Genre :: American (126 books)

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  #42

  The Sun Also Rises

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (23 Reviews)

  335 Points

  "Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."

  

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  #46

  For Whom the Bell Tolls

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (12 Reviews)

  322 Points

  "He lay flat on the brown, pine-needled floor of the forest, his chin on his folded arms, and high overhead the wind blew in the tops of the pine trees."

  

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  #52

  Their Eyes Were Watching God

  by Zora Neale Hurston

  (10 Reviews)

  312 Points

  "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."

  

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  #53

  A Prayer for Owen Meany

  by John Irving

  (8 Reviews)

  311 Points

  "I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice - not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but..."

  

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  #56

  The Portrait of a Lady

  by Henry James

  (3 Reviews)

  306 Points

  "Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the..."

  

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  #60

  The Age of Innocence

  by Edith Wharton

  (7 Reviews)

  292 Points

  "On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York."

  

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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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  #70

  Song of Solomon

  by Toni Morrison

  (7 Reviews)

  250 Points

  "The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock."

  

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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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  #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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