PBS to hold vote for America's best-loved novel

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b***@gmail.com

2018-04-21 16:59:18 UTC

"THE GREAT AMERICAN READ," a New Multi-Platform PBS Series, Reveals
List of America's 100 Favorite Novels
- Eight-Part Series Profiling America's Favorite Books to Premiere May
22 on PBS Stations With Two-Hour Event -
- Nationwide Summer Reading Initiative Will Culminate in Vote for
"America's Best-Loved Novel" -
- Barbara Pierce Bush, Chelsea Clinton, Gillian Flynn, Diana Gabaldon,
Jenna Bush Hager, Chris Kluwe, Diane Lane, George Lopez, Armistead
Maupin, Seth Meyers, Cynthia Nixon, James Patterson, Jason Reynolds,
Ming-Na Wen, Wil Wheaton, Venus Williams and Many More Featured in the
Series -
ARLINGTON, VA; April 20, 2018 - PBS today unveiled a list of America's
100 best-loved novels, chosen in support of THE GREAT AMERICAN READ, a
new PBS series and multi-platform initiative that celebrates the joy
of reading and the books we love. THE GREAT AMERICAN READ, hosted by
television personality and journalist Meredith Vieira, launches with a
two-hour episode on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, at 8 p.m. on PBS stations
and will introduce viewers to the full list of America's 100 favorite
novels selected through a demographically representative national
survey conducted by YouGov. The series will also feature interviews
with celebrities, authors, superfans and everyday Americans discussing
the way particular books have influenced them and their significance
in American popular culture. Then, after a multi-platform initiative
throughout the summer, which will include live public events, social
media components and national reading clubs, the series will resume in
the fall with several themed episodes, including an exciting finale,
culminating in the first-ever national vote to choose "America's
Best-Loved Novel." It will be the most expansive national celebration
of books and reading aimed at engaging multi-generational readers
across multiple platforms ever created.
Voting will open with the launch of the two-hour premiere episode on
May 22 and continue throughout the summer, leading up to the grand
finale in October 2018. Over the summer, viewers will be able to vote
at pbs.org/greatamericanread and through hashtag voting via Facebook
and Twitter using #GreatReadPBS. In the fall, viewers will also be
able to cast their vote toll-free by phone and through SMS texting.
Authors, celebrities and notables joining the search for "America's
Best-Loved Novel" include Diana Gabaldon, George Lopez, Seth Meyers,
Junot Diaz, Lauren Graham, John Green, John Irving, Bill T. Jones,
Devon Kennard, Gayle King, George R.R. Martin, Wynton Marsalis, Lesley
Stahl, Ming-Na Wen and many more, each of whom will share their
personal stories and connections to their favorite book.
Whether it's rediscovering an old favorite or engaging with a new
title, THE GREAT AMERICAN READ program will encourage people to read
as many novels as they can from the top 100 list, discuss them in
virtual and community events organized by local public television
stations, libraries and book reading clubs, and vote all summer for
their favorites. The campaign will culminate in a list of America's
favorite works of fiction and ultimately, America's number one novel.
1984
Hatchet
A Confederacy of Dunces
Heart of Darkness
A Game of Thrones
The Help
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A Separate Peace
The Hunger Games
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Hunt for Red October
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Intuitionist
The Alchemist
Invisible Man
Alex Cross Mysteries**
Jane Eyre
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Joy Luck Club
Americanah
urassic Park
And Then There Were None
Left Behind
Anne of Green Gables
The Little Prince
Another Country
Little Women
Atlas Shrugged
Lonesome Dove
Beloved
Looking for Alaska
Bless Me, Ultima
The Lord of the Rings**
The Book Thief
The Lovely Bones
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Martian
The Call of the Wild
Memoirs of a Geisha
Catch-22
Mind Invaders
The Catcher in the Rye
Moby Dick
Charlotte's Web
The Notebook
The Chronicles of Narnia
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Outlander
The Coldest Winter Ever
The Outsiders
The Color Purple
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Pilgrim's Progress
Crime and Punishment
The Pillars of the Earth
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Pride and Prejudice
The Da Vinci Code
Ready Player One
Don Quixote
Rebecca
Do?a Barbara
The Shack
Dune
Siddhartha
Fifty Shades of Grey
The Sirens of Titan
Flowers in the Attic
The Stand
Foundation
The Sun Also Rises
Frankenstein
Swan Song
Ghost
Tales of the City
Gilead
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Giver
Things Fall Apart
The Godfather
This Present Darkness
Gone Girl
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gone with the Wind
Twilight
The Grapes of Wrath
War and Peace
Great Expectations
Watchers
The Great Gatsby
The Wheel of Time**
Gulliver's Travels
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Handmaid's Tale
White Teeth
Harry Potter **
Wuthering Heights
**Denotes a series title

