Genre :: Adult Fiction (19 books)

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  #163

  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  by Ken Kesey

  (16 Reviews)

  122 Points

  "They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them."They're out there.

  

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  #209

  Rabbit, Run

  by John Updike

  (4 Reviews)

  95 Points

  "Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it. "

  

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  #367

  Babbitt

  by Sinclair Lewis

  (1 Review)

  57 Points

  "The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods."

  

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  #406

  The Bean Trees

  by Barbara Kingsolver

  (4 Reviews)

  49 Points

  "I have been afraid of putting air in a tire ever since I saw a tractor tire blow up and throw Newt Hardbines's father over the top of the Standard Oil sign."

  

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  #467

  Ellen Foster

  by Kaye Gibbons

  (2 Reviews)

  32 Points

  "When I was little I would think of ways to kill my Daddy."

  

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  #471

  Cold Sassy Tree

  by Olive Ann Burns

  (2 Reviews)

  31 Points

  "Three weeks after Granny Blakeslee died, Grandpa came to our house for his early morning snort of whiskey, as usual, and said to me, "Will Tweedy? Go find your mama, then run up to yore Aunt Loma's..."

  

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  #485

  Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

  by Anne Tyler

  (2 Reviews)

  29 Points

  "While Pearl Tull was dying, a funny thought occurred to her."

  

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  #554

  Drown

  by Junot Diaz

  (1 Review)

  14 Points

  

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  #567

  Talk Before Sleep

  by Elizabeth Berg

  (2 Reviews)

  12 Points

  "This morning before I came to Ruth's house, I made yet another casserole for my husband and my daughter."

  

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