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I promised my top ten, and here it is. This is my Top 10 in the fiction category.

1. Don Quixote – Cervantes
2. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
3. The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
4. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
5. Crime and Punishment – Dostoyevsky
6. Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
7. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
8. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
9. 1984 – George Orwell
10. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe

Honorable Mention:
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Cathedral – Raymond Carver
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

Care to share yours? Send it to me: fish1861@aol.com

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  1. MikeFebruary 22, 2007 at 9:20 AM

    From Mike Mutschelknaus submitted 02/22/2007

    Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
    A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
    Beloved by Toni Morrison
    Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
    SlaughterHouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
    Gang of One by Fan Shen
    The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
    Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

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