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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  #71

  Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable

  by Samuel Beckett

  (3 Reviews)

  247 Points

  "I am in my mother's room."

  

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  #72

  Finnegans Wake

  by James Joyce

  (4 Reviews)

  247 Points

  "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs."

  

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  #73

  Absalom, Absalom!

  by William Faulkner

  (5 Reviews)

  246 Points

  "From a little after two o'clock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it..."

  

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  #74

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

  by Laurence Sterne

  (4 Reviews)

  244 Points

  "I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much...

  

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  #75

  Charlotte's Web

  by E. B. White

  (26 Reviews)

  236 Points

  "Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast."

  

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  #76

  The Ambassadors

  by Henry James

  (4 Reviews)

  235 Points

  "Strether's first question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was apparently not to arrive till evening he was not wholly disconcerted."

  

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  #77

  Sons and Lovers

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (5 Reviews)

  232 Points

  "The Bottoms" succeeded to "Hell Row."

  

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  #78

  A Farewell to Arms

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (8 Reviews)

  230 Points

  "In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains."

  

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  #79

  Women in Love

  by D. H. Lawrence

  (5 Reviews)

  226 Points

  "Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father’s house in Beldover, working and talking. Ursula was stitching a piece of brightly-coloured embroidery, and Gudrun was..."

  

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  #80

  Birdsong

  by Sebastian Faulks

  (6 Reviews)

  226 Points

  "The boulevard du cange was a broad, quiet street that marked the eastern flank of the city of Amiens."

  

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