The list will NEVER find agreement.

Mike Burke

2018-04-22 02:50:49 UTC

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The list will NEVER find agreement.

No list will ever find agreement. There's a bunch of rubbish in
there. Maybe I missed them, but I would have expected to have seen
something by James Baldwin, Herman Wouk, Jane Austen, the Brontes,
etc, etc. Fifty Shades of Grey? Please.

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Nyssa

2018-04-22 13:35:30 UTC

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On Sat, 21 Apr 2018 09:59:18 -0700 (PDT),

On Friday, April 20, 2018 at 6:22:20 PM UTC-4, David

"THE GREAT AMERICAN READ," a New Multi-Platform PBS
Series, Reveals List of America's 100 Favorite Novels
- Eight-Part Series Profiling America's Favorite Books
to Premiere May 22 on PBS Stations With Two-Hour Event -
- Nationwide Summer Reading Initiative Will Culminate in
Vote for "America's Best-Loved Novel" -
- Barbara Pierce Bush, Chelsea Clinton, Gillian Flynn,
Diana Gabaldon, Jenna Bush Hager, Chris Kluwe, Diane
Lane, George Lopez, Armistead Maupin, Seth Meyers,
Cynthia Nixon, James Patterson, Jason Reynolds, Ming-Na
Wen, Wil Wheaton, Venus Williams and Many More Featured
in the Series -
ARLINGTON, VA; April 20, 2018 - PBS today unveiled a
list of America's 100 best-loved novels, chosen in
support of THE GREAT AMERICAN READ, a new PBS series and
multi-platform initiative that celebrates the joy of
reading and the books we love. THE GREAT AMERICAN READ,
hosted by television personality and journalist Meredith
Vieira, launches with a two-hour episode on Tuesday, May
22, 2018, at 8 p.m. on PBS stations and will introduce
viewers to the full list of America's 100 favorite
novels selected through a demographically representative
national survey conducted by YouGov. The series will
also feature interviews with celebrities, authors,
superfans and everyday Americans discussing the way
particular books have influenced them and their
significance in American popular culture. Then, after a
multi-platform initiative throughout the summer, which
will include live public events, social media components
and national reading clubs, the series will resume in
the fall with several themed episodes, including an
exciting finale, culminating in the first-ever national
vote to choose "America's Best-Loved Novel." It will be
the most expansive national celebration of books and
reading aimed at engaging multi-generational readers
across multiple platforms ever created.
Voting will open with the launch of the two-hour
premiere episode on May 22 and continue throughout the
summer, leading up to the grand finale in October 2018.
Over the summer, viewers will be able to vote at
pbs.org/greatamericanread and through hashtag voting via
Facebook and Twitter using #GreatReadPBS. In the fall,
viewers will also be able to cast their vote toll-free
by phone and through SMS texting.
Authors, celebrities and notables joining the search for
"America's Best-Loved Novel" include Diana Gabaldon,
George Lopez, Seth Meyers, Junot Diaz, Lauren Graham,
John Green, John Irving, Bill T. Jones, Devon Kennard,
Gayle King, George R.R. Martin, Wynton Marsalis, Lesley
Stahl, Ming-Na Wen and many more, each of whom will
share their personal stories and connections to their
favorite book.
Whether it's rediscovering an old favorite or engaging
with a new title, THE GREAT AMERICAN READ program will
encourage people to read as many novels as they can from
the top 100 list, discuss them in virtual and community
events organized by local public television stations,
libraries and book reading clubs, and vote all summer
for their favorites. The campaign will culminate in a
list of America's favorite works of fiction and
ultimately, America's number one novel.
1984
Hatchet
A Confederacy of Dunces
Heart of Darkness
A Game of Thrones
The Help
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A Separate Peace
The Hunger Games
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Hunt for Red October
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Intuitionist
The Alchemist
Invisible Man
Alex Cross Mysteries**
Jane Eyre
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The Joy Luck Club
Americanah
urassic Park
And Then There Were None
Left Behind
Anne of Green Gables
The Little Prince
Another Country
Little Women
Atlas Shrugged
Lonesome Dove
Beloved
Looking for Alaska
Bless Me, Ultima
The Lord of the Rings**
The Book Thief
The Lovely Bones
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Martian
The Call of the Wild
Memoirs of a Geisha
Catch-22
Mind Invaders
The Catcher in the Rye
Moby Dick
Charlotte's Web
The Notebook
The Chronicles of Narnia
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Outlander
The Coldest Winter Ever
The Outsiders
The Color Purple
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Pilgrim's Progress
Crime and Punishment
The Pillars of the Earth
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Pride and Prejudice
The Da Vinci Code
Ready Player One
Don Quixote
Rebecca
Do?a Barbara
The Shack
Dune
Siddhartha
Fifty Shades of Grey
The Sirens of Titan
Flowers in the Attic
The Stand
Foundation
The Sun Also Rises
Frankenstein
Swan Song
Ghost
Tales of the City
Gilead
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Giver
Things Fall Apart
The Godfather
This Present Darkness
Gone Girl
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gone with the Wind
Twilight
The Grapes of Wrath
War and Peace
Great Expectations
Watchers
The Great Gatsby
The Wheel of Time**
Gulliver's Travels
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Handmaid's Tale
White Teeth
Harry Potter **
Wuthering Heights
**Denotes a series title

