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Scott Turow

Top Ten contributor Scott Turow has built a long, illustrious career crafting topnotch legal thrillers. Though he works within a traditional genre, Turow also pushes the envelope.



Consider his latest novel, Suspect, which plays with the au courant ideas of #MeToo and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in a fast-paced tale of scandal and crime.

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Scott Turow

Top Ten contributor Scott Turow has built a long, illustrious career crafting topnotch legal thrillers. Though he works within a traditional genre, Turow also pushes the envelope.



Consider his latest novel, Suspect, which plays with the au courant ideas of #MeToo and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in a fast-paced tale of scandal and crime.

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Sandra Cisneros

1. The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda (1962)
2. The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout (1955)
3. Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr (1984)
4. The Burning Plain and Other Stories by Juan Rulfo (1953)
5. Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys (1939)
6. La Flor de Lis by Elena Poniatowska (1988)
 7. Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa (1999)
8. The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano (1989)
9. Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges (1964)
10. Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks (1953)

 

 

 

 

 

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Russell Banks

1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605, 1615)
2. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
4. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
5. The Odyssey by Homer (ninth century b.c.e.?)
6. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1380s?)
7. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1869)
8. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)
9. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
10. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)