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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  #281

  Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

  by Sigmund Freud

  (2 Reviews)

  76 Points

  

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  #282

  Waiting for the Barbarians

  by J. M. Coetzee

  (2 Reviews)

  76 Points

  "I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?"

  

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  #283

  Angela's Ashes

  by Frank McCourt

  (6 Reviews)

  75 Points

  "My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born."

  

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  #284

  The Abyss

  by Marguerite Yourcenar

  (1 Review)

  75 Points

  

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  #285

  The Way We Live Now

  by Anthony Trollope

  (2 Reviews)

  75 Points

  "Let the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own..."

  

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  #286

  The Rifles

  by William Vollmann

  (1 Review)

  75 Points

  

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  #287

  Democracy in America; and Two essays on America

  by Alexis de Tocqueville

  (3 Reviews)

  75 Points

  

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  #288

  Cranford

  by Elizabeth Gaskell

  (3 Reviews)

  75 Points

  "In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses, above a certain rent, are women."

  

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  #289

  A Christmas Carol

  by Charles Dickens

  (10 Reviews)

  74 Points

  "Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it:..."

  

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  #290

  Fahrenheit 451

  by Ray Bradbury

  (23 Reviews)

  74 Points

  "It was a pleasure to burn."

  

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