Voting starts May 22 and ends October 2018.  See link for more of the 100 nominees.

I'm about this but do wish they had done it by categories or even time periods (I.e., published before 1900, before 1950, before 2000, type of splits).  I agree that those are 100 of the most read, most popular and even most influential books.

I just mean it's weird seeing beloved childhood books like Charlotte's Web and Anne of Green Gables up against Carch 22, Then There Were None, and long running contemporary series like Alex Cross and Wheel of Time?

Then the hordes of fans for Twilight, Fifty Shades of Gray, Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter  ...

(I am not at all disrespecting Harry Potter; frankly I think those books are responsible for an entire generation of readers.  It's just weird to see it up against the other nominees.)

How would you vote -- a childhood favorite that made you a reader or your favorite recent read?

I just adore this post. It's got everything you could want from an article about hip hop: statistics, nerding out about vocabulary, and bagging on DMX. 

According to a Harris Poll America's favorite books are moving away from best sellers and towards classics.  Here is a link to a NY Times article about the poll: NYTimesLink  And here are the results:

TABLE 1

FAVORITE BOOK

"Who is your favorite book of all time?"

Unprompted responses

Base: All adults

DROPPED OFF OF LIST IN 2014

The Stand by Stephen King (was No. 5), The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (was No. 6) Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (was No. 8) and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (was No. 9)

TABLE 2

TOP BOOK AMONG DIFFERENT GROUPS AFTER THE BIBLE

Because the great American novel is always better in the original Klingon.