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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  #441

  Martin Eden

  by Jack London

  (2 Reviews)

  40 Points

  "The one opened the door with a latch-key and went in, followed by a young fellow who awkwardly removed his cap. He wore rough clothes that smacked of the sea, and he was manifestly out of place in..."

  

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  #442

  Red Harvest

  by Dashiell Hammett

  (3 Reviews)

  40 Points

  "I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte."

  

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  #443

  Noughts & Crosses

  by Malorie Blackman

  (3 Reviews)

  40 Points

  "'Honestly, Mrs Hadley,' said Meggie McGregor, wiping her eyes.'Honestly, Mrs Hadley,' said Meggie McGregor, wiping her eyes. 'That sense of humour of yours will be he death of me yet!'"

  

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  #444

  The Leopard

  by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

  (3 Reviews)

  39 Points

  "'Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.'"

  

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  #445

  The Alexandria Quartet

  by Lawrence Durrell

  (2 Reviews)

  39 Points

  "The sea is high again today, with a thrilling flush of wind."BALTHAZAR" - Landscape-toes: brown to bronze, steep skyline, low cloud, pearl ground with shadowed oyster and violet reflections...."

  

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  #446

  The Ballad of the Salt Sea

  by Hugo Pratt

  (1 Review)

  39 Points

  

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  #447

  What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

  by Raymond Carver

  (3 Reviews)

  39 Points

  "(From Why Don't You Dance?) In the kitchen, he poured another drink and looked at the bedroom suite in his front yard."

  

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  #448

  Haroun and the Sea of Stories

  by Salman Rushdie

  (4 Reviews)

  38 Points

  "There was once, in the country of Alifbay, a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name."

  

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  #449

  Writing Degree Zero

  by Roland Barthes

  (1 Review)

  38 Points

  

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  #450

  Cane

  by Jean Toomer

  (2 Reviews)

  37 Points

  

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