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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  #41

  Great Expectations

  by Charles Dickens

  (21 Reviews)

  337 Points

  "My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be..."

  

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  #42

  The Sun Also Rises

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (23 Reviews)

  335 Points

  "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."

  

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  #43

  Rebecca

  by Daphne du Maurier

  (12 Reviews)

  333 Points

  "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

  

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  #44

  The Stranger

  by Albert Camus

  (13 Reviews)

  331 Points

  "Mother died today. (Stuart Gilbert translation)Maman died today. (Matthew Ward translation)Aujourd'hui, maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas."

  

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  #45

  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

  by Lewis Carroll

  (24 Reviews)

  327 Points

  "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do; once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or..."

  

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  #46

  For Whom the Bell Tolls

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (12 Reviews)

  322 Points

  "He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees."

  

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  #47

  The Hobbit

  by J. R. R. Tolkien

  (29 Reviews)

  322 Points

  "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to..."

  

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  #48

  Madame Bovary

  by Gustave Flaubert

  (11 Reviews)

  322 Points

  "Nous étions à l'Etude, quand le Proviseur entra suivi d'un "nouveau" habillé en bourgeois et d'un garçon de classe qui portait un grand pupitre.We were in study hall when the headmaster walked in,..."

  

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  #49

  The Wind in the Willows

  by Kenneth Grahame

  (18 Reviews)

  318 Points

  "The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring- cleaning his little home. "

  

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  #50

  The Handmaid’s Tale

  by Margaret Atwood

  (14 Reviews)

  316 Points

  "We slept in what had once been the gymnasium."

  

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