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Charles Dickens. I especially like the novel 'Our Mutual Friend.'

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Jane Austen. My favorite is 'Persuasion.' If you like JA, please take some of my JA quizzes under Literature Before 1900 under the main Literature category.

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Scott Turow. I especially love 'The Burden of Proof.' I adore the hero, Sandy Stern. Stern also appears in Turow's most famous book, 'Presumed Innocent.'

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Robert McCloskey. I love 'Make Way for Ducklings' and the Homer Price books. McCloskey is a wonderful illustrator, too.

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George Orwell. My favorites are 'Burmese Days' and 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying.' He wrote some brilliant essays on ordinary topics such as tea drinking and English public schools.

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Barbara Vine. I don't mean to imply that this marvelous writer is at ALL cow-like! Wow, have you ever read 'A Dark-Adapted Eye'? My other favorite is 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy.'

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Kingsley Amis. His first novel was the hilarious 'Lucky Jim.' I've read it about 8 times. Haven't read anything else of his, to tell the truth.

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George Eliot. 'Middlemarch' is definitely one of the best novels in the English language. 'The Mill on the Floss' is terrific, but so sad!

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Edith Wharton. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' 'The Age of Innocence' is great, too.

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Laura Ingalls Wilder. I think I liked 'Little Town on the Prairie' and 'These Happy Golden Years' best.

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Elizabeth Enright. My favorite children's writer. If you like her, too, I have a quiz on her Melendy books under Literature--Children's Literature section.

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Ruth Rendell. She and Barbara Vine are the same gifted mystery writer. I like the Barbara Vine books a little better, but the RR ones are terrific, too.

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Louisa May Alcott. My favorite is 'An Old-Fashioned Girl.' Her famous one is 'Little Women.'

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Geoffrey Chaucer. My favorite is 'Troilus and Criseyde.'

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William Carlos Williams. A terrific short story writer (not to mention his sublime poetry).

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Thomas Hardy. 'Jude the Obscure' seems obscure to me, but all the other novels are wonderful--though SAD! He wrote lovely poetry, too.

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Henry James. I like 'The Portrait of a Lady.' He wrote some DENSE prose, though.

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The Bronte sisters. I can never keep straight which wrote 'Jane Eyre,' and which wrote 'Wuthering Heights.' In any case, I like the first one better.

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E. M. Forster & E.M. Forster & EM Forster & E M Forster. I love 'A Room with a View,' 'Howard's End,' and 'A Passage to India.'

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Virginia Woolf. I like 'To the Lighthouse.' She's pretty hard to read, in my opinion.

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Anne Tyler. My favorite living writer. (I have an Anne Tyler quiz under Literature somewhere, if you like her work.)

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Robertson Davies. I love 'Murther and Walking Spirits.' Many critics think Davies is one of the best Canadian writers. He died a few years ago.

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Beverly Cleary. What a great writer! I love the Beezus and Ramona books and 'Otis Spofford.' She also wrote some neat pre-teen books like 'Sister of the Bride.' As of the early 2000s, she's still writing, a fellow player tells me.

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Thacher Hurd. My nephew and I love his picture book 'Tomato Soup.' His mother, Edith Thacher Hurd, was a distinguished children's writer, too. His dad, Clement Hurd, also illustrated 'The Runaway Bunny' and many other children's books.

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Frances Hodgson Burnett. She wrote 'The Secret Garden,' 'A Little Princess,' and other classics. Did you know she lived in Tennessee for a while?