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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 (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 2,085,337 ratings — published 1985 — 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
	The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2) 4.19 avg rating — 358,486 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
	Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 269,559 ratings — published 2003 — 149 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 Blind Assassin 3.96 avg rating — 156,678 ratings — published 2000 — 6 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 — 145,480 ratings — published 1996 — 210 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) 4.06 avg rating — 125,984 ratings — published 2009 — 126 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) 4.02 avg rating — 77,453 ratings — published 2013 — 83 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 3.89 avg rating — 77,980 ratings — published 2022 — 7 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 3.72 avg rating — 74,620 ratings — published 2005 — 150 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 — 68,870 ratings — published 1988 — 184 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 TalebyMargaret Atwood,311 pages, 1985

66 votes, 23.2%

A Tree Grows in BrooklynbyBetty Smith,496 pages, 1943

46 votes, 16.1%

Treasure IslandbyRobert Louis Stevenson,311 pages, 1883

35 votes, 12.3%

North and SouthbyElizabeth Gaskell,521 pages, 1854

32 votes, 11.2%

All Quiet on the Western FrontbyErich Maria Remarque,296 pages, 1929

22 votes, 7.7%

Les MisérablesbyVictor Hugo,1463 pages, 1862

20 votes, 7.0%

The Unbearable Lightness of BeingbyMilan Kundera,320 pages, 1984

19 votes, 6.7%

DunebyFrank Herbert,604 pages, 1965

19 votes, 6.7%

The Maltese FalconbyDashiell Hammett,213 pages, 1930

16 votes, 5.6%

Rob RoybyWalter Scott,501 pages, 1817

5 votes, 1.8%

The Caine MutinybyHerman Wouk,560 pages, 1951

5 votes, 1.8%

285 total votes

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