In our quest to find out the “Favorite Books” of UWGB – we’ve heard from nearly 300 of you! – 296 to be exact. Our goal is to get to 360. So far, the campus community has listed nearly 200 “favorite” books.
If you haven’t told us your favorite book yet, you can stop by Cofrin Library and write it down on our 5th floor display, post it on our Facebook page, tweet us with the #360booksuwgb hash tag, or use this online form.
Your choice of favorite books illustrates the range of literature itself: some new, some classic, from children’s books to adult books, and fiction and non-fiction. Below is a list of the Top 20 Most Popular Favorite Books at UWGB:
Top 20 Most Popular Books
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- Harry Potter series – J.K. Rowling
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
- The Hunger Games series – Suzanne Collins
- 1984 – George Orwell
- Fifty Shades of Grey – E.L. James
- The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
10. My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
11. Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
12. Twilight series– Stephenie Meyer
13. The Giver – Lois Lowry
14. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
15. Love You Forever – Robert Munsch
16. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
17. Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
18. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
19. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
20. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Full List of “Favorite Books” in Alphabetical Order:
1984 – George Orwell
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian – Sherman Alexie
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
After the Dancing Days – Margaret I. Rostkowski
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
The Angel’s Game – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle – Barbara Kingsolver
Around the World in 80 Days – Jules Verne
Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama
Beauty – Robin McKinley
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Berserk – Kentaro Miura
Better Not Get Wet, Jesse Bear – Nancy White Carlstrom
Bhagavad Gita
The Bible
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
The Boxcar Children – Gertrude C. Warner
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut
Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown
Candide – Voltaire
The Cat in the Hat – Dr. Seuss
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom – Bill Martin, Jr. & John Archambault
The Children of Sanchez – Oscar Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
Clockwork Angel – Cassandra Clare
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
Divergent – Veronica Roth
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance – Barack Obama
The Dresden Files – Jim Butcher
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim – David Sedaris
East of Eden – John Steinbeck
Elsewhere – Gabrielle Zevin
Enders Game – Orson Scott Card
Eragon – Christopher Paolini
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
The Fault in our Stars – John Green
Faust – Goethe
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
Fifty Shades of Grey – E. L. James
Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
A Game of Thrones – George R.R. Martin
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
The Giver – Lois Lowry
The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
Goodnight Moon – Margaret Wise Brown
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Green Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss
Harry Potter – J.K. Rowling
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
The Help – Kathryn Stockett
Hildilid’s Night – Chelie Duran Ryan
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
Holes – Louis Sachar
Holidays on Ice – David Sedaris
Homeland – R.A. Salvatore
The Host – Stephenie Meyer
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
Human Stain – Philip Roth
The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins
Hush, Hush – Becca Fitzpatrick
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
I Like You – Amy Sedaris
Identical – Ellen Hopkins
Ill Fares the Land – Tony Judt
The Incredible Journey – Sheila Burnford
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
John Donne’s poetry
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke
Journey to the West
The Kama Sutra
The Keys of the Kingdom – A.J. Cronin
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
Left to Tell – Immaculee Ilibaziga
Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
Lewis Barnavelt Series – John Bellairs
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
Life on the Color Line – Gregory H. Williams
A Light in the Attic – Shel Silverstein
The Little Engine That Could
Looking for Alaska – John Green
The Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love You Forever – Robert Munsch
Maniac Magee – Jerry Spinelli
Martin & Malcolm & America – James H. Cone
Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
The Maze Runner – James Dashner
Message in a Bottle – Nicholas Sparks
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
A Million Little Pieces – James Frey
A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
My Antonia – Willa Cather
My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss
The Namesake – Juhmpa Lahiri
Nickel and Dimed – Barbara Ehrenreich
Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult
The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Oh, The Places You’ll Go – Dr. Seuss
The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
A Painted House – John Grisham
Paper Towns – John Green
La Peste (The Plague) – Albert Camus
A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Polar Express – Chris Van Allsburg
PostSecret books – Frank Warren
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Prince – Machiavelli
The Princess Bride – William Goldman
Puddle Duck – Louis Ross
Rain Fall – Barry Eisler
Rayuela – Julio Cortazar
The Red Tent – Anita Diamant
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
Running with Scissors – Augusten Burroughs
Saving June – Hannah Harrington
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Life of Lobsters – Trevor Corson
Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Smashed: The Story of a Drunken Girlhood – Koren Zailckas
Snow Falling on Cedars – David Guterson
Still Alice – Lisa Genova
The Story of My Life – Helen Keller
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A, Heinlein
Stuff White People Like – Christian Lander
Swamplandia! – Karen Russell
Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
The Thornbirds – Colleen McCullough
Three Comrades – Erich Maria Remarque
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Travels with Charley: In Search of America – John Steinbeck
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
Tree of Smoke – Denis Johnson
The Truth About Forever – Sarah Dessen
Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle – Clamp
Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
The Twenty-One Balloons – William Pene du Bois
Twilight – Stephenie Meyer
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption – Laura Hillenbrand
Under the Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
Will Grayson, Will Grayson – John Green & David Levithan
Wind, Sand, and Stars – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Z for Zacharia – Robert C. O’Brient
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert M. Pirsig
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