The Great American Read List (with links) ⭐

[NancyJ, Moderator]

To Kill a Mockingbird #1 * Group read Nov 2018
Outlander (Series) #2
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Series) #3
Pride and Prejudice #4
The Lord of the Rings #5
Gone with the Wind #6
Charlotte's Web #7
Little Women #8 * Group read January 2019
The Chronicles of Narnia #9 * Group read December 2018
Jane Eyre #10
Anne of Green Gables #11
The Grapes of Wrath #12
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn #13 * Group read July 2018
The Book Thief #14
The Great Gatsby #15
The Help #16
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer #17 *Group read March 2019
1984 #18 *Group read June 2018
And Then There Were None #19
Atlas Shrugged #20

Wuthering Heights #21
Lonesome Dove #22 * Big Book Group read Summer 2018
The Pillars of the Earth #23 *Group Read Jan 2019
The Stand #24
Rebecca #25 *Group Read February 2019
A Prayer for Owen Meany #26 *Group Read July 2018
The Color Purple #27
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland #28
Great Expectations #29
The Catcher in the Rye #30
Where the Red Fern Grows #31
The Outsiders #32
The Da Vinci Code #33
The Handmaid's Tale #34
Dune #35
The Little Prince #36
The Call of the Wild #37
The Clan of the Cave Bear #38
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #49
The Hunger Games #40
The Count of Monte Cristo #41 *Big Book Group read Spring 2019
The Joy Luck Club #42
Frankenstein #43 * Group read October 2018
The Giver #44
Memoirs of a Geisha #45
Moby-Dick or, The Whale #46
Catch-22 #47 *bonus read may 2018
A Game of Thrones (Series) #48
Foundation (Series) #49
War and Peace #50 *Big Book Read Fall 2018

Their Eyes Were Watching God #51 *Group read September 2018
Jurassic Park #52
The Godfather #53
One Hundred Years of Solitude #54
The Picture of Dorian Gray #55 * Group Read April 2019
The Notebook #56
The Shack #57
A Confederacy of Dunces #58
The Hunt for Red October #59
Beloved #60
The Martian #61
The Wheel of Time Series The Eye of the World #62
Siddhartha #63 *Group read October 2018
Crime and Punishment #64 *Big Book Summer 2019
The Sun Also Rises #65
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time #66
A Separate Peace #67
Don Quixote #68
The Lovely Bones #69
The Alchemist #70
Hatchet #71
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison #72
Twilight sagaTwilight #73
Tales of the City #74 *Group Read November 2018
Gulliver's Travels #75
Ready Player One #76
Left Behind #77
Gone Girl #78
Watchers #79
The Pilgrim's Progress #80
Alex Cross Series Kiss the Girls #81
Things Fall Apart #82
Heart of Darkness #83 * Group read January 2019
Gilead #84
Flowers in the Attic #85
Fifty Shades of Grey #86
The Sirens of Titan #87 *Group Read August 2018
This Present Darkness #88
Americanah #89 * Group Read September 2018
Another Country #90
Bless Me, Ultima #91 * Group Read May 2019
Looking for Alaska #92 * Group read June 2018
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao #93
Swan Song #94
Mind Invaders #95
White Teeth #96
Ghost Track #1 by Jason Reynolds #97
The Coldest Winter Ever #98
The Intuitionist #99
Doña Bárbara #100

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Alphabetical order ("The" included)

