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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  #81

  Gulliver's travels

  by Jonathan Swift

  (12 Reviews)

  225 Points

  "My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons."

  

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  #82

  Watership Down

  by Richard Adams

  (11 Reviews)

  225 Points

  "The primroses were over."

  

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  #83

  Gravity's Rainbow

  by Thomas Pynchon

  (4 Reviews)

  221 Points

  "A screaming comes across the sky."

  

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  #84

  Frankenstein

  by Mary Shelley

  (31 Reviews)

  219 Points

  "You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.The event on which this fiction is founded has been..."

  

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  #85

  Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady

  by Samuel Richardson

  (4 Reviews)

  215 Points

  "I am extremely concerned, my dearest friend, for the disturbances that have happened in your family."

  

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  #86

  The Old Man and the Sea

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (25 Reviews)

  215 Points

  "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."

  

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  #87

  Dune

  by Frank Herbert

  (17 Reviews)

  214 Points

  "A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. . . . from "Manual of Muad'dib" by the Princess IrulanIn the week before their departure to Arakis, when all..."

  

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  #88

  The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

  by Daniel Defoe

  (10 Reviews)

  211 Points

  

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  #89

  Go Tell It on the Mountain

  by James Baldwin

  (4 Reviews)

  208 Points

  "Everyone had always said that John would be a preacher when he grew up, just like his father."

  

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  #90

  All the King's Men

  by Robert Penn Warren

  (5 Reviews)

  207 Points

  "MASON CITY. To get there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new. Or was new, that day we went up it."

  

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