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An interesting list if for no other reason than the omissions. No Nabokov or Tolstoy or Ishiguro or Heinlein or Lewis or Clarke. Ishiguro, Lewis and Clarke I would have certainly expected on an English list.
Anyhow I made five of the 10. #2, 4, 6, 9, 10. I guess this exposes my 19th century English lit Achilles heel.
1. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen.
2. "Lord of the Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien.
3. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte.
4. Harry Potter books, by J.K. Rowling.
5. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.
6. The Bible.
7. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte.
8. "Nineteen Eighty Four" by George Orwell.
9. "His Dark Materials" by Philip Pullman.
10. "Great Expectation" by Charles Dickens.
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