1984 #18 *Group read June 2018
A Confederacy of Dunces #58
A Game of Thrones (Series) #48
A Prayer for Owen Meany #26 *Group Read July 2018
A Separate Peace #67
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn #13 * Group read July 2018
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland #28
Americanah #89 * Group Read September 2018
And Then There Were None #19
Anne of Green Gables #11
Another Country #90
Atlas Shrugged #20
Beloved #60
Bless Me, Ultima #91 * Group Read May 2019
Catch-22 #47 *bonus read may 2018
Charlotte's Web #7
Crime and Punishment #64 *Big Book Summer 2019
Don Quixote #68
Doña Bárbara #100
Dune #35
Fifty Shades of Grey #86
Flowers in the Attic #85
Foundation (Series) #49
Frankenstein #43 * Group read October 2018
Ghost Track #1 by Jason Reynolds #97
Gilead #84
Gone Girl #78
Gone with the Wind #6
Great Expectations #29
Gulliver's Travels #75
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Series) #3
Hatchet #71
Heart of Darkness #83 * Group read January 2019
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison #72
Jane Eyre #10
Jurassic Park #52
Left Behind #77
Little Women #8 * Group read January 2019
Lonesome Dove #22 * Big Book Group read Summer 2018
Looking for Alaska #92 * Group read June 2018
Memoirs of a Geisha #45
Mind Invaders #95
Moby-Dick or, The Whale #46
One Hundred Years of Solitude #54
Outlander (Series) #2
Pride and Prejudice #4
Ready Player One #76
Rebecca #25 *Group Read February 2019
Siddhartha #63 *Group read October 2018
Swan Song #94
Tales of the City #74 *Group Read November 2018
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer #17 *Group read March 2019
The Alchemist #70
The Book Thief #14
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao #93
The Call of the Wild #37
The Catcher in the Rye #30
The Chronicles of Narnia #9 * Group read December 2018
The Clan of the Cave Bear #38
The Coldest Winter Ever #98
The Color Purple #27
The Count of Monte Cristo #41 *Big Book Group read Spring 2019
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time #66
The Da Vinci Code #33
The Giver #44
The Godfather #53
The Grapes of Wrath #12
The Great Gatsby #15
The Handmaid's Tale #34
The Help #16
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #49
The Hunger Games #40
The Hunt for Red October #59
The Intuitionist #99
The Joy Luck Club #42
The Little Prince #36
The Lord of the Rings #5
The Lovely Bones #69
The Martian #61
The Notebook #56
The Outsiders #32
The Picture of Dorian Gray #55 * Group Read April 2019
The Pilgrim's Progress #80
The Pillars of the Earth #23 *Group Read Jan 2019
The Shack #57
The Sirens of Titan #87 *Group Read August 2018
The Stand #24
The Sun Also Rises #65
Their Eyes Were Watching God #51 *Group read September 2018
Things Fall Apart #82
This Present Darkness #88
To Kill a Mockingbird #1 * Group read Nov 2018
War and Peace #50 *Big Book Read Fall 2018
Watchers #79
Where the Red Fern Grows #31
White Teeth #96
Wuthering Heights #21

Alex Cross Series Kiss the Girls #81
The Wheel of Time Series The Eye of the World #62
Twilight sagaTwilight #73

[Linda]

Nancy, I wonder if it would help people with future polls if you could do as you've done before, and put an asterisk next to those we've already discussed./

[Joy, Your Obedient Servant]

This took a lot of work! Thank you, Nancy!

It should make it easier to look into some of the list.

[Mandy]

Thanks for doing this list. Good work!

[Ella]

Mods, please move this to where it actually belongs.

A question about those extra points we get for taking part (that seems so wrong when I type it, but OK.) Do they carry over if we can't use them? Or if we participate in more than one discussion and didn't use our point, would we then have two spare/extra points for a later poll?

Finally, if that's the case, do you guys need me to whip up a spreadsheet to keep score? I'm a great believer in google sheets for groups!

[Joy, Your Obedient Servant]

Ella wrote: "Mods, please move this to where it actually belongs.

A question about those extra points we get for taking part (that seems so wrong when I type it, but OK.) Do they carry over if we can't use the..."

I don't know that these are things we have even thought of!

My understanding is that the points don't accumulate, but are a way to weight the voting so that those who don't participate aren't given more precedence to dictate the book choice over those who do interact on the threads.

[NancyJ, Moderator]

Ella wrote: "Mods, please move this to where it actually belongs.

A question about those extra points we get for taking part (that seems so wrong when I type it, but OK.) Do they carry over if we can't use the..."

At this point, I'm still at a Yes/No stage when it comes to bonus points. If someone participated in book discussions this year (or even just this month), they have a point to use for the next vote. But ultimately, yes a spreadsheet would be handy, and motivating for some of us. I was envisioning something like the PlayBookTag group does, which is more complicated but very fun. I'll send you the links and we can move this discussion to DMs.

