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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  #191

  The Tale of Genji

  by Murasaki Shikibu

  (4 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "In a certain reign (whose can it have been?) someone of no very great rank, among all His Magesty's Consorts and Intimates, enjoyed exceptional favor."

  

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  #192

  Cannery Row

  by John Steinbeck

  (7 Reviews)

  101 Points

  "Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream."

  

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  #193

  Life of Pi

  by Yann Martel

  (17 Reviews)

  100 Points

  "My suffering left me sad and gloomy."

  

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  #194

  In Our Time

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (3 Reviews)

  99 Points

  "The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight."

  

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  #195

  The Pilgrim's Progress

  by John Bunyan

  (6 Reviews)

  99 Points

  "As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and, as I slept, I dreamed a dream.(Introduction to the..."

  

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  #196

  Jude the Obscure

  by Thomas Hardy

  (3 Reviews)

  99 Points

  "The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry."

  

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  #197

  Breakfast of Champions

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (6 Reviews)

  98 Points

  "This is the tale of a meeting of two lonely, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast."

  

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  #198

  Six Characters in Search of an Author

  by Luigi Pirandello

  (4 Reviews)

  98 Points

  "When the audience arrives in the theater, the curtain is raised; and the stage, as normally in the daytime, is without wings or scenery and almost completely dark and empty."

  

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  #199

  The Day of the Locust

  by Nathanael West

  (3 Reviews)

  98 Points

  "Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din on the road outside his office."

  

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  #200

  The Stand

  by Stephen King

  (10 Reviews)

  98 Points

  "Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston."Sally.""

  

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