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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  #511

  Little, Big

  by John Crowley

  (4 Reviews)

  23 Points

  "On a certain day in June, 19--, a young man was making his way on foot northward from the great City to a town or place called Edgewood, that he had been told of but had never visited."

  

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  #512

  Manhattan Transfer

  by John Dos Passos

  (2 Reviews)

  23 Points

  "Three gulls wheel above the broken boxes, orangerinds, spoiled cabbage heads that heave between the splintered plank walls, the green waves spume under the round bow as the ferry, skidding on the..."

  

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  #513

  A Brief History of Time

  by Stephen Hawking

  (3 Reviews)

  22 Points

  "A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy."

  

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  #514

  Candide

  by Voltaire

  (8 Reviews)

  22 Points

  "There lived in Westphalia, at the country seat of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh, a young lad blessed by Nature with the most agreeable manners.In the castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh in Westphalia..."

  

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  #515

  The Sheltering Sky

  by Paul Bowles

  (4 Reviews)

  22 Points

  "He awoke, opened his eyes.Si svegliò, aprì gli occhi. La stanza gli diceva poco o niente, profondamente immerso com'era nel non-essere da cui era appena affiorato. Se l'energia di accertare la..."

  

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  #516

  Popol Vuh

  by Anonymous

  (2 Reviews)

  22 Points

  

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  #517

  Time and Again

  by Jack Finney

  (2 Reviews)

  21 Points

  "In shirt-sleeves, the I generally worked, I sat sketching a bar of soap taped to an upper corner of my drawing board."

  

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  #518

  Moravagine

  by Blaise Cendrars

  (1 Review)

  21 Points

  "In 1900 I completed my medical studies."

  

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  #519

  The Left Hand of Darkness

  by Ursula K. Le Guin

  (4 Reviews)

  21 Points

  "I’ll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling:..."

  

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  #520

  Double Act

  by Jacqueline Wilson

  (4 Reviews)

  21 Points

  

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