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- To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) Harper Lee. 981 votes. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature.
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940) John Steinbeck. 370 votes. The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work.
- The Age of Innocence (1921) Edith Wharton. 137 votes. The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London.
- All the Light We Cannot See (2015) Anthony Doerr. 300 votes. More All the Light We Cannot See. #72 of 154 on The Greatest American Novels. #6 of 40 on The Best Novels About World War 2.
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4 days ago · The Best Fiction Books. Last updated: June 25, 2024. With so many novels and works of fiction to choose from these days, where do you start? Here, we've put together reading lists compiled in interviews with novelists, critics and academics to help you find the best novels and works of fiction.
2 days ago · Dune tied with Roger Zelazny's This Immortal for the Hugo Award in 1966 and won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel. Reviews of the novel have been largely positive, and Dune is considered by some critics to be the best science fiction book ever written.
2 days ago · A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr. In the summer of 1920 two men meet in the quiet English countryside. One is a war survivor, living in a church, intent upon uncovering and restoring a historical wall-painting.
1 day ago · Here are T&C's picks for the best books of July 2024. 1. ... Much has been written and said about John F. Kennedy, Jr., though not all of it by people who actually knew him. ... part pop song" and ...
2 days ago · Lewis Carroll was an English novelist and poet. He is best known as the author of the children’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871)—two of the most popular works of fiction in the English language.
