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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  #591

  The Alchemist

  by Paulo Coelho

  (17 Reviews)

  7 Points

  "The boy's name was Santiago."

  

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  #592

  Goodbye to All That

  by Robert Graves

  (2 Reviews)

  7 Points

  "As a proof of my readiness to accept autobiographical conventions, let me at once record my two earliest memories."

  

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  #593

  Cry, the Beloved Country

  by Alan Paton

  (2 Reviews)

  7 Points

  "There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills."

  

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  #594

  Mulligan Stew

  by Gilbert Sorrentino

  (0 Reviews)

  7 Points

  

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  #595

  L. A. Confidential

  by James Ellroy

  (2 Reviews)

  6 Points

  "An abandoned auto court in the San Berdoo foothills; Buzz Meeks checked in with ninety-four thousand dollars, eighteen pounds of high-grade heroin, a 10-gauge pump, a .38 special, a .45 automatic..."

  

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  #596

  The Affluent Society

  by John Kenneth Galbraith

  (1 Review)

  6 Points

  "Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."

  

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  #597

  The Rosy Crucifixion

  by Henry Miller

  (1 Review)

  6 Points

  

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  #598

  Katherine

  by Anya Seton

  (1 Review)

  6 Points

  "In the tender green time of April, Katherine set forth at last upon her journey with two nuns and the royal messenger."

  

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  #599

  A Little Princess

  by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  (7 Reviews)

  6 Points

  "Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an..."

  

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  #600

  The Beautiful and Damned

  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  (5 Reviews)

  5 Points

  "In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him."

  

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