To Kill a Mockingbird was voted by viewers as America’s #1 best-loved novel in The Great American Read.
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
To Kill a Mockingbird led The Great American Read voting from the first week, and kept the lead for the entire five months of voting, despite strong competition from the rest of our five finalists. It also topped the list of votes in every state except North Carolina (who went for Outlander) and Wyoming (who preferred Lord of The Rings). Such widespread support from readers across the country make To Kill a Mockingbird a worthy winner of The Great American Read. The full results 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