The list will NEVER find agreement.

And not a Heinlein book in the bunch.

The list seems pretty skewed to me. Yeah, "Fifty Shades of
Grey" is pretty out there. I question how "loved" some of them
really are. "Dune"?

Several seem on there because librarians or literature teachers
seem to force them on unwilling students at some point in
their schooling too.

There's a recency bias in some of the books listed too such as
"Shades," "Hunger Games," and I'd bet "Handmaid's Tale" got
on there due to the recent TV series.

A real mixed bag, that list. I'm wondering how many of them will
stand up over time, because many certainly wouldn't be counted as
Great Literature. They're going to have a hard time getting
consensus on a definitive list. I doubt the same folks who
love Hunger Games are also fans of Moby Dick and so on.

I'm assuming that "Foundation" refers to the Asimov series, but
it doesn't have those asterisks denoting a series.

I'll also admit to never having heard of many of the books on
the list. Maybe if authors had been listed, I might recognize
a few more.

Nyssa, who will admit to never having finished "Little
Women" and had to struggle to get through "Dune"

Carol Dickinson

2018-04-27 21:39:02 UTC

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The list will NEVER find agreement.

A lot of the list I had never heard of.
Many others I disliked being a forced read
for a class or some such.
More than one I really liked, but
regardless of anything I may discover if
I manage to watch, I will have to vote
for Gabaldon's "Outlander".

Not only is it my favorite of all of hers,
but its the only book other than books I've
read to children, that I've read 8 times,
and will probably read 8 times more if I
live long enough. It takes 1 weeks of
dedicated reading to get through the story
from start to finish as it stands today without
the other 4 or more upcoming books.
And a lot more entertaining than
"Inside, Outside, Upside Down"

Carol

Carol Dickinson

2018-04-27 21:43:45 UTC

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I meant it takes 10 weeks to get through it,
not one. Takes a week just to get through
"Fiery Cross" and I'm a fast reader.