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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  #101

  Pale Fire

  by Vladimir Nabokov

  (6 Reviews)

  185 Points

  "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain / By the false azure in the windowpane.Pale Fire, a poem in heroic couplets, of nine hundred ninety-nine lines, divided into four cantos, was composed by John..."

  

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  #102

  Captain Corelli's Mandolin

  by Louis de Bernières

  (4 Reviews)

  183 Points

  "Dr. Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse."

  

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  #103

  Howards End

  by E. M. Forster

  (6 Reviews)

  182 Points

  "One may as well begin with Helens letters to her sister."

  

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  #104

  The Heart is A Lonely Hunter

  by Carson McCullers

  (8 Reviews)

  181 Points

  "In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together."

  

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  #105

  Vanity Fair

  by William Makepeace Thackeray

  (8 Reviews)

  181 Points

  "While the present century was in its teens, and on one sun-shiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large..."

  

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  #106

  Commedia

  by Dante Alighieri

  (6 Reviews)

  180 Points

  "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita/mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,/chè la diritta via era smarrita.Mildway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the..."

  

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  #107

  The Count of Monte Cristo

  by Alexandre Dumas

  (15 Reviews)

  180 Points

  "On February 24, 1815, the watchtower at Marseilles signaled the arrival of the three-master Pharaon, coming from Smyrna, Trieste and Naples."

  

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  #108

  An American Tragedy

  by Theodore Dreiser

  (4 Reviews)

  179 Points

  "Dusk - of a summer night."

  

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  #109

  White Noise

  by Don DeLillo

  (4 Reviews)

  178 Points

  "The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus."

  

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  #110

  The World According to Garp

  by John Irving

  (11 Reviews)

  177 Points

  "Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater."

  

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