Best Books Ever Written

13 "Best Books" lists combined and condensed into one master best books list, for the benefit of your reading pleasure. 623 of the best books ever written - can you collect them all?

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  #1

  The Great Gatsby

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (97 Reviews)

  994 Points

  "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

  

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  #2

  The Grapes of Wrath

  by John Steinbeck

  (35 Reviews)

  963 Points

  "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth."

  

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  #3

  Nineteen Eighty-Four

  by George Orwell

  (69 Reviews)

  946 Points

  "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

  

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  #4

  Ulysses

  by James Joyce

  (13 Reviews)

  925 Points

  "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."

  

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  #5

  Lolita

  by Vladimir Nabokov

  (36 Reviews)

  856 Points

  "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth."

  

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  #6

  Catch-22

  by Joseph Heller

  (31 Reviews)

  823 Points

  "It was love at first sight."

  

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  #7

  The Catcher in the Rye

  by J. D. Salinger

  (45 Reviews)

  735 Points

  "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they...

  

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  #8

  Beloved

  by Toni Morrison

  (14 Reviews)

  719 Points

  "124 was spiteful. Full of baby's venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children."

  

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  #9

  The Sound and the Fury

  by William Faulkner

  (15 Reviews)

  703 Points

  "Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting."

  

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  #10

  To Kill a Mockingbird

  by Harper Lee

  (64 Reviews)

  701 Points

  "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."

  

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