darker 13.5 By Grace and Banners 8. The Mark 3. Fifty Shades Freed Fallen 9. The Desecration 4. Grey 14. A Memory of Light 10. The Remnant 5. Darker 63rd: Siddhartha 11. Armageddon 87th: The Sirens of Titan by Hermann Hesse 12. Glorious Appearing by Kurt Vonnegut 64th: Crime and Punishment 13. The Rising 88th: This Present Darkness by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 14. The Regime by Frank E. Peretti 65th: The Sun Also Rises 15. The Rapture 89th: Americanah by Ernest Hemingway 16. Kingdom Come by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 66th: The Curious Incident of the Dog 78th: Gone Girl 90th: Another Country in the Night-Time by Gillian Flynn by James Baldwin by Mark Haddon 79th: Watchers 91st: Bless Me, Ultima 67th: A Separate Peace by Dean Koontz by Rudolfo Anaya by John Knowles 80th: The Pilgrim’s Progress 92nd: Looking for Alaska 68th: Don Quixote by John Bunyan by John Green by Miguel de Cervantes 81st: Alex Cross Mysteries Series 93rd: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar 69th: The Lovely Bones by Wao by Alice Sebold 1. Along Came a Spider by Junot Díaz 70th: The Alchemist 2. 94th: Swan Song by Paulo Coelho 3. Jack and Jill by Robert R. McCammon 71st: Hatchet Series 4. Cat and Mouse 95th: Mind Invaders by Gary Paulsen 5. Pop! Goes the Weasel by Dave Hunt 1. Hatchet 6. 96th: White Teeth 2. The River 7. by Zadie Smith 3. Brian’s Winter 8. Four Blind Mice 97th: Ghost 4. Brian’s Return 9. by Jason Reynolds 5. Brian’s Hunt 10. 98th: The Coldest Winter Ever 72nd: Invisible Man 11. Mary Mary by Sister Souljah by Ralph Ellison 12. Cross 99th: The Intuitionist 73rd: The Twilight Saga Series 13. by Colson Whitehead by Stephenie Meyer 14. 100th:Doña Bárbara 1. Twilight 15. Alex Cross’s Trial by Rómulo Gallegos 2. New Moon 16. I, Alex Cross 3. Eclipse 17. 4. Breaking Dawn 18. Kill Alex Cross 74th: Series 19. Merry Christmas, Alex by Cross 1. Tales of the City 20. Alex Cross, Run 2. More Tales of the City 21. 3. Further Tales of the City 22. Hope to Die Updated 3/17/2020 2 ** The Fort Smith Public Library does not currently have the books in italics.**