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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  #571

  The Secret of the Swordfish

  by Edgar P. Jacobs

  (3 Reviews)

  11 Points

  

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  #572

  Money

  by Martin Amis

  (4 Reviews)

  11 Points

  "As my cab pulled of FDR Drive, somewhere in the early Hundreds, a low-slung Tomohawk full of black guys came sharking out of lane and slopped in fast right across our bows."

  

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  #573

  The Universal Baseball Association, inc.

  by Robert Coover

  (1 Review)

  11 Points

  "Bottom half of the seventh, Brock's boy had made it through another inning unscratched, one! two! three! Twenty-one down and just six outs to go! and Henry's heart was racing, he was sweating with..."

  

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  #574

  Creamy and Delicious

  by Steve Katz

  (1 Review)

  10 Points

  

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  #575

  Tobacco Road

  by Erskine Caldwell

  (1 Review)

  10 Points

  "Lov Bensey trudged homeward through the deep white sand of the gully-washed tobacco road with a sack of winter turnips on his back."

  

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  #576

  The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

  by Rainer Maria Rilke

  (1 Review)

  10 Points

  "September 11th, rue Toullier -So this is where people come to live; I would have though it is a city to die in. "

  

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  #577

  The Selfish Gene

  by Richard Dawkins

  (1 Review)

  10 Points

  "Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence."

  

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  #578

  The Blue Sword

  by Robin McKinley

  (2 Reviews)

  10 Points

  "She scowled at her glass of orange juice."

  

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  #579

  An Artist of the Floating World

  by Kazuo Ishiguro

  (2 Reviews)

  10 Points

  "If on a sunny day you climb the steep path leading up from the little wooden bridge still referred to around here as ‘the Bridge of Hesitation’, you will not have to walk far before the roof of my..."

  

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  #580

  This Side of Paradise

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (5 Reviews)

  10 Points

  "Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while."

  

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