Top 100 Beach Books
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The rankings come from poll conducted by National Public Radio in the summer of 2009. 16,000 people responded. Details here.
- The Harry Potter series, by J.K. Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee -- see the Big Read bibliography
- The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
- Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, by Rebecca Wells
- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- see the Big Read bibliography
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Flagg
- The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
- Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
- The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan
- The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
- Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
- Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
- The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
- The Bean Trees, by Barbara Kingsolver
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith
- The World According to Garp, by John Irving
- Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
- The Prince of Tides, by Pat Conroy
- Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel
- The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
- The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler
- Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
- A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
- East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
- The Red Tent, by Anita Diamant
- Beach Music, by Pat Conroy
- One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Rebecca, by Daphne Du Maurier
- Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
- Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry
- The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon
- Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett
- Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
- Interview with the Vampire, by Anne Rice
- Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier
- Empire Falls, by Richard Russo
- Under the Tuscan Sun, by Frances Mayes
- The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, by Tom Robbins
- I Know This Much Is True, by Wally Lamb
- Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie
- Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
- The Stand, by Stephen King
- She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb
- Dune, by Frank Herbert
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
- Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
- Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Godfather, by Mario Puzo
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
- Animal Dreams, by Barbara Kingsolver
- Jaws, by Peter Benchley
- Good in Bed, by Jennifer Weiner
- Angle of Repose, by Wallace Stegner
- Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson
- The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
- The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
- Breakfast of Champions, by Kurt Vonnegut
- Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
- The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
- The Hunt for Red October, by Tom Clancy
- Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns
- The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
- Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe [tie]
- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
- Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon
- The Shell Seekers, by Rosamunde Pilcher
- Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
- Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett
- Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
- The Pilot's Wife, by Anita Shreve (tie)
- All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
- The Little Prince, by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
- The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
- One for the Money, by Janet Evanovich
- Shogun, by James Clavell
- Dracula, by Bram Stoker
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
- Presumed Innocent, by Scott Turow
- Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger
- The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
- Dead Until Dark, by Charlaine Harris
- Summer Sisters, by Judy Blume
- The Shining, by Stephen King
- How Stella Got Her Groove Back, by Terry McMillan
- Lamb, by Christopher Moore
- Sick Puppy, by Carl Hiaasen
- Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
