The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

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1. The Best Action Adventure BooksReading list

   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an action-packed adventure story that follows the young boy Huck as he journeys down the Mississippi River. Along the way, he meets a cast of colorful characters, including the runaway slave Jim. Together, they must outwit angry mobs, dodge dangerous criminals, and survive the…

2. Kim Brown SeelyInterview

   So many more: The Overstory by Richard Powers, The Library Book by Susan Orlean, The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey, News of the World by Paulette Jiles, and an exquisite book just published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, Surrender by Joanna Pocock. For nature writing, one of my favorites is a gem, The Quarry Fox by Leslie T…

3. Jim Al-KhaliliInterview

   That’s a tough one. On reflection, I’d say: Hamlet by William Shakespeare, The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

4. Gina Marie GuadagninoInterview

   Lots! But in an effort to keep it brief, I’ll list Slumberland by Paul Beatty, Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin, The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. I could go on, clearly…

5. Adam WilberInterview

   Wow. I would probably give them The Bible, The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle and then maybe a classic. Perhaps The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain or Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

6. Michael MichalkoInterview

   Reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain which I received as a Christmas gift when I was a small child.

7. Jeff KreislerInterview

   Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (not kidding, read this giant book in 3 spring days mostly under one tree on campus, sticks in my mind). Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Candide by Voltaire, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by…

8. Brian DunningInterview

   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. And I can even point to a specific moment where my horizons really expanded. I believe I was ten years old, and I’d read the book before but hadn’t been aware of most of its subtext. In the chapter “You Can’t Pray a Lie”, Huck makes the deliberate decision to do the…

9. Kevin CashmanInterview

   The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The first book in which I had a true “immersion experience”. The book transported me to a different world. Pure genius.

10. Mark BowdenInterview

    I think the choice of what to read is so subjective, and ought to be, that I would not make such a recommendation unprompted. But since I’ve been asked, as an American writer I’d suggest Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and The Rabbit Novels by John Updike. The…

11. Darren ShanInterview

    I would include The Belgariad by David Eddings, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and Boy’s Life by Robert R. McCammon. I’d also include any books by Kurt Vonnegut, James Ellroy, Roddy Doyle and Ray Bradbury. I’d also give mention to The Cerebus graphic novels by Dave…

12. Paul WilliamsInterview

    I was addicted to English children’s writer Enid Blyton, and consumed all her books. But the first serious book I read and loved and that shaped my childhood was Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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