# What are the 5 best novels you've ever read?

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I can’t bring myself to whittle my list down any more than this:

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Don Quixote

Lolita

The Grapes of Wrath

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

To Kill a Mockingbird

Cold Mountain

The Name of the Rose

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