#1. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee.
#2. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell.
#3. The Bible.
#4. All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr.
#5. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen.
#6. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver.
#7. The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown
#8. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, JRR Tolkien.
#9. The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson.
#10. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy.
#11. Hawaii, James Michener.
#12. Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett.
#13. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
#14. Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand.
#15. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte.
#16. The Source, James Michener.
#17. The People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks.
#18. The Red Tent, Anita Diamant.
#19. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck.
#20. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger.
#21. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry.
#22. Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin.
#23. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain.
#24. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough.
#25. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith.
#26. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand.
#27. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher.
#28. Me Before You, Jojo Moyes.
#29. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt.
#30. The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah.
#31. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens.
#32. Exodus, Leon Uris.
#33. John Adams, David McCullough.
#34. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo.
#35. Shogun, James Clavell.
#36. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini.
#37. The Help, Kathryn Stockett.
#38. The Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver.
#39. Centennial, James Michener.
#40. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott.
#41. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
#42. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak.
#43. The Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline.
#44. The Secret Garden, Francis Hodgson Burnett.
#45. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner.
#46. Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese.
#47. East of Eden, John Steinbeck.
#48. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt.
#49. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein.
#50. (tie) The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, David McCullough.
#50. (tie) The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd.
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