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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  #471

  Cold Sassy Tree

  by Olive Ann Burns

  (2 Reviews)

  31 Points

  "Three weeks after Granny Blakeslee died, Grandpa came to our house for his early morning snort of whiskey, as usual, and said to me, "Will Tweedy? Go find your mama, then run up to yore Aunt Loma's..."

  

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  #472

  Look Homeward, Angel

  by Thomas Wolfe

  (1 Review)

  31 Points

  "A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the..."

  

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  #473

  The Martian Chronicles

  by Ray Bradbury

  (7 Reviews)

  31 Points

  "One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roof, children skiing on slopes, housewives lumbering like great black bears in..."

  

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  #474

  Skinny Legs and All

  by Tom Robbins

  (2 Reviews)

  31 Points

  "This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper. The toadstool motel you once thought a mere folk tale, a corny, obsolete, rural invention."

  

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  #475

  Oliver Twist

  by Charles Dickens

  (9 Reviews)

  30 Points

  "Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to..."

  

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  #476

  It

  by Stephen King

  (9 Reviews)

  30 Points

  "The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years - if it ever did end - began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made out of a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter..."

  

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  #477

  A High Wind in Jamaica

  by Richard Hughes

  (2 Reviews)

  30 Points

  "One of the fruits of Emancipation in the West Indian islands is the number of ruins, either attached to the houses that remain or within a stone's throw of them: ruined slaves' quarters, ruined..."

  

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  #478

  Cities of Salt

  by Abdelrahman Munif

  (1 Review)

  30 Points

  

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  #479

  You Shall Know Our Velocity

  by Dave Eggers

  (1 Review)

  30 Points

  "I was talking to Hand, one of my two best friends, the one still alive, and we were planning to leave."

  

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  #480

  Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein

  by Marguerite Duras

  (2 Reviews)

  30 Points

  "Lol Stein was born here in South Tahla, and she spent a good part of her youth in this town."

  

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