PBS, The Great American Read
science fiction awards database
This national survey was conducted by PBS to determine American's favorite novel.
Ranked: Yes
Titles Cited: 29
Publication: PBS, 2018
Ranked: Yes
Titles Cited: 29
Publication: PBS, 2018
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Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
(series, 1991)
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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter [series]
(Bloomsbury, 2007)
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J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
(series, 1955)
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C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
(series, 1956)
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George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
(Secker & Warburg, 1949)
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Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
(Random House , 1957)
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Stephen King, The Stand
(Doubleday, 1978)
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Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(Macmillan, 1865)
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Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
(McClelland and Stewart, 1985)
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Frank Herbert, Dune
(Chilton, 1965)
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
(Reynal and Hitchcock, 1943)
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Jean M. Auel, The Clan of the Cave Bear
(Crown , 1980)
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Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(Pan, 1979)
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Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
(Scholastic Press, 2008)
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
(Lackington Hughes, 1818)
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Lois Lowry, The Giver
(Houghton Mifflin, 1993)
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George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire [series]
(series, 1996)
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Isaac Asimov, Foundation [series]
(series, 1953)
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Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
(Knopf, 1990)
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
(In Spanish, 1967; Harper & Row, 1970)
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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Ward, Lock, 1891)
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Andy Weir, The Martian
(Crown, 2014)
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Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
(series, 2013)
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Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
(Little, Brown, 2002)
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Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
(Little, Brown, 2005)
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Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
(Benjamin Motte, 1726)
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Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
(Crown, 2011)
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., The Sirens of Titan
(Dell, 1959)
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Robert R. McCammon, Swan Song
(Pocket , 1987)
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