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Top 20 First Novels

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Which novelist was off to the best start?

Rated 0 points - posted 14 years ago by plink in category Books.

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1.

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

50 points - added 14 years ago by plink -

2.

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

39 points - added 14 years ago by plink -

3.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce

34 points - added 14 years ago by plink -

4.

The Catcher in the Rye

by J D Salinger

32 points - added 14 years ago by plink -

5.

Carrie

by Stephen King

22 points - added 14 years ago by plink -

6.

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

16 points - added 14 years ago by plink -

7.

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

7 points - added 14 years ago by plink -

8.

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

6 points - added 14 years ago by plink -

9.

Bright Lights, Big City

by Jay McInerney

5 points - added 14 years ago by plink -

10.

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

5 points - added 14 years ago by plink -

11.

This Side of Paradise

by F Scott Fitzgerald

5 points - added 14 years ago by plink -

12.

The Time Machine

by H G Wells

2 points - added 14 years ago by plink -