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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  #361

  Deliverance

  by James Dickey

  (2 Reviews)

  59 Points

  "Before: It unrolled slowly, forced to show its colors, curling and snapping back whenever one of us turned loose. The whole land was very tense until we put our four steins on its corners and laid..."

  

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  #362

  Genoa

  by Paul Metcalf

  (1 Review)

  58 Points

  

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  #363

  Snow Falling on Cedars

  by David Guterson

  (6 Reviews)

  58 Points

  "The accused man, Kabuo Miyamoto, sat proudly upright with a rigid grace, his palms placed softly on the defendant's table - the posture of a man who has detached himself insofar as this is possible..."

  

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  #364

  Fathers and Sons

  by Ivan Turgenev

  (3 Reviews)

  58 Points

  "Well, Piotr, not in sight yet?" was the question asked on May the 20th, 1859, by a gentleman of a little over forty, in a dusty coat and checked trousers, who came out without his hat on to the...

  

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  #365

  A Wild Sheep Chase

  by Haruki Murakami

  (5 Reviews)

  58 Points

  "It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition."

  

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  #366

  Point Counter Point

  by Aldous Huxley

  (2 Reviews)

  57 Points

  "'You won't be late?'"

  

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  #367

  Babbitt

  by Sinclair Lewis

  (1 Review)

  57 Points

  "The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods."

  

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  #368

  The Souls of Black Folk

  by W. E. B. Du Bois

  (1 Review)

  57 Points

  

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  #369

  The Thirty-Nine Steps

  by John Buchan

  (3 Reviews)

  57 Points

  "I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life."

  

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  #370

  The Jungle

  by Upton Sinclair

  (3 Reviews)

  56 Points

  

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