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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  #91

  The Magic Mountain

  by Thomas Mann

  (6 Reviews)

  203 Points

  "Die Geschichte Hans Castorps, die wir erzählen wollen, - nicht um seinetwillen (denn der Leser wird einen einfachen, wenn auch ansprechenden jungen Mann in ihm kennenlernen), sondern um der..."

  

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  #92

  The Call of the Wild

  by Jack London

  (20 Reviews)

  203 Points

  "Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound..."

  

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  #93

  The Tin Drum

  by Günter Grass

  (5 Reviews)

  201 Points

  "Granted: I'm an inmate of a mental institution; my keeper watches me, scarcely lets me out of his sight; for there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can't see..."

  

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  #94

  The 42nd Parallel

  by John Dos Passos

  (3 Reviews)

  200 Points

  "General Mills with his gaudy uniform and spirited charger was the center for all eyes especially as his steed was extremely restless."

  

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  #95

  Under the Volcano

  by Malcolm Lowry

  (5 Reviews)

  199 Points

  "Two mountain chains traverse the republic roughly from north to south, forming between them a number of valleys and plateaus."

  

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  #96

  Disgrace

  by J. M. Coetzee

  (7 Reviews)

  193 Points

  "For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well."

  

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  #97

  The Diary of a Young Girl

  by Anne Frank

  (19 Reviews)

  193 Points

  "On Friday, 12th June, I woke up at six o' clock and no wonder; it was my birthday"

  

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  #98

  Bleak House

  by Charles Dickens

  (8 Reviews)

  189 Points

  "London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall."

  

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  #99

  Light in August

  by William Faulkner

  (5 Reviews)

  188 Points

  "Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, 'I have come from Alabama: a fur piece.'"

  

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  #100

  The Scarlet Letter

  by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  (19 Reviews)

  187 Points

  "A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the..."

  

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