List results for "America"
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Best American Fiction, 1981-2006
The Book New York Times Review's editor, Sam Tanenhaus, sent out a short letter to a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages, asking them to please identify "the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years."
Library of Congress' Books that Shaped America
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.[3] Founded in 1800, it is the United States' oldest federal cultural institution. As part of a multi-year Library of Congress “Celebration of the Book,” the list – initially 88 books, now expanded by the Library to 100 – and its accompanying exhibition at the Library last June 25-Sept. 25 engendered months of public dialogue. Some 165,400 people attended the exhibit and more than 9,000 responded to a survey about “Books That Shaped America” posted by the Library on its National Book Festival website.
Mystery Writers of America's Top 100
In 1995, 5 years after the Crime Writer's Associati published a list of the top 100 crime novels. Inspired by them in 1995 the Mystery Writers of America published their top 100 in book form. https://www.librarything.com/award/157/The-Top-100-Mystery-Novels-of-All-Time-Mystery-Writers-of-America https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Top_100_Crime_Novels_of_All_Time#cite_note-1
PBS's The Great American Read
THE GREAT AMERICAN READ was a 2018 eight-part series that explored and celebrated the power of reading, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels. It investigated how and why writers create their fictional worlds, how we as readers are affected by these stories, and what these 100 different books have to say about our diverse nation and our shared human experience. Each author was limited to one title on the list and only fiction could be included in the poll. 7200 Americans were surveyed for their votes.
The 100 Greatest American Novels, 1893 – 1993
A couple of years ago, one of my brightest, most driven students asked me a simple question for which I had no ready answer: “Do you know where I could find a list of the 100 or so most important works of American fiction from the 20th Century?” I didn’t. List created by Jeff O'Neal of Book Riot.