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MEMBER
POLL
What’s your all-time

favorite book?

The Connection asked members
to cast a vote for their favorite reads.

Fiction 46 %

Children’s Lit 39 %

Religious 8 %

Nonfiction 7 %

Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell. My grandmother Fun facts STEVEN LAIT
read it to me when I was a child, and I still hear
her voice when I reread it.—Gale Hetzel
Anything by Beverly Cleary. Especially the On October 23, PBS will air the fi nal episode
of its Great American Read series, in which
Ramona series!—Lupita Mi Amor America’s most-loved book, by vote, will be
Charlotte’s Web. I read it to my first-graders every announced. PBS determined its top 100 Next up:
spring. So many lessons in those pages. books by conducting a poll of more than
—Donna Kryzenske 7,200 people. Which dish
completes your
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Classic, Here are some facts about PBS’s top 100 Thanksgiving
with a dynamic plot.—Markie D. Mark books. meal?
Love You Forever. Great children’s book, but won- They span fi ve centuries, from Don Quixote
derful for parents.—William and Connie Voigt (1605) to Ghost (2016). Watch for the next
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Seventy of the novels were published after poll question at
—Sarah Riley World War II. Facebook.com/
Gone with the Wind.—Paula Holmes Twelve of the novels have sold more 50 Costco. Or send
responses to the
million copies each.
The Grapes of Wrath.—Pat Brown The list includes nine Pulitzer Prize winners. upcoming question
at connection@
Where the Red Fern Grows.—Jimmy Ferguson Five are by Nobel Prize–winning authors. costco.com,
A Wrinkle in Time. Difficult to name one over a subject line “Poll.”
lifetime of great reads!—Sheila Finegan-Woster Voting for The Great American Read is open
until October 18. Visit pbs.org/the-great-
Little House on the Prairie.—Andrea Townsend american-read.
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