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Quite different in its approach to a national reading-advancement event from 'Canada Reads,' PBS' 'Great American Read' project has named its 100 contenders for 'best-loved novel.'

Prototype: The Great American Read

By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Primary | @Porter_Anderson

A 'National Celebration of Books'

Westhen Publishing Perspectives reported on the annunciation of PBS' The Groovy American Read program—a combination of roadshow tv set series and reader-vote interaction—we noted that there appeared to be key distinctions between information technology and the annual Canada Reads programme.

With the release Friday (Apr xx) of the 100 titles the Stateside program is has listed in its "new PBS series and multi-platform initiative that celebrates the joy of reading and the books nosotros love," information technology go apparent just how securely dissimilar the two approaches are.

The 17-twelvemonth-old annualCanada Reads from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) selects five contemporary works, each "defended" by a glory personality in four deeply serious, consequence-driven debates seen and heard on a variety of platforms in a single week in March. It'south a powerful evocation of how forcefully literature can help reflect and enrich a nation's political and cultural dialogue.

By contrast, the new United states of america show is positioned as a "nationwide summer reading initiative" to cull "America's all-time-loved novel" and in press materials dubs itself "the about expansive national celebration of books and reading aimed at engaging multi-generational readers across platforms ever created."

And now that nosotros can see the 100 titles put frontward for the American show, it'due south clear that there'south lilliputian comparison with the Canadian endeavor. The program is being produced for PBS by Nutopia, the documentary-led production company founded by Jane Root, formerly president of Discovery Channel US.

Canada Reads searches for what its producers telephone call "the title the whole country should read this twelvemonth."

By dissimilarity,The Cracking American Read, looking for a "best-loved" standout, might be positioned as saying, "Read anything, absolutely anything, just read." Y'all haveCrime and Punishment and Fifty Shades of Gray on the same listing; The Da Vinci Lawmaking and The Grapes of Wrath; Siddartha and I, Alex Cantankerous. The Canadian effort is advisory, the American one is populist.

The television set aspect of The Great American Read involves a 2-60 minutes opening show to air on May 22 on PBS affiliate stations, then, later summer tapings of "entertaining and informative documentary segments," the show returns in the fall for six one-hr episodes led past NBC News correspondent Meredith Vieira, formerly of The View and Today and the syndicated edition in u.s. of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.

The audience-engagement element already has begun, in a sense, in that PBS's media materials tell us that its 100 titles were chosen in "a demographically representative national survey," a public opinion poll said to have been answered past some 7,200 people and conducted past YouGov. That's a ratings site followed past some for its President Trump Daily Job Approval ranking and featuring, at this writing, the commodity "About Americans Are Non Concerned About How Their Daily Lives Affect the Environment" for Earth Day.

In a prepared argument, PBS' president and CEO Paula Kerger is quoted, saying, "With The Great American Read, we will leverage our combined broadcast and digital presence, along with the strong local connections of PBS member stations, to inspire a national conversation most beloved books and the power of reading."

The List of 100 Titles

The 100 titles are by authors from 15 countries, and cover v centuries of writings, from Cervantes' 1603 Don Quixote to the National Book Laurels finalist Ghost by Jason Reynolds, a 2022 children's book. An author can be represented in the listing just once, and a series counts as a unmarried entry.

Many local affiliates are expected to engage their community viewers in events on the basis, every bit social-media efforts carry on, online. Voting at the bear witness's site will ultimately establish what the program volition call "America's best-loved novel" in the autumn.

The list of 100 titles follows, and more than about them is on the programme's website hither.

  • 1984
  • Hatchet
  • A Confederacy of Dunces
  • Heart of Darkness
  • A Game of Thrones
  • The Help
  • A Prayer for Owen Meany
  • The Hitchhiker'due south Guide to the Galaxy
  • A Divide Peace
  • The Hunger Games
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • The Hunt for Crimson October
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • The Intuitionist
  • The Alchemis
  • Invisible Man
  • Alex Cross Mysteries
  • Jane Eyre
  • Alice'south Adventures in Wonderland
  • The Joy Luck Club
  • Americanah
  • Jurassic Park
  • And Then There Were None
  • Left Backside
  • Anne of Green Gables
  • The Piddling Prince
  • Another Country
  • Piddling Women
  • Atlas Shrugged
  • Lonesome Dove
  • Beloved
  • Looking for Alaska
  • Bless Me, Ultima
  • The Lord of the Rings
  • The Book Thief
  • The Lovely Bones
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  • The Martian
  • The Call of the Wild
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Catch-22
  • Mind Invaders
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • Moby-Dick
  • Charlotte'southward Spider web
  • The Notebook
  • The Chronicles of Narnia
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • The Clan of the Cave Bear
  • Outlander
  • The Coldest Winter Always
  • The Outsiders
  • The Color Purple
  • The Picture of Dorian Greyness
  • The Count of Monte Cristo
  • The Pilgrim's Progress
  • Offense and Punishment
  • The Pillars of the Earth
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Fourth dimension
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • The Da Vinci Code
  • Gear up Player 1
  • Don Quixote
  • Rebecca
  • Doña Barbara
  • The Shack
  • Dune
  • Siddhartha
  • 50 Shades of Grey
  • The Sirens of Titan
  • Flowers in the Attic
  • The Stand
  • Foundation
  • The Sun Also Rises
  • Frankenstein
  • Swan Song
  • Ghost
  • Tales of the City
  • Gilead
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • The Giver
  • Things Fall Autonomously
  • The Godfather
  • This Nowadays Darkness
  • Gone Daughter
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Gone with the Air current
  • Twilight
  • The Grapes of Wrath
  • War and Peace
  • Keen Expectations
  • Watchers
  • The Great Gatsby
  • The Bike of Time
  • Gulliver'south Travels
  • Where the Reddish Fern Grows
  • The Handmaid's Tale
  • White Teeth
  • Harry Potter
  • Wuthering Heights

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Porter Anderson is a non-resident fellow of Trends Research & Advisory, and he has been named International Merchandise Press Journalist of the Yr in London Book Fair'southward International Excellence Awards. He is Editor-in-Chief of Publishing Perspectives. He formerly was Associate Editor for The FutureBook at London's The Bookseller. Anderson was for more than than a decade a senior producer and anchor with CNN.com, CNN International, and CNN U.s.a.. As as an arts critic (National Critics Institute), he was with The Village Voice, the Dallas Times Herald, and the Tampa Tribune, now the Tampa Bay Times. He co-founded The Hot Sheet, a newsletter for authors, which at present is owned and operated by Jane Friedman.

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