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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  #451

  The Lovely Bones

  by Alice Sebold

  (11 Reviews)

  37 Points

  "My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie.Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. "

  

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  #452

  Tales of the City

  by Armistead Maupin

  (3 Reviews)

  37 Points

  "Mary Ann Singleton was twenty-five years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time."

  

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  #453

  The Joy Luck Club

  by Amy Tan

  (5 Reviews)

  36 Points

  "The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum."

  

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  #454

  Mort

  by Terry Pratchett

  (7 Reviews)

  36 Points

  "This is the bright candlelit room where the lifetimers are stored - shelf upon shelf of them, squat hourglasses, one for ever living person, pouring their fine sand from the future into the past."

  

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  #455

  The Opposing Shore

  by Julien Gracq

  (1 Review)

  36 Points

  

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  #456

  The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

  by Michel Foucault

  (1 Review)

  35 Points

  

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  #457

  Riddley Walker

  by Russell Hoban

  (2 Reviews)

  35 Points

  "On my naming day when I come 12 I gone front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I aint looking..."

  

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  #458

  Of Human Bondage

  by W. Somerset Maugham

  (1 Review)

  35 Points

  "The day broke grey and dull."

  

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  #459

  Go in beauty

  by William Eastlake

  (1 Review)

  34 Points

  

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  #460

  A Separate Peace

  by John Knowles

  (3 Reviews)

  34 Points

  "I went back to Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before."

  

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