The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

One that I never read as a kid and have quite enjoyed as an older guy. I wonder what others there are?
 
It’s the dialect that does it with Huck Finn, and boy, what a radical move by Twain! It must have been like classical music listeners hearing pop for the first time.
 
If you haven’t read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and might be interested, don’t let The Cancellers who want the book banned deter you. Worse still are The Sanitizers who sift through a book and remove or replace any word that they disapprove of. These sanctimonious butchers do the reading public a serious disservice, not least because books that contain outdated attitudes and prejudices represent rare opportunities for education.
 
Huckleberry Finn is a fundamentally anti-racist (or at least non-racist) story stock full of the n-word. In its day, 140 years ago, when the book was published, some considered it overly progressive for its portrayal of a black man, a runaway slave, as an honest, sympathetic character. If we learn where our present-day worldviews have evolved from, we will gain in understanding, and maybe even refrain from thinking of ourselves as better. Seriously, people: what do you think the generation of 2164 will say about us?