The top 10 books of all time

5. "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by Mark Twain

Twain's 1884 story of a boy traveling down the Mississippi River by raft in the company of a runaway slave is considered by many to be the greatest masterpiece of American literature. (Ernest Hemingway once proclaimed that "All modern American literature comes from" this book.) The novel's language (in particular its use of an ugly racial epithet) also make it one of the works whose place is most frequently challenged in US libraries and schools.

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