15 Famous Books That Were Initially Rejected
As Samuel Beckett once said: "Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
By
Jessica Ferri | Published Nov 2, 2015John Crow's Devil
By Marlon James
Lord of the Flies
By William Golding
Anne of Green Gables
By L. Montgomery
Lolita
By Vladimir Nabokov
Gone With the Wind
By Margaret Mitchell
The Diary of a Young Girl
By Anne Frank
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
By J.K. Rowling
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
By Robert M. Persig
Twilight
By Stephanie Meyer
A Wrinkle in Time
By Madeleine L'Engle
Animal Farm
By George Orwell
The Bell Jar
By Sylvia Plath
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