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"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible."

—Van Wyck Brooks (1886-1963) American critic, historian

Lists of Bests - BBC's "The Big Read" - Top 100 Books

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The Lord of the Rings

by J.R.R. Tolkien

Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)

by Jane Austen

His Dark Materials

by Philip Pullman

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

by J. K. Rowling

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

Winnie-the-Pooh

by A. A. Milne

Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)

by George Orwell

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition)

by C. S. Lewis

Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)

by Charlotte Brontë

Catch 22

by Joseph Heller

Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)

by Emily Bronte

Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War

by Sebastian Faulks

Rebecca (Longman Fiction Series)

by Daphne du Maurier

The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

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