Genre :: Fantasy (92 books)

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  #11

  The Lord of the Rings

  by J. R. R. Tolkien

  (36 Reviews)

  691 Points

  "When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."

  

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  #12

  One Hundred Years of Solitude

  by Gabriel García Márquez

  (25 Reviews)

  667 Points

  "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de..."

  

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  #13

  Brave New World

  by Aldous Huxley

  (30 Reviews)

  664 Points

  "A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories."

  

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  #23

  Animal Farm

  by George Orwell

  (46 Reviews)

  495 Points

  "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes."

  

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  #27

  The Chronicles of Narnia

  by C. S. Lewis

  (28 Reviews)

  403 Points

  "There is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child. (From The Magician's Nephew, first in chronological order)Once there were four children whose names were..."

  

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  #31

  Winnie-the-Pooh

  by A. A. Milne

  (21 Reviews)

  383 Points

  "Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin."

  

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  #40

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  by Douglas Adams

  (28 Reviews)

  344 Points

  "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million..."

  

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  #45

  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

  by Lewis Carroll

  (24 Reviews)

  327 Points

  "Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do; once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or..."

  

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  #47

  The Hobbit

  by J. R. R. Tolkien

  (29 Reviews)

  322 Points

  "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to..."

  

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  #49

  The Wind in the Willows

  by Kenneth Grahame

  (18 Reviews)

  318 Points

  "The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring- cleaning his little home. "

  

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