[BlackAdderess]

I've said it before, I will say it again. There is no way that a book that no child has ever stealthily read under the covers by flashlight, but has instead had inflicted as assigned reading will ever be America's favorite book. This is the favorite of SJW's, not people who genuinely love reading novels, and that becomes clear if you google this book vs any book that doesn't have an astroturf fanbase.

[Kickass Conservative]

Should be required Reading for Senate Democrats.

[NRx]

Agreed. This is BS.

[Fledermaus]

I saw the movie. I liked it.

[Mr Rogers]

I liked the book OK, but no way it is “America’s favorite”! I suspect 99% of those who even know the plot do so only from watching the movie.

[colorado tanker]

Huck Finn is the great American novel on the merits, plus I enjoyed reading it as a schoolboy.

The bonus is, in the last 20 years, it makes SJWs heads explode.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Top sales would be a more empirical test.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

FireHunter by Jim Kjelgaard.

In fact, anything by Jim Kjelgaard.

[JennysCool]

I read this as a kid of 11 or 12 and was enthralled. probably read a lot of it under the covers. Then I read it again. I’m no SJW and I cannot fathom why you have such distaste for “To Kill A Mockingbird.”

[ZULU]

Bulls***.
People who habituate PBS are NOT normal Americans.
The story stunk. The movie did too.

[Reno89519]

What a joke. I am sure and vaguely remember being assigned that book back in the 70s but did I read it? No, not completely. NO ONE READ TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD VOLUNTARILY, NOR ENJOYED IT. A favorite novel?! What planet are they on?! Okay, talking about planets, I read science fiction, how about we talk about Heinlein, Anderson, Asimov, Niven, Silverberg, Norton, Haldeman, and so many others?

[MtnClimber]

I had to read it back in Junior High School in Central Florida. I did not see the racist theme because I did not live in that world.

[BradyLS]

I was going to say something similar. If you said it best.

[DesertRhino]

It is the favorite book of PBS and it’s audience.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[jobim]

PBS audience pole? Yuck.

[Paal Gulli]

And of course it’s a novel about how evil white fokes is.

[Charles Henrickson]

The full rankings are below:

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

[montag813]

The only large-ish book I ever sat down and read straight through was “Red Storm Rising,” in 1986. Started in the morning at college. Skipped all my classes that day and finished around 8pm, enthralled. I simply could not stop reading it. What a technical and suspense masterpiece of Cold War fiction.

[Notthereyet]

Hi, BlackAdderess-

The first book I can remember reading was by Louisa May Alcott: Little Women.

I was 10 and the school librarian pulled me aside from my friends and told me to wait there. She came back with this (to me) huge book. Said she thought would like to read that book.

Took it home, read it and fell in love with Theodore (Laurie) Laurence. Oh, it opened up my little girl eyes to the world of the past that while fictional existed on some plane of the soul. I learned so many words reading all her works. Today, so many people would reject her books. So much sadness in that thought.

Then came Huck Finn. Oh, how I loved watching him get in and out of scrapes. ‘Watched,’ because I was seeing him in my mind as I read it line as fast as I could. I learned that the imagination was so alive to the words.

I found out later that movies and shows never give the human mind the ability to really imagine as someone is imaging for you when you watch something. Let someone read, however, and the world opens up.

I wonder what the American Public would have voted for as their favorite book?

On second thought, maybe I don’t really want to know.

[Hootowl]

For my money, “A Cry of Angels” by Jeff Fields is one of the best novels ever written. It’s like “Huckleberry Finn” and “To Kill a Mockingbird” got married and had a kid.