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Persuasion

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Emma

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The Girls of Slender Means

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The Secret History

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Mansfield Park

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Les liaisons dangereuses

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Pride and Prejudice

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Wuthering Heights

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The Abbess of Crewe

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The Name of the Rose

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The Virgin Suicides

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The Driver's Seat

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The House of Mirth

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The Finishing School

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An Accidental Man

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Devilish

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Violet & Claire

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Enthusiasm

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message 1: by Charlizechat (new)

Charlizechat Since this is a "favorite books" list and not a BEST list I am trying to be subjective! These are the novels (and I'm also consciously leaving off Shakespeare, philosophy, nonfiction etc.) that most automatically come to me as the ones I've loved & that I need to keep on hand . . . That said, I remain very confident that Persuasion and Emma are the two greatest novels of the English language, The Secret History is the best novel of the past quarter-century, and The Girls of Slender Means the most satisfying prose of the 20th Century-- so yeah, I'm gonna swear by the top tier of my rankings!


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