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The classics are represented, with Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird making the Top 10. But the top spot goes to none other than J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.
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Released between 1954 and 1955, The Lord of the Rings was published in three volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring (July 1954), The Two Towers (November 1954), and The Return of the King (October 1955). According to Sea Lion Press, the story was broken up into multiple books due to wartime paper rationing in the United Kingdom.
In 1968, Tolkien sat for a BBC documentary. Explaining what his magnum opus was about, he said, “Stories—frankly, human stories are always about one thing—death. The inevitability of death.”
“There is no such thing as a natural death,” Tolkien read. “Nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: But for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.”
He added, “Well, you may agree with the words or not. But those are the key-spring of The Lord of the Rings.”
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Shortly after, The Lord of the Rings topped The New York Times Paperback Best Seller listand remains the undisputed cornerstone of modern high fantasy, reinforcing why "Collider" placed it first.
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