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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  #431

  Infinite Jest

  by David Foster Wallace

  (3 Reviews)

  42 Points

  "I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
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  #432

  Artemis Fowl

  by Eoin Colfer

  (10 Reviews)

  42 Points

  "How does one describe Artemis Fowl? (Prologue)Ho Chi Minh City in the summer."

  

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  #433

  Les Vrilles de La Vigne

  by Colette

  (1 Review)

  42 Points

  

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  #434

  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

  by Mark Haddon

  (14 Reviews)

  42 Points

  "It was 7 minutes after midnight."

  

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  #435

  Zuleika Dobson

  by Max Beerbohm

  (2 Reviews)

  42 Points

  "That old bell, presage of a train, had just sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates who were waiting there, gay figures in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the platform and..."

  

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  #436

  Testament of Youth

  by Vera Brittain

  (1 Review)

  42 Points

  "When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans."

  

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  #437

  Capital of Pain

  by Paul Eluard

  (1 Review)

  41 Points

  

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  #438

  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  by Betty Smith

  (5 Reviews)

  41 Points

  "Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York."

  

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  #439

  Half of a Yellow Sun

  by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  (2 Reviews)

  40 Points

  "Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair."

  

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  #440

  A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

  by Flannery O'Connor

  (1 Review)

  40 Points

  "The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. "

  

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