50,000,000 Shades of Grey fans can't be wrong...
Edited 10/23/2018 to add final votes.
MDM regulars will recognize
Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, making the case for
Moby-Dick as the "best-loved book" in
The Great American Read on PBS. An
experienced sailor,
Melville scholar, and a
pillar of MDMs at the Whaling Museum and
Mystic Seaport, Ms. Bercaw Edwards knows whereof she speaks.
The 2-hour broadcast can be streamed on the program's
home page. Skip to time 56:00 to hear why M-D is that fabled "great American novel."
It would be petty to gripe that this whole "list & vote" thing is a meaningless popularity contest skewed by the whims of ill-informed adolescents and political/religious zealots, so let's ignore that. No "Top
x" list can satisfy everyone. (Where the dickens is Joyce's
Ulysses?) Still, taken for what it is, this list might point you to a good read, and might point some wanderer to
Moby-Dick.
10/23/18 - This just in: Moby-Dick ranked as #46 (higher than I would have predicted).
To Kill a Mockingbird was voted #1.
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