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Top Ten Must Read Books

The Great ​Gatsby​
The Great ​Gatsby​

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald “It’s hard to say what anyone should or shouldn’t read, let alone everyone, but The Great Gatsby is a book I find myself continually going back to, and I always seem to find something new.

On the Road​
On the Road​

On the Road by Jack Kerouac via barnesandnoble.com Kerouac's agent spent more than four years trying to find a publisher for this turbo-charged, road-trip novel about the postwar beat generation.

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Tell Me a ​Riddle​
Tell Me a ​Riddle​

NPR coverage of Tell Me a Riddle by Tillie Olsen. News, author interviews, critics' picks and more.

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Great ​Expectations​
Great ​Expectations​

Discover the top six seminal works by Charles Dickens, ... Here are six of Dickens’ must-read books. Great Expectations.

All Quiet on ​the Western Front​
All Quiet on ​the Western Front​

ERICH MARIA REMARQUE All Quiet on the Western Front ... "You must all be there first." ... We read letters and newspapers and smoke.

War and ​Peace​
War and ​Peace​

You’ll read War and Peace in 10 days, maximum. Many people find the first 100 pages dauntingly full of characters, and only then does it seem to smooth out and become lucid. Tolstoy has immense care for his readers, and most of his challenges are challenges of sympathy, not of intricate understanding.

The Heart Is a ​Lonely Hunter​
The Heart Is a ​Lonely Hunter​

Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is set in a small Georgia mill town in the late 1930s. At the center, like the hub of a wheel, is John Singer, who rents a room in the Kelly house after his fellow deaf companion, Spiros Antonapoulos, is sent away to an asylum.

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Native Son​
Native Son​

Some teachers believe the themes in Native Son and other challenged books "foster dialogue and discussion in the classroom" and "guide students into the reality of the complex adult and social world". Native Son is number 27 on Radcliffe's Rival 100 Best Novels List.

The Road​
The Road​

Which makes me think that we should all go back and read her first collection, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. I love the exuberance in these stories. Reading them you feel as if the writer is having as good as time as you and the characters, running around hunting for turtles or mapping the stars.

Frankenstein​
Frankenstein​

In fact, when you’ll read ‘Frankenstein’,you’ll see,for the first time ever, the creature in a different light. (I won’t tell you more,because I don’t want to include spoilers here.) In short, you’ll get to know lots of things about Frankenstein and the monster,that you probably wouldn’t have thought about.

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A Good Man ​Is Hard to Find​
A Good Man ​Is Hard to Find​

A good man is hard to find and other stories. ... The children exchanged comic books. ... said he was a very good-looking man and a gentleman and that he

The Catcher ​in the Rye​
The Catcher ​in the Rye​

The Catcher in the Rye is often compared to Mark Twain's classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Both books involve the coming-of-age process of the main protagonist; both novels follow the journey of the boys; both works have caused violent reactions in their readers. You must read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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Adventures of ​Huckleberry Finn​
Adventures of ​Huckleberry Finn​

Huckleberry Finn, inspired by a prequel (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) that was for boys, is a book that celebrates the lost world of childhood, the space and mystery of the midwest. Above all, it mythologises the issue – race – that had tormented the Union for so many decades.

Of Mice and ​Men​
Of Mice and ​Men​

Of Mice and Men: Does it Belong in High Schools? written by: Trent Lorcher • edited by: SForsyth • updated: 2/14/2012 John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is one of the most read and most banned books in the English language.

Odyssey​
Odyssey​

You read that correctly, Prince Phillipos is the prince of not one, but two countries. He is the youngest son of King Constantine and Queen Anne Marie of Greece and Denmark. Unfortunately, Greece abolished their monarchy, so he's a prince in name only there.

The Da Vinci ​Code​
The Da Vinci ​Code​

The reason I'm asking you to read The Da Vinci Code before Angels and Demons is because I feel that TDVC is far better than A&D, and if you can develop a taste or a knack for the style and prose of writing, you may want to keep reading other DB books.

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Pride and ​Prejudice​
Pride and ​Prejudice​

Pride and Prejudice has long fascinated readers, consistently appearing near the top of lists of "most-loved books" among both literary scholars and the general public. It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature, with over 20 million copies sold, and paved the way for many archetypes that abound in modern literature.

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