"To Kill a Mockingbird," the coming-of-age story about racism and injustice, overpowered wizards and time travelers to be voted America's best-loved novel by readers nationwide, according to AP's Lynn Elber.
- The 1960 book by Harper Lee emerged as No. 1 in PBS' "The Great American Read" survey, whose results were announced yesterday on the show's finale.
- More than 4 million votes were cast in the six-month-long contest that put 100 titles to the test.
- "To Kill a Mockingbird" has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and remains a fixture on school reading lists.
Books that were published as a series counted as a single entry.
- The other top-five finishers, in order of votes, were Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" series about a time-spanning love; J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" boy wizard tales; Jane Austen's romance "Pride and Prejudice"; and J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" fantasy saga
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