Meredith Vieira is the host of The Great American Read. She will take viewers on a journey across the country to uncover the nation’s 100 most-loved novels. She is is a 14-time Emmy Award-winning host, executive producer and anchor.
1984 George Orwell The Color Purple Alice Walker
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
A Prayer For Owen Meany John Irving Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Separate Peace John Knowles The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho Doña Bárbára Rómulo Gallegos
Alex Cross Mysteries (series) James Patterson Dune Frank Herbert
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Fifty Shades Of Grey (series) E. L. James
Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Flowers In The Attic V.C. Andrews
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie Foundation (series) Isaac Asimov
Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Another Country James Baldwin Game of Thrones (series) George R. R. Martin
Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand Ghost Jason Reynolds
Beloved Toni Morrison Gilead Marilynne Robinson
Bless Me, Ultima Rudolfo Anaya The Giver Lois Lowry
The Book Thief Markus Zusak The Godfather Mario Puzo
The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
The Call Of The Wild Jack London Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Catch-22 Joseph Heller The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Charlotte's WebE. B. White The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Chronicles of Narnia (series) C.S. Lewis Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
Clan of the Cave Bear Jean M. Auel The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
Coldest Winter Ever Sister Souljah Harry Potter (series) J.K. Rowling
Hatchet (series) Gary Paulsen The Outsiders S. E. Hinton
Heart Of Darkness Joseph Conrad The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
The Help Kathryn Stockett The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy Douglas Adams The Pillars of The Earth Ken Follett
The Hunger Games (series) Suzanne Collins Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Hunt For Red OctoberTom Clancy Ready Player One Ernest Cline
The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead Rebecca Daphne du Maurier
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison The Shack William P. Young
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan The Sirens Of Titan Kurt Vonnegut
Jurassic Park Michael Crichton The Stand Stephen King
Left Behind (series) Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Swan Song Robert R. McCammon
Little Women Louisa May Alcott Tales of The City (series) Armistead Maupin
Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
Looking for Alaska John Green Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
The Lord of the Rings(series) J.R.R. Tolkien This Present Darkness Frank. E. Peretti
The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
The Martian Andy Weir The Twilight Saga (series) Stephenie Meyer
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Mind Invaders Dave Hunt Watchers Dean Koontz
Moby-Dick Herman Melville The Wheel of Time (series) Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
The Notebook Nicholas Sparks Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez White Teeth Zadie Smith
Outlander (series) Diana Gabaldon Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë