Genre :: Adult Fiction (19 books)

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  #2

  The Grapes of Wrath

  by John Steinbeck

  (35 Reviews)

  963 Points

  "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth."

  

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  #62

  As I Lay Dying

  by William Faulkner

  (11 Reviews)

  281 Points

  "Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file."

  

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  #67

  Things Fall Apart

  by Chinua Achebe

  (12 Reviews)

  255 Points

  "Okonkwo was well-known throughout the nine villages and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honour to his village by throwing..."

  

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  #110

  The World According to Garp

  by John Irving

  (11 Reviews)

  177 Points

  "Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater."

  

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  #117

  The Shipping News

  by Annie Proulx

  (8 Reviews)

  164 Points

  "Here is an account of a few years in the life of Quoyle, born in Brooklyn and raised in a shuffle of dreary upstate towns."

  

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  #121

  My Ántonia

  by Willa Cather

  (9 Reviews)

  159 Points

  "I first heard of Ántonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America. I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year,..."

  

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  #130

  Tropic of Cancer

  by Henry Miller

  (8 Reviews)

  151 Points

  "I am living at the Villa Borghese."

  

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  #139

  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  by Junot Diaz

  (5 Reviews)

  139 Points

  "They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn..."

  

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  #141

  A Thousand Acres

  by Jane Smiley

  (5 Reviews)

  137 Points

  "At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."

  

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  #154

  The Good Earth

  by Pearl S. Buck

  (7 Reviews)

  130 Points

  "It was Wang Lung's marriage day."

  

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