The Great American Read

Orwell, George, 1903-1950 author.

Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969

Irving, John, 1942-

Knowles, John, 1926-2001

Smith, Betty, 1896-1972

Patterson, James, 1947-

Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 1977-

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976

Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

Rand, Ayn

Morrison, Toni

Anaya, Rudolfo A.

Heller, Joseph

White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616

Herbert, Frank

James, E. L.

Andrews, V. C. (Virginia C.)

Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851

Martin, George R. R.

Reynolds, Jason

Robinson, Marilynne

Flynn, Gillian, 1971-

Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745

Rowling, J. K.

Chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Paulsen, Gary

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924

Ellison, Ralph

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855

Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008

LaHaye, Tim F.

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

McMurtry, Larry

Green, John, 1977-

Golden, Arthur, 1957-

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014

Gabaldon, Diana

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817

Cline, Ernest

Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989

Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962

Maupin, Armistead

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Coelho, Paulo

Zusak, Markus

Díaz, Junot, 1968-

London, Jack, 1876-1916

Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963

Auel, Jean M.

Souljah, Sister

Walker, Alice, 1944-

Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870

Haddon, Mark

Brown, Dan, 1964-

Lowry, Lois

Puzo, Mario, 1920-1999.

Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940

Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans.

Stockett, Kathryn

Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001

Collins, Suzanne

Clancy, Tom, 1947-2013

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

Tan, Amy

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 1900-1944

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973

Sebold, Alice

Weir, Andy

Sparks, Nicholas

Hinton, S. E.

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

Bunyan, John, 1628-1688

Follett, Ken

Young, William P.

Vonnegut, Kurt

King, Stephen, 1947-

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961

Meyer, Stephenie, 1973-

Jordan, Robert, 1948-2007

Hurston, Zora Neale

Achebe, Chinua

Peretti, Frank E.

Lee, Harper

Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910

Rawls, Wilson

Smith, Zadie

Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848