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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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Scott Turow

1. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1860–61)
2. The Hamlet by William Faulkner (1940)
3. Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding (1742)
4. The Red and the Black by Stendhal (1830)
5. The stories of Eudora Welty (1909–2001)
6. On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev (1860)
7. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster (1905)
8. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997)
9. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
10. The Professor’s House by Willa Cather (1925)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)
3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
4. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1924)
5. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
6. So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell (1979)
7. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (1915)
8. Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West (1933)
9. Persuasion by Jane Austen (1817)
10. The Human Stain by Philip Roth (2000)