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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  #221

  Trainspotting

  by Irvine Welsh

  (5 Reviews)

  91 Points

  "Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low..."

  

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  #222

  The Moviegoer

  by Walker Percy

  (3 Reviews)

  91 Points

  "This morning I got a note from my aunt asking me to come for lunch."

  

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  #223

  The Canterbury Tales

  by Geoffrey Chaucer

  (11 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "When the sweet showers of April have pierced/ The drought of March, and pierced it to the root,/ And every vein is bathed in that moisture/ Whose quickening force will engender the flower;/ And..."

  

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  #224

  Main Street

  by Sinclair Lewis

  (1 Review)

  90 Points

  "Chapter 1: On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky."

  

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  #225

  Take It or Leave It

  by Raymond Federman

  (1 Review)

  90 Points

  

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  #226

  Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

  by Jung Chang

  (4 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national government of China."

  

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  #227

  Nightmare Abbey

  by Thomas Love Peacock

  (4 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "Nightmare Abbey, a venerable family-mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on a strip of dry land between the sea and the fens, at the verge of the county..."

  

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  #228

  My Name is Red

  by Orhan Pamuk

  (2 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well."

  

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  #229

  The Second Sex

  by Simone de Beauvoir

  (4 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "Woman?"

  

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  #230

  The Awakening

  by Kate Chopin

  (7 Reviews)

  89 Points

  "A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!""

  

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