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Monday, March 31, 2014

Do you consider yourself well read?


If you read the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in school, you might want to read it again. 

It made the list of the ten greatest books ever written, according to authors. Norton Anthologies asked 125 of the greatest living writers to select their top 10, compiled that list and broke it down to these final must-reads:

10. Middlemarch - George Eliot

9. The Stories of Anton Chekhov - Anton Chekhov

8. In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

7. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 

6. Hamlet - William Shakespeare

5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain 

4. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 

3. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

2. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

1. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

If you’re wondering where George Orwell’s 1984 is, that made the top 10 list from Goodreads at number 2, behind their favorite, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye was number 4.

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