The Fireside Chats

Last year, PBS held an eight-part series on tv to discuss the country’s best-loved novel. I did remember making my vote but I didn’t get a chance to watch any of the episodes on tv.

Did you watch the eight-part series? Did you place your vote to help determine which novel/series won? How many of the books on the list have you read? Do you plan on reading all the book on the list? What are your thoughts on the books that made the list?

1. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Best Loved)
2. Outlander (series) by Diana Gabaldon (Finalist)
3. Harry Potter (series) by J. K. Rowling (Finalist)
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Finalist)
5. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein (Finalist)
6. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
7. Charlette’s Web by E. B. White
8. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
9. The Chronicles of Narnia (series) by C. S. Lewis
10. Jane Eyre by Charlote Bronte
11. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
12. The Grapes of Wraith by John Steinbeck
13. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
14. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
15. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
16. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
17. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
18. 1984 by George Orwell
19. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
20. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
21. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
22. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
23. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
24. The Stand by Stephen King
25. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
26. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
27. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
28. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
29. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
30. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
31. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
32. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
33. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
34. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
35. Dune by Frank Herbert
36. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
37. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
38. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
39. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
40. The Hunger Games (series) by Suzanne Collins
41. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
42. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
43. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
44. The Giver by Lois Lowry
45. Memoirs of a Geisha by Author Golden
46. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
47. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
48. Game of Thrones (series) by George R. R. Martin
49. Foundation (series) by Isaac Asimov
50. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
51. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
52. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
53. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
54. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
55. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
56. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
57. The Shack by William P. Young
58. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
59. The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
60. Beloved by Toni Morrison
61. The Martian by Andy Weir
62. The Eye of the World (series) by Robert Johnson/Brandon Sanderson
63. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
64. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevesky
65. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
66. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
68. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
69. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
70. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
71. Hatchet (series) by Gary Paulson
72. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
73. The Twilight Saga (series) by Stephanie Meyer
74. Tales of the City (series) by Armistead Maupin
75. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathon Swift
76. Ready Player One by Earnest Cline
77. Left Behind (series) by Tim LaHaye/Jerry B. Jenkins
78. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
79. Watchers by Dean Koontz
80. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
81. Alex Cross Mysteries (series) by James Patterson
82. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
83. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
84. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
85. Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews
86. Fifty Shades of Grey (series) by E. L. James
87. The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
88. This Present Darkness by Frank E. Peretti
89. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
90. Another Country by James Baldwin
91. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
92. Looking for Alaska by John Green
93. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
94. Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
95. Mind Invadors by Dave Hunt
96. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
97. Ghost by Jason Reynolds
98. The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
99. The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
100. Dona Barbara by Romulo Gallegos