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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  #211

  The Making of Americans

  by Gertrude Stein

  (3 Reviews)

  94 Points

  "Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard."

  

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  #212

  Crash

  by J. G. Ballard

  (4 Reviews)

  94 Points

  "Vaughan died yesterday in his last car-crash."

  

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  #213

  The Glass Bead Game

  by Hermann Hesse

  (3 Reviews)

  94 Points

  "It is our intention to preserve in these pages what scant biographical material we have been able to collect concerning Joseph Knecht, or Ludi Magister Josephus III, as he is called in the Archives..."

  

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  #214

  Darkness at Noon

  by Arthur Koestler

  (3 Reviews)

  93 Points

  "The cell door slammed behind Rubashov."

  

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  #215

  The Plague

  by Albert Camus

  (7 Reviews)

  93 Points

  "The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194- at Oran.Les curieux événements qui font le sujet de cette chronique se sont produits en 194., à Oran.Le matin du 16 avril, le docteur..."

  

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  #216

  The Soft Machine

  by William S. Burroughs

  (3 Reviews)

  93 Points

  "I was working the hole with the Sailor and we did not bad fifteen cents on average night boosting the afternoons and short timing the dawn we made out from the land of the free but I was running..."

  

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  #217

  Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

  (5 Reviews)

  93 Points

  "Well, Sophie dear, as you see, I'm keeping my word and not spending all my time on bonnets and bows, I'll always have some to spare for you!"

  

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  #218

  The Wanderer

  by Alain-Fournier

  (2 Reviews)

  92 Points

  "He appeared at our house on a Sunday in November 189...(Davison translation)"

  

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  #219

  Winesburg, Ohio

  by Sherwood Anderson

  (3 Reviews)

  91 Points

  "The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed. The windows of the house in which he lived were high and he wanted to look at the trees when he awoke in the..."

  

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  #220

  Froth on the Daydream

  by Boris Vian

  (2 Reviews)

  91 Points

  "Dans la vie, l'essentiel est de porter sur tout des jugements a priori.Colin finished dressing."

  

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