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“It is true that we have a limited time to read among so many choices, and many defend the canon because it’s the ‘best’ that literature has to offer. But the more authors I sought from Austen’s bookshelf—these women whom tastemakers removed, replaced, and effaced—the more I became convinced that there is no one book that ‘everyone’ should read.”