PBS’s “The Great American Read”

Have you heard about “The Great American Read” yet? It’s an eight-part series airing on PBS, starting May 22, that explores and celebrates the power of reading, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels (as chosen in a national survey).

Here are the Macmillan titles included:

DUNE by Frank Herbert

GILEAD by Marilynne Robinson

The Wheel of Time (Series) by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson

Classics on the list available from Macmillan Collector’s Library:
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER by Mark Twain

ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES by L.M. Montgomery

THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO by Alexandre Dumas

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Fyodor Dostoevsky

DON QUIXOTE by Miguel de Cervantes

FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley

GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS by Jonathan Swift

HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad

JANE EYRE by Charlotte Brontë

LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May Alcott

MOBY-DICK by Herman Melville

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by Oscar Wilde

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen

WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Brontë

The “Great American Read” will also feature entertaining and informative documentary segments, with compelling testimonials from celebrities, authors, notable Americans, and book lovers across the country. The finale on October 23 will reveal the results of a nationwide vote to choose America’s best-loved book.