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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  #201

  Austerlitz

  by W.G. Sebald

  (3 Reviews)

  97 Points

  "In the second half of the 1960s I traveled repeatedly from England to Belgium, partly for study purposes, partly for other reasons which were never entirely clear to me, staying sometimes for just..."

  

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  #202

  Cat's Cradle

  by Kurt Vonnegut

  (7 Reviews)

  97 Points

  "Call me Jonah."

  

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  #203

  The Public Burning

  by Robert Coover

  (1 Review)

  97 Points

  

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  #204

  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  by J. K. Rowling

  (28 Reviews)

  96 Points

  "The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it 'the Riddle House', even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there."

  

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  #205

  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

  by Haruki Murakami

  (3 Reviews)

  96 Points

  "When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along to and FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music..."

  

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  #206

  Man's Fate

  by Andre Malraux

  (1 Review)

  96 Points

  "Should he try to raise the mosquito-netting?"

  

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  #207

  Jazz

  by Toni Morrison

  (4 Reviews)

  95 Points

  "Sth, I know that woman."

  

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  #208

  Dead Souls

  by Nikolai Gogol

  (3 Reviews)

  95 Points

  "A small, rather smart, well-sprung four-wheeled carriage with a folding top drove through the gates of an inn of the provincial town of N.; it was the sort of carriage bachelors usually drive in:..."

  

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  #209

  Rabbit, Run

  by John Updike

  (4 Reviews)

  95 Points

  "Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it. "

  

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  #210

  The Complete Stories

  by Flannery O'Connor

  (1 Review)

  95 Points

  "Old Dudley folded into the chair he was gradually molding to his own shape and looked out the window fifteen feet away into another window framed by blackened red brick."

  

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