EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club discussion

From PBS Great American Read

TOP 10 BOOKS
(LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, NOT BY VOTE RANKING)
Charlotte's Web
The Chronicles of Narnia (Series)
Gone with the Wind
Harry Potter (Series)
Jane Eyre
Little Women
The Lord of the Rings (Series)
Outlander (Series)
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill a Mockingbird

Vote daily for your favorites through Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 11:59pm PT. And remember, there are FOUR ways to vote: online, social hashtag, SMS, and Toll-free. Find all of the details on how to vote here.

Tune-in to the “Grand Finale” episode where the winning book will be revealed on Tuesday, October 23 at 8/7c on PBS.

What do you think of the list? Which book do you think will win?

The top 10 list can still change with new votes, so keep voting for your favorites!

Many of our group reads are in the top 10 or top 100. Rebecca and Alice's Adventures are on the top 100 list, but didn't make the top 10 list. Same for The Book Thief, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Count of Monte Cristo, Catcher in the Rye, etc.

I’ve read all of the Top Ten except for Outlander. I’m excited to read that series now since Gone With the Wind, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings are three of my top favorite books/series! Looks like a great top ten to me.

What struck me in this list is that we are nostalgic. Many of them are books that people read when they were younger.

I know what I'm rooting for.

so ma.y f
good ones....i loved the Nightingale

oh Nancy J....going to work on that desired bucket list!

E.R. wrote: "oh Nancy J....going to work on that desired bucket list!"

I just reread To Kill a Mockingbird, and Pride and Prejudice, and they always make me happy. I'm having a harder time with Lord of the Rings. I must be sexist because I seem to tune out when a book has no/few female characters.

Here is the final voted list based on millions of votes:

https://www.pbs.org/the-great-america...

I've been working on the top 100 list since May (which is actually more than 100 books, because some are series). We're reading Chronicles of Narnia now (which I missed as a child), and I'm determined to finish Lord of the Rings and War and Peace by the end of the year.

NancyJ wrote: " I must be sexist because I seem to tune out when a book has no/few female characters. ..."

Well, unless you also tune out when a book has no/few male characters, I'd blame the author for being sexist, not the reader....

Charlotte's Web is the world's most perfect book. I read it once a year with my third graders (so that's 14 years in a row now -- wow, I really haven't changed grades in a long time!), I always find something new and wonderful in it, I always cry.