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Five More of My Top Ten Greatest Novels

Image  By Ryan Vaarsi A few months back I joined a community on Google+ called "The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time". The moderator,   +Brandon Toropov    suggested that we post our Top Ten Greatest Novels of All Time list. The novels I chose altered my views about life or influenced my worldview in some way when I first read them. My Top Ten Greatest Novels  Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird  Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment  Charles Dickens - Great Expectations  Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter  Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre  John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath  Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises  Frank Herbert - Dune  J. R. R Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings  Herman Melville - Moby Dick I covered why I chose the following novels for my Top Ten Novels in an earlier post here : To Kill a Mockingbird, Crime and Punishment, Great Expectations, The Scarlet Letter, and Jane Eyre. Here I present the reasons why I chose these f