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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  #231

  From Here to Eternity

  by James Jones

  (2 Reviews)

  89 Points

  "When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still..."

  

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  #232

  The Black Sheep

  by Honoré de Balzac

  (2 Reviews)

  89 Points

  "In the year 1792 the townsfolk of Issoudun were fortunate enough to have a doctor of the name of Rouget, who had the reputation of being an extremely wily man."

  

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  #233

  The Man Without Qualities

  by Robert Musil

  (2 Reviews)

  89 Points

  

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  #234

  The Way of All Flesh

  by Samuel Butler

  (3 Reviews)

  89 Points

  "When I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stockings, and who used to hobble about the street of our village with the help of a..."

  

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  #235

  The Wapshot Chronicle

  by John Cheever

  (2 Reviews)

  88 Points

  "St. Botolphs was an old place, an old river town."

  

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  #236

  Going native

  by Stephen Wright

  (3 Reviews)

  88 Points

  

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  #237

  The Charterhouse of Parma

  by Stendhal

  (2 Reviews)

  88 Points

  "Le 15 mai 1796, le général Bonaparte fit son entrée dans Milan à la tête de cette jeune armée qui venait de passer le pont de Lodi, et d'apprendre au monde qu'après tant de siècles César et..."

  

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  #238

  The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

  by Heinrich Böll

  (3 Reviews)

  87 Points

  "Für den folgenden Bericht gibt es einige Neben- und drei Hauptquellen, die hier am Anfang einmal genannt, dann aber nicht mehr erwähnt werden."

  

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  #239

  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

  by William Shakespeare

  (4 Reviews)

  87 Points

  "William Shakespeare's date of birth is not precisely known, but it probably preceded his baptism on April 26, 1564, in Stratfordon-Avon, by only a few days."

  

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  #240

  The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

  by Naguib Mahfouz

  (1 Review)

  87 Points

  

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