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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  #271

  The Secret Garden

  by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  (15 Reviews)

  78 Points

  "When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen."

  

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  #272

  Asterix the Gaul

  by René Goscinny

  (8 Reviews)

  78 Points

  

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  #273

  The Wasp Factory

  by Iain Banks

  (7 Reviews)

  77 Points

  "I had been making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped."

  

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  #274

  The Fountainhead

  by Ayn Rand

  (7 Reviews)

  77 Points

  "Howard Roark laughed."

  

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  #275

  Four Plays

  by Eugene Ionesco

  (3 Reviews)

  77 Points

  "The Bald Soprano: Anti-play Scene: A middle class English interior, with English armchairs."

  

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  #276

  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  by J. K. Rowling

  (26 Reviews)

  77 Points

  "Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways."

  

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  #277

  Germinal

  by Émile Zola

  (2 Reviews)

  76 Points

  "Dans la plaine rase, sous la nuit sans étoiles, d’une obscurité et d’une épaisseur d’encre, un homme suivait seul la grande route de Marchiennes à Montsou, dix kilomètres de pavé coupant tout..."

  

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  #278

  The Moonstone

  by Wilkie Collins

  (3 Reviews)

  76 Points

  "In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: 'Now I saw, though too late, The Folly of beginning a Work before we count the Cost, and..."

  

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  #279

  Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

  by Roddy Doyle

  (2 Reviews)

  76 Points

  "We were coming down our road. Kevin stopped at a gate and bashed it with a stick. It was Missis Quigley's gate; she was always looking out the window but she never did anything."

  

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  #280

  Sixty Stories

  by Donald Barthelme

  (1 Review)

  76 Points

  

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