THE GREAT AMERICAN READ is an eight-part series on PBS that explores and celebrates the power of reading, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels (as chosen in a national survey).  During the series viewers will vote to choose the best-loved novel in America.  We'd like to know what Camden County thinks! We have handouts at all the branches with all 100 books.  See how many you've read and catch up on the titles you haven't read yet!  (Most of the titles we have are also available as eBooks and audiobooks.) Vote online or at any of our branches. The winner will receive a gift basket with some of the nominated books.  Starting September 11th the series will have themed episodes and reveal the most loved book in the country.

Go to The Great American Read website  | Learn more about the titles and authors | How many have you read? | Watch online | Vote

Click on the link below the book jacket to go to CamCat and request the title.

1984 George Orwell	A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole	A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving	A Separate Peace John Knowles	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain	The Alchemist Paulo Coelho	Alex Cross Mysteries (Series) James Patterson	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll	Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie	Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery	Another Country James Baldwin	Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand	Beloved Toni Morrison
Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya	The Book Thief Markus Zusak	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz	The Call of the Wild Jack London	Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger	Charlotte's Web E. B. White	The Chronicles of Narnia (Series) C.S. Lewis	The Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel	The Coldest Winter Ever Sister Souljah
The Color Purple Alice Walker	The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas	Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon	The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes	Doña Bárbára Rómulo Gallegos	Dune Frank Herbert	Fifty Shades of Grey (Series) E.L. James	Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews
Foundation (Series) Isaac Asimov	Frankenstein Mary Shelley	Game of Thrones (Series) George R. R. Martin	Ghost Jason Reynolds	Gilead Marilynne Robinson
The Giver Lois Lowry	The Godfather Mario Puzo	Gone Girl Gillian Flynn	Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell	The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Great Expectations Charles Dickens	The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald	Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift	The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	Harry Potter (Series) J.K. Rowling
Hatchet (Series) Gary Paulsen	Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad	The Help Kathryn Stockett	The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy Douglas Adams	The Hunger Games (Series) Suzanne Collins
The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy	The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead	Invisible Man Ralph Ellison	Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë	The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan
Jurassic Park Michael Crichton	Left Behind (Series) Tim LaHaye / Jerry B. Jenkins	The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	Little Women Louisa May Alcott	Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry
Looking for Alaska John Green	The Lord of the Rings (Series) J.R.R. Tolkien	The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold	The Martian Andy Weir	Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
Mind Invaders Dave Hunt	Moby-Dick Herman Melville	The Notebook Nicholas Sparks	One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez	Outlander (Series) Diana Gabaldon
The Outsiders S. E. Hinton	The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde	The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan	The Pillars of the Earth Ken Follett	Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Ready Player One Ernest Cline	Rebecca Daphne du Maurier	The Shack William P. Young	Siddhartha Hermann Hesse	The Sirens of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
The Stand Stephen King	The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway	Swan Song Robert R. McCammon	Tales of the City (Series) Armistead Maupin	Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe	This Present Darkness Frank E. Peretti	To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee	The Twilight Saga (Series) Stephenie Meyer	War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Watchers Dean Koontz	The Wheel of Time (Series) Robert Jordan / Brandon Sanderson	Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls	White Teeth Zadie Smith	Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë