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As part of the PBS series
The Great American Read
, KCPT wants your vote in determining Kansas City's best-loved book. Vote for one of the novels below, or write in your own candidate. You can vote once per device (phone, computer, tablet).
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Vote for one book to win the title of Kansas City's best-loved book.
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1984
by George Orwell
A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
Alex Cross Mysteries (series)
by James Patterson
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
Anne of Green Gables
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Another Country
by James Baldwin
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Bless Me, Ultima
by Rudolfo Anaya
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
Charlotte's Web
by E.B. White
The Chronicles of Narnia
by C.S. Lewis
T
he Clan of the Cave Bear
by Jean M. Auel
The Coldest Winter Ever
by Sister Souljah
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
Doña Barbara
by Rómulo Gallegos
Dune
by Frank Herbert
Fifty Shades of Grey (series)
by E.L. James
Flowers in the Attic
by V.C. Andrews
Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Game of Thrones (series)
by George R. R. Martin
Ghost
by Jason Reynolds
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
The Godfather
by Mario Puzo
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter (series)
by J.K. Rowling
Hatchet (series)
by Gary Paulsen
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
The Hunger Games (series)
by Suzanne Collins
The Hunt for Red October
by Tom Clancy
The Intuitionist
by Colson Whitehead
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton
Left Behind (series)
by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
Looking for Alaska
by John Green
The Lord of the Rings (series)
by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
The Martian
by Andy Weir
Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden
Mind Invaders
by Dave Hunt
Moby-Dick
by Herman Melville
The Notebook
by Nicholas Sparks
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
The Shack
by William P. Young
Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut
The Stand
by Stephen King
The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
Swan Song
by Robert R. McCammon
Tales of the City (series)
by Armistead Maupin
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
This Present Darkness
by Frank E. Peretti
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
The Twilight Saga (series)
by Stephenie Meyer
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
Watchers
by Dean Koontz
The Wheel of Time (series)
by Robert Jordan
Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
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