America’s 100 Favorite Books

This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.

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WordsRated, 99 Books

WordsRated received over 76,000 survey replies on our website where users let us know what their favourite book is (see https://katiecouric.com/entertainment/book-guide/americas-favorite-books/ for more information regarding the survey).

We have collated the replies to show the nation’s favourite books and the top books from each state.

This list was originally published in 2024 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
13 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 1813 British English
16 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 1960 American English
5156 Where The Crawdads Sing Delia Owens 2018 American English
17 The Lord Of The Rings J. R. R. Tolkien 1959 English English
3 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 American English
389 The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 1988 Brazilian Portuguese
29 Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 1847 British English
7585 Verity Colleen Hoover 2018 American English
4307 It Ends With Us Colleen Hoover 2016 American English
274 The Stand Stephen King 1978 American English
842 Outlander Diana Gabaldon 1991 American English
1085 The Book Thief Markus Zusak 2005 Australian English
2703 The Nightingale Kristin Hannah 2015 American English
93 Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1868 American English
58 Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1936 American English
6817 Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid 2017 American English
146 The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien 1937 British English
4305 A Court Of Thorns And Roses Sarah J. Maas 2015 American English
1388 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins 2008 American English
7079 A Court Of Mist And Fury Sarah J. Maas 2016 American English
1330 The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller 2011 American English
7839 The Invisible Life Of Addie La Rue V. E. Schwab 2020 American English
10836 The Silent Wife Kerry Fisher 2017 British English
1799 The Giver Lois Lowry 1993 American English
2882 Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One Rick Riordan 2005 American English
2683 Twilight Stephenie Meyer 2005 American English
6 Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell 1949 British English
779 The Outsiders S. E. Hinton 1967 American English
19 The Bible Unknown -1400 Jewish Hebrew, aramaic, greek
1413 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr 2014 American English
892 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini 2003 Afghan English
87 The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas 1844 French French
4 The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951 American English
132 The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood 1985 Canadian English
3190 The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern 2011 American English
157 The Color Purple Alice Walker 1982 American English
150 Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1953 American English
7837 The Midnight Library Matt Haig 2020 British English
100 Dune Frank Herbert 1965 American English
250 Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery 1908 Canadian English
3922 The Coldest Winter Ever Sister Souljah 1999 American English
4708 Six Of Crows Leigh Bardugo 2015 American English
981 It Stephen King 1986 American English
2652 Circe Madeline Miller 2018 American English
244 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith 1943 American English
1017 Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban J. K. Rowling 1999 British English
193 East of Eden John Steinbeck 1952 American English
8695 Throne Of Glass Sarah J. Maas 2012 American English
190 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1979 British English
39 Frankenstein Mary Shelley 1818 British English
68 Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 1937 American English
15 Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë 1847 British English
236 Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling 1997 British English
2606 Ender's Game Orson Scott Card 1985 American English
588 The Pillars Of The Earth Ken Follett 1989 British English
791 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn 2012 American English
2535 A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman 2012 Swedish Swedish
191 And Then There Were None Agatha Christie 1939 British English
1842 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire J. K. Rowling 2000 British English
49 Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 American English
878 The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver 1998 American English
3398 The Name Of The Wind Patrick Rothfuss 2007 American English
5331 The Perks Of Being A Wallflower Stephen Chbosky 1999 American English
400 The Shining Stephen King 1977 American English
521 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou 1969 American English
1765 A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara 2015 American English
2193 American Gods Neil Gaiman 2001 British English
2059 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini 2007 Afghan English
2011 The Notebook Nicholas Sparks 1996 American English
1289 A Game of Thrones George R. R. Martin 1996 American English
7899 The Great Alone Kristin Hannah 2018 American English
5 One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez 1967 Colombian Spanish
2230 A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles 2016 American English
3599 Daisy Jones & The Six Taylor Jenkins Reid 2019 American English
7903 The House in the Cerulean Sea Tj Klune 2020 American English
293 A Wrinkle In Time Madeleine L'Engle 1962 American English
279 The Secret History Donna Tartt 1992 American English
2224 Good Omens Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman 1990 British English
2416 Educated Tara Westover 2018 American English
26 The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939 American English
6618 Redeeming Love Francine Rivers 1991 American English
2709 The Help Kathryn Stockett 2009 American English
89 The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1890 Irish English
10307 The Love Hypothesis Ali Hazelwood 2021 American English
2395 The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls 2005 American English
192 Persuasion Jane Austen 1817 British English
3405 Fifty Shades of Grey: E. L. James 2011 British English
35 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 British English
2989 Eragon Christopher Paolini 2002 American English
59 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier 1938 British English
170 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 1937 American English
2741 The Martian Andy Weir 2011 American English
308 The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison 1970 American English
1211 Normal People Sally Rooney 2018 Irish English
8673 From Blood And Ash Jennifer L. Armentrout 2020 American English
1206 Pachinko Min Jin Lee 2017 American English
1910 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling 2003 British English
741 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt 2013 American English
1074 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 2003 American English