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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  #181

  Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  by Robert Louis Stevenson

  (12 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary and yet..."

  

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  #182

  Far from the Madding Crowd

  by Thomas Hardy

  (8 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them,..."

  

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  #183

  Gilead

  by Marilynne Robinson

  (3 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "I told you last night that I might be gone sometime and you said, Where, and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and you said, Why, and I said, Because I'm old, and you said, I don't think you're..."

  

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  #184

  Nausea

  by Jean-Paul Sartre

  (5 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "These notebooks were found among the papers of Antoine Roquentin. ("Editors' Note")The best thing would be to write down events from day to day."

  

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  #185

  The Wings of the Dove

  by Henry James

  (2 Reviews)

  107 Points

  "She waited, Kate Croy, for her father to come in, but he kept her unconscionably, and there were moments at which she showed herself, in the glass over the mantel, a face postiively pale with the..."

  

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  #186

  The Little Prince

  by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  (24 Reviews)

  106 Points

  "Once when I was six years old I saw a beautiful picture in a book about the primeval forest called "True Stories"."

  

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  #187

  The Red Badge of Courage

  by Stephen Crane

  (7 Reviews)

  104 Points

  "The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."

  

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  #188

  The Odyssey

  by Homer

  (11 Reviews)

  102 Points

  "By now the other warriors, those that had escaped headlong ruin by sea or in battle, were safely home.Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once..."

  

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  #189

  Memoirs of a Geisha

  by Arthur Golden

  (13 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "One evening in the spring of 1936, when I was a boy of fourteen, my father took me to a dance performance in Kyoto.Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting..."

  

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  #190

  Men Without Women

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (2 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "Manuel Garcia climbed the stairs to Don Miguel Retana's office. (THE UNDEFEATED)."

  

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