All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Launch Special

    • May 22, 2018
    • PBS

    America’s 100 best-loved books are revealed, launching the campaign & the nationwide vote.

  • S01E02 Fall Kick-off

    • September 11, 2018
    • PBS

    Join host Meredith Vieira in the search for America's best-loved novel. The voting is underway, and the competition is heating up any book could win.

  • S01E03 Who Am I?

    • September 18, 2018
    • PBS

    Explore the ways that America's best-loved novels answer the age-old question, "Who am I?" From life lessons to spiritual journeys, these books help us understand our own identities and find our place in the world.

  • S01E04 Heroes

    • September 25, 2018
    • PBS

    Follow the trials and tribulations of some of literature's favorite protagonists. From Katniss Everdeen to Don Quixote, examine how these everyday heroes and anti-heroes find their inner strength, overcome challenges and rise to the occasion.

  • S01E05 Villains & Monsters

    • October 2, 2018
    • PBS

    Learn why literature's most notorious villains began behaving badly. Many weren't born evil, but became that way when faced with some of the same choices we make every day. See what these villains can teach us about our own dark impulses.

  • S01E06 What We Do for Love

    • October 9, 2018
    • PBS

    Fall in love with some of literature's most beautiful romances and explore the many forms of love, from family to passion to the unrequited type. Learn how America's best-loved novels reflect the things we do for love.

  • S01E07 Other Worlds

    • October 16, 2018
    • PBS

    Take a magical journey to another world through some of America's best-loved novels. From Middle Earth to Lilliput, the trials and tribulations of these alternate universes help us to better understand our own world.

  • S01E08 Grand Finale

    • October 23, 2018
    • PBS

    And the winner is... after millions of votes, find out which of the 100 nominated books is crowned America's best-loved novel.