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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  #401

  The Color of Water

  by James McBride

  (1 Review)

  50 Points

  "As a boy, I never knew where my mother was from -- where she was born, who her parents were."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
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  #402

  Soulier De Satin

  by Paul Claudel

  (1 Review)

  49 Points

  

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  #403

  Leaves of Grass

  by Walt Whitman

  (6 Reviews)

  49 Points

  

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  #404

  The Sonnets

  by William Shakespeare

  (5 Reviews)

  49 Points

  "From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decrease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine..."

  

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  #405

  American Psycho

  by Bret Easton Ellis

  (11 Reviews)

  49 Points

  "ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE, is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the..."

  

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  #406

  The Bean Trees

  by Barbara Kingsolver

  (4 Reviews)

  49 Points

  "I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbines's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign."

  

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  #407

  Nightwood

  by Djuna Barnes

  (3 Reviews)

  49 Points

  "Early in 1880, in spite of a well-founded suspicion as to the advisability of perpetuating that race which has the sanction of the Lord and the disapproval of the people, Hedvig Volkbein—a Viennese..."

  

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  #408

  Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

  by J. D. Salinger

  (1 Review)

  49 Points

  "One night some twenty years ago, during a siege of mumps in our enormous family, my youngest sister, Franny, was moved, crib and all, into the ostensibly germ-free room I shared with my eldest..."

  

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  #409

  High Fidelity

  by Nick Hornby

  (3 Reviews)

  48 Points

  "My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups, in chronological order: 1) Alison Ashworth 2) Penny Hardwick 3) Jackie Allen 4) Charlie Nicholson 5) Sarah Kendrew."

  

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  #410

  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

  by Hunter S. Thompson

  (9 Reviews)

  48 Points

  "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like 'I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive . . .' And suddenly..."

  

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