1. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
2. The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)
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3. 1984 (George Orwell)
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
5. Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Also among the list (in the titles' alphabetical order) of the 25 most-nominated books (one per author) were:
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry)
A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
