To Kill a Mockingbird was voted by viewers as America’s #1 best-loved novel in The Great American Read. The Maine Education Association was proud to be a sponsor of the Great American Read, to help promote reading across our state.
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.
Full Results
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
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