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The Best Books I've Ever Read

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"As an English major, I was required to read a lot, and these are some of my favorites, required and recreational."


1. What book is actually an epic poem written by the 17th century poet John Milton?
    Heaven and Hell
    Paradise Lost
    The Battle
    Adam and Eve


2. Which book by Daniel Keyes features a man who goes from being developmentally challenged to becoming a certified genius?
    Flowers for Algernon
    Einstein's Dreams
    Of Mice and Men
    You Shall Know Our Velocity!


3. This recent book by Yann Martel follows the story of a young boy who is lost at sea.
    Life Of Pi
    Lost
    The Deep Blue
    The Story of a Life


4. This children's book by Natalie Babbitt about a family who lives forever was recently made into a movie.
    My Family
    The Wellspring
    Our Secret
    Tuck Everlasting


5. Which future-minded novel by Aldous Huxley has been grouped with books like "1984" and "Fahrenheit 451"?
    Bold Planet
    Animal Farm
    Fear and Wonder
    Brave New World


6. Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote this novel about a man who commits murder and then becomes seriously ill.
    The Idiot
    Crime and Punishment
    War and Peace
    Anna Karenina


7. Another kid's book that has stayed with me is this story about two sisters by Katherine Patterson.
    Strider
    Sideways Stories from Wayside School
    Holes
    Jacob Have I Loved


8. Everyone will roll their eyes to see this one in here, but it has to be done. Which Shakespeare play features a young man dealing with the death of his father?
    Corialanus
    Othello
    Hamlet
    Macbeth


9. This might be cheating a little, but this collection deserves a slight bending of the rules. Which Southern-American author is known for her disturbing and unforgettable short stories?
    Toni Morrison
    Caryl Churchill
    Sandra Cisneros
    Flannery O'Connor


10. This extremely long novel by George Eliot about a virtuous woman and her elderly husband, and the town they live in, taught me that I can get through a Victorian novel and like it!
    The Mill on the Floss
    Middlemarch
    David Copperfield
    Villette


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