Best Formative Reads - Readers Digest

Discover the best formative reads with Reader's Digest! Explore our curated list of top books that inspire, educate, and transform readers of all ages.

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Cover
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

A mischievous youth encounters a runaway slave and together they travel down the Mississippi in search of adventure.
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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of …
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Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, …
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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country," Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our …
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The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s …
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The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" …
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Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel …
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The wings of the dove

 

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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Cover
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Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

 

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Up from Slavery

by Booker T. Washington

The famous autobiography by the African American businessman, activist, and educator.
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The Education of Henry Adams

by Henry Adams

Originally published: Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1918.
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Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daringly new kind of poetry that became a major force in world …
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