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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  #261

  Tristes Tropiques

  by Claude Lévi-Strauss

  (1 Review)

  81 Points

  "I hate travelling and explorers.Je hais les voyages et les explorateurs."

  

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  #262

  Dream of the Red Chamber

  by Tsao Hsueh-Chin

  (1 Review)

  81 Points

  "When the Goddess Nugua undertook to repair the Dome of Heaven, she fashioned at the Great Mythical Mountain under the Nonesuch Bluff 36,501 pieces of stone, each 120 feet high and 240 feet around...."

  

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  #263

  Slouching Towards Bethlehem

  by Joan Didion

  (3 Reviews)

  80 Points

  "This is a story about love and death in the golden land, and begins with the country."

  

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  #264

  Old Goriot

  by Honoré de Balzac

  (4 Reviews)

  80 Points

  "Madame Vauquer (nee De Conflans) is an elderly person who for the past forty years has kept a lodging house in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter..."

  

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  #265

  Oscar and Lucinda

  by Peter Carey

  (2 Reviews)

  80 Points

  "If there was a bishop, my mother would have him to tea."

  

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  #266

  The Interrogation

  by J. M. G. Le Clezio

  (1 Review)

  79 Points

  

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  #267

  Appointment in Samarra

  by John O'Hara

  (1 Review)

  79 Points

  "Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L. for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his..."

  

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  #268

  A House for Mr.Biswas

  by V. S. Naipaul

  (1 Review)

  79 Points

  "Ten weeks before he died, Mr. Mohun Biswas, a journalist of Sikkim Street, St. James, Port of Spain, was sacked."

  

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  #269

  Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

  by Patrick Suskind

  (11 Reviews)

  78 Points

  "In eighteenth century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages."

  

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  #270

  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  by J. K. Rowling

  (27 Reviews)

  78 Points

  "Not for the first time, an argument had broken out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive."

  

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