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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  #161

  Kim

  by Rudyard Kipling

  (6 Reviews)

  125 Points

  "He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum."

  

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  #162

  Brighton Rock

  by Graham Greene

  (4 Reviews)

  125 Points

  "Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him.Hale knew they meant to murder him before he had been in Brighton three hours. [1956 ed.]"

  

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  #163

  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  by Ken Kesey

  (16 Reviews)

  122 Points

  "They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them."They're out there.

  

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  #164

  The Adventures of Augie March

  by Saul Bellow

  (1 Review)

  120 Points

  "I am an American, Chicago born–Chicago, that somber city–and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; and sometimes..."

  

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  #165

  A Bend in the River

  by V. S. Naipaul

  (2 Reviews)

  120 Points

  "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."

  

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  #166

  The Hound of the Baskervilles

  by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  (17 Reviews)

  119 Points

  "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and..."

  

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  #167

  Housekeeping

  by Marilynne Robinson

  (4 Reviews)

  118 Points

  "My name is Ruth."

  

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  #168

  Sophie's Choice

  by William Styron

  (1 Review)

  118 Points

  "In those days cheap apartments were almost impossible to find in Manhattan, so I had to move to Brooklyn."

  

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  #169

  Ethan Frome

  by Edith Wharton

  (7 Reviews)

  117 Points

  "I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. (Author's Introductory Note)The village lay under two feet of snow,..."

  

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  #170

  Buddenbrooks

  by Thomas Mann

  (3 Reviews)

  116 Points

  

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