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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  #381

  The Joke

  by Milan Kundera

  (2 Reviews)

  54 Points

  "So here I was, home again after all those years. Standing in the main square (which I had crossed countless times as a child, as a boy, as a young man), I felt no emotion whatsoever; all I could..."

  

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  #382

  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

  by L. Frank Baum

  (10 Reviews)

  54 Points

  "Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife."

  

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  #383

  At Swim-Two-Birds

  by Flann O'Brien

  (2 Reviews)

  54 Points

  "Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind my eyes and face assuming a vacant and..."

  

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  #384

  Contempt

  by Alberto Moravia

  (1 Review)

  53 Points

  "During the first two years of our married life my relations with my wife were, I can now assert, perfect."

  

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  #385

  Dealing with Dragons

  by Patricia C. Wrede

  (3 Reviews)

  53 Points

  "Linderwall was a large kingdom, just east of the Mountains of Morning, where philosophers were highly respected and the number five was fashionable. The climate was unremarkable. The knights kept..."

  

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  #386

  Blood Meridian

  by Cormac McCarthy

  (6 Reviews)

  53 Points

  "See the child."

  

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  #387

  The Home and the World

  by Rabindranath Tagore

  (3 Reviews)

  53 Points

  

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  #388

  2001: A Space Odyssey

  by Arthur C. Clarke

  (6 Reviews)

  53 Points

  "The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. Here on the Equator, in the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the..."

  

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  #389

  American Pastoral

  by Philip Roth

  (3 Reviews)

  52 Points

  "The swede."

  

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  #390

  The Cannibal

  by John Hawkes

  (1 Review)

  52 Points

  

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