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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 — 2,437,073 ratings — published 1985 — 549 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 — 426,563 ratings — published 2019 — 140 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 — 163,813 ratings — published 2000 — 217 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 — 157,354 ratings — published 1996 — 221 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 — 133,258 ratings — published 2009 — 32 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
	My Evil Mother 3.86 avg rating — 90,818 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
	MaddAddam (MaddAddam, #3) 4.03 avg rating — 82,791 ratings — published 2013 — 80 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 Penelopiad 3.71 avg rating — 87,918 ratings — published 2005 — 142 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
	Cat’s Eye 3.95 avg rating — 72,937 ratings — published 1988 — 86 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 Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, 311 pages, 1985

66 votes, 23.4%

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 496 pages, 1943

46 votes, 16.3%

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 311 pages, 1883

34 votes, 12.1%

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, 521 pages, 1854

32 votes, 11.3%

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, 296 pages, 1929

22 votes, 7.8%

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, 1463 pages, 1862

20 votes, 7.1%

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

19 votes, 6.7%

Dune by Frank Herbert, 604 pages, 1965

18 votes, 6.4%

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, 213 pages, 1930

16 votes, 5.7%

Rob Roy by Walter Scott, 501 pages, 1817

5 votes, 1.8%

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 560 pages, 1951

4 votes, 1.4%

282 total votes

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