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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  #551

  Fureur Et Mystere

  by René Char

  (1 Review)

  14 Points

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
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  #552

  The Bostonians

  by Henry James

  (1 Review)

  14 Points

  "Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that."

  

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  #553

  The Old Wives' Tale

  by Arnold Bennett

  (2 Reviews)

  14 Points

  "Those two girls, Constance and Sopha Baines, paid no heed to the manifold interest of their situation, of which, indeed, they had never been conscious."

  

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  #554

  Drown

  by Junot Diaz

  (1 Review)

  14 Points

  

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  #555

  The Education of Henry Adams

  by Henry Adams

  (1 Review)

  14 Points

  "Under the shadow of Boston State House, turning its back on the house of John Hancock, the little passage called Hancock Avenue runs, or ran, from Beacon Street, skirting the State House grounds,..."

  

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  #556

  The Betrothed

  by Alessandro Manzoni

  (3 Reviews)

  14 Points

  "Quel ramo del lago di Como, che volge a mezzogiorno, tra due catene non interrotte di monti, tutto a seni e golfi, a seconda dello sporgere e del rientrare di quelli, vien quasi a un tratto, a..."

  

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  #557

  The Last of the Mohicans

  by James Fenimore Cooper

  (4 Reviews)

  13 Points

  "It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide and apparently an..."

  

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  #558

  The Five People You Meet in Heaven

  by Mitch Albom

  (7 Reviews)

  13 Points

  "This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun."

  

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  #559

  Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

  by Mao Tse-Tung

  (2 Reviews)

  13 Points

  

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  #560

  Eugene Onegin

  by Alexander Pushkin

  (2 Reviews)

  13 Points

  "'My uncle, man of firm convictions...By falling gravely ill, he's wonA due respect for his afflictions--The only clever thing he's done.(James E. Falen translation)"

  

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