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9 INTRODUCTION by Erin McCarthy
IO 1984 GEORGE ORWELL + The Origins of Famous Authors’ Pen Names
14 A Game of Thrones GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
+ Ways the Show is Different From the Novel
18 A Prayer for Owen Meany JOHN IRVING + Writing Advice from Novelists
22 Americanah CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
25 As I Lay Dying WILLIAM FAULKNER + Books That Have Been Banned
30 Be/ovedTONI MORRISON + Amazing Books by Black Writers
34 Brave New World ALDOUS HUXLEY
38 Catch-22 JOSEPH HELLER + Classic Novels Most Often Abandoned by Readers
42 Crime and Punishment FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
+ Famous Novels Penned in Less Than a Month
47 Don Quixote MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
+ The Best-Selling Books In History Minus Religious Texts
52 Dune FRANK HERBERT + Books That Have Won Both the Hugo and Nebula Awards
56 Fahrenheit 451 RAY BRADBURY + Famous Authors’ Favorite Books
61 Frankenstein MARY SHELLEY + Her Dead Husband’s Heart
64 Giovanni’s Room JAMES BALDWIN
67 House Made of Dawn N. SCOTT MOMADAY + Native American Novels You Shouldn’t Miss
71 In Search of Lost Time MARCEL PROUST
+ What Writers Would Have Bought to a Literary Potluck
74 Infinite Jest DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
77 Invisible Man RALPH ELLISON + Authors on Overcoming Writer’s Block
82 Jane Eyre CHARLOTTE BRONTE + Cat-Loving Writers
86 Kindred OCTAVIA BUTLER + Novelists Who Won the MacArthur “Genius Grant”
90 Little Women LOUISA MAY ALCOTT + Ruthless Rejection Letters
96 Lolita VLADIMIR NABOKOV -I- When Nabokov Met Dr. Seuss
100 Lord of the Flies WILLIAM GOLDING 4- Harsh Early Reviews of Classic Novels
104 Midnight's Children SALMAN RUSHDIE 4- Famous Author Feuds
108 Moby-Dick HERMAN MELVILLE 4- Inspirations for Five Famous Literary Animals
113 Murder on the Orient Express AGATHA CHRISTIE
4- The Agatha Christie Book Linked to Real Murders
117 My Brilliant Friend ELENA FERRANTE 4- Book Series to Binge Read
120 Never Let Me Go KAZUO ISHIGURO 4- Nobel Prize-Winning Authors
4- What’s the Difference Between a Novella and a Short Story?
125 On the Road JACK KEROUAC 4- Young Kerouac’s Reading List
128 One Hundred Years of Solitude GABRIEL GARCIA MÁRQUEZ
4- Magical Realism Books You Need to Read
132 Outlander DIANA GABALDON 4- Other Great Love Stories in Novels
136 Pride and Prejudice JANE AUSTEN T The Real Mr. Darcy
4- Pride and Prejudice's Greatest Critics
142 Salvage the Bones JESMYN WARD 4- National Book Award Winners
146 Slaughterhouse-Five KURT VONNEGUT 4- Vonnegut Quotes
151 Sons and Lovers D.H. LAWRENCE 4- Lawrence Quotes
154 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn MARK TWAIN + Things Twain Didn’t Really Say
159 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
162 The Alchemist PAULO COELHO
166 The Bell Jar SYLVIA PLATH 4- Important Novels About Mental Illness
171 The Call of the Wild JACK LONDON 4- Homes of Famous Novelists You Can Visit
175 The Catcher in the Rye J.D. SALINGER
4- Authors Who Hated Movie Versions of Their Books
180 The Color Purple ALICE WALKER 4- Quotes From The ColorPurple
184 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo STIEG LARSSON
187 The God of Small Things ARUNDHATI ROY 4- Why Do We Love Old Book Smell?
190 The Grapes of Wrath JOHN STEINBECK
+ Steinbeck’s Template for Dumping a Bad Friend
194 The Great Gatsby F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
198 The Handmaid's Tale MARGARET ATWOOD + Atwood Quotes
202 The Haunting of Hill House SHIRLEY JACKSON
+ Women Horror Writers You Need to Read
208 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy DOUGLAS ADAMS
+ Literary Characters Based on Real People
212 The Joy Luck Club AMY TAN + More Famous Authors’ Favorite Books
216 The Jungle UPTON SINCLAIR + Reader-in-Chief
+ Books You Didn’t Know Were Originally Self-Published
221 The Kite Runner KHALED HOSSEINI
223 The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. TOLKIEN + Facts About the Elves of Middle Earth
226 The Lowland JHUMPA LAHIRI + Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelists
230 The Metamorphosis FRANZ KAFKA + Famous Authors’ Unfinished Manuscripts
234 The Old Man and the Sea ERNEST HEMINGWAY + Hemingway’s Guide to Life in Quotes
242 The Road CORMAC MCCARTHY + Punctuation Marks Disliked by Famous Authors
245 The Stand STEPHEN KING + Books that Will (Probably) Never Be Printed Again
249 Things Fall Aparf CHINUA ACHEBE
252 To Kill a Mockingbird HARPER LEE + Amazing Tilings Lee Did After Mockingbird
256 To the LighthouseV\RG\H\h WOOLF + Woolf Quotes
260 Ulysses JAMES JOYCE + Literary Fart Jokes
266 Uncle Tom's Cabin HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
270 Waiting HA JIN
273 War and Peace LEO TOLSTOY + Terms Every Book Lover Should Know
278 Our Favorite Novels that Didn’t Make the Cut

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