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Reviews and Recommendations
We've comprehensively compiled reviews of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the world's leading experts.
Walter Isaacson AuthorRead [this book]. (Source)
Richard Branson Founder/Virgin GroupToday is World Book Day, a wonderful opportunity to address this #ChallengeRichard sent in by Mike Gonzalez of New Jersey: Make a list of your top 65 books to read in a lifetime. (Source)
Daniel Pink AuthorRecommends this book
Michael Voss I enjoy nearly everything Mark Twain ever wrote, but my favorite is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This novel showcases Twain at the top of his game in terms of acerbic wit, sharp societal observations and the use of regional dialects - for which he initially garnered great criticism, before the passage of time enabled critics to understand and acknowledge its authenticity. (Source)
Ovidiu Drugan Question: What books had the biggest impact on you? Answer: Dune – Frank Herbert Write It Down, Make It Happen – Henriette Anne Klauser Two years vacations – Jules Verne (and all the well known books) – navigation & cast away story The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain (and Tom Sawyer) – river expedition The Foundation Cycle – Isaac Asimov War books – Sven Hassel – changed the way I see the army, conflicts, war Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky – any crime comes with inner suffering so better not do it Nansen, Kon-Tiki, Expedition... (Source)
Robert McCrum Hemingway said that all American fiction comes from Huckleberry Finn. (Source)
Rankings by Category
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is ranked in the following categories:
- #27 in 10th Grade
- #64 in 12th Grade
- #26 in 15-Year-Old
- #3 in 16-Year-Old
- #64 in 17-Year-Old
- #64 in 18-Year-Old
- #41 in Academia
- #40 in Action Adventure
- #17 in Adventure
- #75 in Adventure Fantasy
- #20 in Adventure Fiction
- #8 in American
- #7 in American Literature
- #7 in Americana
- #8 in Annotations
- #87 in Anthology
- #6 in Arkansas
- #72 in Author
- #19 in Boy
- #17 in Broadway
- #36 in Bucket List
- #71 in Catalog
- #28 in Character
- #47 in Character Development
- #54 in Childhood
- #10 in Children's Boat
- #22 in Children's Classics
- #21 in Class
- #25 in Classic
- #35 in Classical
- #46 in Collection
- #43 in Coming Of Age
- #70 in Controversial
- #87 in Entertaining
- #85 in Entertainment
- #53 in Fiction
- #32 in Folio Society
- #10 in Free e-Book
- #91 in Good Read
- #72 in Goodreads
- #49 in Growing Up
- #13 in High School
- #11 in High School Reading
- #100 in Historical Fiction
- #27 in Leather
- #21 in Leather Bound
- #35 in Literary
- #20 in Literature
- #88 in Men
- #94 in Mom
- #63 in Morality
- #89 in Most Influential
- #45 in Novel
- #39 in Old
- #17 in Penguin Classics
- #33 in Poster
- #24 in Project Gutenberg
- #8 in Public Domain
- #42 in Quest
- #22 in Racism
- #63 in Rated
- #21 in Satire
- #10 in Slavery
- #7 in South
- #93 in Teacher
- #95 in Teaching
- #28 in Teen Boys
- #25 in University
- #36 in Water
- #54 in Young Reader
- #18 in Young Teen
- #67 in Youth