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?

• 

  #601

  Wise Children

  by Angela Carter

  (4 Reviews)

  5 Points

  "Q. Why is London like Budapest? A. Because it is two cities divided by a river."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #602

  The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

  by Richard Burton

  (6 Reviews)

  5 Points

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #603

  A People's History of the United States

  by Howard Zinn

  (2 Reviews)

  5 Points

  "Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, and full of wonder, emerged from their villages onto the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #604

  The Van

  by Roddy Doyle

  (1 Review)

  5 Points

  "Jimmy Rabbitte Sr. had the kitchen to himself. "

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #605

  The Good Soldier Svejk

  by Jaroslav Hasek

  (2 Reviews)

  5 Points

  "'And so they've killed our Ferdinand', said the charwoman to Mr Svejk, who had left military service years before, after having been finally certified by an army medical board as an imbecile, and..."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #606

  The Autobiography of Malcolm X

  by Malcolm X

  (1 Review)

  4 Points

  "When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #607

  Easy Travel to Other Planets

  by Ted Mooney

  (2 Reviews)

  4 Points

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #608

  The Postman Always Rings Twice

  by James M. Cain

  (5 Reviews)

  3 Points

  "They threw me off the hay truck about noon."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #609

  Where Angels Fear to Tread

  by E. M. Forster

  (3 Reviews)

  3 Points

  "They were all at Charing Cross to see Lilia off--Philip, Harriet, Irma, Mrs. Herriton herself."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It
• 

  #610

  Sometimes a Great Notion

  by Ken Kesey

  (4 Reviews)

  3 Points

  "Along the wester slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range ... come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River ..."

  

  I've Read It I Want To Read It