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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  #491

  Tlooth

  by Harry Mathews

  (1 Review)

  28 Points

  "Mannish Madame Nevtaya slowly cried "Fur bowls!" and the Fideist batter, alert to the sense behind the sound of her words, jogged toward first base."

  

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  #492

  The Godfather

  by Mario Puzo

  (6 Reviews)

  28 Points

  "Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court No. 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her."

  

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  #493

  Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

  by Richard Fariña

  (1 Review)

  28 Points

  "To Athené then."

  

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  #494

  Pricksongs & descants

  by Robert Coover

  (1 Review)

  27 Points

  

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  #495

  Waiting for the Mahatma

  by R. K. Narayan

  (2 Reviews)

  27 Points

  "His mother who died delivering him, and his father who was killed in Mesopotamia, might have been figures in a legend as far as Sriram was concerned."

  

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  #496

  The Journal of Jules Renard

  by Jules Renard

  (1 Review)

  27 Points

  

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  #497

  Notes from a small island

  by Bill Bryson

  (5 Reviews)

  27 Points

  "My first sight of England was on a foggy March night in 1973 when I arrived on the midnight ferry from Calais."

  

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  #498

  Centennial

  by James A. Michener

  (3 Reviews)

  27 Points

  "Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of..."

  

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  #499

  the man in the high castle

  by Philip K. Dick

  (3 Reviews)

  26 Points

  "For a week Mr. R. Childan had been anxiously watching the mail."

  

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  #500

  The Last Chronicle of Barset

  by Anthony Trollope

  (3 Reviews)

  26 Points

  "'I can never bring myself to believe it, John,' said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge."

  

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