In his 18 June posting on About Last Night, critic Terry Teachout issues a classic reader's challenge: Fifteen Books in Fifteen Minutes —acting quickly, name the 15 books that have made the greatest impression on you, ones “that will always stick with you.”
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Middlemarch by George Eliot
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
A House of Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
The Winged Horse by Pamela Frankau
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
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