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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  #141

  A Thousand Acres

  by Jane Smiley

  (5 Reviews)

  137 Points

  "At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."

  

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  #142

  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

  by Michael Chabon

  (6 Reviews)

  137 Points

  "In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back..."

  

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  #143

  The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

  by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  (1 Review)

  136 Points

  "How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?"

  

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  #144

  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  by Roald Dahl

  (16 Reviews)

  135 Points

  "These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket."

  

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  #145

  Lady Chatterley's Lover

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (8 Reviews)

  135 Points

  "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.Náš věk je v podstatě tragický, a tak ho odmítáme tragicky brát."

  

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  #146

  JR

  by William Gaddis

  (2 Reviews)

  134 Points

  

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  #147

  The Histories

  by Herodotus

  (2 Reviews)

  133 Points

  "This is the showing forth of the Inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassos so that neither the deeds of men may be forgotten by lapse of time, nor the works great and marvellous, which have been..."

  

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  #148

  Doctor Zhivago

  by Boris Pasternak

  (6 Reviews)

  133 Points

  "On they went, singing "Rest Eternal," and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing."

  

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  #149

  Lucky Jim

  by Kingsley Amis

  (4 Reviews)

  133 Points

  "They made a silly mistake, though," the Professor of History said, and his smile, as Dixon watched, gradually sank beneath the surface of his features at the memory.

  

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  #150

  Underworld

  by Don DeLillo

  (5 Reviews)

  132 Points

  "He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.Parla la tua lingua, l'americano, e c'è una luce nel suo sguardo che è una mezza speranza."

  

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