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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  #321

  Hamlet

  by William Shakespeare

  (11 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "Act 1, Scene 1 Enter Barnardo and Francisco, two sentinels. Barnardo Who's there?"

  

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  #322

  Sister Carrie

  by Theodore Dreiser

  (3 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow..."

  

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  #323

  Death Comes for the Archbishop

  by Willa Cather

  (2 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary Bishop from America were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome."

  

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  #324

  The Sea, the Sea

  by Iris Murdoch

  (2 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "The sea which lies before me as I write glows rather than sparkles in the bland May sunshine."

  

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  #325

  The French Lieutenant's Woman

  by John Fowles

  (2 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay - Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched south-western leg - and a person of curiosity could at once..."

  

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  #326

  The Pillars of The Earth

  by Ken Follett

  (10 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "The small boys came early to the hanging. (Preface)In a broad valley, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside a clear bubbling stream, Tom was building a house. (Chapter 1) "

  

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  #327

  Dhalgren

  by Samuel R. Delany

  (3 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "To wound the autumnal city."

  

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  #328

  Swallows and Amazons

  by Arthur Ransome

  (2 Reviews)

  68 Points

  "Roger, aged seven, and no longer the youngest of the family, ran in wide zigzags, to and fro, across the steep field that sloped up from the lake to Holly Howe, the farm where they were staying for..."

  

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  #329

  History of the Peloponnesian War

  by Thucydides

  (2 Reviews)

  67 Points

  "Thucydides the Athenian wrote the history of the war fought between Athens and Sparta, beginning the account at the very outbreak of the war, in the belief that it was going to be a great war and..."

  

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  #330

  The Picture of Dorian Gray

  by Oscar Wilde

  (18 Reviews)

  67 Points

  "The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amid the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of lilac, or the more..."

  

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