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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  #171

  Thérèse Desqueyroux

  by François Mauriac

  (4 Reviews)

  116 Points

  

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  #172

  The Killer Angels

  by Michael Shaara

  (5 Reviews)

  115 Points

  "1. THE SPY He rode into the dark of the woods and dismounted."

  

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  #173

  Anne of Green Gables

  by L. M. Montgomery

  (12 Reviews)

  115 Points

  "Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the..."

  

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  #174

  If This Is a Man and The Truce

  by Primo Levi

  (3 Reviews)

  115 Points

  

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  #175

  The bridge of San Luis Rey

  by Thornton Wilder

  (5 Reviews)

  114 Points

  "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below."

  

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  #176

  A Moveable Feast

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (3 Reviews)

  113 Points

  "Then there was the bad weather."

  

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  #177

  Dubliners

  by James Joyce

  (7 Reviews)

  112 Points

  "The Sisters - There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke.An encounter: It was Joe Dillon who introduced the Wild West to us.Araby: North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet..."

  

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  #178

  Ficciones

  by Jorge Luis Borges

  (1 Review)

  112 Points

  "I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia."

  

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  #179

  Schindler's List

  by Thomas Keneally

  (5 Reviews)

  110 Points

  "In Poland's deepest autumn, a tall young man in an expensive overcoat, double-breasted dinner jacket beneath it and - in the lapel of the dinner jacket - a large ornamental gold-on-black enamel ..."

  

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  #180

  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

  by Muriel Spark

  (5 Reviews)

  109 Points

  "The boys, as they talked to the girls from Marcia Blaine School, stood on the far side of their bicycles holding the handlebars, which established a protective fence of bicycle between the sexes,..."

  

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