Genre :: Fantasy (92 books)

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  #63

  His Dark Materials

  by Philip Pullman

  (14 Reviews)

  277 Points

  "Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen. (Northern lights)Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on..."..."

  

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  #69

  Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

  by J. K. Rowling

  (45 Reviews)

  252 Points

  "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."

  

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  #75

  Charlotte's Web

  by E. B. White

  (26 Reviews)

  236 Points

  "Where's Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast."

  

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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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  #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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  #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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  #133

  The War of the Worlds

  by H. G. Wells

  (9 Reviews)

  143 Points

  "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as..."

  

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  #144

  Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

  by Roald Dahl

  (16 Reviews)

  135 Points

  "These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr Bucket."

  

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  #153

  The Master and Margarita

  by Mikhail Bulgakov

  (11 Reviews)

  130 Points

  "One hot spring evening, just as the sun was going down, two men appeared at Patriarch’s Ponds.At the sunset hour of one warm spring day two men were to be seen at Patriarch’s Ponds.Однажды весною,..."

  

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