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| DB |
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Title and Author |
| 73474 |
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1984 by George Orwell |
| 50482 |
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A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole |
| 29012 |
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A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel by John Irving |
| 24697 |
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A Separate Peace by John Knowles |
| 44769 |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith |
| 53084 |
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain |
| 65599 |
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho |
|
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Alex Cross Series by James Patterson |
| 50842 |
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll |
| 77188 |
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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| 11077 |
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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie |
|
|
(also within DB 53999) |
| 56114 |
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Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
|
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(also within DB 50475) |
| 51074 |
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Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand |
| 26026 |
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Beloved by Toni Morrison |
| 62431 |
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak |
| 65402 |
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The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz |
| 49486 |
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The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 48063 |
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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller |
| 47480 |
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Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger |
| 74950 |
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Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White |
| 50083 |
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Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis |
| 52680 |
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Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel |
| 57412 |
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Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah |
| 58842 |
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker |
| 56946 |
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Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas |
| 50147 |
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| 56893 |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon |
| 55735 |
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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown |
| 24290 |
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes |
| 26423 |
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Doña Bárbára by Rómulo Gallegos |
| 44126 |
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Dune by Frank Herbert |
| 74504 |
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Fifty Shades of Grey series by E.L. James |
| 36176 |
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Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews |
| 80139 |
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Foundation series by Isaac Asimov |
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book 1 10365, book 2 80139, book 3 10610 |
| 25835 |
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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley |
| 45742 |
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Game of Thrones series by George R.R. Martin |
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Prequel Companion 80183, Prequel Anthology 80183 |
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book 1 45742, book 2 49913, book 3 51406, |
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book 4 62348, book 5 73557 |
| 85921 |
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Ghost by Jason Reynolds |
| 59561 |
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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson |
| 37689 |
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The Giver by Lois Lowry |
| 25677 |
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The Godfather by Mario Puzo |
| 74888 |
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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn |
| 33082 |
|
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell |
| 68308 |
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck |
| 53991 |
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 16147 |
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 23150 |
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Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift |
| 24695 |
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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood |
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Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling |
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book 1 47260, book 2 48437, book 3 48772, book 4 50228, |
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book 5 56062, book 6 60262, book 7 64495 |
| 30535 |
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Hatchet by Gary Paulsen |
| 12613 |
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad |
| 68889 |
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett |
| 18339 |
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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams |
|
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Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins |
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book 1 68384, book 2 69689, book 3, 71734 |
| 21513 |
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The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy |
| 56346 |
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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison |
| 47868 |
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë |
| 29021 |
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The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan |
| 32018 |
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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton |
| 47462 |
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Left Behind by Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins |
| 44071 |
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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
| 18128 |
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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott |
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Lonesome Dove series by Larry McMurtry |
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book 1 43928, book 2 45001, book 3 22959, book 4 37323 |
| 61873 |
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Looking for Alaska by John Green |
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The Lord of the Rings (series) by J.R.R. Tolkien |
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prequel 48978, book 1 47486, book 2 47487, book 3 47488 |
| 54698 |
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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold |
| 78389 |
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The Martian by Andy Weir |
| 45008 |
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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden |
| 34184 |
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville |
| 43180 |
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The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks |
| 25181 |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez |
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Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon |
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book 1 36535, book 2 36536, book 3 38591, book 4 43320 |
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book 5 53366, book 6 61201, book 7 70073, book 8 79331 |
| 22433 |
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The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton |
| 56794 |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 59950 |
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The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan |
| 30999 |
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The Pillars of The Earth by Ken Follett |
| 50549 |
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 73772 |
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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline |
| 11106 |
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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier |
| 67237 |
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The Shack by William P. Young |
| 52190 |
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
| 15759 |
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The Sirens Of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut |
| 12942 |
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The Stand by Stephen King |
| 34114 |
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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway |
| 26498 |
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Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon |
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Tales of The City series by Armistead Maupin |
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book 1 39531, book 2 39602, book 3 39603, book 4 39604, |
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book 5 39605, book 6 39606, book 7 65336, book 8 72107, |
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book 9 78276 |
| 35745 |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston |
| 47510 |
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe |
| 29252 |
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This Present Darkness by Frank. E. Peretti |
| 36414 |
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee |
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Twilight Saga series by Stephanie Meyer |
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book 1 82750, book 2 64367, book 3 65812, book 4 67238 |
| 67136 |
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 25982 |
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Watchers by Dean Koontz |
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The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon |
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Sanderson |
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prequel 57628, book 1 57628, book 2 34701, book 3 34702, |
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book 4 36984, book 5 37569, book 6 39661, book 7 43043, |
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book 8 47082, book 9 51203, book 10 55506, book 11 62078, |
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book 12 70020, book 13 71926, book 14 76085 |
| 32449 |
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Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls |
| 50261 |
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White Teeth by Zadie Smith |
| 25178 |
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
This reading list, curated by PBS, shows the diversity of America’s 100 most beloved fiction books. Voting for America’s greatest novel began May 22nd and will end in October 2018. Learn more about The Great American Read and how to vote at http://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/about/show/
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