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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  #131

  Tender is the Night

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (8 Reviews)

  147 Points

  "The hotel and its bright, tan prayer rug of a beach were one.On the pleasant shore of the French Riviera, about half way between Marseilles and the Italian border, stands a large, proud,..."

  

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  #132

  Journey to the End of the Night

  by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

  (4 Reviews)

  145 Points

  

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  #133

  The War of the Worlds

  by H. G. Wells

  (9 Reviews)

  143 Points

  "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as..."

  

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  #134

  A Suitable Boy

  by Vikram Seth

  (2 Reviews)

  143 Points

  "'You too will marry a boy I choose' said Mrs Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter."

  

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  #135

  Possession

  by A.S. Byatt

  (6 Reviews)

  142 Points

  "The book was thick and black and covered with dust."

  

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  #136

  A Confederacy of Dunces

  by John Kennedy Toole

  (4 Reviews)

  142 Points

  "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on..."

  

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  #137

  The Bell Jar

  by Sylvia Plath

  (8 Reviews)

  141 Points

  "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."

  

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  #138

  Waiting for Godot

  by Samuel Beckett

  (11 Reviews)

  139 Points

  "Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again. As before. Enter Vladimir ESTRAGON: (giving up..."

  

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  #139

  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  by Junot Diaz

  (5 Reviews)

  139 Points

  "They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn..."

  

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  #140

  Being and Nothingness

  by Jean-Paul Sartre

  (1 Review)

  138 Points

  "Modern thought has realized considerable progress by reducing the existent to the series of appearances which manifest it."

  

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