The exception is Jacinta, who earned multiple points for a challenge. She (and several other regulars) expressed interest in Crime and Punishment, so I think it will be a good choice for the Third quarter big read (if we lower the page number requirement). It's shorter than other big books, but that would give people more flexibility in the summer. Jacinta and Linda teach, so summer is good for them. We could stagger in some extra bonus books at the half-month point.

[Gretchen]

Hi...

I have my 2019 remaining reads mostly planned out based on other challenges. Next year I would like to focus on some of my bigger books. Do you have plans to keep this group into next year? There are books on the GAR list that I would like read. Thanks

[NancyJ, Moderator]

Gretchen wrote: "Hi...

I have my 2019 remaining reads mostly planned out based on other challenges. Next year I would like to focus on some of my bigger books. Do you have plans to keep this group into next year? ..."

As long as we have people interested! Would you like to help moderate? I'm focused on newer books right now, but this group doesn't take much time. I think it makes sense that the most active people have a role in decision making.

What are you planning to read this year?

[Gretchen]

My books for the remainder of this are mostly related to a couple of challenges and a personal goal. Goodreads summer challenge, several new books to be released this year, clearing more tbr books, and I am still chipping away at Amazons 100 mysteries to read in a lifetime. I'm at 72 completed. As far as co-moderating with...let me think on it. My life is heading toward upheaval as I look for e new job and moving back to my house in California. I don't want to make a commitment then be unable to follow through. I will private message you in the fall ok?

[NancyJ, Moderator]

72 is great! If you have some titles, let me know, and we might find some opportunities for buddy reads to match challenges. A lot of my challenges this year involve monthly themes, but I don't get a lot of advance notice.

[Gretchen]

I am reading 3 books (not at the same time :) ) right now. CJ Box's newest - not a Longmire, Becoming by Michelle Obama and I love this book - up till 0400 this AM reading it, and re-reading Charlotte's Web.

I am not sure about upcoming books. I have to look at my TBR list.

[Gretchen]

The big books for next year are Game of Thrones, a couple of Greg Iles books, collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, any new releases of my fave mystery authors, more of my Amazon 100 mysteries, and a couple more off GAR for 2018-2019. Many of those books I just have no interest in and a couple don't belong there as you know. Still have not been able to get into Pride and Prejudice and Rebecca and I have tried. That is it for now.

[Linda]

I found I didn't enjoy Rebecca as much as I enjoyed "My Cousin Rachel"- go figure. But they are redoing the movie, apparently

[Gretchen]

Rebecca makes all sorts of top 100 lists with high ratings so I suspect I need to plow on through. I am determined. I even made a shelf of books "I stRted but put aside". 😛

[Parker]

Gretchen, it took me three tries to get throgh Pride and Prejudice. I FINALLY did it.

[Gretchen]

Parker wrote: "Gretchen, it took me three tries to get throgh Pride and Prejudice. I FINALLY did it."

Gives me hope, Parker. Thanks.

[Lynn]

Hello I am new to the group. I have not been reading specifically from the American Great Read list, so I thought I would tally how many I had read. I have in my lifetime read thirty-seven of the list books. Of that thirty-seven, seven were read in the last year. Here are my recent reads:

To Kill a Mockingbird
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Rebecca
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Siddhartha
Things Fall Apart
The Sirens of Titan

[Ella]

Lynn wrote: "Hello I am new to the group. I have not been reading specifically from the American Great Read list, so I thought I would tally how many I had read. I have in my lifetime read thirty-seven of the l..."

Welcome to the group, Lynn. Not many of us have only been reading from this list, and of course it's a pretty new list, so we've all been picking bits and pieces. We're a bit quiet here over the summer, but happy to see new faces.

Check out the upcoming reads & we leave the individual book threads open forever, so feel free to add your thoughts on any of the books you've read to any of the threads.

Looks like you've had a bunch of good recent reads!

[Lynn]

Ella wrote: "Lynn wrote: "Hello I am new to the group. I have not been reading specifically from the American Great Read list, so I thought I would tally how many I had read. I have in my lifetime read thirty-s..."

Thank you.