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Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College.

Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. The Tent (mini-fic ...more

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	The Handmaid's Tale 4.15 avg rating — 2,346,487 ratings — published 1985 — 537 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2) 4.20 avg rating — 407,654 ratings — published 2019 — 137 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Blind Assassin 3.96 avg rating — 161,839 ratings — published 2000 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alias Grace 4.04 avg rating — 154,175 ratings — published 1996 — 220 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) 4.07 avg rating — 131,471 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Evil Mother 3.87 avg rating — 87,505 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Cat’s Eye 3.95 avg rating — 71,710 ratings — published 1988 — 183 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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My Tribute to Jay MacPherson, Delivered at Victoria College, June 11, 2012

Jay MacPherson was a rare creature — one of a kind. Everyone who knew her would agree.

Eleanor Cook has spoken about her poetry. I can only add that those few who heard her read it have never forgotten the experience. She was not a person who was interested in poetry as a “career” – she wrote poems only when impelled – and that is clear from the poems themselves.

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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, 288 pages, 1963

30 votes, 16.7%

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 324 pages, 1960

24 votes, 13.3%

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 539 pages, 1980

19 votes, 10.6%

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, 273 pages, 1818

14 votes, 7.8%

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 320 pages, 1984

13 votes, 7.2%

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, 251 pages, 1817

13 votes, 7.2%

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 592 pages, 1957

12 votes, 6.7%

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 311 pages, 1883

11 votes, 6.1%

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, 311 pages, 1985

10 votes, 5.6%

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 227 pages, 1953

7 votes, 3.9%

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 277 pages, 1951

6 votes, 3.3%

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 320 pages, 1719

6 votes, 3.3%

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle, 256 pages, 1902

5 votes, 2.8%

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages, 1847

4 votes, 2.2%

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, 306 pages, 1726

3 votes, 1.7%

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 502 pages, 1851

3 votes, 1.7%

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