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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  #341

  Ragtime

  by E. L. Doctorow

  (3 Reviews)

  65 Points

  "In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Broadview Avenue hill in New Rochelle."

  

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  #342

  The Kite Runner

  by Khaled Hosseini

  (12 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975."

  

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  #343

  Confusion: The Private Papers of Privy Councillor R. von D.

  by Stefan Zweig

  (1 Review)

  64 Points

  

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  #344

  A Wizard of Earthsea

  by Ursula K. Le Guin

  (6 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards."

  

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  #345

  The Warden

  by Anthony Trollope

  (3 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of ---; let us call it Barchester."

  

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  #346

  The Riddle of the Sands

  by Erskine Childers

  (2 Reviews)

  64 Points

  "I have read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude - save for a few black faces - have made it a rule to dress regularly for dinner in order to maintain..."

  

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  #347

  Gormenghast

  by Mervyn Peake

  (2 Reviews)

  63 Points

  "Titus is seven. His confines, Gormenghast. Suckled on shadows; weaned, as it were, on webs of ritual: for his ears, echoes, for his eyes, a labyrinth of stone: and yet within his body something..."

  

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  #348

  The Secret History

  by Donna Tartt

  (8 Reviews)

  63 Points

  "The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation. (Prologue)Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that..."

  

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  #349

  Lookout cartridge

  by Joseph McElroy

  (0 Reviews)

  62 Points

  

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  #350

  The Shell Seekers

  by Rosamunde Pilcher

  (2 Reviews)

  62 Points

  "She sometimes thought that for her, Nancy Chamberlain, the most straightforward or innocent occupation was doomed to become, inevitably, fraught with tedious complication."

  

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