Posted on 10/23/2018 9:35:48 PM PDT by BlackAdderess
America’s favorite novel ever has been named: Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
More than four million votes were cast for PBS’s The Great American Read program, in which the public was given a list of 100 popular fiction contenders to choose their most-loved book. The contest was introduced in May with the long list, and voting has taken place through the fall, with PBS airing eight episodes spotlighting the novels according to theme: “Heroes,” What We Do for Love,” and on. Celebrities and famous authors were featured in the episodes, providing commentary on their personal favorite books and why they’ve resonated.
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“Huck Finn...The bonus is, in the last 20 years, it makes SJWs heads explode.”
True, and that is more proof of their stupidity. The only truly decent human being in the book was Jim, the runaway slave.
Agreed. In a normal year, there might be four hours of PBS programming for me. Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck would rank near the top....with Huck Finn.
PBS audience pole? Yuck.
And of course it’s a novel about how evil white fokes is.
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
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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.
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.
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.
“the one book I remember the name of that I had to read in school” doesn’t count
Ask the respondent how many years it has been since they read a book cover to cover.
And how many years before that one.
“the public” on IMDB has ranked (by 10 star reviews) one of the Batman movies as the third best motion picture ever made.
The book has become irrelevant in the wake of the actions of the Democrat Party, Feminazis, and the lamestream media’s witchhunt of Justice Kavanaugh.
The lesson of The Crucible has likewise become outmoded.
but no Fahrenheit 451?
Da Vinci Code?
Fifty Shades of Grey?
this list sucks
Soon “Guia Del Migrante Mexicano” will be on the top 100 list.
its a great book, certainly one of my all time favorites.
A bar I was in a while back offered a drink called the “Tequila Mockingbird”.
No “Animal Farm”? We are living it with the Commiecrats.
A few years ago “new” editions of Animal Farm and 1984 came out with covers designed by Communist Shepherd Fairy.
“...in which the public was given a list of 100 popular fiction contenders to choose their most-loved book”
gatekeepers created the list
a more honest survey would have the respondents write the name AND author of the book and indicate how many times they’ve read the book and how many years since they’ve read the book. And bonus question, how many years since they last read a book.
Good Reads is probably a better source for people who self-identify as readers searching for new recommended books. Readers can list books they’ve previously read and those they own (in case someone wants to send a book as a present or to otherwise avoid duplication).
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